Explore The Underwater World Of The Chain Pickerel
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Dive in a freshwater lake alongside the Chain Pickerel and explore their hidden underwater world.
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In the 80's and 90's they'd have cool little movies like this on TV on Sundays.
I grew up watching Wild Kingdom and Wild America in the 70s . Animal documentaries are in my DNA. 😁
These fish are lovely, a few years ago I caught a wounded baby chain pickerel while dip netting. He had a bite wound on his back and I took them home and kept him inside over the winter. He healed up nicely and I returned him back where I caught him in the spring.
Nice story of compassion. Amazing little fish. 😁
Nice. I would have thought that it would have been hard to temporarily raise them in captivity due to their specific environmental requirements but I'm happy to hear that it ended well.. 🤝
I absolutely love your lake videos, it is like being there with you. I think you did a great job of capturing footage of the Chain Pickerel given how evasive they are. Your leeches are quite different from those we see in Canada, they are actually quite pretty. Your lake is very beautiful, and clearly healthy since the amphibians are doing well in it. Your lunch recipe sounds very tasty, and what are a few little bones between friends? Thank you for sharing these magical moments with us Dave, your camera work and editing are sublime, as always.🖤🇨🇦
Thank you so much for your continued support and encouragement. It's very much appreciated.♥ ♥ ♥
@@TheDave333 once I find a channel that provides what I enjoy…as you do, I am loyal to the end. You take time and effort to create and to communicate, you deserve to know that you and your efforts are appreciated.🖤🇨🇦
As are yours 🌍
Very slimy, very illusive, very fun to fight. I caught these in a seemingly untouched part of a creek that runs right through my neighborhood here in Georgia. Great memories
Great memories, awesome fish. Yes super slimy, but they put up a great fight!!!
@@TheDave333 I've caught hundreds of these over the years, and to me the fight is anything but great. Rather boring to me. They've destroyed productive trout fisheries in Nova Scotia, so I'm not a fan. Great video and footage though!
i respect you for being mesmerized and respect nature as much as your willing to eat it
most people are either one or the other
I can love and respect something, and still eat it. . . I don't think there's a contradiction in either one of these acts.
Your content is very cool!!
Thank you so much.
Thanks to RDR2, I know of this fish's existence.
You sir, are a fish.
And same bro. I know a quite a bit of fish species but I haven’t even heard of a chain pickerel until I played rdr2
Who said video games aren’t good
Ok. I loved this comment!! 🤣 IYKYK!
RDR2 Has given me much to be thankful for.
An exceptional presentation!! It's very cool how you collect your own footage, best footage are of fish shown in their natural habitat! Great work Dave
Thank you very much! I love being in the water, I can't wait to do more this summer.
@@TheDave333 That's a good pastime! Facing leeches is worth it for that matter. Thanks Dave for visiting a tiny channel such as mine and commenting! I'll keep an eye out for more of your content
My pleasure. Have a beautiful day.
You always have such brilliant footage.
Thanks! 😁😁😁
The Dave! We love you! This is one of my favourite fish in the world, and love this wonderful film!
Thank you so much, I love them as well! Thanks for watching the video. ❤
Dooood whatever swamp your diving in is absolutely amazing super clear great dive!
Thanks 👍 It has its good days and its bad days. . .
1:49 frog expert here. frog in leaf of top right corner : )
That's one lucky frog. :-D
Happy I found you!!! thank you for the videos!!! you make it informative and at times funny... well done!
Thank you so much!
Chain pickerel are just so beautiful:)
They really are. I'm always get very excited when I find one. :-)
I had a similar experience fishing for pike in UK. Pike and Pickerel are very similar in appearance and habits. I hooked into one using a lure but after about a minute he managed to bite through my line and was gone. I fished the same spot a week later and again hooked into a fish and this time managed to land it. When I opened its mouth it had the lure that I had lost the previous week.
What a great story! Thanks for sharing that. I'm not surprised!
thank you for braving the leeches. keep up the great work
No problem . . . it was a small price to pay.
How do you film these amazing documentaries??
Simplest answer = I really love making them ! Devotion :-)
@@TheDave333 It shows.🖤🇨🇦
That's pretty wild you caught one that had two lures in it's mouth already.
