Indiana has some spots that rival world class smallmouth and pike fisheries. I’ve seen some giants pulled out of Indiana in small spots like that. My PB smallie in Indiana was in a stream only 6 foot or so at the deepest and could flip and pitch all the way across it sideways.
Awesome Brother! Where I grew up we called them 'slough sharks', & yes, we considered them a nuisance when fishing for Walleye. They're like the monster 'Bluegill' of Saskatchewan... everywhere! Now I miss those fish dearly. You had a great day on the water, thanks for taking us along! I'm gonna have to venture North to the Tippy now.
What an extremely fantastic day. I have had a few topwater days like that in around 50 years of fishing, but not many. Treasure the ones you have because they are really fun.
Definitely one of your best fishing trip videos this year, I think watching you get excited and having a good time is part of what makes your videos entertaining lol and it's funny
Your excitement at 18:20 over the smallie got me fired up! This episode lived up to the hype. Beautiful pikes and some solid tippy smallies. Thanks for sharing your adventure
Muskies, chain pickerel, pike around me is also smallmouth waters. Great episode. Must be pockets of cooler water for largemouth. Best time to fish around me is the moment it melts in early spring. Using live minnows it’s a killer just give them a chance to swallow it. Do this the moment the creek melts even along the shallow banks. I catch huge smallmouths that time of the year. 20/22 inches are commonplace. Again only that time of the year. After that the muskies and the rock bass take over.
Just came across this video and saw you fished one of my local rivers. how cool. The sad part is you caught bigger pike in that one trip than I have in several years. Awesome job and nice fish John.
Just a thought , maybe you could have a heavy duty clip or hand clamp that could be clipped to something branch or what not with a short piece of 550 cord to stop as you fight fish or want to stay in one area that is particularly good. ,so
If you go North over the border to Geneva Lake, WI. Go by the Grand Geneva resort. Launch your kayak by the bridge for the White River. Bunch of Pike in there.
I've caught Pike over 30" out of a spring fed feeder creek about 12' wide in Illinois as cars whizz by heading to Wisconsin. Never underestimate small creeks!
WOW just WOW Those bites from the Northern pike were so explosive. I mean I jumped a few times just watching this video...heck i may have even peed a little bit.. LOL just kidding but man what an exciting video to watch and I can't even imagine what it was like experiencing that for real. Thanks for the adventure. God Bless and GO KATS!!!!!!!
Always make sure to use a leader no lighter than 40lb fluorocarbon and no shorter than 9” long. Preferably use a 9-12 inch steel leader or substitute for 80lb fluorocarbon. If you don’t do this, there’s a pretty high chance they’ll bite through your line. If you already are doing so, then I apologize. It’s just hard to tell over video. Also for lures other good choices are paddletails, lunker city slug-gos, spoons, inline spinners, chatterbaits, lipless and diving crankbaits, jerkbaits, walking baits, poppers, buzz baits, and buck tail jigs.
Another stream to look at for a trip would be the Kishwaukee River that flows through Northern IL. Top Smallmouth Bass stream, that also holds Northern Pike and Walleyes. Focus on Boone and Winnebago counties. Thanks for sharing, brings back lots of memories!
The Pike was fun, My wife has the largest one for the two of us, 30 inches. She has the biggest Largemouth as well at almost 7.4 lbs. She missed an opportunity to improve that catch Monday night in Louisiana, it tossed the hook, bummer. As usual, she managed to better my catches by a good pound. Thanks for sharing John.
My best fishing day ever was in 1987 in a small river in Missouri, right on the edge of a cold front. Every cast was a different species, I caught species that you would not beieve would eat earthworms. Me and two of my coworkers waded the stretch as far as we dared as the clouds rolled in, the entire time at least one of us had a fish on the hook. A fellow came down to see what we were doing as we got out, we told him and he said he was just checking because people were alway throwing out trash and never saw anyone fishing. We told him they were missing out.
I live in Indiana and you have fished more waters than me. The White river is pretty close to me, but I haven't had the chance to fish it yet. Mostly fishing the Mississinewa river.
Man thats GREAT video. Never knew they had them fish in Indiana. I'm from Cincinnati Ohio. Going have to try get up there for some pike. I never caught one of them either. Be good find for my channel as well. I got a fish on my last week's video that I have never caught until then. It was a lot of fun getting that fish for myself. Always up for a new target species and the adventure it takes to get them. Thank you for bringing us along sir.
