yeah it happens. That place is full of Zebra muscles so i'm guessing that was the culprit. I'll use a flouro uptrace the next time. Just gutted I lost the footage from the camera and that I didn't download it to my phone when i was viewing it earlier that day. We live and learn.
I was using the tubing off the Westin escape cam on it as a semi running rig. So when the line broke it only has to pull the swivel from the rubber and the camera will sink to the bottom. So it won’t be towing that around. Unfortunately it will still have the trace, but I purposely strike very early when pike fishing and only use semi-barbless hooks. So hopefully the pike will be able to rid itself of the hooks. The nature of pike fishing is that these rigs are used to catch pike the best we can do as anglers is to try minimise the dangers as best we can but like everything in life is not always 100%. My guess is that my line was cut by the large amount of zebra mussels that are in that lake. Its never anyone intention to leave a rig in the water or in a fish but unfortunately and regrettably, it sometimes a happens.
@@FishingwithSteveIreland I completely get it mate the local syndicate water I fish has a lot of people who poach it and I went out today for the first of the season and 6 deep hooked fish I had to get the stomach up remove traces it’s just a pain in the arse mate just as well I’m a bit more confident with deep hooked fish! Tight lines for the rest of the season buddy 🐊🐊
If you really care about fish welfare you would use a circle hook rig. Hook the bait through the tail, one single hook nothing more. No need to strike early or strike at all let the fish swallow the bait and instead of setting the hook simply reel. The hook will come out of the bait in the pikes mouth travel up from the gut and get caught on the scissor 99% of the time. I deep hooked one with this method once this season and had to leave the circle hook in. The fish has a higher likleyhood of survival as the circle was flat up against its throat. If that was a treble it would have blocked the pikes throat preventing it from eating. Plenty of youtbe vids about circle hook rigs. Id say its worth a try atleast. Love the videos. Tight lines from the west of IRE.
@JK-ww8dn I’ve never used a circle hook rig but I’ll definitely have a look into it. Thanks for dropping the comment best of luck for the season over west. 👍🏻
Steve, I think if you are gonna use a camera you really need to beef up your mainline and terminal tackle (minimum 50lbs braid, small barbless hooks that you can straighten out if you get snagged )... this very incident is why I shy away from investing in an underwater camera... A shame that... 😤 Keep goin, mate... 😎👍☘🍻
@@Damopatrick the camera would have dropped off straight away, the line ran through tubing. I always strike early on takes and use barbless hooks so hopefully the fish throw the hooks.
@@robertferguson2705 yeah it was great to get off the mark with a good fish on the first session. I’ve not fished the Erne yet. It’s on the ever growing list of places to try and fish this winter.
@@hippo4262 I’m in Ireland and treble hooks (both barbed and barbless) are legal here for pike fishing. In fact they are recommended as the terminal tackle to use from Ireland’s Inland fisheries on their website.
@@FishingwithSteveIreland yeah I’m in Ireland too and was thinking about getting into so was researching regulations and could have sworn it said that. Are they only legal for pike?
Hi Tom, it was good to meet you last week ( I was impressed with your reel negotiations with Dave 😜) I'll do a short video with the rig I use. I make the traces myself and they are nearly all Fox rage components apart from the trebles. Then its usually just a running ledger rig but I'll go through it in detail on a video.
I’ll be giving it a try very soon. The couple of times I did go to fish it last year it was in flood and I couldn’t even get near the lake. I’ll try again this year.
Yeah people (including me) usually leave Deadbaiting until the winter months. Traditionally the 1st October to the end of March would be Pike season. But you’re correct that a lot of people fish for them all year round with lures.
@FishingwithSteveIreland Got 7 pike that day, on a whopper plopper, fishing the margins. Great fun. Lovely lake but very weedy the time of year. The opposite side is a good spot, much deeper over there. Can access via greenway 👍
Yeah no worries Chris I've a few requests in on the traces and rigs so I'll get a video done on those. It is a pity about the camera but I was gutted about the footage. There was great footage of a pickup I'd had earlier that day and how the pike felt must have felt the rig and spit it out. I'd a whole section of the video planned on talking about their behaviour around the bait. then it was gone in an instant. I'll just have to go and get more footage next week. 😉
"IF! 🧐You were a REAL, Pike fisherman, you would've used that first 14 pounder for live bait and caught summat decent! HUMPHHH"! 😏😆😅🤣😂🤣😂ONLY JOKING BABY! I was gutted for you to the point of "sick as a dog"! 😭 Onwards and upwards ode lad 🤗 Can't keep a good man down 😉❤️🕊️
'Its that feckin grebe again' - i really felt for you in that moment. At least you gained a new subscriber - thanks for the video.