Yeah, so my lure made it three total. Crazy appetites!
Lets take the moment to appreciate how much effort he puts in content for us👍🔥🔥
I appreciate that! Thank you.
Only the Dave can make a video about an animal I hate (a lot!) into an entertaining video that I liked watching.
You hate pickerel! That's madness! Do they keep stealing your bass bait? A lot of bass anglers don't like pickerel, especially in the southern U.S. I'm just curious as to why. . .
They like to tear through line and they like to eat the smaller fish I’m bringing in. Also they’re invasive where I live so… though I love our native pickerel such as Redfin and grass pickerel.
That's understandable. Thanks for explaining. 😊
Easily one of the most misidentified fish in Jersey. I recently just caught one of the rarest types of pickerel, the Redfin, that have the body pattern of a tiger muskie with red fins
Nice! Beautiful fish.
Where at in Nj?
I loved catching pickerel when I was a kid - they were like fresh water sharks. I never had a problem with leeches in Massachusetts, but on a trip through New Hampshire we stopped at a pool along the Kankamagus Hwy and waded out into the still water. As soon as we got in a few feet, we could see the leeches swiming toward us from all directions. Out we went. I do not mess with bloodsuckers.
They love areas with lots of aquatic plants. . . Leeches are no fun. My bites always itch like crazy.
@@TheDave333, like mosquitos and vampire bats, leech saliva has an anticoagulant effect, and probably provokes a bit of an allergic reaction.
Great footage again Dave! They look very similar to the European Pikes.
Hello again! They really are very similar fish. Thanks for watching another one of my videos!
Great video - I catch about a half dozen of these every time I go out fishing in my area. Fun fish to reel in, certainly feisty.
Couldn't agree more!
i adore pickerel - thanks.
Me too - you're welcome.
Awesome video! Thank you! So many lessons, some simple like Pickerel are shy and greedy, to the profound, like, on our journey through life we will encounter beauty, sadness, death, and bloodsucking leeches! Fishlosophy at its finest!
Thanks for watching the video and taking the time to leave a comment. It's a perfect summary of the video. I was afraid I was getting too deep!!!
Awesome footage, makes me want to get a snorkel and underwater camera!
Since you mentioned the bones, I wanted to mention that I learned from my grandfather as a kid how to make pickerel meat less bony. You "score" the filet by making a lot of tiny perpendicular cuts along the length, not all the way through the meat so it stays together. Then bread it and fry it. The tiny pieces of bone become much less noticable and won't get stuck in your throat. It's a common and delicious tasting fish that many people don't eat because of the bones, so this can make them more edible.
I'd imagine knowing how to eat them more easily would be especially useful in areas where they are invasive like some people are mentioning.
Thank you for sharing the cooking technique. I'll have to give it a try.
great night watches thanks for going out of the way to get these images, cheers
You're very welcome. It's a labor of love.
Chelsea the Chain Pickerel: We ate our friends for supper. We dipped them in nacho cheese. Largemouth bass fry: How rude.
Hello Chi--- Fish and cheese....... doesn't seem like a good combination. 🤔
In the most calm voice you've ever heard: I had a 4cm long leech on between my toes that I discovered in the shower
The important thing is to not panic!!! lol Especially in the shower where one might slip and fall. 😁
I think you should be on Netflix!
Me too !
@@TheDave333 National Geographic or Smithsonian would be a good fit as well, or Secrets of Nature. You are every bit as skilled as their other camera people.🖤🇨🇦
Thank you so much. 🎥
Excellent video, sir. Thank you.
You're very welcome.
Oh boy new Dave video!
I feel the same way. 😃
They are invasive where I am from so I am biased against them but they are really beautiful!!!
Beauty comes with a cost. . .
6:50 Spot the pickerel could be a game.
It is a game for me. They always see me before I see them!!!
Can chain pickerel and largemouth bass coexist together in a body of water? I mean they are both predators and hunt similar prey. Do they compete with each other or even prey on each other?
They can coexist just fine. Big bass will eat little pickerel if they can catch them, and vice versa.
Also Chain Pickerel are usually most active in the winter when Largemouth are least active.
That's a good point. Thanks.
I use to work at a marina on the mississippi. I thought these things were baby pike because they would swim with pike. Learn something new every day
I guess.
