Taku, if those fisher people who ignored you were Canadian I apologize on behalf of them. That is not usual Canadian behavior. I hope the rest of your time that was spent in Canada was fun and safe. Thanks for the great videos. From a west coast Canadian.🇨🇦

Hey Taku, Sorry you had an unpleasant experience with those fly fishermen. As a Canadian fly fisher we share pretty much everything with other folks to make sure everyone share the fun. I am not a KZfaqr but I used to post a few videos. I fish a lot. If you want some fly fishing help look me up. Enjoy the rest of your trip. Be safe

Don't worry. They ignored you because they can't tell you they catch the trout you let go.

I love how we can hear the birds tweeting away while you were prepping and grilling, what a perfect meal.

What a gorgeous setting! And the old steak and potatoes stable. Love all your content and food man! Inspiring for sure Cheers IN THE OUT 👊🏻

And there you go again, making a masterpiece out of your food, and it wasn't even from the water! Looked like an amazing dish, in an amazing setting! Can't wait to see what's in store for you guys in Alaska. I just LOVE that state!

I love it😆!! Joycelyn has to know she’s screwed when you say I’ll be back at this time blah blah 😆😂…the boyz be fishin!!!

Those landscape shots at the start were absolutely insane!!! Love the vids Taku 😎

You know its a good day when Outdoor Chef Life uploads a video. Your videos are just top tier

The drone shots were absolutely unreal! Especially with that water being like glass. I enjoyed every second of this vid! So peaceful. Steak looked unreal as always Taku! I hope the mosquitoes let up a bit!!

Thanks for including us on another relaxing video, with epic drone shots that look like a Bob Ross painting. The food always looks appealing and delicious , no matter what's available. Really eager and looking forward to watching your Alaska series, safe travels 💕🚐🎣🙏👍

Excellent video, Taku! It was a pleasure getting to meet you today and a big thanks for sharing the delicious salmon! I hope you enjoy the rest of your time in AK and I look forward to seeing the next video!

Hey Taku, love the vids! Just fyi - trout tend to have weaker jaws. If you're planning on releasing them you shouldn't hold them up by their mouth as that can hyperextend their jaw or break it

Gorgeous setting! Thanks for the discount on my Misen chef knife! I love it! I also got the 10 inch pan too! Love it!

That looks amazing!!!! I love camp cooking. So much better out in nature than in a kitchen. And I love her hair!

Pike. Red Devil spoon over weed beds and or near drop off. Don't be shy to put on one of the bigger ones. Bigger lure, bigger fish. Also, if you find a weed bed, don't be shy to go top water, Zara Spook or frog. Pike are vicious hunters and like to ATTACK. Pike have really sharp teeth, might want to tie on a metal leader and use a swivel so line doesn't get all twisted and tangled.

I was taken from Michigan to Alaska when I was a child. I still have those memories. Most of the time was fishing. But it was also flying. There are so many things that Noone can understand until they do it.

Wow cinematography was UNREAL in this one. ❤

You both really inspire me to wanna do things like this everytime I watch your video!

Northern Pike are great! Usually an aggressive rattling bait, something called a rattle trap works great! The bigger ones tend to swim towards deeper water so sometimes even a shallow diver works! But the most consistent pike fishing i’ve ever done is on rivers of bigger lakes where water tends to pool up and form little basins. The love hunting near lillie’s where you can find drop offs. And you’ll know it’s a pike when it hits, they take your line and run fast like a barracuda, crazy fighting fish man good luck!!!!

Hello taku I fish pike almost everyday , your best best is 5 of diamonds , red devil treble hooks , and you need to use a steel leader pike have sharp teeth and will bite you off , 10-20 pound test whatever you prefer really , or use pickerel rig with minnows or shiners if you decide to fish from shore , and that tiger lure isn’t bad , pike are predators and they eat anything lol

For Alaska pike you can use pretty much any top water lures like frogs or mice. They bite small swimbaits and Spinnerbaits works as well.

Hey! Sometimes it’s not the drag that is broken but the line spinning on the spool- usually happens when braid is used. Check before you toss a good reel!

Excellent Taku Tuesday episode Brotha ✊🏼🧐!! Stellar scenery, and you cant beat a good o’l Steak/potatoes campfire cook. Shoot, Taku even elevates that to the next level. Cheers y’all, cant wait for this series 👊🏼😎🤙🏼

very clear lake and gorgeous snow-capped mountains!!!

It’s a great day when outdoor chef life uploads a video

for pike pretty much anything works! Although personally I've caught them on soft plastics, spinner baits and rapalas (lures I use for bass aswell). Try and fish over weed beds that's where they seem to hang out but they can also easily be found in small rivers and creeks.

