that is my dream fish right here northern pike on the fly ... you got to love a fish that can desinagrate a fly like they can . man i love that fish ...................
Great movie,it would be nice to have parts of the movie without background music though, to get the feeling of being out in the nature without distractions which i personally like when im out fishing.
Wow, i'm so jealous! In Poland average pike is between 40 and 60... centimeters, not inches :D I was catching them with #6 flyrod and it's fun. But 55inches?! MADNESS! Respect :)
I thought Pike fishing was alive and well in all the parts of Europe within their range? Their genetics, forage bases and environments are supposedly better than those North America
@StickyRig In eastern and southern Europe almost every fish that's caught gets killed and eaten. North west of Europe there is more catch and release and thus more big fish
I hava a question: Those deer hair poppers they use ( i think they are called wahlberg diver).... i've heard they are really fragile. Is it true? How many pikes can i catch with one of those before the fly is completely destroyed?
SEE004_01:UPPM-Universal Does anybody know what this song is called? Seriously, I'm confused and I wanna listen to it without having to watch a video . . . :/
+Tiverton69 I think many people don't get excited about pike is because they don't really run very far for their size. A big brown trout or steelhead that is 12 - 15 pounds is going to run all of your fly line and at least 50 yards of the backing, and more than once. Pike might take the fly well but as I saw on this video none ran more than 40 feet of line..
It looks like you're just using flouro leaders. No bite guard? With the way these wolves engulf the fly, I'd be a bit scared of donating a lot of flies! Oh and Renato, they're called Dahlberg divers.
I got muskie huntin' in the blood.... But I can respect the sh*t out of this video. And not to knock it at all, but I bet some of those fish would hit a literal stick if it was skippin atop the water! Just BIG fish though. Jeez.
This fishing is amazing and all, but you need to learn some serious release skills. That fish was out of the water way to long and you continued to pick it back up for no reason. Once you get a picture and measure it let it go. A fish like that can collapse from its own body weight out of the water.
have you ever tried grabbing a pike anywhere else? mouths full of teeth, if youre releasing you arent gonna grab em by the gills.. the tails the best place to grab it you goon lol
There is zero harm in grasping a pike this way. It's the same way most salmon fisherman hold the fish prior to release. way better than hanging them vertical from the gill plate which can cause internal organ damage
Amazing fish, in a beautiful setting but you guys are professionals right? So how many god damn times are you going to stick your hands in the fishes gills and pull it out of the water. The fish aren't your personal property so you should be more considerate of them, the enjoyment they give you and also, that some other people might like to catch some of these fish except they're dead because they got gill rot after being poorly handled by a selfish dumbass.
Grnsk I've been fishing since I was 6 - tuna, flounder, stripped bass, trout, pike, pickerel, pumpkin seeds, sharks, squawfish, carp, suckers, bluefish, steelhead - I'm 40 now and lesson number one is never put your hands inside the fish if you want to release it, it's a bad habit and lower mouth-gill plate or not, it's a good way to transfer harmful bacteria to the fish in it's most vulnerable spot. If you're going to eat the fish no problem how you handle it but if you're going to release it then give it the best chance of survival.
mdschmog Didn't know that bacteria can be transfered, but there are studies from Sweden that show that the "gill" grip is much to prefer over other ways of landing fishes. What would be an alternative better way to do it?
