That was a baby. Up North they get pretty big. I'm a kayak angler, and only fish for bass. However, I love a rare fish that attacks a bass lure. The pickerel, and Pike are the barracuda of fresh water. 😂 🛶 🎣
My first musky was on a crappie pole. Caught the crappie and the musky ate the crappie. Longest 10 minutes an 11yo ever felt while shitting myself trying to get it near the boat to net. Lost the bastard 2ft from the net. My grandpa heard me curse that day and I didn't get in any trouble.
I've had this happen with Pike several times. Pulling in a bluegill and you see a green flash and bring up half a bluegill. One time I caught half the bluegill another I had the northern loose in a paddle boat when I was 12. Most terrified I've ever been of a fish.
Yeah I am English, and when I was younger I caught a roach, and a pike grabbed it, and I only had like 2 lb line and a tiny hook, and I still caught the pike. 👀😁.
Amd BTW the pike bite/bleeding thing is an old wives tale, I've been bit dozens of times. They've got extremely sharp teeth and you will bleed like a stuck pig for a bit but that's only due to how clean n deep of a cut they'll give you. With pressure it stops like anything else
There's a reason why we've evolved into what (awkward) creatures we are now, I mean look at us communicating through our electricity rocks 😂 we definitely aren't perfect but I stand on the fact we're one of the most biochemically diverse things next to deep sea life & early reptiles
yeah, i was thinking it was silly, -when i was little and went fishing, it was (and still is) my FAVORITE fish to eat, and although i ofcourse didn't get bit by one, i sure did get my arm stuck in it's gills, which is TERRIFYING...because it's all pokey and it feels like one of those finger-trap toys. i do actually think i got scratched by a tooth a little, but after a quick clean and a bandaid, i was fine. and the ones i caught were HUGE, -my teachers for my class took us fishing, and i caught one that ALL 3 of them had to carry!!!, i also think it had another fish sticking out of it's mouth.
I’m exclusively an Esox angler and I can tell you for certain you will not bleed for “hours”, their anticoagulants aren’t that potent but you will bleed for much longer than most other fish
An hour? Sure. Hours? Hell's no. But it's definitely a good idea to have some disinfectant hand wash with you to clean up your inevitable gashes. Jaw spreaders and pliers are a must for pike.
Caught a pike in a paddleboat once, didn't even mess with it. Scooped some water in the back and tossed him in there and cycled all the way in to get pliers. Having grown up catching pike, I was always taught to be extra careful around them so I've never actually been bit. I've seen them cut a steel leader before as well, they're no joke. I was really surprised and honestly nervous to see him holding it vertically like that with one hand. From what I've seen they tend to thrash hard in the boat so I always use pliers and if they're above about 18-20 inches I've always used spreaders as well.
@@metalbrony2012 aye you calling a chained pickerel a pike making it sound like you don’t know what you talking about, also it’s a subspecies so it might very well be true
Im from the southern US and our freshwater fish here don't have teeth. The military assigned me to a Michigan base and I went dropped a hook. Caught a nice pike and proceeded to grab its jaw to unhook. Boy, that was an unexpected surprise.
Aren't there alligator gar and bowfin where you're from? Both have a nasty bite. I forgot what fish are around the Louisiana area where I used to live.
While fishing with a friend one early spring he caught a pickerel and announced that he knew how to lip hold them to remove the hook. Twenty minutes later he was still holding this bleeding thumb in a blood soaked rag saying no problem. A few minutes later "I think we need to go back to the truck for the first aid kit". He previously caught many pickerel and knew better but.... Sometimes you just need to touch the hot stove to make sure it's really hot. 😂 This adventure generated laughs many times over.
Seen my buddy get his thumb right to the bone before lol. Their teeth are crazy sharp. I hit sugar lake all summer the last 2 years and still can't net one. Always cut my line even with leaders. Got one right to the net and boom cut. Year 3 upon us my goals to finally get one in the boat
LOL happened to me with pike. My fingers slipped into its mouth through the gill flap when it started squirming (I was holding it wrong) and I ended up with a whole bunch of cuts all over my hand and a nice blood trail on the ground.
@@steveh1515bro tbh stop fishing if you cant land it. Every single one died because of starvation with a lure in its mouth. Its really not that hard with appropiate gear, so I assume you dont know about that. Quit.
@@claudiusluneburg3260 dang didn't know you were a pro thanks for the advice. Just sold everything and hung it up for good I'm going to move on to checkers. Appreciate the help and support I much needed my keyboard warrior 🙏
Same thing with bass and sunfish. There all related to cichlids but the bass is the most distant to the cichlid. Sunfish are basically a more aggressive version of African cichlids in my opinion but I don't know how Africans cichlids are in the wild so I could be wrong.
@Nobody04200 peacock bass are cichlids and NOT bass. Other bass are not cichlids or really even related. Pan fish are also not cichlids nor would the be close to African cichlids. If anything, they have very slight similarities to central and South American cichlids.