Wish I could be there! Ya’ll have fun. Be safe. Lookin forward to the vids. 👍🏼

Another excellent video. It was nice to see you visit the Yukon Territory, on your way to Alaska. The views are spectacular. You finished it off with a nice meal. Cheers, Taku and Jocelyn! #TakuTuesday ✌️

When I lived in North Dakota we used half ounce up to ounce clothespin style white spinner baits with big willow leaf blades of bright silver and also Brass, skirt’s were white, sometimes white and chartreuse. Your leaders have to be short and heavy to avoid bite offs. In Canada we often caught Pike over 50 pounds. Good fishing my friend

My family and I go up the northern MN every year to fish. Atleast one day we go for Northern pike and we usually limit. The love perch colored rapalas, like the one you used. Small one, big ones alike. Decent sized little cleos or spoons they also love. Red and sliver, magenta and gold, black and gold. Great colors for any lure, Rapala, or spoon

Love the Yukon Brewing feature!! The radler is my favourite summer day-drinking beer ☀️

I love that Taku is doing a trip with subscribers!

Feels so good to see you release the fish.

It is possible if you are using braid with no backer or tape around the spool that the line could spinning around the spool. That’s usually the cause if the drag is all the way tight. Spool on a few yards of mono line or wrap the spool with a piece of electrical tape or duct tape to give the line something to grip.

Epic scenery!

Love you vids. I got the notification at a perfect time. In northern Ontario I like to troll along the shore at about 2.5 to 3.5mph for the pike. Just a read and white spoon. Also one of my favorite fresh water fish to eat.

Wow! What a views. Such a beautiful

Absolutely stunning scenery Taku!!

Taku, so glad you made it to safely to Alaska. I’ve been following you and I’m currently in Anchorage. Hope we meet somewhere soon! Love your shows!!

In the EU on the big lakes we mostly go trolling for big pike. We use crankbaits and big rubber lures ca. 20- 35 cm in length to troll for them. In the summer speeds from 3,5-4,5 km/h are best. The depth varies from 3-6 m depth. The biggest pike are often far out in lake. They follow species like whitefish. It you are into casting structure like dead trees, in and outlets and weeds close to shore often hold some promise. Good luck and good catches

Northern pike love the weed beds typically off in bays and will smash pretty much anything, super aggressive fish. Can tolerate pretty brackish water. Love the channel bro keep it up!

If those small handheld Thermacell works for you, look at the Backpacker model - it attaches to those camping fuel canisters and looks to be much bigger and more reliable than the small handheld ones. I agree with your assessment that the rechargable models are crap. I hate bugs (and the outdoors) and hoping the backpacker models will help when we go camping in a month!

very nice presentation with a nice ambiance with a healthy FOODS.

#OutdoorChefLife Yes, me, my husband and my mom drove all the way from Jacksonville, FL to Anchorage, AK (through the beautiful Canada). I love British Columbia, it was so clean and beautiful. Everything is awesome, wonderful creation. Pictures can't even do justice. We lived in Alaska for 2 1/2 years then drove back and headed to Washington. We drove the AlCan Highway twice.

"Much more superior" - that's some good superlative work!!! Love this channel! I bought one of your rash guard type long sleeve shirts, love it so much, and then it was immediately was stolen!

That place is breathtaking

I have been fishing for northern pike exactly like that for my whole life. With a canoe, a rapala, glassy northern lake. It seems to me like you don't want to paddle too fast with the rapala. There is no need, I think it can scare the fish a bit. A slow cruise works well.

The steak looks amazing!!! Beer and steak, potatoes, cole slaw. Now I want a net to keep the insects away. Lol. 🍻🍺

Thanks for sharing your experiences Taku. Your Vlogs are always so cool 😎

Good morning Beautiful Wednesday Taku!

Your 2nd lake trout you can't keep! Steak and potatoes are always awesome! I might see you in Alaska buddy.

I had steak and potatoes last night. Tri tip on the grill, twice baked potatoes with bacon, sour cream, butter, and chives fresh from my garden. Then grilled corn while the tri tip was resting

Happy 4th July Taku! Enjoy watching from Cambodia 🎉🎉🎉

Taku, something you might want to try with those little potatoes. Saute them whole in beer until they get a little candylike glaze, then grill them over the coals.

Have a great time ...thanks

Taku I have the same anker power station. Using it currently to charge my cameras. It is excellent. A necessity while camping

I lovd your videos . Its always peacefull.

those mountains in the start of the video were unreal....