Thanks for watching the video. There are several different pickerel species, Grass Pickerel, Red Fin Pickerel, Chain Pickerel etc...
@@TheDave333grass and redfin pickerel are the same species the American pickerel
you have a very pleasant voice perfect for this content.
thank you
Very interesting video! Thanks!
You're very welcome!
Some anglers also view white perch as a nuisance.
True they do, but I love them all.
I keep seeing what looks like Utricularia and get distracted. I love Utricularia.
Yes, that's what you're seeing alright. What an odd plant to love. . . Ant particular reason for this love? 😁
How did you get into this chain pickerel thing?
We both swim in the same lake, and I like their look.
@@TheDave333 Same with the other fish you did?
yes
Pickerel remind me of fresh water Bariccuda
Me too! They have similar body shapes, because they hunt in similar ways. They both rely on speed. Water rockets!
@@TheDave333, or freshwater mackerel, perhaps; like little torpedos they are! Growing up on Long Island Sound we used to fish for mackerel in the spring with "Christmas-tree" rigs, and after we filled up a garbage can full of them (mostly to freeze and use for bait later in the season) we would break out the light-tackle trout rods and catch some more of them just for fun. Catching mackerel on a light rod with 4 pound test line is a blast!
Never fished for mackerel, but it does sound like fun!
@@TheDave333 , on Long Island Sound, our favorite fish for introducing kids to fishing was "snapper" blues, baby bluefish 8 to 10 inches long. They hang out in large schools in tidal creeks in the late summer to early fall,, especially underneath small bridges and narrow breakwater channels where the tide moves quickly; they go nuts for minnows, and will hit a wide variety of small shiny spinners and spoon-like lures, such as Kastmasters and similar (a Phoebe is good, and an Al's Goldfish is the best of them all). They'll even hit streamer flies, for flyfishermen! When they're really feeding, you'll catch fish after fish, on almost anything. Kids will love it! Cut the heads halfway off and pull, and the guts come right out. Flour and deep-fry, and eat by nibbling around the bone. Not as oily or strong tasting as adult bluefish. They also make great bait for bluegrass, for stripers, and for larger bluefish.
Simply amazing
Thanks a lot 😊
I sometimes watch vidoes about European freshwater fish too.
Oh great! and now you've hurt my feelings! I'm so jealous....... They have a Diving Bell Spider in Northern and Central Europe and some parts of Asia that I would love to keep, breed, and film. Have you seen them? Wels Catfish are also pretty cool, and they have some really interesting newts in Europe.
@@TheDave333 I've never seen a diving bell spider before, and I'm not hurting your feelings. Like you've told me before, it never hurts to do something different.
I know, I was just kidding. 😁😁😁 You watch whatever you like! Definitely check out some videos of a Diving Bell Spider, amazing creatures. And if you've never seen Peacock Spiders, I highly recommend them as well. They're my favorite spiders!
I caught my first pike today in 2 foot of water. I’m sure pickerel aren’t too different to pike, it was a fun experience and I already know this videos gonna be good
That's awesome! Congratulations! They put up a great fight!
@@TheDave333 ha yea they do. Plus I caught it on 6lb test. I caught it on video, I might post it later, I’ll tell you
Yes these pickerel are just a smaller version of northern pike :)
Yup, Northern Pike, Muskellunge, grass pickerel, chain pickerel, red fin pickerel, are all in the same family. . . Esocidae
@@TheDave333 I uploaded the video of me catching the pike.
Also, I’ve never caught a pickerel either, that’s my next target.
did you try wet suits they might stop leaches from biting
I have a full wet suit, but I usually just wear the top part, but they still seem to find their way in. I had one on my chest, once even though I was wearing a wet suit top. I just have to stay out of the vegetation.
one of your viewers i met irl recommended you, fuggin sweet content my dood
thanks bro! 😁
Super interesting and scientific The Dave. I may have a tactic that would grant better footage for these species as well as northern pike. From my experience with a bright LED below my canoe its very common to see them throughout the night, and they are far less shy as you stated.
