It Took 3 YEARS To Catch This PIKE 

That tiny net could cost you your dream fish fella, the big net is no use to you in the car.

Great video. Your B roll is outstanding.

Some absolute fantastic fish there, well done for sticking with it and hopefully you'll have a 20+ soon. bloody swans!

Your fave spot on the weir is my fave drop shot spot. Looking at that girl you caught I might change tactics next winter! Great catch 👍🎣

Fantastic video Callan, amazing too see what lives in my local dog walking spot! Proper Croc 🐊

No worries mate, you will get the big girl eventually. It took me 7 years to catch a 40lb linear carp from the local canal. Had him again twice the next year. Sometimes the chase is better than the catch. It's fun fishing for a target, you still have that :)

Cracking vids..can tell you have a real passion for angling, Dani too 👏🏻🎣

That was a cracking fish 👍 well done, good edit that vid mate 👍👍

Go Cal! Well done sticking it buddy.

Keep at it mate!!! You’re closer than you think!!! I spent 20 years inching closer and closer to the magical 20lber….. campaigning on the fenland drains…… my first over 20 was 32.2!!!! Still to this day not had a twenty!!! Keep the faith brother…..

nice video mate. And that 20 pound fish will come. But please, please get a decent sized (rubber) landing net for the pikes.

Just found the channel guys, love it. Subbed and looking forward to watching all your vids. Tight lines guys 😉

First 😘 loved this style of storytelling from you Cal!! More like this in the future pls and ty xoxo

Quality look back Cal, really thought the vid was gonna finish with a 20! Some cracking fish none the less. Might see you by the iron bridge if youre back on your old stomping grounds anytime.

Might be strange to ask but what Ouse stretch were you located on ? The fishing club closest to me is on the Huntingdon- St Neots stretch

I'm not a pike angler and I've always fished for carp but something about this video really makes me want to give it a go! Although you didnt get the 20lber you desire those 19lb 8oz PB's were awesome! Great video mate.

Really good watch this loved it

Well done mate congratulations you did brilliant

Best one yet! Come on the 20lber!!! 🤞

So I watched this video, last Sunday at 12:00. And then all geared up I went at 13:30 for some pike fishing in my direct neighbourhood (bike distance). I caught a probably 30+ lbs pike in some small side water of a lake, by far the heaviest ever in 30 year pike fishing. Below 1 meter probably, but fat like a carp. I saw it take my streamer. Really great experience. Thanks for your inspirational video. And good luck on your hunt. Greetings from Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Like the video well made and your narrating is good. As some of the others have said you need a bigger net. Pike are very fragile and bending the big girls in the net is not good for them. An unhooking mat should also be used as pike are very fragile creatures. Drop off indicators should also be used to positively show runs where possible as well or you miss a tentative take and end up witha Deeply hooked pike which is not good for you or them. As I say keep going loads of vids and books on pike fishing that can help you in your quest. Try using bigger baits as you don’t have to cast far for pike a lot of the time, especially on rivers . Good luck and keep going some huge pike in the Thames

That ice kick didnt go unnoticed😏😂

Best 1 yet m8

No way Cal! Didn’t know you had your own channel, in all the times I’ve seen you on the Fish with Carl channel. Great video! Keep it up

Hey buddy, loving the channel pal 👍 South Africa is an amazing place 💯..

Wow what amazing Pike. They look really healthy aswell. Great catches Have you ever fished the lochs for Pike? There are some real monsters in some of them lochs. They are a lot stronger then the river pike aswell. I held the rod once when some one else caught a 30 pounder while they had to go and get a landing net out of their van. It felt like a lump of concrete. My record is still only 17lbs lol Been trying to beat my friend for 17 years hahaha

Absolutely fantastic video mate. Nice one that twenty will happen 👌 👍

Still great river piking. Keep up with the walking in icy puddles pass time..very therapeutic

Great video i really enjoyed that so close to the 20lber youll get one soon

Nice show 👍

You ever caught any decent ones on lures or do you only dead bait

Great video, really enjoyed that! A river 20, or one from a natural lake in the Lake District is also my big goal! Still ongoing...