Great video. Norther pike are great to catch. Aggressive bites & a good fight. Though not known for it are very good to eat, once you learn how to fillet out the bones. White & flaky meat & delicious.
One of the largest fish I ever caught was in Northern Indiana. It was in about 6" of water. COHO Salmon. Talk about fun. Great video. Glad you had a good time! We used to call those small pike, hammerhandles.
Come in down to western north Carolina we have a lit of musky. Musky mile on the French broad river is well known and the biggest musky in NC for a long time have come out of lake Adger on the Green river both are great spots to kayak near your normal stomping grounds if I'm not mistaken.
Awesome video and great catches of fish I bought me some little smokies at Kroger's a few days ago I'm going to try them out and see if I can catch any fish off them and hopefully catch some big ones I'm still searching for my first big decent size fish this year wish me luck God bless and happy fishing 🎣
Glad to see you introduced to the northern pike. Any day you get smallies and pike hitting topwater its pretty cool. Keep expanding your horizons brother. Blessings
Nice 👍 I remember when I cought my first Pike while fishing for Bass, took me fifteen minutes just to get it close to the boat. Just a little over 3' never cought another one.. great job 👍
I fish a reservoir filled with northern pike and they were always considered nuisance fish, but man do they put up a fight! Half their entire body is all head and mouth lol.
What a fantastic day of topwater!! Thank you for sharing this! Your casting is so ON POINT!!! If I could be half as accurate I'd spend less time retrieving from trees and less money on replacements!!! LOL!! Keep up the great work!
What a wonderfully nice day you had. I love seeing your sucesses on the waterways. Not to worry about running on. Nope, I could watch your fishing for hours because there's always something calming and interesting to see on your trips.
That was a great spot to get to fish John. You caught alot of nice fish there. Thank you for sharing this video with us today. And God bless you sir. 🙏❤🙏❤🙏😊😊😊
Been watching quite a few of your videos. Enjoy them tremendously. Only thing that bothers me is the struggle you seem to have paddling that pedal kayak. It seems heavy in the paddle.
Please do a video of Beaver Lake in Arkansas; both the lake and the White River below the dam. Great fishing for many species. Loads of trout below the dam.
Fantastic Video John did 👌 Indiana proud. I know a lot of people consider these more or less a nuisance but they put up a great fight The top water is the only way to go. Caught many of them down in Southern Indiana at lake Patoka great sport fish. Gl ad to see you a great trip for the distance you had to drive hope you had a good trip back home. God is the Great Provider!
Once again awesome video ! I would like to extend my offer again to have you come to east central Indiana and work on some 2,3 and 4 pound smallies. I really enjoy your videos and always enjoy the verse and fellowship at the end !
Great fishing...What a grerat little river. Tippecanoe River, I think that's around Ft Wayne or at least close? Used to travel up that way, years and years ago. You certainly got a great initiation on Pike. Congrats and thanks for sharing. Oh, and that's a long boring drive. haha perfect Psalm.
@@jasonh6919 :) Yeah, i certainly cant say that. I think a lot of my problem is equipment, rod too stiff, need something i can cast with a little less arm and more wrist. Any suggestions?
Honestly, just go down to Walmart and grab a $10 Zebco 202 combo. It'll break in a month or two, but there's no better way to try it out. Everyone who tells you you're not a fisherman unless you're tossing out a spinning reel probably secretly hates themselves. Just put a practice plug on the end of your new setup and toss a coffee can in the yard and practice plinking it. It's actually a lot of fun!
The statement on the back of the tshirt couldn't be more true, those topwater hits were amazing.
Upper Tippecanoe, upper Wabash, St. Joe, Pigeon River, Mississenewa, you never know what you´re gonna catch. All great rivers.
Do you launch Tippecanoe at the State Park?
@@michaelmccormick1016 I have, but I like the river further upstream.
I live on the upper Tippy. It's a blast.
I fish the St. Joe, but want to hit those others.
Tobasco beef jerky, donut holes & pikes for breakfast. Fantastic ! I love this guy. And, don’t forget the Bible. Thanks
Glad you it was well worth it! Nothing beats topwater bass and pike
Indiana has some spots that rival world class smallmouth and pike fisheries. I’ve seen some giants pulled out of Indiana in small spots like that. My PB smallie in Indiana was in a stream only 6 foot or so at the deepest and could flip and pitch all the way across it sideways.