Great idea! I've been meaning to go snorkeling at night again. . . I did it once a couple years ago, but my underwater light wasn't very bright. And I misplaced the footage. . . It's super spooky down there, and everyone thinks I'm crazy! I wasn't expecting it, but all the fish were sleeping sitting on the bottom, it was a very strange experience. Now, your comment has made me determined to do it again this summer.
@@TheDave333 Extremely interesting, it can't be quite spooky even in a canoe I can only imagine being in the water. There's always the off chance of snappers, I see a lot of these under water at night. They are more scared of us than we of them, however I've had some unintentional close encounters. Take a look at some of my shorts if you have a chance. I also love the epoxy luscious like you mentioned or atleast the pickerels. very elusive.
I'll have to check out some of your short videos. Have you seen my video on snapping turtles and painted turtles? There's some big ones in the lake, and they're quite docile, but at night it might be a different story!!! ua-cam.com/video/cy6TEzb9-0I/v-deo.html
@@TheDave333, I've seen Snappers in New England that nearly rival a southern Alligator Snapper in size. Not something you want to tangle with! I saw a pair of them mating in the water once; From a distance it looked like a crocodile eating a bloated dead animal from underneath because all I could see was pale creamsicle orange underside of turtle rolling around, until I got closer and a couple of heads the size of melons popped up out of the water to look at me.
Nice video! I love chain pickerel, and I think bass fishermen give them too much of a bad rep. In my opinion it just boils down to bad habits. If the water has pickerel, I always use a steel leader. The bass still bite it, and the pickerel don’t snatch my expensive lures. I also bring a gripper and pliers to make hook removal safe and easy.
I totally agree! 😁
Can you do one on a crayfish species?
Eventually, yes. I rarely see them at the lake, but I see a lot in the rivers.
Another terrific video many thanks. Could you advise me on a half decent camera as I need to move away from a camera phone when taking my fish videos. I’m particularly interested in a camera that will also let me take photographs of tiny fry.
Thanks for watching the video. Any quality DSLR (digital single lens reflex) camera that takes both pictures and video would do the trick. These allow you to change the lens for macro work with tiny fry, or switch to a wide angle lens for capturing the whole fishroom. You'll want a 24 megapixel model. There are lots to choose from. (canon, nikon etc) You don't need 4 K video. Buy a good tripod. Good lenses can get pricey.
@@TheDave333 Thanks for the information your videos give me something to work towards. Many thanks again 🤓👍
my pleasure
They are a ferocious fish ! I've more then once caught one on a surface plug that was as big as the fish ! It couldn't of possibly swallowed it !
They really are little beasts! I love em'. Fishing with a surface plug is the way to go, I like weedless frogs. . .
Chain pickerel were illegally released into pushaw lake here in Maine, and its actually illegal to release them back into the water, becauss they outhunt most other fish in the water.
I wonder if they're native to Maine?
@@TheDave333 Not certain about all parts of Maine, but definitely not to pushaw. Theres signs posted at most waters from the state warning anglers not to release them.
I guess they have their reasons. :-)
Are you snorkeling or on scuba?
Also I've discovered recently that turning off auto white balance, shutter speed, and anything else that is automatic, helps eliminate the random color shifts from filming underwater. Makes post production color correction a lot easier.
Great video as always!
Snorkeling. There's an underwater setting that I really like, unfortunately it does the color shift thing as the sunlight intensity changes. And there's no way to turn off the auto white balance in that setting. I'll have to do some tinkering. . . Thanks for the insight. :-)
The only way to find out is to keep one as a pet to see if it warms up to humans.
Also pickerel and their larger cousin the northern pike are cannibals. I think your fine there.
Thanks for checking out the video. After swimming with them in the wild, I couldn't bring myself to keeping one in a tank.
I love planaria
Me too! They're amazing little creatures. They can learn, they have a memory, and if you cut them into a hundred pieces, each piece will regrow and retain the memory. Which, if you think about it, is quite miraculous . . .
@@TheDave333 Now if we could just figure out how we could do that…🖤🇨🇦
They're working on it. Planaria video in progress, and I thought the pickerel was hard to film!!! 😬
@@TheDave333 That is exciting, I know you will make it beautiful…even if it is hard to film them, your perfectionism always wins.🖤🇨🇦
Hey bro, can you do a chili rasbora breeding video? There are not a lot of information out there
It's on my list, but it will be a while before I can get to them. :-)
Do you do this in saltwater too?