Lakers are so fun and great eating, greetings from southern Ontario, hope you had a great time in our beautiful country.

That drone footage was fire. I'll have more please!😉

Drive the Dempster highway up to Tuk. Lots of pike around as well as Arctic grayling. Beautiful scenery and people.

1:43 looks like a screen saver😳😅 Dope video as always🤙🏼 Safe travels to you & Jocelyn.

Nice catch awesome video to watch and like the steak dinner also 👍🏽

What a beautiful view on the video looks amazing .

Love the channel, happy to be part pf the half a million followers. Tight lines

*It's so beautiful there.*

2 minutes in and I just had to pause and say what an amazing view! You weren't kidding about that glass.

What a stellar setting to be creating videos. Great work bud! P.S. We all over-do the steak here and there! Happens to the best of us! Thank you for the stunning shots and delicious looking food. Safe travels!

When fishing in Canada, make sure you set that hook! Especially since you have to pinch the barbs on your lures in most of the provinces.

Love you videos dude taku Tuesday’s are on of my fav can’t believe I missed it yesterday.

We love you guys!! ❤️

Hey Taku, you might be having issues related to line slippage on the reel, very common for me to get calls in regards to that since I work for a major fishing company.

That meal looked LOVELY

If you want to catch grayling there's a lake you'll be passing if you're driving to the Anchorage area first. It's one of my favorite places to fish up here. The lake has both grayling and rainbow trout.

Yooo Taku, love the videos man and it's super beautiful up there! A really good pike lure I like to use is a keitech 4" easy shiner swimbait with a 1/4 oz or half oz bullet sinker, you can also use them on a jig head and that works too.

Having lived in Northern BC and the Yukon for years Pike was a staple. I had my best success casting close to the outer edge of weed beds and close to inflow creeks. You will rarely find them in deeper water. Spoons and spinners work really well.

Fishing for pike. Len Thompson Spoon No. 0 to 4 (I like a 1 or a 2) in the Red Five of Diamonds or Red Devil pattern usually works at least in Canada.

i love when chefs say "a little bit of salt and a little bit of pepper" and then throw in a mess. and "a little bit of oil" too. plus your 1 inch steak is more about 1 3/4s. sorry I build guitars and cabinetry, so I kinda have an eye for these things. shout out to some native american tribes while you're up there, they are awesome.

That meal looks so SO good .

I love that you can hear the birds in the back ground.

Wow!!! So freaking beautiful!

Geez what a near perfect dinner! I would only trade the chutney for some simple chimichurri sauce 😋. Love the mixture of the fresh cut up ingredients, avocado oil and the white wine (or cherry wine) vinegar 🙃

10:57 looks like a fish swimming towards the paddle. Lol

Taku has every gadget known to man,no potholder😂

I catch pike all the time by casting very big red and white spoons, Basically as big as you can find. Let it hit bottom and reel fast. Pike are predators (basically a freshwater shark) so they don’t need to be enticed much. They like big splashes too so you often get hit right after the lure hits the water.

Here in Minnesota that is a great lure and great color we use for pike. I use that exact same lure so I think you could keep using it

Great stuff Taku

Honestly any musky baits usually works. Big swim baits or spinners, daredevils any spoons really. Never tie directly to the baits use swivels and steal leaders. Find tall weeds or rocks and points on whatever lakes your fishing. Northern pikes are awesome fish to catch! Good luck and tight lines🤙🏾

What beautiful scenery! :D

Taku, aside from complimenting you on another fantastic video, I would like to apologize on behalf of all flyfishermen who aren't a-holes. Glad to see you're coming back to Alaska... Deermeat has been here in Seward for quite a while this summer

Very Good Video 📹 👍 👌. The food looked Excellent 👌 😋

Glad you are changing it up with beef this week. Looking forward to more options like wild game.

Just came across your channel. Love the content and love to cooking. My dream is to travel in a van across the country. I love Alaska we go every simmer. Take care and stay safe.

Enjoy your summer travels I know you'll kill it in AK. ITMT we have an epic salmon bite a PP harbor. Party boats back off FAC water by 9AM. Anchovies raining from the sky as birds are stuffed. I know your local buddies will soon be chiming in. Safe travels

Great video Taku. Pretty sure that’s a big brook trout based on the orange and white fins and the orange belly

It’s Taku Wednesday here in Scotland - pike tend to feed near the shore line in weedy areas where they can hide - beef looked well tasty though - cheers Gordon

Taku that was an amazing take down, keep it up man 👍🎣🍻

Another amazing cooking video!! 👍🏻👍🏻😋😋

man you're living my dream, you're an inspiration, keep it up.