These River Pike Were soo Aggressive!

Well this was an eventful first light session. I decided to hit the local river with the medium/heavy pike setup and target some aggressive river pike and I wasn't disappointed. The pike were really fired up and the takes were explosive! I had plenty of action and even had a really nice fish take the lure just before heading home. Hope you Enjoy!
Rod - abugarcia-fish...
Reel - www.fishingtac...
Bait - www.sportfisht...
Braid - berkley-fishin...

[@mattj9197]

Good to see you mentioned the conditions with regards to summer piking, also good to see someone respect fish so much

[@droneliferichards522]

After a long week's work it's a real pleasure to watch your great videos Chris enjoy them so much tight lines 🐟

[@PENFOLD1962]

Lol... I've had days of falling in nettles stung by a bee on my neck resulting me having a fit!!! But have I enjoyed the day of course I have. The lure you're using sure brings the pike to a boil, loved the video once again. Take care my friend.

[@deividas_kimontas]

That last Pike shot off like a bullet!! Great action Chris! 💥👌

[@sylviandekker5245]

You’re vids are like my fishing dreams. Great vid

[@DuncsMoney]

It's great to see that you really care for the fish you catch 👍🏻😀

[@corkyvanderhaven3391]

Not last long on YT any other way. That’s the beauty of the community online

[@JWhite-Fishing]

I actually fished here a week before you uploaded this video - spotted some lovely Barbel and Chub near a deep hole under a tree on the near side of the river. Got em feeding and all of a sudden a big ol' Pike turned up and ruined my swim, started chasing around the Chub. The best thing about these swims is how easy it is to see the action unfold right in front of you.

[@corkyvanderhaven3391]

Tough to come fully ready, ain’t it? Nice to travel light but,…..

[@trevorcornes1056]

Great bit of fishing Chris,lovely set up ,surprised what size fish are taking those lures .you make it look so easy . Keep um coming 👍

[@petercalthorpe7966]

Great shots Chris of the pikes hitting the Lure on the surface . Awesome Perch mate looking forward to the underwater scenes. Take care mate all the best form down under. 👍🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@barkinstarfish]

Production getting better and better. Great content!

[@richardtorr4553]

Such good photography and you are a good shot with casting your lures, good to watch.

[@phil3038]

@2.42 , what a cast!!😊😎

[@SimonTorenbeek]

That slomo shot 😍 cool video mate!

[@leehoward8570]

1:47 that really was cool 👏

[@blitzrockbanduk7672]

I must have just missed you, I fished there this evening. Good fishing 🎣

[@pat632]

Thanks for sharing mate, I realy enyoid your video! Greetings from the Netherlands, Pat. 👊🏼👍🏼🇳🇱🎣

[@michaelclark7456]

Stoooooked!!!!! You got me ready to head to the UK. Pike aren't that easily attained where I live.

[@skateboardingjesus4006]

Really, where's that?

[@alee7275]

@@skateboardingjesus4006 Sahara Desert

[@michaelclark7456]

@@skateboardingjesus4006 North Bay, Ontario. We have pike but our lakes are big and deep. Catching decent sized ones usually require a boat. Bass are more prominent here than anything. He seems to always be fishing a small creek along a trail. We have the Chippewa Creek but there's definitely nothing in it but garbage sucker fish. It's been fished out and polluted sadly. Seeing him catch huge pike out of a creek is mind blowing to me.

[@skateboardingjesus4006]

@@michaelclark7456 That's pretty normal in parts of the UK and here in Ireland. Ontario is a good spot; I visited my uncle there a few years back. I know Algonquin has some good pike, muskie and waleye fishing in certain lakes and waterways.

[@skateboardingjesus4006]

@@alee7275 Now now, no porky pies please.

