You MUST WATCH This Video If You Bait Fish For Pike! 

Superb video and from what I regularly see on YT.. very much needed. I,ve been fishing for Pike for over 30 years & I still can’t believe the delayed strike method is a thing. It is usually banded about by people who haven’t got a clue. The PAC have been advocating for immediate striking and proper bike indication for years. NEVER EVER delay striking. 👍🏻

Would be great to see a similar video on a traditional ledger rig with a drop-off indicator and also a standard deadbait float rig incorporating a egg weight as opposed to a ledger on the bottom.

Brilliant footage / video. I have been piking 20+ years and still find it fascinating / learn new things, about how Pike behave underwater! Thanks Chris...simply the bets fishing channel on YT!

I’d love to see how you would rig a popped up bait on a ledger rig! You could also compare a standard ledgered bait with a popped up one underwater! That would be interesting bud! Top video as always 👏🎣

Fantastic vid, Chris, one of the very, very best on RU-vid. I think the "old days" of waiting 30 seconds are fortunately *long* gone. As soon as you get a good signal off the float/whatever, tighten up and lean in. The 'twitch' method when dead-baiting is a trade secret - well worth passing on. Gets a lot of fish. I think it's been referred to as "Inch retrieving"? Can be devastatingly effective. Take a look at Mick Brown's dead-bait rig - I don't use anything else these days, used it for years. It's got the lot. Tangle free, casts miles, weight snag release, bait to rod tip connection so you see everything. Finger tipping the line during a pick-up is phenomenal - you're connected! Tight lines!

Interesting video as usual, and no lost landing net. A couple of points: 1. Why did you think you needed a 2.5 oz lead? I fish fairly shallow Fen drains and I try to use as little lead as I can, none if possible, and let the bait cock the float. 2. Why not cock the float so that there isn't a delay between the take and the indication? Your co-ordinated videos showed that the pike had taken the bait with little or no indication on the float, I am sure that a cocked float would give a more instant indication. Here's to a good autumn/winter campaign. Nick

Just wanted to say a massive thank you for the effort that goes into your videos mate. This is your best and most revealing video to date, imo. Fascinating how little indication you get, or none at all in some cases. Pike are curious and it's anyone's guess what they're truly "thinking" when they stare at the bait. I know myself and likely many, many others would really appreciate it if you could film some footage like this with pop-up deadbaits. I've been pike fishing for a few years now and pop-ups have always brought the better fish for me. However I tend to have blanks more when using them. Some lakes they work, others they don't. I don't think you have used them on your channel before so it might make more a challenge for yourself as well. I started using the pop-up balls from PikePro but I've switched to the balsa sticks that are inserted into the deadbaits and found them to be much more fruitful. I'd love a video on both of those if you're willing. I'd even send you a packet if you wanted! Cheers!

When float ledgering I always fish the float half cocked, rather than flat on the water, that way most of the slack line has already been taken up, which gives better bite indication.

Thanks Chris, you're doing something unique with your underwater filming and tactics - please keep doing it - really informative and entertaining. You've changed the game! 🙂

Your dedication to fish welfare as part of an enjoyable day's fishing is brilliant.

Thank you very much for educating people about pike fishing and fish care and your underwater filming is absolutely outstanding , thanks again chris

Pure quality Chris, the effort and attention to detail is quite superb and much appreciated. Fabulous to watch. Thank you yet again.

This will save a lot of pike's lives, no doubt. It's amazing how it engulfed the bait straight away with only a tiny movement on the float. Fair play, this will definitely save a lot of pike suffering needlessly.

Great underwater footage there Chris and also showing the need to strike early so as not to deep hook. My best pike came drifting a dead bait under a bung and it hit the strike early.

This is an excellent video, one of your finest I think. So educational, so interesting, so revealing. More of similar ilk please Chris.

Excellent and informative as always. Thoroughly enjoy your pike fishing videos. Keep up the good work Chris 👍👍

Amazing content Chris! 🔥 We love pike fishing! 🎣

Awesome vlog Chris. You keep excelling yourself and your work is so interesting and confounds some of the received wisdom about delayed striking. Keep up the great work. Many thanks.

Superb, Chris. I, like countless others were taught the ten second rule. This dispels the myth completely. I’m gonna try this weekend on my river. Thanks buddy. Keep up the sterling work.

Excellent as usual Chris very interesting thank you 👍🏻👍🏻

Absolutely fantastic video. Well done!

