Amd BTW the pike bite/bleeding thing is an old wives tale, I've been bit dozens of times. They've got extremely sharp teeth and you will bleed like a stuck pig for a bit but that's only due to how clean n deep of a cut they'll give you. With pressure it stops like anything else
There's a reason why we've evolved into what (awkward) creatures we are now, I mean look at us communicating through our electricity rocks 😂 we definitely aren't perfect but I stand on the fact we're one of the most biochemically diverse things next to deep sea life & early reptiles
yeah, i was thinking it was silly, -when i was little and went fishing, it was (and still is) my FAVORITE fish to eat, and although i ofcourse didn't get bit by one, i sure did get my arm stuck in it's gills, which is TERRIFYING...because it's all pokey and it feels like one of those finger-trap toys. i do actually think i got scratched by a tooth a little, but after a quick clean and a bandaid, i was fine. and the ones i caught were HUGE, -my teachers for my class took us fishing, and i caught one that ALL 3 of them had to carry!!!, i also think it had another fish sticking out of it's mouth.
They're always on my belt, and in the tackle box. I'm not sticking my fingers in that mess of teeth. We don't have them in my area but I've heard getting bit especially by a big guy is not a fun experience.
Am I wrong if I say that seems like lot of anglers from US just don't have pliers on them? Bass anglers don't educate themselves on the type of water they fishing?
I’m exclusively an Esox angler and I can tell you for certain you will not bleed for “hours”, their anticoagulants aren’t that potent but you will bleed for much longer than most other fish
An hour? Sure. Hours? Hell's no. But it's definitely a good idea to have some disinfectant hand wash with you to clean up your inevitable gashes. Jaw spreaders and pliers are a must for pike.
Caught a pike in a paddleboat once, didn't even mess with it. Scooped some water in the back and tossed him in there and cycled all the way in to get pliers. Having grown up catching pike, I was always taught to be extra careful around them so I've never actually been bit. I've seen them cut a steel leader before as well, they're no joke. I was really surprised and honestly nervous to see him holding it vertically like that with one hand. From what I've seen they tend to thrash hard in the boat so I always use pliers and if they're above about 18-20 inches I've always used spreaders as well.
I keep a bottle of 91% isopropyl alcohol and a razor blade in my tacklebox for things like this and stings from catfish and stingray barbs. expand the wound a little bit, then treat with alcohol, apply pressure for 45-90 seconds, good to go.
Im from the southern US and our freshwater fish here don't have teeth. The military assigned me to a Michigan base and I went dropped a hook. Caught a nice pike and proceeded to grab its jaw to unhook. Boy, that was an unexpected surprise.
Aren't there alligator gar and bowfin where you're from? Both have a nasty bite. I forgot what fish are around the Louisiana area where I used to live.
That makes sense, I was trying to take a hook out of one of those, I had it resting on my knee, and it nicked me, just a scratch- and it bled and bled, I had to double check my medications lol
While fishing with a friend one early spring he caught a pickerel and announced that he knew how to lip hold them to remove the hook. Twenty minutes later he was still holding this bleeding thumb in a blood soaked rag saying no problem. A few minutes later "I think we need to go back to the truck for the first aid kit". He previously caught many pickerel and knew better but.... Sometimes you just need to touch the hot stove to make sure it's really hot. 😂 This adventure generated laughs many times over.
Seen my buddy get his thumb right to the bone before lol. Their teeth are crazy sharp. I hit sugar lake all summer the last 2 years and still can't net one. Always cut my line even with leaders. Got one right to the net and boom cut. Year 3 upon us my goals to finally get one in the boat
LOL happened to me with pike. My fingers slipped into its mouth through the gill flap when it started squirming (I was holding it wrong) and I ended up with a whole bunch of cuts all over my hand and a nice blood trail on the ground.
@@steveh1515bro tbh stop fishing if you cant land it. Every single one died because of starvation with a lure in its mouth. Its really not that hard with appropiate gear, so I assume you dont know about that. Quit.
@@claudiusluneburg3260 dang didn't know you were a pro thanks for the advice. Just sold everything and hung it up for good I'm going to move on to checkers. Appreciate the help and support I much needed my keyboard warrior 🙏
& they're intelligent. Had one swallow a treble, play dead. When I reached in with pliers it shook violently, bit me, dropped back in the river, left the treble hook sunk deep in my hand, then watched me pop the hook out with pliers.