Walleye are NOT in the pike family. They are in the Perch family. Not related at all. Often they even get called Pickerel, but they aren’t pickerel at all. There are 3 pike you mentioned, but the walleye is a different fish altogether. Bone structure, even teeth, other than there’s lots of them, are different.
Pickerel are fun to catch and seem to bite all year round especially during ice fishing here in NJ. Caught a few over 4lbs in my lifetime. You not only have to worry about their outer teeth but on the roof of their mouth is a patch of sandpaper like sharp stuff that will def cut a knuckle if you had to reach in deep to get your lure
pretty big one too, they're great eating. My dad and I will go out when I'm visiting home and drive over an hour and spend 5-7 hours on the water just to catch 4-5 that size. They're that good.
I think Pickerel are fun AF to catch! Since there are a lot of them in some of my local waters, I keep a little pair of hemostats with me. Easier to reach in their narrow mouths with those than with pliers.
Same here, I keep a set for the accidental saugeye or pike every now and then, makes a cleaner easier removal without cranking the jaw bones of the fish
Agreed! I catch a ton of black crappie over 14 inches, on Bull Shoals Lake in Arkansas. I eat a good bit of them, but have no desire to eat them bone in. I lose very little meat fileting them. But to each their own! Maybe he isn't good at fileting?!?! 🤷♂️
I caught a 48" hawg pike that literally GROWLED at me before it grabbed my left hand. Not only did I bleed but it infected my hand for 10 days and I had to get an antibiotic shot in my rear!😮
I have had one latch onto my hand and thrash. Took 10-15 minutes for my hand to stop bleeding despite the back of my hand and the palm being fairly shredded. I also continued fishing and caught a couple nice walleye during that time.
I have a chain pickerel as a pet. He's only 3 inches rn and eats minnows, and I was feeding him when he bit my finger. Them tiny teeth still hurt! Had a little ring of bloody dots on my finger.
Northeastern Ohio we have a lot of Pike and pretty much every spillway has musky hanging out. Harder to catch but twice the pulling power! If you spend any amount of time on our waters you soon realize if there are crappie in that area of lake the Pike are right behind them. (Crappie chasing bait fish-pike are chasing crappie) They love eating them
Ohioan here and can vouch the truth lol my area (Charles mill-pleasant hill) if you watch the crappie they lead you to pike damn near every trip, catching one though is a different story.
Idk how much their teeth differ from a pike but their teeth curl back. My dad got one on his hand and he started to pull and teeth were breaking as well as ripping his hand up. Prying his mouth open to get the hand out ripped out of his hand due to the shape. The teeth closest to the front of the mouth are gnarly and larger but more straight than hooked.
Used to catch pickerel and white perch all the time. Lived in a lagoon so we had brackish water. Had a little boat and there were like 4 lagoons in a row, as i made my way back to the furthest from my house it actually connected to a fresh water creek so there were more fresh water fish over there. It was good times
Thought it was just the different country different name kind of thing as in UK I would have said it was a Pike! I've never heard of pickerel but appreciate your Info, il be looking into this a little more and see if we have them in the UK 👍❤
They are very similar but pike are basically their devil , big brothers. And they bite a hell of a lot harder (and eat more). First time I ever caught one nobody warned me and I went to lip it LOL
THERE ARE special pliers for big fish like pike... also... i use a glove... just in case... 25 yrs of pike hunting it still happens from time to time...
I caught a giant today in the swamp fun fact : people confuse them for a northern pike , but its not its a chain pickerel kin to the northern down the line
Been bitten by this fish called a pike, a nice 8 pounder, in the UK. It was a cold winter’s day so my fingers were numb but that didn’t stop the bleeding😜
Pike are a family of fish. This fish in the video is indeed a pike, but is the smallest species named Chain pickerel. In England you have the Northern pike, or just Northern. There’s a pretty awesome fishery there for the Northerns as well! Then there’s the Muskellunge here in North America (not sure if they are elsewhere) and the Muskellunge are so aggressive if you get one on your line & even get bigger than the Northerns!!
@@shitloveaduck I think I've seen a muskie once or twice, never caught one. They're very elusive and you won't land them on a rig you'd be using for much of anything else inland. You need like 20-25 lb test or braided line to land them. Not sure if I've ever had one on for certain but once time walleye fishing I felt a massive tug, genuinely felt like a tree came to life and snapped my line. Reeled in and my steel swivel was snapped. Could've been a 40 inch northern but I'm not sure tiger muskie or just a regular muskie are entirely out of the question there either. No large catfish as far north as we were so it was one of the 3.
@@MJ-mi9qc - we have a couple of lakes here that you generally catch 4 - 8 lb walleye and 36” - 42” northerns. I don’t think I have caught anything less than 30” in there. I generally am fly fishing with a steel leader & 8 weight line & reel. The bigger fish are a challenge, but if you let them run 2 or 3 times you are good. They are really hard on the reels though. When I’m fishing those lakes I fish with 20 or 25 lb braid and a medium action 6.5 ft rod with a baitcaster reel. The biggest so far is 42” with that set up and they were a challenge for sure. In the fall, they were massive and all shoulders. That fight certainly will rival a similar sized Musky. I often catch them doing the figure 8 at the boat or even shore. Can’t do that with the fly rod, but it produces in the summer when the other methods don’t.
