Explore The Underwater World Of The Chain Pickerel
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- čas přidán 26. 03. 2022
- 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. 😁
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.
1:49 frog expert here. frog in leaf of top right corner : )
That's one lucky frog. :-D
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 🌍
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
Your content is very cool!!
Thank you so much.
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.
Lets take the moment to appreciate how much effort he puts in content for us👍🔥🔥
I appreciate that! Thank you.
Dooood whatever swamp your diving in is absolutely amazing super clear great dive!
Thanks 👍 It has its good days and its bad days. . .
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. ❤
Chain pickerel are just so beautiful:)
They really are. I'm always get very excited when I find one. :-)
Happy I found you!!! thank you for the videos!!! you make it informative and at times funny... well done!
Thank you so much!
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!!!
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!
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.
Live the worm you do dave, thank you.
Swim the lake I am. . . So welcome you are.
Quality channel! Love your videos , the wild and the home aquatic world content!
Glad you like them! I love making them.
i adore pickerel - thanks.
Me too - you're welcome.
It’s just awesome 👏 as always 👌
Thank you so much 😀
Excellent video, sir. Thank you.
You're very welcome.
thank you for braving the leeches. keep up the great work
No problem . . . it was a small price to pay.
Very well narrated, thanks for all the effort that this must have taken to create
You're very welcome, thanks for watching the video and taking the time to leave a comment.
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. 😊
Caught my first Pickerel today! Really cool fish
And now, you're hooked!!! I love em' they're built like rockets. . .
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.
Simply amazing
Thanks a lot 😊
Really great job!
Thanks a lot!
I've been enjoying your videos, thanks
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching my videos, I love making them. ❤
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.
How do you film these amazing documentaries??
Simplest answer = I really love making them ! Devotion :-)
@@TheDave333 It shows.🖤🇨🇦
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!
This video kicks butt!
Thank you. It's a labor of love.
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. 🎥
Awesome video as always!
Thanks again!
Wonderful.
Thank you !
Hello Dave…terrific work! I’ve just subscribed! Amazing!
Thank you so much for watching the video and subscribing!!! I really appreciate it. 😀😀😀
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!
The twist of fate comment had me going. I tried to catch chain pickerel when I was a kid, but never could. I agree, they are beautiful!
They're like ghosts of the lake. I usually don't see them until I'm right on top of them and they decide to move. I love searching for them. They don't make it easy. . .
Thanks man love the vids
Awesome thanks
Very interesting video! Thanks!
You're very welcome!
I really enjoyed this video. Well done, the Dave.
Thank you so much. They're such amazing fish!
@@TheDave333 I have my annual trip arranged to First Eel Lake in New Brunswick, Canada on June 7-9 this year. Chain pickerel and SM Bass major game species in this lake. Lots of fun catching them ! Rented a cottage on the lake with 4 of my fishing buddies.
That sounds like an amazing fishing trip. A cottage on the lake. . . living the dream. 😁
Pickerel have been my favourite fish for about 2 and a half years, they started invading & eating a lot of trout & shad up here. Everyone hates them, but I love catching them! The fight is like no other fish when you catch a 22”-24”
Also thank you for suffering from leeches to get this footage
They're one of my favorites too! They do put up a great fight!
one of your viewers i met irl recommended you, fuggin sweet content my dood
thanks bro! 😁
5:47 that took a turn…
Yes, it did! I try to put a little something for everyone in my videos. 😃
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.
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. 😁
you have a very pleasant voice perfect for this content.
thank you
Nice video thanks!
Glad you liked it!
They are invasive where I am from so I am biased against them but they are really beautiful!!!
Beauty comes with a cost. . .
Awesome footage of so fast predator pike. I see similar look and behaviour of Northern (European) Pike. Chained pickerel looks more shy and afraid of humans.
Regarding white clouds l noticed them in another videos but l was convinced they are bacterial colonies ! Algae - who guess that !
Perhaps I recognised Amanda here due her divided fin.
Those big white clouds are called Metaphyton - it's a collection of algae, and other small creatures. . .
Great tiltle
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...
This was a great video
Thank you!
These are very good videos
Thank you so much!
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. :-)
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
i wish you did more of this video !!
There will be more. . . Still waiting for the water to warm up. 🐠🦈🐟
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. 🙂
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? 😁
I’m a largemouth main but I LOVE pickerel so much they’re such cool fish those and snakehead make me feel like Jeremy wade when I catch them lol
lol I'd love to have a snakehead . . . Such cool fish! Unfortunately, they're illegal where I live, but if they keep spreading, I might be able to catch one in a local river!!!
@@TheDave333 Which state are you located? If they’re in your area you won’t have to wait long man. They spread like a virus!! They reproduce by the thousands and they’ll do it 2-3 times a year!! I live in south Jersey and I went from never hearing about them to we will never be able to get these fish out of our waters without killing everything in them
I'm in western Massachusetts, so not too far from you! I think they might be here already . . . They should put a bounty on them, like they do with pythons in the Everglades. . That might help. :-)
@@TheDave333 they’re supposed to be killed every time you catch one here and if they aren’t there they’ll be there bro the north east is where they thrive!!
Yeah, that sounds about right. Do they put up a good fight?
Oh boy new Dave video!
I feel the same way. 😃
I like your channel name. Great minds think alike.
Hey, thanks!
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
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!!! czcams.com/video/cy6TEzb9-0I/video.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.