I wish!!! Too far from the ocean . . .
I lost my personal best pickerel a few weeks ago. Bit my lipless crankbait clean off. I then heard my bait rattling under my kayak and my fear came true, the fish jumped with my lure ringing out right in front of my kayak. Really sucked, I felt really bad for the fish, losing my PB and my lure.
That bites! (Pun intended) That teeth mean business.
@@TheDave333 and it was down here in Florida where theyre not easy to find 😭
Thanks man love the vids
Awesome thanks
Looking forward to metaphyton clouds video!! :)
Really why ? lol !!! You and maybe one other person.
@@TheDave333 I usually get those clouds while using dry food to feed fry & juveniles. Always wondered if they can graze on it but never starved them to find out 😅 Also, it sounds cool and I'm curious to see what you'll present. =)
Wonder who's the other person tho? 0:!
@ kruose
I'm really looking forward to doing a complete tour of the lake. Wait till you see the miniature underwater forest of freshwater sponges!!! I'm just scratching the surface at the moment. Pun intended.
@@TheDave333 Woah!! Anticipating it! Hehehe, good pun, good pun xD Do take care on your adventures, we don't want you going under the weather. :D
Thanks for thinking of me, and you stay safe as well. 🙂
Blackfin barracuda/Sphyraena qenie
I remember seeing barracuda while spearfishing. Never wear shiny rings or watches in the water especially murky water. . . Barracudas sometimes mistake your silver-colored watch for a small fish. And now you're missing your hand. . .
@@TheDave333 The blackfin barracuda is smaller than the great barracuda, and they often swim in schools too.
I know I looked it up! :-) I look up every fish that you mention, unless I already know about it. :-)
Where was this filmed? This is amazing!
It was filmed in Massachusetts. Thanks for watching. :-)
03:07 Siamese Algae Eater or Large Mouth Bass?
LMB
If the fish keeps giving us the slick, we'll get ourselves in quite the pickerel. Get it?
I would hate to be in a pickle, and I've been given the slip several times. . .
It's a good thing that they're mostly a solitary fish otherwise their theme song would be "chain chain chain, chain in schools...."😉
Northern pike?
Nope, a smaller cousin.
Try the traditional way of preparing pickerel. Pickling
Ahhh, pickled pickerel . . that makes perfect sense.
Hey, Dave if I was an osprey, how would you like it if I took the pickerel you were filming?
That would be a dream come true my friend! 😁😁😁 When I was in college I rescued a wounded Osprey that I found in the woods and brought it to a local wildlife / bird rehabilitator. He was able to mend its wing and release it back in the wild.
@@TheDave333 Believe it or not, they sometimes fight with other fish-eating raptors!
Silly birds! I just learned that Great Horned Owls will eat other owls!!!
@@TheDave333, my sister has had a nesting pair of Bald Eagles visible from her deck every year for almost a decade, and has watched the eaglets grow to juveniles and learn to fly. Last fall a tree limb broke in a storm and part of the nest fell down, and so this year the eagles took up residence in a different tree on the opposite side of the lake; but the remains of the old nest have been taken over by Great Horned Owls and so she has been able to watch them feeding and raising the owlets.
Come to pond by me caught multiple 6 7 pounders
Where at? I'll catch some lol
Beautiful! But ewww .. but amazing! 😆
Thanks 😅
What what Ernst stromer think I wonder
He might be interested in their bones millions of years from now. . .
@@TheDave333 haha I commented this on the wrong video sorry if it seemed a bit random lol. Thanks for reply though, great video btw
I thought it was a bit strange, but I always respond when people comment.
@@TheDave333 same here, I’ve loved palaeontology for most of my life! Hey that’s interesting that you live close to some footprints, do you know what species they could be? I’d love to see some footprints outside of a museum someday.
I'm sorry I don't know which species they're from. The Connecticut river valley where I live has some of the richest concentration of prints in the world. The entire valley was once a giant lake with lots of mud flats where the prints formed. The Holyoke Dinosaur Reservation in Holyoke Massachusetts has lots of them. It's an amazing place and there are dino tracks outdoors, not in a museum. Highly recommended. . ..
You should make an Instagram account... I hope to see some high quality pictures!!!