@@shitloveaduck It's pretty amassing that Pikes are found on multiple continents. Just shows how ancient the species must be. I use to do a lot of Pike fishing in the Netherlands. They are much bigger than these ones. But i stopped fishing all together when they outlawed life bait. All the rules and regulations just took the fun out of it for me.
@@benanders4412 - they really are old, but successful predators. Here in Alberta, Canada, about Calgary & south & 50 years ago they were very numerous in every lake that held irrigation water. They spread with the massive canal networks we have. The canals are mostly pipelines now and the weather has messed them up a bit. Now most lakes have a limit to keep of 1 or zero. More often zero. They are dying off in quite a few lakes. I would never have thought that could happen. We spread them around with our canals and diminished their numbers by turning the canals into pipelines. I guess humans can be the problem sometimes. The weather has something to do with it as well. I fish mostly for a hybrid of the rainbow trout. The lakes are stocked, there’s few wild trout in the province really. If you want to try a form of fishing for pike that can get VERY exciting, try fly fishing for them. You can cast and strip line for them, it can be tiring but when one hits your lure/fly, hang on!! The action is so much different as the fly reel turns once for every turn you make. It’s challenging and fast paced! You can also fish dead stick style, almost like using live bait, but you out a fly that can be used with an indicator (float, but lighter and smaller than a bobber). They will take that fly as well. When you catch them, same thing!! I wear out a fly reel every 2 years where I have to replace the clutches with the pike. With the trout, I have reels that are 20 years old and haven’t fixed anything on them!! Haha. Hoping it’s going to be a good year for you, Eh!
It depends on the fish. Typically if they're bigger fish i.e pike, pickerel, walley or bass you can, especially since they have teeth which can make lipping them dangerous. Most small pan fish you shouldn't gill
That’s a small pike. Pikes have a mouth that’s full of razor sharp teeth, they’re perfect killing machines made to eat. The way they stalk their prey is very similar to crocs, I’ve seen big ones eat ducks when I’ve been out fishing. It’s amazing to spot one slowly closing in on its prey, the attack is lightning fast and the water seems to explode.
I just found it out the hard way today. Caught myself a massive pike and accidentally got my thumb close to the teeth the moment it started moving around. That shit hurt. 🤣
First time I caught one of these fish.I was in minnesota and had never caught one before. I raked my pinky finger through his mouth and got got 3 deep razor cuts immediately. But he sure tasted excellent for dinner !!!
If I'm not in the mood to eat fish, call my Doctor, because I am obviously suffering from some potentially life-threatening illness. I am like a starved Seal whenever I eat fish. A three-pound Bass or Rainbow Trout is a "nice snack" to me !
That makes sense, I was trying to take a hook out of one of those, I had it resting on my knee, and it nicked me, just a scratch- and it bled and bled, I had to double check my medications lol
Lol more like a True Fact! I got bit and it took one and a half hours and 10 pieces of paper towel to stop the bleeding! Still awesome to catch! Especially when they are BIG BIG!!
Got three pike the same day this video came out. It wasn't the teeth that got me but the gill plate on the first one, got me to the bone on my index. Bled for about an hour pretty good, then opened back up later that night. I still have some mean scabs as I'm writing this lol
Northern Pike and Muskies are so similar that many fishermen can’t tell them apart but, in Canada there’s a season for Muskie and killing one out of season is going to be a big problem! Both fish have a clear slime that protects them and when pulled out of the water it just falls off in a giant goop! Also they’re decent eating but you’ve got to know how to filet them just right and avoid the red line in the meat. That is some nasty tasting stuff!
Yeah, if you let them get a good grip you'll bleed pretty good but it usually stops within a few minutes depending on how dumb you were in handling them. But they'll hurt for quite a while after the bleeding stops. Kind of like a paper cut.
I caught 1000's of chain pickerel as a boy. I grew up near a river. They do have lots of needle sharp teeth. A really large one can be nearly 3 feet long. Mini Pike! Their favorite color: bright orange.
I dont think its always nostalgia for the old borders. I wasn’t playing yet during the time they were using the old borders and love the way they look. I go out of my way to use the old bordered and old art cards whenever I can. Many of the older cards that have a lot of utility tend to be pretty expensive, so having reprints using the old art is nice.
Accidentally poked my thumb on a pike's teeth, trying to get the hook out. I barely bumped a tooth, and deep red blood started coming out of my thumb. Made sure to use pliers from then on. 😂 It did take a while for it to stop, about 20-30 minutes before i could take off the wrap around my thumb.
I keep a bottle of 91% isopropyl alcohol and a razor blade in my tacklebox for things like this and stings from catfish and stingray barbs. expand the wound a little bit, then treat with alcohol, apply pressure for 45-90 seconds, good to go.