Aww man that's a killer spot, never would have imagined fish like that in a spot like that
Awesome Brother! Where I grew up we called them 'slough sharks', & yes, we considered them a nuisance when fishing for Walleye. They're like the monster 'Bluegill' of Saskatchewan... everywhere! Now I miss those fish dearly. You had a great day on the water, thanks for taking us along! I'm gonna have to venture North to the Tippy now.
19:53. Love seeing you fish Indiana. Great video😊
What an extremely fantastic day. I have had a few topwater days like that in around 50 years of fishing, but not many. Treasure the ones you have because they are really fun.
You got that right!
Definitely one of your best fishing trip videos this year, I think watching you get excited and having a good time is part of what makes your videos entertaining lol and it's funny
Your excitement at 18:20 over the smallie got me fired up! This episode lived up to the hype. Beautiful pikes and some solid tippy smallies. Thanks for sharing your adventure
Muskies, chain pickerel, pike around me is also smallmouth waters. Great episode. Must be pockets of cooler water for largemouth. Best time to fish around me is the moment it melts in early spring. Using live minnows it’s a killer just give them a chance to swallow it. Do this the moment the creek melts even along the shallow banks. I catch huge smallmouths that time of the year. 20/22 inches are commonplace. Again only that time of the year. After that the muskies and the rock bass take over.
I was fly fishing with a popper for smallies on the Tippy from a canoe 55 years ago. Fond memories. Thank you.
Lol 😆 🤣 that train 🚆 horn blew right after you said it looks good there!! #epic #signofgoodtimes
It's magical when the top water bite is on.
Just came across this video and saw you fished one of my local rivers. how cool. The sad part is you caught bigger pike in that one trip than I have in several years. Awesome job and nice fish John.
Just a thought , maybe you could have a heavy duty clip or hand clamp that could be clipped to something branch or what not with a short piece of 550 cord to stop as you fight fish or want to stay in one area that is particularly good. ,so
Brush grippers are the cats meow.
Pike on topwater are so exciting glad you could experience it John congrats on an awesome trip!
On winter days I just go back and watch my number 1 fishing man doing his thing. I do enjoyed this video John 🐟🐟🐟
I used to live probably 20 minutes from Parkesville lake. We were on the Ocoee every weekend of the summer.
John, that's a nice size pike! I've never caught one before. Hopefully soon. Love the vid as usual.
Awesome trip & there is no better bite than a top water explosion.
is that a rebel craw tshirt? thats sick! beutiful river and fish. love your vids. im a creek guy as well, love exploring and wading.
We have a lake up here in Illinois that hold some Pike in it but iv'e never been blessed to catch one yet.
If you go North over the border to Geneva Lake, WI. Go by the Grand Geneva resort. Launch your kayak by the bridge for the White River. Bunch of Pike in there.
I've caught Pike over 30" out of a spring fed feeder creek about 12' wide in Illinois as cars whizz by heading to Wisconsin. Never underestimate small creeks!
Northern pike are fun to catch. If filleted right they are great to eat. Up north we get them at 10 -20 pounds.
Thanks for the great content john. Its been better and better since we've started watching you years ago. God Bless and safe creek adventures.
WOW just WOW Those bites from the Northern pike were so explosive. I mean I jumped a few times just watching this video...heck i may have even peed a little bit.. LOL just kidding but man what an exciting video to watch and I can't even imagine what it was like experiencing that for real. Thanks for the adventure. God Bless and GO KATS!!!!!!!
Always make sure to use a leader no lighter than 40lb fluorocarbon and no shorter than 9” long. Preferably use a 9-12 inch steel leader or substitute for 80lb fluorocarbon. If you don’t do this, there’s a pretty high chance they’ll bite through your line. If you already are doing so, then I apologize. It’s just hard to tell over video. Also for lures other good choices are paddletails, lunker city slug-gos, spoons, inline spinners, chatterbaits, lipless and diving crankbaits, jerkbaits, walking baits, poppers, buzz baits, and buck tail jigs.
Another stream to look at for a trip would be the Kishwaukee River that flows through Northern IL. Top Smallmouth Bass stream, that also holds Northern Pike and Walleyes. Focus on Boone and Winnebago counties. Thanks for sharing, brings back lots of memories!
Your buddy looks like Larry Bird's grandson. Good episode. My neck of the woods.
you should try fishing on the chattahooche or lake lanier! We’ve got striper and spotted bass and some smallies and largies
The Pike was fun, My wife has the largest one for the two of us, 30 inches. She has the biggest Largemouth as well at almost 7.4 lbs. She missed an opportunity to improve that catch Monday night in Louisiana, it tossed the hook, bummer. As usual, she managed to better my catches by a good pound. Thanks for sharing John.
