Life of a Northern Pike and How to Fish for Pike

I hate pike! Many years fishing walleye in northern Quebec and they were a real pain in the ass. Constantly catch them and need to reel them in a toss them back.....they are as annoying as getting constant snags except full of teeth and slime. No point keeping them, full of bones, pain to clean and taste like a wet sock.

Thanks for the concise break down of pike habits and habitats 👍

Caught a 105cm 8kg pike today

Absolutely love your videos. Not a fan of the weird ai art you use sometimes though lol 😅 not that it’s bad (which it is) it is also just unethical lol I’d ask that you don’t keep using them but you do you and I will keep watching either way :)

Such an amazing video

Caught pike in Canada on fingernail clippers, I was bored

Back in the 50s and 60s we would vacation in Little Current Ontario, my dad like to troll for Pike in the North Channel, back then it was lamphery marks that were the bane of pike, I remember the thrill of catching one even at the age of 7 or 8

how did u get those ai pics in their there awsome

Pike have very sharp teeth so wire leaders are good.

Few things make me happier than having a pickerel or pike come off the hook. This family of fish has no chill and unhooking trebles from them is just a sketchy process when they keep struggling.

Hope we don’t overfish these guys.. it might be the land of 10,000 lakes but I’ve noticed a decrease. My grandpa used to tell me that they used to gather fisherman to fish certain lakes near brainard and fish as many as they could within a weekend to stop them from eating all smaller walleye. They would catch so many they would use them to make fertilizer for their farms. After pickling a choice few of course.

How to distinguish which fish is female and which is male??

omfg... That release at the 37 second mark had me bricked up, so sexy.

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Wtf?..pike-cancer?.

Great video

I love pike, great fight and good to eat if prepared properly, tough to clean for me. I always use mepps as a lure

Nice video!

Got a 23 and 7 8ths northern off the breakeall the other day in michigan.

Great video! Would love more videos like this on different species.

Very informative!…
I’ll admit I’m a steelhead snob..pike are fun and easy to catch…always fun

Pike are really just fresh water Baracuda!

I’d love to see a video like this about lake trout or walleye

Freshwater Barracuda

is braided light line good for fishing??

Very informative, general info. Own footage. Solid delivery. Well done.

Hello Nat,
Thanks for sharing your observations and experience. You sound like a biologist. Where did you collect your data? What have your learned regarding their feeding habits during winter when in shallow 8' - 15' or deep lakes 16'-100' (random) lakes are frozen. Do you understand how Pike stage on shelfs or near tributaries. I have made several observations with cameras while ice fishing in deep clear lakes where is appears that Pike can be trended, What I don't understand is what is triggering the Pike to hunt or transition. I ASSume it is several factors to include efficiency, but water temperature and barometric pressure are common coincidental observations. I'd like to better understand what causes Pike to be where they are and feed when they do feed. Do you know any references that really get into the weeds regarding Pike. Thanks again.

Northern pike will dessimate all other large spawning-age fish. As their method of attack for large spawning fish is to t-bone large fish and continue to push the large fish in such a manner that water ceases to flow over gills. Once weakened, and well advertised to other pike who follow for a group feast. The females also carry 3X+ more eggs than other species. Northern pike will take over all other species in same waters

How did you make the thumbnail and the one with the ducks?

I remember catching my first pike. Tried to land it in putting my thumb in its mouth like I would with a bass. Won't do that again!

New catch and release fisher here. If i do net a pike with lymphosarcoma, what is the best way to clean my net so i dont spread it around?

Pike are tasty. They are also boney. Just got to filet those fish carefully. A pike sees a yellow perch and he is instantly hungry. The perch is nailed just like that. Yow!!

love the videos and love catching nothern pike!!

I consider them to be fresh water barracudas... I have always thought it would be interesting to put a tag on them to see how much they move around in a lake system. I would think they would be always on the move...

everyone I know including myself try to avoid cacthing thoze slimey things they look cool but you can have em ...

Amazing video!

My favorite pike lure is a spinner bait. Not the inline ones. The V shaped wire on the front keeps them from biting it off so I can run without a leader safely. It doesn't seem to me that it's big enough to keep them from just swallowing it, but I also have never had one bitten off like other lures, and have fished them ten times as often for those results.

You want the monsters go out at dusk and watch for schools . Then start ripping the edges of it. Caught some monsters on fly in in northern ontario

I love pike. I love a fish that comes to the boat looking PISSED !!! My largest is 44" on Lake of the Woods (Canadian side).

Excellent Video - enjoyable and Informative.

Unhook them boat side if possible. Nets and handling them removes their protective slime coating. I use a long needle nose and generally fish barbless.

God, I love catching these fish

This format of video is what I've always been looking for and constantly failing to find with other fishing channels. A comprehensive guide on the life cycle of a fish is, in my opinion, the absolute best way to figure out how to catch it. Other channels seem to just go out in their expensive boats, go over 1 or 2 fishing methods they like to use, and then hock whatever lures they're being paid to advertise. This is a truly valuable resource, well done.

Nice video though I gotta say, personally not a huge fan of the AI thumbnail. Overall good vid though

Pike are easy to HOOK, after that things get difficult. Per pound they can strip more line off a reel than most freshwater species,they know just about every dirty trick and have an evil genious for using everything to their advantage. Once landed they are the least cooperative species I've ever come across, and enjoy trying to mangle anything that gets near their mouth. You gently release them, and they usually manage to soak you as they swim off.

A couple buddies of mine want to get me into fishing, and all these recent how to videos have been amazing.

Hope we can see some more fish bio videos

Awesome video. I like the thumbnail too

Really nice Thumbnail

Never heard of small pike being called 'snakes' or 'hammer handles' ... if they are really really small. We call them pencils. Otherwise we call the Jack's - e.g Jack pike for the ones bigger than pencils.

Always great to catch them whatever size they are.