Pike and Perch Spearing on Lake St. Clair!

Spearing for pike and perch on Lake St. Clair! As seen on Michigan Out of Doors TV.
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[@mattmcnicholas3735]

Theres gonna be haters no matter what you do, I'm from South Florida so my idea of spear fishing is free diving down on a ship wreck or reef and harvesting all kinds of fish with a Hawaiian sling, but now I live in NW Ohio and fish in Michigan frequently, gonna be trying out some spear fishing in the great white north if we can get any decent ice!!

[@mattmcnicholas3735]

It's just important we all acknowledge that bag limits are set by wildlife biologists who are much more educated than us on topics like sustainability of a fishery, and spear fishermen have to abide by the same set of rules and bag limits that a hook and line angler has to follow.

[@Hogbellylife]

Down here by the tri state borders MI. Ty for the vid

[@gregoryschmidt1233]

can't beat fresh cold-water perch for eating.

[@outlawtactical1188]

god i love fishing

[@robertrevering5699]

Spearing perch looks like a hoot! I wish we could do it here in MN!

[@skadstealth6214]

Yea it would be amazing!!

[@Hunter-pw5qo]

Yeah that would be awesome!

[@griffind262]

What area of st Clair was this

[@johnresor2477]

Great video! I just moved to Monroe on the boat slips of Lake Erie where they catch a lot of perch and Pike and I'm going to try to Spearfish for the first time this year. How far under the ice do you set your Pike decoy and what is the depth of the water that you're fishing here at the slips it ranges from 8 to 12 feet

[@jimmygretz]

It depends on the depth of water for the decoy but generally you want it about 2 feet below the ice. As far as depth of water, try to sit right on the break from shallow to deep.

[@stevecarlson2242]

Like taking a pickle out of a jar with a fork

[@mattmcnicholas3735]

alright I love spear fishing but that's pretty funny, I might use that as my caption of the next Instagram photo lol

[@kevincraig6407]

Great video! Hay how do you know your not spearing muskies? and when you leave, how do you plug that hole?

[@jimmygretz]

With a little research it’s pretty easy to tell the difference! We generally put the same hunk of ice we took out of the hole back in the hole and mark it with a branch.

[@MrHutton13]

Right on boys keep the traditions alive! Tight lines or in this case sharp spears!

[@Alexwaltman850]

I've never had the urge to go ice fishing but this is something I would really love to try and it's legal in my state too.

[@timrachar5646]

Greatiloveit

[@TheLivinglegend87]

What kind of fish is at 8:01 and also in the beginning? Looks like a bowfin or some kinda sucker.

[@kevingunnery5470]

That’s a largemouth bass the way to tell the difference between the two is LM have a black line at the end of their tail.

[@TheLivinglegend87]

Kevin Gunnery I don’t think that’s a largemouth. I spear a lot. I see Tons of largemouth constantly. Notice the dorsal fin goes all the way to the tail. I’m sticking with bowfin.

[@mikeversusfish1421]

@@TheLivinglegend87 That dorsal fin, yea. Bowfin.

[@TheLivinglegend87]

Michael Grenier we don’t have them around here definitely a bucket list fish.

[@muskeymadness8676]

@@mikeversusfish1421 ur dumb

[@minnesota4169]

I would love to fish out of a hole like this

[@skadstealth6214]

It's a lot of work but it's worth it

[@kylewoodring3225]

Have you ever gone phone spearing

[@bassrutten9838]

I dont have any problem with this if its legal but i feel it would be much more fun on a rod and reel

[@mattheweven4764]

I quit going to St Clair I have never seen such finicky fish....I dont blame the guys for spearing

[@zacharygamble9418]

Too many tree huggers in this comment section

[@R90916]

I like spearing the jumbo perch that don't like to bite. But I usually catch them with Ken hooks. I will spear pike too but it's better to be selective and let the small pike go.

[@skatemetal5062]

I dont think we are allowed to do this on the Canadian side of st clair .

[@pakcanhunter]

Thats what i was thinking. I think we are allowed to bowfish carp though.

[@raprock5000]

I'm sure Canada is way too liberal for a primitive method of fishing like this.

[@skatemetal5062]

@raprock if it was up to conservatives we would kill everything for no reason. Ppc no seat for you .

[@raprock5000]

@@skatemetal5062 if it was up to liberals everyone would be eating bugs

[@raprock5000]

@@skatemetal5062 unfortunately you're completely wrong in my case. I have a 50 acre hobby farm that I've inrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program. The farm borders a lake so they have you seed it down into native grasses and wildflowers on a 10 or 15 year contract. I also raise and release between 200-300 ringneck pheasants on that CRP and I don't hunt them. I also leave 4 acres of corn/soybeans for the pheasants, deer and turkey to eat in the winter months. You can see a sliver of it in my profile pic...so there you have it a conservative doing that...👌🏻

[@braxtonmclean4071]

Yellow or eurasian perch

[@BrazenBullXXX]

These are Yellow Perch. That is all we have in the United States unfortunately.