There's a lot of things I want to do. . . Gotta make some shorts, get some merchandise, start YT memberships etc. . . Oh my God the pressure! 😬😬😬
Hate these things there taking over bass populations in ponds around me
Good vid tho
Thanks! It was a fun video to put together.
11:32 I do not need fish to trust me, I need them only to fear me
🤦♀️
Fear scares me. . . and the fish.
@@TheDave333maybe it was watching a few fish videos in a row after a good fishing trip, but I needed to make a boomer fish comment and I will leave it here out of shame if nothing else.
It's all good my friend. Speak your mind.
ilovefishingmai
me too !
Stand up comedian animal
documentary 😂
Don't forget the fish recipe . . . cook ? 😃
My Encyclopedia of Animals has a northen pike in it. And it says they belong to the order Salmoniformes. Are they wrong?
Yes, they're wrong. It must be an old entry? Northern pike are Esociformes, but they are closely related to Salmoniformes. However, now that they're looking at the fish based on genetic markers ( whole genome sequencing) things might change in the future. Animals are constantly being reclassified based on new genetic information. Taxonomy is a complicated field.
@@TheDave333, I forage for wild mushrooms, and when somebody thinks they've found a new species, or a species that isn't known to exist in a given area and they want a positive ID, they can send a mushroom to one of several laboratories that will test and compare its DNA, and it costs only about 10 bucks. I wonder if somebody can do that for fish as well, but unfortunately, in order to send a DNA sample you'd have to kill the fish and preserve the sample on its way through the mail; but it's easy to mail a sample of dried mushroom......
@@goodun2974 you can take scales without killing the fish. Or maybe a small portion of their fin
@@AubreyCasler-c3p , I had wondered if scales or fin segments were sufficient for DNA testing....
Love your videos, BUT you keep saying the chain pickerel is shy. They may be camera shy, but I have been in a boat only to look beside me in the water and see one there on the waters surface looking at me, when they notice me noticing them, they slowly submerge. A relative had one jump into the boat with him causing him to turn over the small , flat bottom boat, losing all his equipment! Shy is not how I would describe them.
I guess it's different when you're in the water trying to find and film them. They're like ghosts. . . I guess from a boat or on shore, we don't pose much of a threat so they're a bit more outgoing. And they're certainly not shy when they strike and begin to fight. 🐠🦈🐟
In my experience, they are aggressive and not shy.
bast way to film northern pike is to lokate camera on the bottom amd wait for 5 houers. This way you capture how fish bihave naturaly without scearing it. There are some dudes on YT doing so, maby you can try
I think I've seen some of their videos, Great stuff. But, I'd rather be in the water with the fish.
Do you sometimes call them "chain pickies"?
nope just pickerel, I'm not picky.
😱 lucky, that's my dweam fish.
I wish they stayed smaller, so they were easier to keep in a tank, but they're such high-strung fish that they might not do well in an aquarium.
Here cuz I hooked up to a solid 24 in her yesterday and my boy missed him with the net right next to our boat and he slipped the hook right after lol
Ahh that's the worst!! Been there done that! :-D
Leeches! Aaaaaaaaaaa!
I completely understand !
Run for your life!!!!!!!!!
@@TheDave333 , One of my favorite bands from the 80s was a jazz/rock /classical/ bluegrass "fusion" band called the Dregs; they had an instrumental song called "BloodSucking Leeches" which was a commentary on their greedy record company management....
I laughed a lot of your adventures with leeches 😆.
Are medical leeches live in this lake too. They are fascinating, l wanted to keep one as pet but they like cold water, impossible to maintain in the room.
Back to fishes, l'm very curious if in this lake live Sander fish. If yes, please try to film them, they are another very awesome predators.
There is a leech in my area known as the New England medicinal leech, but I'm not sure if they live in this particular lake. I'm not familiar with the "Sanders Fish"
Species l mentioned about is called in English Sander or Zander. Actually, this particular species live in Europe and part of Asia. In good, old Latin language is called Sander lucioperca. Big, majestic predator with big teeth, long up to 130 cm and weight up to 15 kg eating mainly fish.
But his smaller cousin Sander vitreus live in North -East America. I bet you know this species, maybe in person 🐟.