[@pjsgonefishing1142]

Tough fishing spots. Nice video. Beautiful perch! 🎣🎣🎣

[@steventurner8428]

If you are concerned about injuring the fish and to make it so much easier to get out of the net. Try crushing or grinding down the barbs on the hooks. Sometimes when a fish thrashes around in the net the last thing you want to do is spend time to untangle it because the other hooks are snared.

[@martinsylvester1823]

Thanks Chris, nice video, love the slow mo shots

[@BurtyHaxx]

i laughed so hard when the pike just flopped and dint move XD

[@thedeeprot]

💯💯💯

[@porkchopsandapplesauce]

Honestly most impressed by the perch, thing was massive

[@Ironsmiler]

Aye, bloody tank that thing. Looked young too.

[@tomryder21]

Caught my first giant pike yesterday and I’m traumatised after unhooking it any tips on how not start shaking like a dog

[@dutchjoey1]

First of congratulations!!😁 Second just keep doing it mate it'll get better 😂.

[@PBclipz]

Its always daunting first few times. If you have a matt, put fish down and get on knees one knee either side of the pike. Feels a bit more like you are in control helps with confidence. Then put pike on its back, slide finger up the gill flap until you feel a bit of chin u can grab , pull towards you and mouth will drop open wide so you can get forceps right in. If you are chinning and unhooking while lifted, gently sqeeze its body between your knees, not ideal but if you are going to unhook that way its better than a fish flying out of your hands and landing headfirst on the bank!

[@fisherman650]

How funny 😂😂😂

[@TheSebtrain]

I caught a 5 pounder yesterday at shat my pants 😂

[@tezzadavies8226]

May sound stupid but when I feel abit nervous with an awkward pike I just take a breath and think of the pikes health and what I need to do to get it back safely. Like I said I know it sounds stupid and it may make people more stressed but it helps me to relax and think of the fish first

[@robertbabbs9694]

Great video Chris some awesome pike

[@PinchTheBarb]

That perch was huge!!!

[@bluesmanken123]

I know you care and respect your catch and I wonder why you don't use barbless treble hooks for pike? Ok you may lose a few but it gives them a sporting chance of freedom. Plus easy to remove the hooks and hardly any damage to the fish, just saying as those big trebles look scary,

[@stephenmiddleton3522]

My 6yo son is religiously watching your pike videos to pick up tips on how to catch his first pike. He has lures and dead bait. Can you share your top tip to help him please? He's asked if you'd come and teach him even 😂

[@corkyvanderhaven3391]

Find the fish always #1. Good bait. #2 keep throwing.

[@jonathaningram4672]

wads fishing two days ago mainly for Bream, caught a really small Perch and a Jack Pike on retrieval fancied it, not rigged for that, Perch survived with small scratch, treated with spray, wow

[@jamesatkinsfishing]

Another fun video Chris Thank you,👍

[@tarmac1697]

What a lovely fat perch that was, I was wondering if you’ve ever fished in Canada? I worked there for 20 long summers, caught so many 30lb + Pike. If you ever get a chance to go don’t hesitate, it’s wonderful fishing the bass are fantastic fighting fish. So many big fish there you’d love it. Probably be good for the channel as well.

[@DocBrewskie]

Where I live in the states we don’t have pike. I used to go to Canada with my dad walleye and pike fishing. Always had an absolute blast.

[@scottmetzdorf9862]

That hit was SICK!

[@alfie.h3397]

love your videos easily one of the best uk anglers. Predator fishing is the by far the best type of fishing in my opinion and you just make it look so easy which it really isn't😂Cant wait for it to get a bit colder so i can try land my first pike. Any suggestions for the best lures to use?

[@dvxsn1pzz751]

When I started I used spinners as you don’t have to do much just cast and retrieve until you hook a pike spinners are good to start with

[@alfie.h3397]

@@dvxsn1pzz751 thanks!

[@dvxsn1pzz751]

@@alfie.h3397 no worries 👍

[@theabandonedhunter3604]

Great video Chris 👍

[@Drwardy1]

Great content Chris!!!