Last year, my buddy BARELY rubbed his finer against a musky tooth (he was holding it thru the gills and just barely made contact) and it ripped his finger open so easily. Bled for hours and got crazy infected
I call them chain “prickerel” because they’re pricks and bite anything that moves from a 1/32 ounce teardrop jig to a 5” swim bait. Nuisance fish for most in Upstate NY. The little pissed off menace brother of the Northern Pike.. 😂. They especially become a nuisance while ice fishing. One time I had a small 5-6” yellow perch hit my tip up but it didn’t set the flag off. The flag went off hours later. I pulled up a small pickerel with the whole 6” perch in its gullet. They are extremely fun to catch on top water in the summer though.
This has happened to me with a Northern Pike. That bitch got me good out in the middle of a big bay, so getting back to the cabin was “interesting” to say the least. My thumb was torn for weeks
Fun fact: These are known for making quite the impressive jumps to catch food on/above the waterline. In germany they are called "Hecht' and we call a large jump while streching your body "Hechtsprung" in english Hecht-jump or pike jump.
That was a baby. Up North they get pretty big. I'm a kayak angler, and only fish for bass. However, I love a rare fish that attacks a bass lure. The pickerel, and Pike are the barracuda of fresh water. 😂 🛶 🎣
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Yeah, I caught a fat one yesterday 🤑🤑🤑🐷🐷🐷
Up to 25kg in the uk
"pretty big" is an understatement.
Pretty fun to fish for, honestly.
Alligator gar is the autistic cousin of the barracuda
Fun fact: The northern pike averages 700 needle like teeth.
Damnnn
I know someone that lost a finger to a northern pike.
Was paddling on a tube and a northern thought his ring was a spoon lure
That was a chain pickerel not a northern pike
Fun fact: No one asked
@@user-fe9po3cf1rdoes being an asshole online make you feel better about yourself?
My first musky was on a crappie pole. Caught the crappie and the musky ate the crappie. Longest 10 minutes an 11yo ever felt while shitting myself trying to get it near the boat to net. Lost the bastard 2ft from the net. My grandpa heard me curse that day and I didn't get in any trouble.
I've had this happen with Pike several times. Pulling in a bluegill and you see a green flash and bring up half a bluegill. One time I caught half the bluegill another I had the northern loose in a paddle boat when I was 12. Most terrified I've ever been of a fish.
Yeah I am English, and when I was younger I caught a roach, and a pike grabbed it, and I only had like 2 lb line and a tiny hook, and I still caught the pike. 👀😁.
Sounds like Grandpa understood exactly why that curse was allowable.
When my kids slip up a curse word but it's used properly all I can do is laugh. They don't curse like sailors it's always a natural slip up. 😂
Lol gotta love pawpaw
Amd BTW the pike bite/bleeding thing is an old wives tale, I've been bit dozens of times. They've got extremely sharp teeth and you will bleed like a stuck pig for a bit but that's only due to how clean n deep of a cut they'll give you. With pressure it stops like anything else
And to add, water (wetness) makes the blood look like 2x the actual amount and slows how fast our blood clots up …
I acrually had a small prick in my thumb bleed for over 20 minutes from a pike. Had me worried there at the end.
The bleeding cleans out any anti-clotting the moment it happens. Lots of crazy sharp teeth=lots of blood.
There's a reason why we've evolved into what (awkward) creatures we are now, I mean look at us communicating through our electricity rocks 😂 we definitely aren't perfect but I stand on the fact we're one of the most biochemically diverse things next to deep sea life & early reptiles
yeah, i was thinking it was silly,
-when i was little and went fishing, it was (and still is) my FAVORITE fish to eat,
and although i ofcourse didn't get bit by one, i sure did get my arm stuck in it's gills, which is TERRIFYING...because it's all pokey and it feels like one of those finger-trap toys.
i do actually think i got scratched by a tooth a little, but after a quick clean and a bandaid, i was fine.
and the ones i caught were HUGE,
-my teachers for my class took us fishing, and i caught one that ALL 3 of them had to carry!!!, i also think it had another fish sticking out of it's mouth.
I’m exclusively an Esox angler and I can tell you for certain you will not bleed for “hours”, their anticoagulants aren’t that potent but you will bleed for much longer than most other fish
An hour? Sure. Hours? Hell's no. But it's definitely a good idea to have some disinfectant hand wash with you to clean up your inevitable gashes. Jaw spreaders and pliers are a must for pike.
Caught a pike in a paddleboat once, didn't even mess with it. Scooped some water in the back and tossed him in there and cycled all the way in to get pliers. Having grown up catching pike, I was always taught to be extra careful around them so I've never actually been bit. I've seen them cut a steel leader before as well, they're no joke. I was really surprised and honestly nervous to see him holding it vertically like that with one hand. From what I've seen they tend to thrash hard in the boat so I always use pliers and if they're above about 18-20 inches I've always used spreaders as well.
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I have a genetic bleeding disorder let me tell you something. I got nicked by a chain pick when I was like 16 I bled for like 4 hours lol.
Yes sir. I bled longer from the gill plate on a gar than when I got nipped by a pickerel.
Who’s ready for spring?! Prespawn and the striper migration is just around the corner!!