Cheers Mate, welcome aboard the madness. The highs and lows of Fishing. 😜The grebe nearly broke me. 😁 Thanks for subscribing 👍
Great to see you back at it Steve! Joy to watch!
Cheers Chris 👍🏻 much appreciated.
Commiserations on the camera, I have lost a waterwolf too, double sickening losing the footage! Brilliant video, great to see you back at it!
@@anyfishisabonus cheers, hazards of the game I suppose. Thanks for dropping the comment and I’m glad you enjoyed the video.
Great start to the season Steve...cameras can be replaced but still a hard pill to swollen when you loose gear
yeah it happens. That place is full of Zebra muscles so i'm guessing that was the culprit. I'll use a flouro uptrace the next time. Just gutted I lost the footage from the camera and that I didn't download it to my phone when i was viewing it earlier that day. We live and learn.
Nice one man kicking off now ,we all lose stuff now and then 😅, come back bigger and stronger next time 💪 🐊
Cheers, These things happen. It was more a pain that I lost the footage. I'm more gutted about that really.
Yes Steve cracking start, Shame about the losses mate and Camera
Cheers Mate, these things happen unfortunately. But I was happy with the start to the season.
What about the pike that’s now swimming about with a trace in its gut?
I was using the tubing off the Westin escape cam on it as a semi running rig. So when the line broke it only has to pull the swivel from the rubber and the camera will sink to the bottom. So it won’t be towing that around. Unfortunately it will still have the trace, but I purposely strike very early when pike fishing and only use semi-barbless hooks. So hopefully the pike will be able to rid itself of the hooks. The nature of pike fishing is that these rigs are used to catch pike the best we can do as anglers is to try minimise the dangers as best we can but like everything in life is not always 100%. My guess is that my line was cut by the large amount of zebra mussels that are in that lake. Its never anyone intention to leave a rig in the water or in a fish but unfortunately and regrettably, it sometimes a happens.
@@FishingwithSteveIreland I completely get it mate the local syndicate water I fish has a lot of people who poach it and I went out today for the first of the season and 6 deep hooked fish I had to get the stomach up remove traces it’s just a pain in the arse mate just as well I’m a bit more confident with deep hooked fish! Tight lines for the rest of the season buddy 🐊🐊
If you really care about fish welfare you would use a circle hook rig. Hook the bait through the tail, one single hook nothing more. No need to strike early or strike at all let the fish swallow the bait and instead of setting the hook simply reel. The hook will come out of the bait in the pikes mouth travel up from the gut and get caught on the scissor 99% of the time. I deep hooked one with this method once this season and had to leave the circle hook in. The fish has a higher likleyhood of survival as the circle was flat up against its throat. If that was a treble it would have blocked the pikes throat preventing it from eating. Plenty of youtbe vids about circle hook rigs. Id say its worth a try atleast. Love the videos. Tight lines from the west of IRE.
@JK-ww8dn I’ve never used a circle hook rig but I’ll definitely have a look into it. Thanks for dropping the comment best of luck for the season over west. 👍🏻
Goodman steve nice fish gonna start back next week happy hunting
cheers Eric, best of luck for next week and happy hunting.
🙈 I feel your pain. That's an expensive days fishin
@@baitrunner5193 it was a killer alright. New one on order.
Steve, I think if you are gonna use a camera you really need to beef up your mainline and terminal tackle (minimum 50lbs braid, small barbless hooks that you can straighten out if you get snagged )... this very incident is why I shy away from investing in an underwater camera...
A shame that... 😤
Keep goin, mate...
😎👍☘🍻
Would that trace and tackle eventually fall out when pike is gone swimming with tackle ? Think them hooks will break out over time. Pity about camera.
@@Damopatrick the camera would have dropped off straight away, the line ran through tubing. I always strike early on takes and use barbless hooks so hopefully the fish throw the hooks.
