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!

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

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! 🙂

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

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 👏🎣

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.

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.

Fantastic vid, Chris, one of the very, very best on YouTube. 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!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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