MEE
Am ready for spring fishing
I'm ready 🤙🤙
We can’t fish from 15 of march to 15 of June in the UK
@@The.MT09I would give up my citizenship and move to America lol
This is why keeping needle nose pliers is ah must on any fishing trip. Esspicially if a danger pickle is gonna swallow a hook like that
I keep pliers in my tackle box too
The claim about pike having anti coagulation bacteria was bad enough... then I saw how he cooked the crappie. Bruh.
It’s a chained pickerel not a pike 🤓🤓🤓
@@platypus5560 a chained pickerel is a species of what family?
@@metalbrony2012 aye you calling a chained pickerel a pike making it sound like you don’t know what you talking about, also it’s a subspecies so it might very well be true
@platypus5560 as a matter of fact I am calling a chained pickerel a species of pike... because it is
@@metalbrony2012 yeah I wasn’t saying it wasn’t, it’s still true that they can have anticoagulant on their teeth,
Im from the southern US and our freshwater fish here don't have teeth. The military assigned me to a Michigan base and I went dropped a hook. Caught a nice pike and proceeded to grab its jaw to unhook. Boy, that was an unexpected surprise.
Camp Grayling? Lotta good fish around there
@@THEironmidget1 wurtsmith
got a few here in SC with teeth, chain pickerel included, but not many
Gar is the only freshwater one I can think of in my area.
Aren't there alligator gar and bowfin where you're from? Both have a nasty bite. I forgot what fish are around the Louisiana area where I used to live.
While fishing with a friend one early spring he caught a pickerel and announced that he knew how to lip hold them to remove the hook.
Twenty minutes later he was still holding this bleeding thumb in a blood soaked rag saying no problem. A few minutes later "I think we need to go back to the truck for the first aid kit". He previously caught many pickerel and knew better but.... Sometimes you just need to touch the hot stove to make sure it's really hot.
😂 This adventure generated laughs many times over.
Seen my buddy get his thumb right to the bone before lol. Their teeth are crazy sharp. I hit sugar lake all summer the last 2 years and still can't net one. Always cut my line even with leaders. Got one right to the net and boom cut. Year 3 upon us my goals to finally get one in the boat
LOL happened to me with pike. My fingers slipped into its mouth through the gill flap when it started squirming (I was holding it wrong) and I ended up with a whole bunch of cuts all over my hand and a nice blood trail on the ground.
@@steveh1515bro tbh stop fishing if you cant land it. Every single one died because of starvation with a lure in its mouth. Its really not that hard with appropiate gear, so I assume you dont know about that. Quit.
And sure enough
@@claudiusluneburg3260 dang didn't know you were a pro thanks for the advice. Just sold everything and hung it up for good I'm going to move on to checkers. Appreciate the help and support I much needed my keyboard warrior 🙏
Fun fact: Chain Pickerel, Walleyed Pike, Northern Pike, Muskies etc are all members of the same family Esocidae
Same thing with bass and sunfish. There all related to cichlids but the bass is the most distant to the cichlid. Sunfish are basically a more aggressive version of African cichlids in my opinion but I don't know how Africans cichlids are in the wild so I could be wrong.
@@Nobody04200 no they are not lol
@Nobody04200 peacock bass are cichlids and NOT bass. Other bass are not cichlids or really even related. Pan fish are also not cichlids nor would the be close to African cichlids. If anything, they have very slight similarities to central and South American cichlids.
Walleye are NOT in the pike family. They are in the Perch family. Not related at all. Often they even get called Pickerel, but they aren’t pickerel at all.
There are 3 pike you mentioned, but the walleye is a different fish altogether. Bone structure, even teeth, other than there’s lots of them, are different.
wtf is a walleyed pike😂
Pickerel are fun to catch and seem to bite all year round especially during ice fishing here in NJ. Caught a few over 4lbs in my lifetime. You not only have to worry about their outer teeth but on the roof of their mouth is a patch of sandpaper like sharp stuff that will def cut a knuckle if you had to reach in deep to get your lure
It looked like a snakehead. Those teeth look nasty.
That crappie looked amazing
It would of if it was filleted
pretty big one too, they're great eating. My dad and I will go out when I'm visiting home and drive over an hour and spend 5-7 hours on the water just to catch 4-5 that size. They're that good.
Tiny babies
I think Pickerel are fun AF to catch! Since there are a lot of them in some of my local waters, I keep a little pair of hemostats with me. Easier to reach in their narrow mouths with those than with pliers.
Same here, I keep a set for the accidental saugeye or pike every now and then, makes a cleaner easier removal without cranking the jaw bones of the fish
They'll put up a pretty good fight, their so fast and agile! Plus their not bad if prepared correctly.
frying the whole crappie is crazy lmao
Nasty fr
As a Mexican is absolutely delicious and a must have. F*** you bucks12
Not really. The fins are really good. Like potato chips almost 😂
It’s completely normal y’all are weak😂
Agreed! I catch a ton of black crappie over 14 inches, on Bull Shoals Lake in Arkansas. I eat a good bit of them, but have no desire to eat them bone in. I lose very little meat fileting them. But to each their own! Maybe he isn't good at fileting?!?! 🤷♂️
I caught a 48" hawg pike that literally GROWLED at me before it grabbed my left hand.