Unlucky buddy I feel for you, great video anyway and some action, better than my 1st day dead baiting not a run on the Erne Sunday
@@robertferguson2705 yeah it was great to get off the mark with a good fish on the first session. I’ve not fished the Erne yet. It’s on the ever growing list of places to try and fish this winter.
10:02 I thought only single barbless hooks were legal?
@@hippo4262 I’m in Ireland and treble hooks (both barbed and barbless) are legal here for pike fishing. In fact they are recommended as the terminal tackle to use from Ireland’s Inland fisheries on their website.
@@FishingwithSteveIreland yeah I’m in Ireland too and was thinking about getting into so was researching regulations and could have sworn it said that. Are they only legal for pike?
@@hippo4262 all advice and bylaws can be found here www.fisheriesireland.ie/sites/default/files/migrated/docman/Pike%20Conservation%20April%202011.pdf
What size an tc is the predators
@@racing1879 they are the Fox EOs Pro rods. 12FT and 3lb TC
Nice Steve I met you in southside last week, on your instagram or in your next video could you show the rig you use when deadbaiting?
Hi Tom, it was good to meet you last week ( I was impressed with your reel negotiations with Dave 😜) I'll do a short video with the rig I use. I make the traces myself and they are nearly all Fox rage components apart from the trebles. Then its usually just a running ledger rig but I'll go through it in detail on a video.
@@FishingwithSteveIreland Can’t be getting ripped off now 😉
@@TomSheridan-gj8zq FairPlay 👏🏻
Where in Meath is this guys ?
Have a look through my videos for Ep8 😜
You have to give ervey Lough a good session Steve 30lb pike sat in it
I’ll be giving it a try very soon. The couple of times I did go to fish it last year it was in flood and I couldn’t even get near the lake. I’ll try again this year.
@@FishingwithSteveIrelandtry fish it before the floods the water turns brown when it rains
@@FishingwithSteveIrelandI wouldn’t bother with ervey Lough… fished out… rubbish tip also
What is the pike season? I see people fishing all year round for them. Is it just dead baiting instead of lure fishing?
Yeah people (including me) usually leave Deadbaiting until the winter months. Traditionally the 1st October to the end of March would be Pike season. But you’re correct that a lot of people fish for them all year round with lures.
I'll keep an eye out for your camera. You never know!
@@cocospops9351 cheers but the way I had the camera rigged it would have dropped off the line straight away. So it’s at the bottom of the lake.
I'm there a couple of times a week. Actually passed you that day in my kayak. Sorry if I got too close while passing by!
No worries, did you have any luck yourself?
@FishingwithSteveIreland Got 7 pike that day, on a whopper plopper, fishing the margins. Great fun. Lovely lake but very weedy the time of year. The opposite side is a good spot, much deeper over there. Can access via greenway 👍
@@cocospops9351 great angling FairPlay
Can you do a video on how you make your traces ?
Gutted for ye pal on the camera that’s a bite in the ass for sure !!
Yeah no worries Chris I've a few requests in on the traces and rigs so I'll get a video done on those. It is a pity about the camera but I was gutted about the footage. There was great footage of a pickup I'd had earlier that day and how the pike felt must have felt the rig and spit it out. I'd a whole section of the video planned on talking about their behaviour around the bait. then it was gone in an instant. I'll just have to go and get more footage next week. 😉
Hi Steve could you post your rig please
"IF! 🧐You were a REAL, Pike fisherman, you would've used that first 14 pounder for live bait and caught summat decent! HUMPHHH"! 😏😆😅🤣😂🤣😂ONLY JOKING BABY! I was gutted for you to the point of "sick as a dog"! 😭
Onwards and upwards ode lad 🤗 Can't keep a good man down 😉❤️🕊️
😂😂 I left my shark hook trebles at home, I was only going for the small stuff.
fish ervey Steve bigger pike in it
@@naughtyengine7622 it will definitely be fished this winter. Sooner rather than later 👍🏻
Hello, tell me where I can catch carp. I am with Co Leitrim. my youtube channel TravelCarpUA
Tooman fisheries would probably be the closest carp fishery to you in Leitrim.
@@FishingwithSteveIreland Thank you