Sometimes national names of fauna and flora bring confusion , then Latin is a rescue 🛟 😄
Wow,New England medicinal leech is endangered species ! Like Hirudo medicinalis in Europe. Except of being part of nature, they are helping to cure some medical issue, it works.
We have a fish here that's very similar called a Walleye which is also a type of Sander. I don't see them very often.
@@TheDave333 walleye = Sander vitreus
In some places they shouldn't be invasive species anymore. Because people should stop trying to improve the natural world.
I agree 100% nature doesn't need our help.
Not gonna lie leeches are the reason I avoid most bodies of water.
Salt water would be safe, were it not for the sharks!!! 😁
@@TheDave333 Hey leave the sharks out of it. Not there fault we keep getting in there personal space.
So, true. They were here first. . . I have no problems with sharks, or planaria for that matter.
Great video once again Dave. Here in the Netherlands we have a Family member of them, the Esox lucius. We call them Snoek. When I was 10 years old my uncle Ben took me fishing and taught me how to catch them with a live smaller fish. He and his family survived thru WW2 with the Snoek. The females can get up to 55 inches. They are strong fighting fish and it is a lot of fun to catch them. Sometimes it takes more then an hour to land them. Biggest one I caught was around 45 inch when I was 12. Please more underwater videos...💚
Wow! What a great memory, thanks for sharing your experiences with me.
More underwater videos are on the way. . . 🙂
Esox is the pike/Muskellunge family if I remember correctly.
"Snoek" remindes me of a Snook, a toothy pike-like saltwater fish in Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
Poor newt.
Yes, I felt bad for the little guy too.
Bass fisherman dont like them lol. Bass are so boring to catch literally as easy to catch as a blue gill. Pike, chain, musky and bowfin are so much better of a fight bass are over rated
I agree 100% Northern Pike and Musky will definitely outfight a largemouth bass.
best fish to fight but where i’m from we call them jackfish
They do put up a great fight. . . Love these fish.
Jackfish is a northern pike we call male pike Jack pike not a chain pickeral
@calmck3164 well they are in the same family
@@ILoveFishinginWi Jack pike meaning male pike is a saying for small pike as male pike only go to around 7 pounds where as female can get to around 40 pounds so if you catch a small pike its likely a male so we say Jack pike.
@@calmck3164 oh ok
5:47 that took a turn…
Yes, it did! I try to put a little something for everyone in my videos. 😃
i would catch dozens of Chain Pickerel when Ice Fishing in New Jersey. Great childhood memories
Awesome. People seem to catch a lot of them ice fishing. I love Pickerel and Northern Pike, such great fighting fish.
@@TheDave333 i guess they really dont mind the cold as much as other predatory fish
It’s just awesome 👏 as always 👌
Thank you so much 😀
If you were a barracuda which one would you be? Blackfin or great?
I would be the great Barracuda of course! I am The Dave for a reason . . . Plus those are the only ones that I've seen while snorkeling. 😁
@@TheDave333, So why "The Dave"? BTW, one of my longtime favorite musicians (he passed away last year) was multi-instrumentalist David Lindley, whose fans referred to him as "Mr. Dave". From guitar and slide guitar to fiddle, banjo, the Greek bouzouki, the Turkish Saz and Oud, he could play anything with strings on it. Best known for his long association with Jackson Browne (he played the slide guitar on "Running On Empty"), he also played with Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Warren Zevon, Crosby/Nash, Ry Cooder and many others, led his own raucous rock-reggae band ElRayo-X in the 80's, and recorded with indigenous musicians in Madagascar, Norway, and elsewhere around the world. He was unique.
fast, beautiful fish. native in my area
I love them, they're like freshwater barracudas. . . 🐠🦈🐟
I love Chain pikerel ! Most people hate them but they are the best fish in the Esox family in alabama i caught one redfin pikerel in my pond that connected to a spring creek they just got in there naturally
Cool! I love them as well, we have them in Illinois!
I love them too! Amazing fish. 😁
Caught my first Pickerel today! Really cool fish
And now, you're hooked!!! I love em' they're built like rockets. . .
Wonderful.
Thank you !
I was using a rooster tail and a pickerel came out of nowhere and ate it so fast
They do love their rooster tails, most fish do! :-)