My best fishing day ever was in 1987 in a small river in Missouri, right on the edge of a cold front. Every cast was a different species, I caught species that you would not beieve would eat earthworms. Me and two of my coworkers waded the stretch as far as we dared as the clouds rolled in, the entire time at least one of us had a fish on the hook. A fellow came down to see what we were doing as we got out, we told him and he said he was just checking because people were alway throwing out trash and never saw anyone fishing. We told him they were missing out.
I live in Indiana and you have fished more waters than me. The White river is pretty close to me, but I haven't had the chance to fish it yet. Mostly fishing the Mississinewa river.
Man thats GREAT video. Never knew they had them fish in Indiana. I'm from Cincinnati Ohio. Going have to try get up there for some pike. I never caught one of them either. Be good find for my channel as well. I got a fish on my last week's video that I have never caught until then. It was a lot of fun getting that fish for myself. Always up for a new target species and the adventure it takes to get them. Thank you for bringing us along sir.
Great video. Norther pike are great to catch. Aggressive bites & a good fight. Though not known for it are very good to eat, once you learn how to fillet out the bones. White & flaky meat & delicious.
Y'all need to come to Wisconsin and fish for salmons and trout. Record setters here. And yeah even bass, perch, blue gill and crappie..
One of the largest fish I ever caught was in Northern Indiana. It was in about 6" of water. COHO Salmon. Talk about fun. Great video. Glad you had a good time! We used to call those small pike, hammerhandles.
Come in down to western north Carolina we have a lit of musky. Musky mile on the French broad river is well known and the biggest musky in NC for a long time have come out of lake Adger on the Green river both are great spots to kayak near your normal stomping grounds if I'm not mistaken.
Awesome video and great catches of fish I bought me some little smokies at Kroger's a few days ago I'm going to try them out and see if I can catch any fish off them and hopefully catch some big ones I'm still searching for my first big decent size fish this year wish me luck God bless and happy fishing 🎣
Glad to see you introduced to the northern pike. Any day you get smallies and pike hitting topwater its pretty cool. Keep expanding your horizons brother. Blessings
Nice 👍 I remember when I cought my first Pike while fishing for Bass, took me fifteen minutes just to get it close to the boat. Just a little over 3' never cought another one.. great job 👍
Congrats on your first northern Pike and the Tippecanoe River is one of the cleanest rivers around and good fishing
What a great float trip. And the amount of fish was incredible. Nothing like those top water explosions to get the heart going.
Wow ! You sure had a good day in No. Indiana. Explosive topwater.... had my heart thumping also!
Wow , a nice day of fishing ! Those pike are really cool , beautiful , really fun to watch taking top lurer
Great scenery keep the videos coming great job
I fish a reservoir filled with northern pike and they were always considered nuisance fish, but man do they put up a fight! Half their entire body is all head and mouth lol.
What a fantastic day of topwater!! Thank you for sharing this! Your casting is so ON POINT!!! If I could be half as accurate I'd spend less time retrieving from trees and less money on replacements!!! LOL!! Keep up the great work!
What a wonderfully nice day you had. I love seeing your sucesses on the waterways. Not to worry about running on. Nope, I could watch your fishing for hours because there's always something calming and interesting to see on your trips.
The pike are so much fun to catch. We used a 12 inch plier like device to remove the hook . I caught mine in north Dakota
I’m glad you enjoyed the fishing up here hope you make it back some time
Nice place too fish would never expect pike to be in such a small creek. Here in Ontario they're mostly in larger bodies of water. Lovely video.
What a nice fishing outing you guys had. Can’t believe how many pike there were. I’m jealous!👍👍👍
I’ve lived in Indiana my whole life and never caught a Pike. I’m gonna have to step up my game.
What a great day of fishing,really enjoyed the pike! Thanks John.
Congrats on your first northern. Great video, love the top water explosions. some nice smallies too. Fun day of fishing for sure
On the frog….bend the hooks a little outward to increase hook up.
Pike are cool fish. I go up to Minnesota to catch them. My personal best is 40 inches. Love the videos man!!
That was a great spot to get to fish John. You caught alot of nice fish there. Thank you for sharing this video with us today. And God bless you sir. 🙏❤🙏❤🙏😊😊😊
What an awesome day of fishing. Thanks for sharing it. Never caught pike.