[@jonathaningram4672]

I know you like the fishing for Pike and fat Perch . Have you ever settled down for a session for using a swim feeder, ha ha I hear you swearing. I'm only adding this because me and a friend fishing the Tees on free pegs a match further up. My set up cheap Boyes Warbird Feeder rod, open cage feeder 30g, using Sensas 300 Classic Match Bream ground bait, smells delicious, white maggot size 14 whisker barbed hook. No sooner it settled on bottom a 2.8lb Bream then another and another within similar weight, completely bonkers. I stopped counting after 8 of em and my landing net covered in slime. I'd probably have won that match if I was in it, the main thing I noted, they fought like stink, each and every one of em. Normally a few heavy headshakes and dives then like reeling in a soaked tea towel, not these, all the way in. Love the vids you put up. Keep em coming.

[@LucasR-xl4sl]

Another cracking vid, keep them coming! =)

[@Lloyd.delaney._]

Love your vids never stop 👍🏼🎣

[@davidflaro7217]

european perch man are wild i live in canada and your perch are the size of our smallmouth yeah we do get some nice sized perch here but me personally have never caught anything worth braggings rights on but yeah cheers and keep on fishing love the videos

[@evansupergrany6]

Great video , nice fish . Thank you

[@Vissenbijdewaterkant]

Great pike video Chris!

[@markelder5101]

Great job always enjoy your videos

[@riverhuntersuk7387]

Better than the 1 i had following my lure today but wouldn't take it. So frustrating. Litterly right behind my lure, even tried the stop and it just sat there looking then swam away

[@daveyboyh3107]

Brilliant mate

[@paulembleton3087]

More great video's and great fish 🐟

[@jonbrown853]

Another really great video

[@djj2343]

Great footage of lovely rivers etc.. do you fish barbless ?

[@andym5900]

Chris can you do one on getting started ie from rods to fixed spool or bait caster -- primarily for pike but lake also contains perch & cats ?

[@AngloSaxon1]

Great video, what is the name of your landing net?

[@dpmaspam]

these canals and rivers you fish look like somewhere in the south of england. are there the same types in the north of england? i cant imagine canals so full of fish here in leeds as the ones in your vids

[@DAHARLAND76]

That perch was 👌

[@fozandharley]

Beautiful bit of water is that, with the mchybrid do you find it takes on water both of mine seem to

[@kikogarcia2293]

Enhorabuena por las capturas y fantástico video, un saludo 😉🤙

[@mattgoodchild8215]

Utterly fantastic

[@fatboyfishing8616]

Hi mate, love the videos! New to pike fishing and bought myself an Abu Garcia baitcaster rod and reel. I wanted to know if you wouldn’t mind the best places to fish for pike would be in the East Midlands? Is it just a case of fishing a canal and strolling up and down it? Or find a particular stretch of river? Any help and guidance would be great! Thank you!

[@conorscully7008]

I’m quite new to it too, but I just stroll up and down and canal usually using spinners and i always get 1 or 2, make sure to have a net!

[@brodiedeady1631]

What lures should I use be cause I have been a few times and not caught out so eny tips would be great

[@tonyross7376]

Good stuff chris

[@DJFarside]

What's the spray you use for wounds on fish? Thanks

[@tiuma85]

Lovely strike's!!

[@truckercarlefromscotland]

i get them all the time up in scotland river pike put more of a fight on than the loch fish

[@imn1ppystr]

what kind of species do you have in those rivers? im from america not too familiar

[@paulroper1729]

Great video as usual. Which river is this?

[@sharonwhite9493]

What river is this amazing fishing

[@zachariasleward7866]

I got a pike on 11,2 kg yesterday in a tiny lake

[@WSY01]

Why do you use such thick braid if I may ask?

