Great vids.
As for the fly fishing for pike the #1 fly to keep on you is bunny flies in yellow and red and black and red. Change up your retrieves starting fast long strips to try and find active fish and cover water but if you're not getting anything slow it down, let the fly sit in front of the fish.
My pike setup is a 9ft 8wt and a 7' 11" 10wt. I like the shorter rod for spring when they're in the shallows and you need the shorter rod to horse them out and keep them away from the snags or when using really big flies.
The leaders i use is an 5 to 7ft section of 20 or 25lb mono with a 18" section of 40lb fluoro or 15lb knotable wire.
Hope that helps
Jacob