Top video Chris, really enjoyed it mate. I’m getting into Pike fishing more 🎣

Some brilliant footage there Chris👌

I love watching these videos, it takes me back to youth fishing in the uk.... i now live in Australia... ❤

A beautiful masterclass in dead-baiting pike fishing. Many thanks. Raymondo.

Brilliant footage loved it great job can't wait to see the next one Chris 👍

Awesome video as usual, brilliant underwater footage. And hugely informative.

I really enjoyed this video! just literally wrote down notes because I learned a lot here . just subscribed and hit that bell! actually looking forward to see what else you've done. Awesome viewing Chris.

One of the best Pike videos I have seen, really interesting. Thanks for making.

I really appreciate that fish care is paramount in this video. We love to catch fish but it is important to cause as little harm to them as possible, Thank you for having that conversation.

This was a great vid. So informative and a completely different approach to the educational side of things. Excellent 👌

So pleased with this I stopped dead baiting 15 years ago after catching a pike that had someone else’s trace deep hooked I tried to help it made me stop dead baiting just in case it happened to me

Ginger fisherman, you sir are a legend. Big fan of your videos. This was a brilliant video. Such indepth info and evidence of pike behaviour. I'm always fascinated into what the pike are doing down there under the water. Keep up the good work. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Hi m8 ave never commented on anything on youtube but watched the underwater pike video an have to hand it to u pal thats gotta be the best pike fottsge ive ever seen an proper informative keep doin wot u r doin m8 tight lines 👍🏻

This is so brilliant. Dont know how you do it to bring this amazing content so frequent. Keep doing what you doing!

excellent video , very good production plus very informative

Excellent Chris.

That was a very interesting video to watch Chris 👍 nice one . Keep um coming .

I always strike early, I'd much rather have a couple of misses over any more deepys. Had some absolute nightmare unhooking scenarios and I don't want to re-live them. Another belting vid mate

Thank you for this video, it's been so informative!

We've got Sammy Hitzke down under and our Ginger Fisherman up here. Opposite ends of the world but two of the most informative, positive, professional and personable hosts of the best fishing videos out there! Keep up the amazing work guys! A meet-up video would be off the scale!

Excellent video buddy thanks for the video ❤️

Huge thank you lad! So much I've learned from this video. Great job!!

Excellent, well presented and informative as always… Best channel on RU-vid! 👍

Outstanding vid as always, Hopefully put some of this for my second session of season tomoz

Thankyou very much for the time and effort that you take in making these videos ,this for me has been one of the most interesting/informative

Thank you for sharing this. I loved seeing the reactions of fish underwater. I don't bait fish. I did about twenty years ago- but after catching Pike that had swallowed my bait, with no indication from my float - I stopped. Most of the fishing clubs in the Sussex area don't allow Pike fishing in the Summer - (I love using popping/surface lures). I've now resorted to mostly Fly fishing.

Great video,very informative opened my eyes.look forward to next video

Amazing footage! Quite the experience 🔥

I often wonder how much a pike/perch's vision is based on movement. I've seen a lot of footage where they seem to hone in on stuff really accurately while it's moving but as soon as it becomes dormant/still they seem to either forget about it or spend a long time looking at the object but not really seeing it. I know this is an evolutionary thing in a lot of predators where they see the contrast of movement a lot better than colour contrast and this is why so many prey animals such as rabbits and deer freeze when they spot a threat (ie. a brown rabbit doesn't stand out in a green field to the eyes of a hawk as long as it stays still). The curious reaction of pike to your camera could just be fluctuating light bouncing off the shiny surfaces of the camera giving the illusion of movement

Absolutely great video, gave us some insights of what is happening below the float. I will definitely set the hook earlier in the future, the pikes will benefit from it. Just one tip. You just landed the fish after a very short drill and removed the hooks with your fingers. If the pike had started moving in this very moment, the chances of your hand or fingers getting hooked is very big. I already had two barbed trebles in my hand since I started fishing, since that I will only touch the hooks with pliers.

Fantastic Video, gives a great insight into the pikes actions underwater

Love watching your videos' .Your enthusiasm, experience and casting ability along with the presentation make me quite envious .Many thanks.😊

Informative and engaging as ever GF! Muchos gracias….

That was brilliant mate…well done in the effort and getting this together, must have taken a while. As a long time pike angler mainly in the Thames this was really interesting. Would be fascinated to see what happens in areas with pike AND crayfish….a real nuisance in my area 😫

Another great video, thanks for posting.