Three things
1. I truly enjoy your video's
2. The only leech I've encountered are mdeician leeches, and when they swim they look like an eel with no head, almost ten inches long>
3, I once had a HUGE pickeral on the lien but lost it ten feet from shore. When I looked at my lure, the fish had bitten the hooks off the lure... 😊
Those are three beautiful things. 10 inches that's a big leech! Pickerel are real fighters. Love em'.
@@TheDave333 I had no idea that these were leeches. When they paused swimming they "coagulated" into creatures that resembled slugs. Only then did I realize they were leeches.
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.
Hello Dave, I just came back from Chicago
Hopefully, you enjoyed your trip. 🐠
@@TheDave333 I surely did.
Nice! Do you have family out there? Lake Michigan is amazing, it's so huge. . .
@@TheDave333 No, but a cousin of mine graduated from a college there.
Nice. I lived in Chicago for a short time. I prefer the northeast.
Poor newt.
Yes, I felt bad for the little guy too.
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. 😁
Where was this filmed? This is amazing!
It was filmed in Massachusetts. Thanks for watching. :-)
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.
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.
Beautiful! But ewww .. but amazing! 😆
Thanks 😅
Do you do this in saltwater too?
I wish!!! Too far from the ocean . . .
where is the pond that this was filmed? this is really cool
Massachusetts
@@TheDave333 From NJ, nice video, and go Red Sox!
@@TheDave333 Are those bluegill sunfish too?
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.
Try the traditional way of preparing pickerel. Pickling
Ahhh, pickled pickerel . . that makes perfect sense.
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.
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.
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.
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. :-)
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.
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.
6:50 Spot the pickerel could be a game.
It is a game for me. They always see me before I see them!!!
03:07 Siamese Algae Eater or Large Mouth Bass?
LMB
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. :-)
Another way to tell a leech apart from a plenaria also known as a flatworm is the shape of there head. Flatworms can also live various different life styles depending on species. Some are parasitic,others are predators,some are vegetarians and others play a vital role as scavengers/decompers. There’s even a species of flatworm that uses algae in it’s skin to create food.
Nice ! I didn't know about the flatworm algae connection. . . Thank you for sharing. 😁
The parasitic disease known as shistosomiasis is caused by a flatworm, a "liver fluke", that spends part of its life cycle living in snails, but when freeswimming it can burrow through human skin into the bloodstream and populate your liver. Found in tropical and semi tropical waters in both the old world and the new, including some Caribbean islands and Central America as well as the Nile in Egypt. I'd rather deal with leeches, which at least are easy to spot, versus a nearly microscopic worm that invades your body unseen.
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 😭
Leeches. I was and still am forever scarred since I was very young and saw that infamous leech scene in Stand by Me
I remember that scene as well. Frightening stuff . .
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! 😬😬😬
Northern pike?
Nope, a smaller cousin.
I will now need to search for a fly fishing video, targeting chain pickerel.
It’s easy bro just use streamers they eat those like crazy
@charlesxavier6785 I'm sure that would work if we had pickerel in California. I wanted to live vicariously through a video. Lol
Come to pond by me caught multiple 6 7 pounders
Where at? I'll catch some lol
You are very correct….pickerel are harder to catch and less frequent….crappie are the most elusive and they are all big where I fish…..to catch a pickerel…..spinner spinner spinner Spinnerbait spinner and real Rapala…
Unfortunately, weedless hooks aren't so weedless when you're fishing in a pickerel's favorite habitat. Maybe the spinnerbait needs razor-sharp blades that will chop the weeds away as you retrieve the lure!
The pickerel are like ghosts. I don't see them until I'm right on top of them. I also rarely see crappie or perch when I'm in the lake. I know they're there, but they're very shy as well. Love those rooster tails!
I caught a 3 pound 16 inch crappie on……a 3/8 ounce Roosttertail….in 2020…..how right you are…
That's a nice fish!
@@peterlorenzo615 , Spinnerbaits are tough to beat for catching many freshwater species, but in highly weedy areas I really like a floating rubber frog with upturned hooks so that it's mostly weedless. However, if you were going to drop me anywhere in the world and I had to fend for myself by catching fish, and I could only bring one lure, it would be some kind of shiny chrome metal jig or spoon like a Kastmaster or a Hopkins that can be retrieved, or jigged straight up and down, and which casts like a bullet. I've caught everything from bluegills, perch and trout on an appropriately seized Hopkins or Kastmaster, to bluefish and striped bass.
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.🖤🇨🇦
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...."😉
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. :-)
6:57 The pickerel is acting/hunting like a barracuda.
Exactly. . . They are just like freshwater barracudas. Amazingly fast, built for speed, and stealth.
@@TheDave333 But what about redfin pickerel? And what about grass pickerel?
Smaller versions of the Chain Pickerel. Never seen them around where I live.
@@chisaquaticvibe6524the pickerels are if I’m not mistaken smaller versions of the northern pike and maybe muskies? I don’t remember
@@korp21 How about smaller versions of both?
I've only caught 1 chain pickerel in my life by accident while fishing for trout in arkansas
So, what did you think? In my experience, trout are harder to catch. :-D
@@TheDave333 for planter trout all you need is nightcrawlers,crickets,salmon eggs,powerbait or spinners. Fly fishing works too. Wild trout same thing except for the powerbait. Trout are easy but can be a little tricky in certain situations just like bass. The key to trout fishing like any fish is habitat and presentation. The pickerel was an interesting catch but not enough to fall in love with them but they do fight pretty good.
Agreed. :-)