Same thing with bass and sunfish. There all related to cichlids but the bass is the most distant to the cichlid. Sunfish are basically a more aggressive version of African cichlids in my opinion but I don't know how Africans cichlids are in the wild so I could be wrong.
@Nobody04200 peacock bass are cichlids and NOT bass. Other bass are not cichlids or really even related. Pan fish are also not cichlids nor would the be close to African cichlids. If anything, they have very slight similarities to central and South American cichlids.
Walleye are NOT in the pike family. They are in the Perch family. Not related at all. Often they even get called Pickerel, but they aren’t pickerel at all. There are 3 pike you mentioned, but the walleye is a different fish altogether. Bone structure, even teeth, other than there’s lots of them, are different.
Pickerel are fun to catch and seem to bite all year round especially during ice fishing here in NJ. Caught a few over 4lbs in my lifetime. You not only have to worry about their outer teeth but on the roof of their mouth is a patch of sandpaper like sharp stuff that will def cut a knuckle if you had to reach in deep to get your lure
Slimy chain pickerel are northerners way smaller cousin. The biggest one I ever caught in 15+ years was 28" and that was BIG where I was fishing. Even the tiny 12 inchers hit like a mack truck half the time flying out of the water from under duckweed, lillies, and any other top cover. Weedless always worked best for us. They do have very sharp teeth that can sometimes cut deep but you wont bleed for hours. Light flavor white meat but lots of bones. Still one of the funnest fish I've went for
Agreed! I catch a ton of black crappie over 14 inches, on Bull Shoals Lake in Arkansas. I eat a good bit of them, but have no desire to eat them bone in. I lose very little meat fileting them. But to each their own! Maybe he isn't good at fileting?!?! 🤷♂️
I’ve been bit by a Pike and I didn’t bleed for hours lol. It’s like getting bit by any other fish that has a bunch of teeth. Wasn’t the worst experience.
I have a chain pickerel as a pet. He's only 3 inches rn and eats minnows, and I was feeding him when he bit my finger. Them tiny teeth still hurt! Had a little ring of bloody dots on my finger.
I caught a giant today in the swamp fun fact : people confuse them for a northern pike , but its not its a chain pickerel kin to the northern down the line
Thought it was just the different country different name kind of thing as in UK I would have said it was a Pike! I've never heard of pickerel but appreciate your Info, il be looking into this a little more and see if we have them in the UK 👍❤
They are very similar but pike are basically their devil , big brothers. And they bite a hell of a lot harder (and eat more). First time I ever caught one nobody warned me and I went to lip it LOL
I've got bit on my first one recently, a small bite. Haha, wasn't too bad. Caught in minnesota on vacation, just walking in the water on a shaky head. Was 38 inches amd my first one ever
Been bitten by this fish called a pike, a nice 8 pounder, in the UK. It was a cold winter’s day so my fingers were numb but that didn’t stop the bleeding😜
Pike are a family of fish. This fish in the video is indeed a pike, but is the smallest species named Chain pickerel. In England you have the Northern pike, or just Northern. There’s a pretty awesome fishery there for the Northerns as well! Then there’s the Muskellunge here in North America (not sure if they are elsewhere) and the Muskellunge are so aggressive if you get one on your line & even get bigger than the Northerns!!
@@shitloveaduck I think I've seen a muskie once or twice, never caught one. They're very elusive and you won't land them on a rig you'd be using for much of anything else inland. You need like 20-25 lb test or braided line to land them. Not sure if I've ever had one on for certain but once time walleye fishing I felt a massive tug, genuinely felt like a tree came to life and snapped my line. Reeled in and my steel swivel was snapped. Could've been a 40 inch northern but I'm not sure tiger muskie or just a regular muskie are entirely out of the question there either. No large catfish as far north as we were so it was one of the 3.
@@MJ-mi9qc - we have a couple of lakes here that you generally catch 4 - 8 lb walleye and 36” - 42” northerns. I don’t think I have caught anything less than 30” in there. I generally am fly fishing with a steel leader & 8 weight line & reel. The bigger fish are a challenge, but if you let them run 2 or 3 times you are good. They are really hard on the reels though. When I’m fishing those lakes I fish with 20 or 25 lb braid and a medium action 6.5 ft rod with a baitcaster reel. The biggest so far is 42” with that set up and they were a challenge for sure. In the fall, they were massive and all shoulders. That fight certainly will rival a similar sized Musky. I often catch them doing the figure 8 at the boat or even shore. Can’t do that with the fly rod, but it produces in the summer when the other methods don’t.
