feeding pike by hand

[Andy_1984]

was looking at some pike vids on youtube and found this

 

Youtube Video ->

 

cant say i would be so tempted to do it myself!

[Si...]

Kinda wished it'd grabbed his hand at the end lol

[azrael]

it would be a good test for new pike anglers

if they show fear of being bitten then they should not be allowed to fish for them

you should be willing to accept a few bites and scrapes if you want to fish for pike

[Ken L]

There's another video where the guy definitely gets sliced and diced. I'll have a look for it a bit latter.

 

Edit:

Edited July 12, 2012 by Ken L

[Elton]

There's another video where the guy definitely gets sliced and diced. I'll have a look for it a bit latter.

 

Edit:

 

Superb! One of my worst fishing nightmares, that! That's for digging it out. I'll add that to the main bit of AN and share it around a bit. I reckon a few others would like to see that

[Ken L]

It nearly happened to my mate.

We were standing thigh deep in the river in what was fairly fast and lumpy water catching chub when suddenly, the chub of a pound or so that he was bringing in got nailed by a pike that must have been close to or just over 20lb.

He played it up and down the river but it spat the chub out about 10 feet from him.

He held up the very sorry looking chub after unhooking for me to see and then went to release it on the off chance that it might survive the ordeal.

It didn't !

It got absolutely nailed inches from his hand by the same pike which must have dropped unseen into the little slack behind his legs for a rest.

He squealed just like the guy in the video, nearly lost his footing and was very pale for a while afterwards.

Edited July 13, 2012 by Ken L

[Phone]

az,

 

Guess I better give up bear hunting - huh?

 

Ken,

 

As evidenced - it certainly isn't impossible. I am fearful. NOT a good pike (or musky) fisherman - Phone.

 

Phone

(Equally, I hate getting stabbed by nuisance catfish. Burns for hours.)

 

edit: how about a comment on that guys net. Kind we use ALOT.

Edited July 13, 2012 by Phone

[Tigger]

I'm curious if I heard correctly in your vid when someone said they think you'd have to cut the line ? Why would you do that ? Sorry if I sound like i'm picking at you but if I heard correctly it seems very strange as no one had made an attempt to remove the lure, not in the film anyhow.

If I heard wrong i'm sorry to ask the question and i'll get my ears shringed .

Edited July 13, 2012 by Tigger

[Andy_1984]

I'm curious if I heard correctly in your vid when someone said they think you'd have to cut the line ? Why would you do that ? Sorry if I sound like i'm picking at you but if I heard correctly it seems very strange as no one had made an attempt to remove the lure, not in the film anyhow.

If I heard wrong i'm sorry to ask the question and i'll get my ears shringed .

 

at least in the second one we see it going back. and in his defence (and only slightly) he was fishing for salmon so perhaps not a pike angler ?. i sent a link to him regarding dealing with pike just hope he's read it.

[Tigger]

at least in the second one we see it going back. and in his defence (and only slightly) he was fishing for salmon so perhaps not a pike angler ?. i sent a link to him regarding dealing with pike just hope he's read it.

 

 

If someone just cuts their line bacause they're scared of removing the lure then they shouldn't be fishing in a manner that could catch pike, so Andy imo there is no defence. Obviously there's no shortage of pike in that river so surely the angler would get some handling tution before risking hooking up with one.

Also as Peter said in the other thread why on earth start messing about with a lure that's fast in the net before releasing the fish ?