Great film - was really hoping you’d done it with that last fish! Good luck for the future, but can’t help but think that you took Danni, she’d have one in about an hour…

Hope Ur both well n settled in new yard, .. brilliant vid 👌🙏 Definitely got the right ethos n approach to landing that 20... Bet U end up getting a high twenty'.. Effort always equals reward n that U Clearly deserve... Just Keep going out on your own otherwise Danny Will catch it for u 😁🙏

You'll deffo catch one! I can feel it in my bones!

Fantastic video. New sub

That weir pool is 5minutes from house I’ve spent hours this winter down there pike to 18lb 16lb three around 15lb & a hand full of doubles. Go roach fishing there buddy then the pike turn up, brilliant day fishing. Try fishing the swim to the left of where you are not far out just under the trees. I’ve had my pb perch there as well 3lb 7oz. Great video mate & tight lines 👍🏻

go to danmark or sweden the amount of pikes over 20 pound are insane and you could easily get a 26 punder if you fish the right spots

great vid is there one about your pike rigs

Nice vid! However, why don’t u use a whole mackerel, and only half? I’ve always had big fish on big deadbaits. Maybe try and give that a go next time

Persistance will pay off buddy keep at it. Some cracking fish there caught especially from river. Im still chasing my first 20lb, too. Although can't complain only 18months into my pike fishing and already pb of 16.5lb

nice pike🎣

Cor!! Well done m8!!! That pike at the end of the vid was well fat!!!

Big fish require a slightly larger net 😂😂. Very enjoyable to watch 👌🏻

Yes you do need a very big net I love watching your videos and you will catch that twenty pound fish keep trying it will happen.

Big fish tackle, monster net. Best pike net I've ever owned

Nice video but use the bigger net or it could cost you a pb

I went 15 years without a winter carp, then lost one and banked a second in 30 minutes on January 6th last year. Then had another in December just gone. Patience is key in fishing, but doing the same thing hoping for a different result doesn't work.

As a Scotsman yous are so lucky to have all those species in rivers. Scotland is supposed to be famous for pike and salmon. But really the canals are shit and salmon are very hard to catch. Would love to be able to head down the river and have the option of chub barbel tench pike carp perch . It's shite being Scottish 😅

Just found yer channel... Nice fish, mate... Sub and a like from this irish angler !! 😎👍☘️🍺

See you up bury fields one time, but just to rub salt it, had my first river 20 (21:01) on my first session of this season from the ouse 😜 took my 2 years though ha

My local river has been flooded and unfishable for over 3 months. Ever since the week of rain my in October. When will it ever die down 😭

Well done, two 19 1/2 lb are not to be sneezed at, but get a bigger net ( 42inch).

Well done on the big pike mate! Please retire that tiny little argos net 😂 i think your pike have outgrown it

Your the double of cal from fishing with carl

Still chasing my 20 aswell mate had 2 19 n a half’s maself it will come soo enough though 😂

Mate wick has a 26 and a 28 pike in there the 28 is on the back bank and then 26 is on the bottom bank

Ya need a bigger net lad

So hard to catch a 20lber river pike just got to put the time in they are alot more active than a still water pike think they have so much prey fish to feed on they don't need to pick up a deadbait

I've been fishing for 6 months and caught a 25lb pike

Great video but for Gods sake don't ask Carl what his PB is ; )

Buy a bar for the scales you left in the car and also a sling for weighing, noddy moves 💤

Would you be interested in trying some new carp bait? 😋

Nah my mate had a 30 pound pike out of the Ribble on his first trip on live Bait that ain't big

Never heard someone try so hard to be someone else even pausing between words like Carl and Alex is a bit much in it good videos n that but just be yourself because your not Carl or Alex

Nice fish but why are you using such a stupid landing net?