[@Sonikks]

With pike fishing, you mostly use treble hooks. It's important to use a strong braid especially if you're dead baiting because it you get snagged, you want to make sure your hooks bend out before your line snaps otherwise you risk leaving a deadbait with two trebles on it that will get picked up a pike.

[@WSY01]

@@Sonikks but theoratically, you could use a very thin braid, as long as your slip is set correctly, right?

[@Sonikks]

@@WSY01 I guess so mate.

[@Zola57]

Barbless hooks? Braid 80lb+? What are you after then?

[@conorscully7008]

pike

[@antonywagon4564]

What trace are you using? Looks heavy but not wire?

[@danielowens9295]

Can you grasp a pike like other fish, or is it a must to hold by the gill flap… I’m relatively new to fishing and I’ve seen a few pike in the local canal, I’m just not sure what to do if I manage to catch one 😂

[@r0binho386]

Often the difficulty with pike is they slam their mouths shut once you've caught them. Grabbing them under the gill plate means, as well as having control over them, you can ensure you can get the mouth open. Anything other than small jack pike, chinning them is the best way for sure. Also keeps your fingers safe from the teeth!

[@jakereich]

I caught my first big pike the other day, and held it under the gill plate for the first time. Luckily I'd watched a bunch of videos so knew what to do. Just be careful to take your time and not accidentally touch the gill rakers. If you get the fish on the bank with a net, then hold it on it's back between your legs, you'll be able to carefully take a look at the jaw and gills and figure out what's going on. Immediately reaching down and grabbing the fish by the gills is probably for when you have a bit more experience.

[@danielowens9295]

Cheers mate 👍🏼

[@danielowens9295]

@@r0binho386 thanks for the advice 👍🏼

[@marcust123]

Mate just wondering do you need a licence/ permit when fishing on the river?

[@oldsmugglerflyfishing]

Those pikes are scary!

[@JohnSmith-nv1ti]

Just wondering why the line is so heavy,83lb? What do you do when you get snagged?

[@conorscully7008]

he explained it before, there can be up to 30lb pike where he fishes or something, and the pike head straight into the weeds, I always fish with at least 10lb usually 15lb heavier line when fishing for pike. The heavier line helps more when being snagged.

[@JohnSmith-nv1ti]

@@conorscully7008 10 pound heavier I can understand but 50 pound heavier? And I would be scared of getting snagged on a tree because snapping the line would be a nightmare

[@conorscully7008]

@@JohnSmith-nv1ti a fisher man always has a knife, scissors, pliers on him to cut the line, also some people rather much heavier line, this lad has been fishing since he’s a kid, he knows what he’s doing.

[@JohnSmith-nv1ti]

@@conorscully7008 just seems abit overkill,I know there's snags but people catch 40 pound carp on 15 pound line in snaggy swims and carp fight harder

[@rhysgibbins]

What rod and reel is that!?👌

[@svartaska]

Nice Video! I really enjoyed it! Would you recommend this reel up to 150 grams? Best from Germany

[@melonytoni9016]

first aid spray works on fish?

[@TadhgIrish]

Great fishing video. Love all the videos. What’s a hybrid pike ?? Thanks

[@petersmith6974]

Zander (U.K.) pickerel (Canada) ? Maybe ? Pike/perch kinda thing

[@maximbennett8429]

What kind of combo do you use for northern pike or if anybody has any suggestions that would be nice

[@conorscully7008]

Abi Garcia is what he usually uses, great rods

[@joshc8907]

Had a pike take my pink pop up I was using to fish for carp, managed to net him, it was only a jack, luckily managed to free him from the hook and sent him on his way

[@oskar007]

Отлично отдохнул. Я тоже болен рыбалкой. Удачи😀

[@antrog1895]

Ha ha had to laugh I tried getting down into an awkward swim slipped slid down t-shirt all pushed up my back and got nettled big time. I caught a perch that was smaller than the spinner 😆😆😆

[@angelambriersbriers5026]