[@grguy793]

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[@mehlke06]

I would release them.

[@markpine2250]

Look boys if that's what you want to do and it's legal I guess you can have at it. I just don't see the thrill. In my experience female fish laden with spawn are not the ones you want to eat.

[@Hunter-pw5qo]

Well what it looks like you have no idea of what fish to eat

[@pikemike470]

you should try normal ice fishing because you are destroying such a good fishery

[@zimks]

Yeah it’s going to be really hard for St.Clair to rebound after they kept like two pike and a couple perch... you fucking twat

[@thomasliptrott3834]

Taking two pike and 3 perch is going to destroy the fishery? That’s a pretty slow day as far as ice fishing goes and won’t even make a dent in the populations. I think most guys could catch more fish with tipups and jig poles than spearing.

[@pikemike470]

at least with ice fishing you can put the fish back instead of killing it instantly

[@zimks]

PikeMike have you ever caught a fish past 20ft and released it? Guess what you probably killed a fish!

[@charlie_4987]

I completely agree because even if they only took 5 fish what if there was 100 anglers on the lake all doing the same thing then that could be 500 fish lost in 1 day. So I think it should be illegal

[@markpine2250]

Yeah, great, spear all the pregnant females! You need to think about what you are doing my friend. There are plenty of fish to catch and eat, why would you target the spawners?

[@bluewidow1734]

If taking a few females would hurt the fish population the DNR would make it illegal stop your crying and do some research noob

[@markpine2250]

Sometime you just have to use your brain @@bluewidow1734.

[@grillsbears]

should you stop and ask the pike what gender hey are or is that to offensive too ? go find a safe space to cry in !

[@minnesota4169]

Well if you dont care for it, dont watch it. Not sure why everyone complained, a fish is a fish and it is what it is. Did you spear it, no. You watched it. No offense but you need to regulate the population of both genders

[@taylortek6988]

@@markpine2250 your dumb it helps the lake

[@markpine2250]

I can't believe this is legal in this day and age.

[@909mineman]

Why is that? Is it because you're little liberal brain comprehend the fact that humans are at the top of the food chain? Or that due to your lack of common sense you can't see how this is any different than catching a fish and stabbing it to kill it?

[@Hunter-pw5qo]

Owen you are completely in every way right he is so stupid to think that.

[@alexjacobs1233]

little fucking pussey snowflake

[@adventurefishing3190]

By hook or spear, the end result is table.

[@fishwhisper4388]

Get real and rod

[@tannerhills367]

Jeff Poston agreed

[@thefishfin-atic7106]

Even if this was legal up here in Ontario, and even though our lakes have as much or more fish than L. St. Clair, I wouldn't want to do this. It doesn't seem fun, or sportsman like, and seems kind of barbaric. The fish you speared will have damaged tissue, so are not as good eating as rod-caught fish, and you cannot release any of the fish, if you for whatever reason wanted to. Also, if you didn't properly spear the fish, and just dinged it, and it got away, it is very likely to die from its injuries....so this is very unethical in my books, but to each his own I guess. I shake my head at the prospect of spearing a Perch, when they are SO INCREDIBLY FUN to catch on ultralight tackle in the winter!!! You have no idea what you are missing out on!

[@zimks]

The Fish Fin-atic they kept like two pike a like 4 perch, not sure how st. Clair population will rebound off this tremendous loss.... I fail to see a difference between a guy going out and catching a few fish to eat and a guy going out and spearing a few fish.

[@skippy91]

My dick isn't small enough to go spear fishing

[@iScootToronto]

The Fish Fin-atic couldnt have said it any better my friend

[@meadrenalinejunkie]

I have to agree with you on this one The Fish Fin-antic, in a way this reminds me of another issue altogether that bothers me here, native fishing here in Ontario, Bay of Quinte on Eastern Lake Ontario has native's legally allowed to net (as many as they want)walleye and sometimes that is detrimental to the population as its done when the big mature fish have migrated into the bay. I think all the methods should be done with science to decide how many fish can be netted or speared.

[@thefishfin-atic7106]

@@meadrenalinejunkie Don't even get me started on this issue!!!!!!!!!!! It REALLY REALLY REALLY pisses me off!!!! I have seen amazing fisheries - especially Walleye - shut down completely by native netting, and it's absolutely disgusting in my opinion. If the natives want to exercise their "rights" to net spawning fish, then they should be allowed to do so, but with traditional native ways, such as birchbark canoes, and hand-held lines made of moose skin, and hooks made of bone. No gas motors, no metal hooks, no sonar, no GPS, no nets, no guns, no cell phones. They want to harvest fish based on traditional rights, then do so with traditional methods - today's modern native slaughter of our natural resources absolutely disgusts me.