Not only did I bleed but it infected my hand for 10 days and I had to get an antibiotic shot in my rear!😮
Yeah, they don't have a friendly disposition, especially when they get dragged out of the water with a hook in their mouth
They'll eat a bass their own size.
I have had one latch onto my hand and thrash. Took 10-15 minutes for my hand to stop bleeding despite the back of my hand and the palm being fairly shredded. I also continued fishing and caught a couple nice walleye during that time.
Sounds about right
I have a chain pickerel as a pet. He's only 3 inches rn and eats minnows, and I was feeding him when he bit my finger. Them tiny teeth still hurt! Had a little ring of bloody dots on my finger.
Has he gotten much bigger in the month since your post?
@@gcr1 yes, actually, he's growing very fast! He's prob 4 inches already! He's gotten so aggressive!
@@seafoammusic444post video
Northeastern Ohio we have a lot of Pike and pretty much every spillway has musky hanging out. Harder to catch but twice the pulling power! If you spend any amount of time on our waters you soon realize if there are crappie in that area of lake the Pike are right behind them. (Crappie chasing bait fish-pike are chasing crappie) They love eating them
Ohioan here and can vouch the truth lol my area (Charles mill-pleasant hill) if you watch the crappie they lead you to pike damn near every trip, catching one though is a different story.
I'm from youngstown ohio
That’s basically Minnesota too almost
Idk how much their teeth differ from a pike but their teeth curl back. My dad got one on his hand and he started to pull and teeth were breaking as well as ripping his hand up. Prying his mouth open to get the hand out ripped out of his hand due to the shape. The teeth closest to the front of the mouth are gnarly and larger but more straight than hooked.
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Confirmed 2 days ago I touched the teeth and bled for two hours
EDIT:thanks for all the likes
Good to know
taste good tho. they are a nice white fish taste
I bet you can't walk anywhere in public without getting recognized now 😂
@@patricknoel2122they’re filled with parasites
Used to catch pickerel and white perch all the time. Lived in a lagoon so we had brackish water. Had a little boat and there were like 4 lagoons in a row, as i made my way back to the furthest from my house it actually connected to a fresh water creek so there were more fresh water fish over there. It was good times
Nothing will wake ya up like a pike bite in the palm (I know this was a pickerel but for reference, imagine if it's a pike)
Aren’t they the same fish?
@@jasonlittig2549 No pike get really really big and pickerel don’t. They can crossbreed though
@@jasonlittig2549Sorta. They are both relatives. Both belonging to the Genus (I think) Esox.
Thought it was just the different country different name kind of thing as in UK I would have said it was a Pike! I've never heard of pickerel but appreciate your Info, il be looking into this a little more and see if we have them in the UK 👍❤
They are very similar but pike are basically their devil , big brothers. And they bite a hell of a lot harder (and eat more). First time I ever caught one nobody warned me and I went to lip it LOL
THERE ARE special pliers for big fish like pike... also... i use a glove... just in case... 25 yrs of pike hunting it still happens from time to time...
Jaw spreaders work wonders. 😬
i am a swede, and i gotta say.. that one wont hurt compared to the 7kg ones.. That pike is a small baby. Max 1.5kg
Bit many times as a kid. They can mess you Up. . Fun fish.
And sure enough 😂
I'm no hippie, but I've just never been fond of release fishing. It's like if you're gonna slam a hook in his mouth, at least eat 'im! 😂
I caught a giant today in the swamp fun fact : people confuse them for a northern pike , but its not its a chain pickerel kin to the northern down the line
Your garden and garden philosophy is so dope, i’ve learned so much from this channel in a short time.
Been bitten by this fish called a pike, a nice 8 pounder, in the UK. It was a cold winter’s day so my fingers were numb but that didn’t stop the bleeding😜
Pike are a family of fish. This fish in the video is indeed a pike, but is the smallest species named Chain pickerel. In England you have the Northern pike, or just Northern. There’s a pretty awesome fishery there for the Northerns as well! Then there’s the Muskellunge here in North America (not sure if they are elsewhere) and the Muskellunge are so aggressive if you get one on your line & even get bigger than the Northerns!!
@@shitloveaduck I think I've seen a muskie once or twice, never caught one. They're very elusive and you won't land them on a rig you'd be using for much of anything else inland. You need like 20-25 lb test or braided line to land them. Not sure if I've ever had one on for certain but once time walleye fishing I felt a massive tug, genuinely felt like a tree came to life and snapped my line. Reeled in and my steel swivel was snapped. Could've been a 40 inch northern but I'm not sure tiger muskie or just a regular muskie are entirely out of the question there either. No large catfish as far north as we were so it was one of the 3.