Looking forward to the under water footage. Catch you later buddy

[@cplatter38]

Hey, next summer, talk Berkley into flying you to Alaska and I'll put you onto some salmon and halibut! I'll host you no problem. We'll have a blast! I live on the Kenai peninsula, little off grid farm, half dozen kids, and I'm permanently disabled so, no job to get in the way 😉... bring the fam, I'll feed and house ya, y'all just get here 😀. Kings are a maybe, been a lot of closures, but we literally get millions of sockeye! Last week the kenai river had 137,000 enter the river in 1 day! 5-12 lbs of rocket fuel on the end of you rod in a Glacier fed river with bears just off the trail 😀. Early to mid July is the best, late July through mid August can be really good for coho salmon, fall colors, 7-20lb slabs and an occasional 1-4lb Dolly Varden in spawn colors! epic! So, dead serious mate... think about it, trip of a lifetime, I'll cover everything but the flight, could even hook you up with the Outdoor boys, and Alaska boys channels for a collaboration.

[@JM_dawg]

Is that a swimbait?

[@makeorwellfictionagain3553]

Never seen you use a fluro trace for pike before.

[@brandonbabuakalucifer977]

IN MY WISH LIST

[@theeiledon]

Do you use barbed hooks?

[@conorscully7008]

he uses both, mostly barbless because this man hates the fishing getting hurt, barbless hooks are soooo much easier to unhook and less damage to the fishes mouth. I respect this man so much with his fishcare. A true fisher man.

[@rafazabijak4465]

Hi buddy what is this bait send me a link to it

[@andydavidson]

i was told fishing for pike in the summer was bad for the pike?

[@kid--presentable]

Why so?

[@123edg321]

My understanding is that it is to do with oxygen levels. Standing or slow moving water like canals and lakes can heat up and have low oxygen levels and the fish can suffer. Rivers will tend to be cooler and highly oxygenated regardless of outdoor temperatures.

[@adamgriffiths9989]

@@kid--presentable Dissolved oxygen levels are lower in the water. This can mean they go belly up/die more easily if they are out of the water for too long. Only really applies if its boiling hot like last week in the UK. He has a video showing him testing the canal water before fishing.

[@The_ginger_fisherman]

Low dissolved oxygen levels caused by very high temperatures is bad for pike. All venues are different. This particular river never really gets below 97% DO levels even on the hottest days ( what I've been told by the environment agency) so it's safe

[@kid--presentable]

@@adamgriffiths9989 thanks for the info , I will defo remember that

[@domspeight8562]

What river is this on

[@tomgarforth936]

Where is this please

[@sch1tzak.801]

What length is ur rod ?

[@conorscully7008]

7ft

[@ThomasDoubting5]

They tend to be in the summer bit people really

[@rohzpopper4922]

Nothing when comparing to Malaysian giant Snakehead on the lake. Malaysian soldiers in training need to lob a grenade before crossing a river that connected to the lake. These alone is big as a baseball. Divers cutting trees 100' deep in the lake were afraid when the fish attack them. In a Snakehead infested lake, it is known to bite the hands of fisherman washing their hands !!! It's a good fighting fish, much more stronger than Muskie. So far 20 kg is the captured one. There are much more bigger in size deep in 100' lake claim by underwater tree harvesters !!! They were never landed.

[@tunabestfish]

i just caught a 3.4kg pike with a spoon named pike

[@BECUMURAKAS]

I Lost a 5-6 lb pike last saturday idk why because i have let all the other 2lb and 3lb go back in the water

[@sharonwhite9493]

You could cast on a penny from 200 yards

[@giorgiotatananni9652]

I need to find myself a nice stream and quit canals… 😅

[@boosted242]

First aid on a fish? Are you completely mad and out of your mind lol? :D FTW

[@magicworldbyjorg]

[@BECUMURAKAS]

And my friend Lost a 15-16lb pike in lake because the jerk broke