Great vid Ginge and thanks for taking the time and effort to do these interesting sub-aquatic clips 👍

Great video thanks for making them 🎣👍

That was really interesting thanks for your time and effort making it,

Great footage. Thanks

Top video once again some mega footage there 👍🏽

I certainly learned something. Amazing footage.

Great informative video Chris ,god knows how many times all fish have mouthed the bait with no indication,really makes you think about presentation, for all fish

Gorgeous fish. Northern pike is one of my target fish. It was great to learn something new

Brilliant footage, very interesting 👌🏻

Great video yet again Chris. Always is. Also your canal is so clear! Mine is well traveled, the visibility is usually about 8 inches 😂

One of your best very cool and the barge silt movement was interesting.

I've never baited for pike, fished for them for years so maybe it's time I should give it a go. Great vid as always.

These videos, are quite revolutionary actually. Game changers in pike behaviour.

Boy! How things have changed since the 70's, the last time I went pike fishing. Live roach bait, we had to catch first, on double treble and pike bung float. First pike I ever caught, on a Winfield (Woolworths) 7' tele rod and Intrepid reel - 14 LB, was nearly as long as I was tall

Good information . I have always set hook at first indication,and I only ever use single hooks nowadays. I do miss some fish but at least I don’t have to deal with a deep hooked fish.

Wow! Better than any book. Superb watching this. is a great teacher. Thank you. And thank you for the time put into this vid. Keep going.👍👏

Try using a couple of beads to pop the deadbait off the bottom slightly. It always worked for me as opposed to my friend next to me who used the traditional rig that you show in the video. I always used wine corks as floats with some leaves and grass attached with bait elastic. It looks more natural than the pike float

Your a clever fella, great piece of filming again 👏👏👏👍

So informative, excellent work😉

Amazing video. Love any underwater footage of fish but the quality of this was superb! Would love to see something like this with salmon/trout. Epic! Earned a sub

Another Awesome vid Chris!! My son and I are keen Pike fisherman. By the looks of things, we’ve been waiting just a few too many seconds to make the strike. Incredibly informative, please keep them coming! One day we’ll land a 20 pounder 😂🎉🤩🤩 Cheers, René.

Great vid! Would make an interesting series, especially with popped up baits (air, balsa etc.)

Probably the single most useful video on the internet!

great video the footage looked really cool

Awsome video. Just started pike fishing last year

Awesome footage

Great video, I'm piking tomorrow so found it very interesting

Great video Ginger 👍

I totally agree, I was taught when I was young to strike as soon as you know its there to avoid deep hooking, in honesty, I've only deep hooked about 2 fish but generally its in the sissor, fantastic video buddy 👌

What a great video mate, very interesting. You would think the pike would see a free meal and be off with it but they are quite picky and hesistant about taking deadbaits. Love your vids man, keep up the good work👍

Brilliant video very informative. 👍

Chris - at last! - something different, especially with regards to striking on Pike runs. Timed your commentary from the first indication to the strike when you had hooks in the baits - 6 seconds - great! - I hit mine on 5 seconds regardless, twitched sprat on a sink and draw trace, 3 seconds. Early striking always minimises the chance of a deep hooked fish - you lose one? - tough! - think of the fish. Hopefully, those who watch this who are looking to get into Pike fishing will take heed - probably one of the uploads (in my opinion!) that you have done. Boxersboy

That was a fantastic video took a lot of effort and well worth it fantastic footage thank you 🎣🍺

Really interesting to see. Seeing the impact of that barge on the water and fish was well worthwhile.

Very very interesting clip. The time to wait to strike is a great eye opener . It’s always perplexed me. Keep up the good work 👍

Great vid, your going to help me catch a decent pike this winter Thanks

Subscribed in the hope of more videos like this!

Caught my 1st jack pike the other day now I'm hooked on getting bigger and better pike so I'm deadbaiting my next trip thank you so much for taking the time to show us all this amazing underwater videos

Well done, amazing video very informative 👏👏👏

What a great video I always tighten up so float is cocked rather than laying flat gives you instant bite indication I normally strike within 10 seconds you do lose a fish now and again but rather that than deep hooking once again great vid 🎣

Top of the range as always, great video. Hope all pike anglers see this

Brilliant very informative thank you👍😎

Brilliant camera work mate

An amazing video well done,I think everyone has learned something from your videos today, let’s hope this saves many pikes lives.