@@MJ-mi9qc - we have a couple of lakes here that you generally catch 4 - 8 lb walleye and 36” - 42” northerns. I don’t think I have caught anything less than 30” in there. I generally am fly fishing with a steel leader & 8 weight line & reel. The bigger fish are a challenge, but if you let them run 2 or 3 times you are good. They are really hard on the reels though. When I’m fishing those lakes I fish with 20 or 25 lb braid and a medium action 6.5 ft rod with a baitcaster reel. The biggest so far is 42” with that set up and they were a challenge for sure. In the fall, they were massive and all shoulders. That fight certainly will rival a similar sized Musky. I often catch them doing the figure 8 at the boat or even shore. Can’t do that with the fly rod, but it produces in the summer when the other methods don’t.
@@shitloveaduck It's pretty amassing that Pikes are found on multiple continents. Just shows how ancient the species must be. I use to do a lot of Pike fishing in the Netherlands. They are much bigger than these ones. But i stopped fishing all together when they outlawed life bait. All the rules and regulations just took the fun out of it for me.
@@benanders4412 - they really are old, but successful predators. Here in Alberta, Canada, about Calgary & south & 50 years ago they were very numerous in every lake that held irrigation water. They spread with the massive canal networks we have. The canals are mostly pipelines now and the weather has messed them up a bit. Now most lakes have a limit to keep of 1 or zero. More often zero. They are dying off in quite a few lakes. I would never have thought that could happen. We spread them around with our canals and diminished their numbers by turning the canals into pipelines. I guess humans can be the problem sometimes. The weather has something to do with it as well. I fish mostly for a hybrid of the rainbow trout. The lakes are stocked, there’s few wild trout in the province really. If you want to try a form of fishing for pike that can get VERY exciting, try fly fishing for them. You can cast and strip line for them, it can be tiring but when one hits your lure/fly, hang on!! The action is so much different as the fly reel turns once for every turn you make. It’s challenging and fast paced! You can also fish dead stick style, almost like using live bait, but you out a fly that can be used with an indicator (float, but lighter and smaller than a bobber). They will take that fly as well. When you catch them, same thing!! I wear out a fly reel every 2 years where I have to replace the clutches with the pike. With the trout, I have reels that are 20 years old and haven’t fixed anything on them!! Haha.
Hoping it’s going to be a good year for you, Eh!
Love chain pickerel - fighters
The pickerel looks pissed like "who are you? 🤨"
Throwing that crappie back hurt me emotionally how can you turn down a perfectly good crappie??? 🥺🥺🥺🥺 the fish was kewl tho
Looks like a pike to me
Mini pike
@@JustinCase-em6qlno pickerel
@@jasongatto2663Chain pickerel are apparently in the pike family.
Pickerel are what Americans call walleye...
This is a Verity of pike.
@@GH0ST369 I’m Canadian and this a chain pickerel which is in the pike family
And sure enough 🎣
I was wrong. Now find me a musky fish 🎣
Dude is living my dream
And sure enough 😅
They don’t bite it’s only if you catch your fingers on the gill rakers or teeth, they do not bite !
When they close their mouth down on your finger, that's called biting.
@roberto3262 I laughed way too hard at this 😂 Thanks!
Wash the wound out and maybe apply a little clay or activated charcoal to absorb any anticoagulant
Harbor freight compressor add directly after the tire explosion was phenomenal
Can you hold any fish by the gills?
It depends on the fish. Typically if they're bigger fish i.e pike, pickerel, walley or bass you can, especially since they have teeth which can make lipping them dangerous. Most small pan fish you shouldn't gill
No.... you should never touch any fish's gills. But you can hold the gill plates without harm.
And sure enough☺️
Looks like a duck a snake and a fish combined
That’s a small pike. Pikes have a mouth that’s full of razor sharp teeth, they’re perfect killing machines made to eat. The way they stalk their prey is very similar to crocs, I’ve seen big ones eat ducks when I’ve been out fishing. It’s amazing to spot one slowly closing in on its prey, the attack is lightning fast and the water seems to explode.
Let me guess he just started fishing 😂. A lot of misinformation anything to get likes
And then
Chain are my favorite fish to catch. They put up a great fight, are an incredible predator, and have one of the coolest scale patterns.
That fish has the kind of angry look on it's face that says you will remember pissing me off.
This fish is like the Thylacoleo from ark survival 😂
There was truly something to gain from listening to this dialog. Thanks again 😊
I just found it out the hard way today. Caught myself a massive pike and accidentally got my thumb close to the teeth the moment it started moving around. That shit hurt. 🤣
First time I caught one of these fish.I was in minnesota and had never caught one before. I raked my pinky finger through his mouth and got got 3 deep razor cuts immediately. But he sure tasted excellent for dinner !!!
"NOT in the mood to eat fish"!!!! I want some
If I'm not in the mood to eat fish, call my Doctor, because I am obviously suffering from some potentially life-threatening illness. I am like a starved Seal whenever I eat fish. A three-pound Bass or Rainbow Trout is a "nice snack" to me !
@@michaeltheoret3842 amen brother!!
That makes sense, I was trying to take a hook out of one of those, I had it resting on my knee, and it nicked me, just a scratch- and it bled and bled, I had to double check my medications lol
This was entertaining, I subbed. I miss fishing. Haven't been in years, grew up fishing everyday with my dad.