@@shitloveaduck It's pretty amassing that Pikes are found on multiple continents. Just shows how ancient the species must be. I use to do a lot of Pike fishing in the Netherlands. They are much bigger than these ones. But i stopped fishing all together when they outlawed life bait. All the rules and regulations just took the fun out of it for me.
@@benanders4412 - they really are old, but successful predators. Here in Alberta, Canada, about Calgary & south & 50 years ago they were very numerous in every lake that held irrigation water. They spread with the massive canal networks we have. The canals are mostly pipelines now and the weather has messed them up a bit. Now most lakes have a limit to keep of 1 or zero. More often zero. They are dying off in quite a few lakes. I would never have thought that could happen. We spread them around with our canals and diminished their numbers by turning the canals into pipelines. I guess humans can be the problem sometimes. The weather has something to do with it as well. I fish mostly for a hybrid of the rainbow trout. The lakes are stocked, there’s few wild trout in the province really. If you want to try a form of fishing for pike that can get VERY exciting, try fly fishing for them. You can cast and strip line for them, it can be tiring but when one hits your lure/fly, hang on!! The action is so much different as the fly reel turns once for every turn you make. It’s challenging and fast paced! You can also fish dead stick style, almost like using live bait, but you out a fly that can be used with an indicator (float, but lighter and smaller than a bobber). They will take that fly as well. When you catch them, same thing!! I wear out a fly reel every 2 years where I have to replace the clutches with the pike. With the trout, I have reels that are 20 years old and haven’t fixed anything on them!! Haha. Hoping it’s going to be a good year for you, Eh!
It's amazing to read through these comments and see how many people don't realize that Chain Pickerel are NOT Pike and are a completely different fish and they just call it a Pike cuz they look similar and belong to the same family lol 😂
Lol more like a True Fact! I got bit and it took one and a half hours and 10 pieces of paper towel to stop the bleeding! Still awesome to catch! Especially when they are BIG BIG!!
What’s up bro, hope all is well! Man put me on game, why larger fish are likely found in shallow water rather out in the open? If they’re found in both, how do you adjust your strategies (fishing techniques).
Yeah, I got bitten by 7kg northern pike. It broke our net so I tried lifting it into the boat by hand and then it trashed, my hand slipt from the gill plate into its mouth, second trash and it lacarated my thumb area quite badly. Indeed it blead a lott. Best thing is that whole fiasco and my yelp was caught on film.
The northern pike is not to be fucked with. My uncle Bert lost a thumb holding the lower mouth while trying to get the hook free. I love northern hunting and caught many pikes, much bigger than the hammer handle you’re holding. 😂😂
T the second musky i landed thanks to a gentleman nearby with a net, was the one that got me. Got raked by the gill plate and dang boi i was dripping. It will make you loopy for a day too 😂
Have you ever gotten a plant thorn in your finger? Same thing. Just keeps on bleeding. It's like a paper cut that keeps bleeding and takes forever to stop.
"If this fish bites you, you will bleed" holy shit I didnt know that thanks for the brand new information I never knew this in my life my life has been changed I got kids they are alive and breathing I exist I am blinking right now
Even when I catch small ones I will NOT handle them. They all get the lip gripper no matter what. Same with largies I catch with anything that has more than one hook. I don't take any chances. Might make people laugh at me or think I'm a wimp, but I'm not gonna be the guy in the ER with a hook in my hand or getting a finger stitched up because a pickerel mangled it.
Been targeting pike specifically recently and last weekend i caught a pretty nice sized pike…. Thought i had a good grip but he got away from me and bit my thumb.. it was pretty good took me an hour to make it stop bleeding .. but i had a buddy get bit and it was done in 10-15mins i guess he got me pretty deep lol
Know what I have never heard that about chained pickerel but makes sense bc my fingers have been had multiple times by pike and quite a few times by pickerel and even tho the pike were bigger that go my finger I always bled more from lil small pickerel
I’ve taken my hook out of pickerels mouths before. Did not know they had the bacteria that reduces clotting ahha. I was just lucky not to get bit I guess
