LAST CAST How To Make Pike Jig Flies

A look at tying basic jig flies for pike.

Big Spinners For Pike, Popeye Fishing

I think the title says it all

Small Fish Stories - Perch Madness

This is from Freewater Pictures of Sweden (with subtitles). It has some top quality, top water, top perch and top pike action coupled with amazing photography and some heart stopping moments. Check out their Youtube channel for more epic films. https://www.youtube.com/user/FreeWaterPictures

A Monster Trout

I don't often put commercial lure company's gear on this blog as they normally have marketing budgets bigger than their manufacturing budgets, but hats off to Savage Gear for this monster trout they released a couple of years back. It is not something people are going to throw everyday or at all for that matter and neither are savage gear going to sell many so I am guessing this is to show what they can do. The video shows the lure being trolled behind a water-wolf camera by a gang of friends fishing a lake in Slovenia.

Catching Pike On Vegetables..Razor Gang leaders

Not the first fisherman to raid the veg basket for cheap source of lures, but worth a watch.

River Piker's Lure Bucket

This is video from Paul Bosworth A.k.A. the river piker making a lure bucket for his larger lure fishing trips. I did do a little tiny voice-over for this so it is also a bit of shameless self promotion. Paul and his regular crew of predator hunters seem to be able to charm them fishes from the river, lake or even canal so it is well worth checking out his youtube channel, subscribing, liking, sharing and all that stuff.

Totally Awesome Lure Making with James Lanfear

This is the latest video from the Totally Awesome Fishing Show featuring James Lanfear,
a great British lure builder, which is not as rare as it used to be. Hopefully with this inspiring video there will be a few more people prepared to turn the spare room or shed into a fully functioning lure workshop and at the same time save their marriage.

The Totally Awesome Fishing Show is one of my favourite youtube fishing channels run by father and son team the Pullens who I often wistfully imagine as a WWE wrestling team (maybe one day). Graeme Pullen, or dad as his son calls him has been a fishing journalist, writer, videographer and youtuber long enough to have probably seen it all. And when he is not fighting sharks or catching monster carp on baked beans he is sharing that wealth of knowledge experience through his channel in an accessible way that doesn't involve trying to sell you a brand of fishing tackle or a fist bumping personality.

For me this is what is great about you-tube getting access to people who give a sh*t about fishing and helping others. Viva La Pullens Please Subscribe to their channel. like, share, and leave them some kind words of support or I promise you the only fishing on you-tube will be some gimp in a buff casting for tarpon with a fly rod while on his day off from being a billionaire bastard banker (yes that is alliteration, but I think it works).

Dutch Masters, Pike On The fly

Purple Madness - Pike On The Fly from Willem Romeijn on Vimeo.

Kick off your shoes, forget about your blues, let the day job melt away its Friday and I am not fishing I am watching a Dutch Master instead.

Tank Test Tuesday Love Bait Spoons

I have to be honest, I have a bit of thing for spoons they are one of those baits that kind of drive pike a little mad. These little pike look-alike spoons from Love Baits of Poland not only look great they have a twisting jerky motion in the water that almost begs to be bitten.

Check out their cranks baits as well, they have some great designs and a definite
style of their own. Website Love Bait

Totally Awesome Pike Art with Dusto

This a video from my favorite Youtube fishing show, The one, the only, Totally Awesome Fishing Show.

Test Tank Tuesday

From the UK Barry Robinson with a new tench bait, and already it has got the fish interested. This is a polyurethane casting from a hand carved original. Barry not only makes for himself he also sells and makes other stunning lures (RobisonLures.co.uk) as well as finding time to write articles which you can find on his website.

Is that one pissed looking pike or what?

Annoying Pike Underwater with the River Piker

One of my favourite places to visit while stuck editing and dreaming of fish is the Youtube's River Piker channel, this is one man's predator obsession in Vlog form and if I cannot get out myself it is great to tag along with him for the ride. This is his latest collections of clips mainly showing pike ignoring his lures underwater which I find great to get a glimpse into that other wet world. There is no fist bumping, no 250cc outboards and no high fives on his channel, just an honest guy doing a bit of honest fishing mainly with lures. Enjoy and as always share the shit out of it River Piker Channel Link

Making A solid Titanium Glide Bait Leader (Trace)

I am in the middle of half a dozen things at the moment project wise so I thought I would just make a simple video in the hopes that it would let people know I am still alive. I have been testing these leaders for just over a year now and I think to be honest I cannot see myself going back to stainless steel other than for special lure rigging like stingers. Sadly for lighter lures these are a little on the heavy side so they tend to kill the action of wobblers but are great for large baits and obviously glide baits.

Mac stories, making a bait

Those Dutch guys at it again

A couple more Dutch edits from Rick Kloekk and  Willem Romejin, two young men that constantly upset me by being young, catching great fish and making F**king great little films, bastards. But please share the shit out of these and check out their other videos and youtube channels. I have seen the future and its probably made in Holland. I must get back to being grumpy, old and not catching fish.

Making A Weight Shift Balsa Fishing Lure Part 2 of 3

It is Boxing Day and it is cold enough to snow, even the weather reports are predicting a drop of the white stuff but as usual they have overdone things and are calling it the start of the next ice age. I am testing my weight shift lure while my wife complains about the loss of feeling in her extremities. There are no pike in this lake and no perch of any size; a winter fish kill a few seasons ago took its toll so I am casting for leaves, pleasure and the camera.

  Phox Minnow Weight Shift Balsa Fishing Lure Drawing

  Phox Minnow Weight Shift Tools and Materials

A little Go-pro Piking from Sweden

GoPro 3+ Black, Pike fishing! from jakob karlsson on Vimeo.

This is a very short but great edit of some Swedish pike fishing with lots underwater footage

Making a Spybait fishing lure from PVC foam board

I am not sure that spybaits should work, well catch fish I mean. Apart from the slight flicker of the rotating blades they do bugger all and after spending a great deal of time getting lures to make some kind of dying minnow performance it can be a bit unnerving. Spybaits supposedly stem from Japanese bass fishermen hacking shop bought lures by removing the lip and adding props, but rather than floating like traditional prop baits spybaits sink and run almost silently. Not having bass population within a thousand miles of home I took my little creation out piking.


It has to be said they do cast like rockets but with little or no resistance on the retrieve It feels a little like pulling a fly though the water rather than a lure. I am used to feeling the head tug of minnows or the deep vibrations of a spinner through the braid, but with a spybait when fish hit it is a bit of a shock with just a bang out of nowhere. So with a few fish caught under my belt I suppose I have to admit they they work but like any new lure it is going to take me some time to figure out just when or even where to use them.

  Spybait Fishing Lure Drawings and Teplates

Making a Spybait Tool Sand Materials

Making ultra light perch/ pike leaders

Making Hard Plastic fishing lures on the lathe and Glide bait Leaders