Love these little dudes, them, perch and the rockfish make fishing in the winter here possible
Lol more like a True Fact! I got bit and it took one and a half hours and 10 pieces of paper towel to stop the bleeding! Still awesome to catch! Especially when they are BIG BIG!!
Got three pike the same day this video came out. It wasn't the teeth that got me but the gill plate on the first one, got me to the bone on my index. Bled for about an hour pretty good, then opened back up later that night. I still have some mean scabs as I'm writing this lol
It’s funny how half the country calls them Pickerel and the other half (where I’m from) calls them Northern.
The way he cooked those black crappie looks delicious
Pike are my nemesis. They always break my line while fishing for smallmouth
And sure enough
I love your vids man
That fish looked so mad😂
Northern Pike and Muskies are so similar that many fishermen can’t tell them apart but, in Canada there’s a season for Muskie and killing one out of season is going to be a big problem!
Both fish have a clear slime that protects them and when pulled out of the water it just falls off in a giant goop!
Also they’re decent eating but you’ve got to know how to filet them just right and avoid the red line in the meat. That is some nasty tasting stuff!
Pike and Muskie are just scary lookin for no reason.
Ned rig for the dub 🤣🤟
Yeah, if you let them get a good grip you'll bleed pretty good but it usually stops within a few minutes depending on how dumb you were in handling them.
But they'll hurt for quite a while after the bleeding stops.
Kind of like a paper cut.
I love how Americans call them chain pickerel. They are like here in Canada. Pickerel here are also called walleye
chain pickerel are probably the most delicious fish ive ever eaten
I caught 1000's of chain pickerel as a boy. I grew up near a river. They do have lots of needle sharp teeth. A really large one can be nearly 3 feet long. Mini Pike! Their favorite color: bright orange.
My friend who has Hemophilia got bit by one a few weeks ago, and it required hospitalization.
Also northern pike are easy to catch. They don't fight very long.
AND SURE ENOUGH!🎣
Interesting, I did not know that. Thanks for the fact, I always thought they just hurt if they bit you lol
My mom grew up with her dad fishing. Pickerel was one of the slimiest fish to touch but it was good.
They love live minnos down my way
I dont think its always nostalgia for the old borders. I wasn’t playing yet during the time they were using the old borders and love the way they look. I go out of my way to use the old bordered and old art cards whenever I can. Many of the older cards that have a lot of utility tend to be pretty expensive, so having reprints using the old art is nice.
Accidentally poked my thumb on a pike's teeth, trying to get the hook out. I barely bumped a tooth, and deep red blood started coming out of my thumb. Made sure to use pliers from then on. 😂 It did take a while for it to stop, about 20-30 minutes before i could take off the wrap around my thumb.
Northern pike are the coolest to catch, but the worst to deal with. At least where I live (Northeast)
Okay, but why does it look like the head of Jar-Jar Binks? Darth Binks confirmed.
Maybe not hours but the blood does flow for a long time ... definatly something there that keeps the blood from clotting quickly
Those bikes are bad ass bro. 👀
I keep a bottle of 91% isopropyl alcohol and a razor blade in my tacklebox for things like this and stings from catfish and stingray barbs. expand the wound a little bit, then treat with alcohol, apply pressure for 45-90 seconds, good to go.
Last year, my buddy BARELY rubbed his finer against a musky tooth (he was holding it thru the gills and just barely made contact) and it ripped his finger open so easily. Bled for hours and got crazy infected
All those frying crappie made my mouth water so bad...
And sure enough, there was a fish.
Facts I caught a bigger one that grazed my knuckles when I released him and it bled the rest of the day 🤣
Just a baby!! 😂 he’s not going to hurt a fly!
Looks like the kind of thing youd see jeremy wade fishing on river monsters
Too true! Caught a northern pike last summer and it bit my finger pretty good. A little soap and some pressure on the bite and it’ll be just fine 😊
I call them chain “prickerel” because they’re pricks and bite anything that moves from a 1/32 ounce teardrop jig to a 5” swim bait. Nuisance fish for most in Upstate NY. The little pissed off menace brother of the Northern Pike.. 😂. They especially become a nuisance while ice fishing. One time I had a small 5-6” yellow perch hit my tip up but it didn’t set the flag off. The flag went off hours later. I pulled up a small pickerel with the whole 6” perch in its gullet. They are extremely fun to catch on top water in the summer though.
You tossed back a pike? Man, those are good eating...
Makes getting the hook back out a lot easier too when you aren't intending to let it live.
This has happened to me with a Northern Pike. That bitch got me good out in the middle of a big bay, so getting back to the cabin was “interesting” to say the least. My thumb was torn for weeks
I have been bit by them twice and never had a problem once.
I don’t know that it’s necessarily the bacteria in their teeth, it’s the fact that their teeth are razor sharp.
Fun fact: These are known for making quite the impressive jumps to catch food on/above the waterline.
In germany they are called "Hecht' and we call a large jump while streching your body "Hechtsprung" in english Hecht-jump or pike jump.
But pickerel are not the same as the European pike / northern pike (Hecht) ;-), although apart from size they are very similar.