How exciting was that!! 1st pike man!! Congratulations 👏 👏
Now that was an exciting adventure.
Those Pike were just explosive.
Great job on using top water lures.
Nice! Different sort of stream! Different sort of topography than Tenn. and the Ozarks!
Indiana wants me ; lord I know I can’t go back there ,….looks like nice fishing there !
Been watching quite a few of your videos. Enjoy them tremendously. Only thing that bothers me is the struggle you seem to have paddling that pedal kayak. It seems heavy in the paddle.
@ 6:13 wow , delicious , they look full and heavy
Love that whopper plopper/choppy sound and then the take!👍
Nice smallmouth Jon!!!
Great trip John. Those top water blowups. Whoa baby!
I have found that smallmouth that compete with pike are just more aggressive.
Probably one of the best vids yet!👍
Been waiting awhile for this episode ah here we go!!
Wow! This beginning is awesome! I caught some today on top water too. 😁😁😁😁
I don’t use top water very often. I caught my first two fish on top water this year. Love your content
Amazing video can’t wait till I see a HOUSTON TEXAS DOWN TOWN FISHING VIDEO 🙏🏽
Dude... there is nothing like the top water bite. Love this video.
Great video glad you posted keep them coming thanks
Please do a video of Beaver Lake in Arkansas; both the lake and the White River below the dam. Great fishing for many species. Loads of trout below the dam.
Love this video, and seeing you catch a few northerns. That river reminds me of the ones around here, mid-Michigan. Same kind of fish too. Awesome!
Top water is amazing right now. I watched one of your videos and you used a Bone #90 WP . Been catching a lot on that thing. Thanks for the Vids!!!!!
Miss being around Pike!
Fantastic Video John did 👌 Indiana proud. I know a lot of people consider these more or less a nuisance but they put up a great fight The top water is the only way to go. Caught many of them down in Southern Indiana at lake Patoka great sport fish. Gl ad to see you a great trip for the distance you had to drive hope you had a good trip back home. God is the Great Provider!
Never caught any in a river before it was new experience for me.
Once again awesome video ! I would like to extend my offer again to have you come to east central Indiana and work on some 2,3 and 4 pound smallies. I really enjoy your videos and always enjoy the verse and fellowship at the end !
What an awesome little river, looked like a blast 👍👍
Great fishing...What a grerat little river. Tippecanoe River, I think that's around Ft Wayne or at least close? Used to travel up that way, years and years ago. You certainly got a great initiation on Pike. Congrats and thanks for sharing. Oh, and that's a long boring drive. haha perfect Psalm.
Awesome stuff man! Biggest Pike I've ever caught was 36 inches up in Michigan.
Nice to see you catch some Northerns on your channel!
I was really wanting to get some
Beautiful place to fish, congratulations on the pike !
I was born and raised at Bunker Hill, Indiana, that was from 1943 to 1965. Long ago and far away
Frankfort is my hometown.. Years ago, when I was a kid..We went to an air show in Bunker Hill!
@@scottbehr6296 Isn't Frankfort the hometown of Will Geer aka Grandpa Walton
@@arnoldhancock5104 Yes sir
Awesome video. Thnx for sharing it
WHAT A VIDEO!!! topwater is so much fun to watch!! This was the video i was waiting for!! Awesome job John!!!👍👍👍
I was surprised to see pike in creek that size! Cool video!
Great vid, nice location, still impressed with your casting accuracy, or maybe im just plain horrible.
No shame in runnin' with the spincaster game. I can nail a tin can from 30 feet away with it and it always puts me where I want to be.
@@jasonh6919 :) Yeah, i certainly cant say that. I think a lot of my problem is equipment, rod too stiff, need something i can cast with a little less arm and more wrist. Any suggestions?
Honestly, just go down to Walmart and grab a $10 Zebco 202 combo. It'll break in a month or two, but there's no better way to try it out. Everyone who tells you you're not a fisherman unless you're tossing out a spinning reel probably secretly hates themselves. Just put a practice plug on the end of your new setup and toss a coffee can in the yard and practice plinking it. It's actually a lot of fun!
The first Pike I caught was in Onterio Canada . Wow what a fight .
Gotta love the way a Pike smashes a lure
Another great video man loved it can't wait to see you do some Musky fishing in your area God bless
Amazing place to fish I would cut a finger off to have that day of fishing lol
Almost as much fun to watch as it was to fish!
As my grandfather and father always said that top water is the heart attack bait.