the 3 most common species in Swedish lakes are
Pike
Perch
Zander
You've always heard that zander is the best fish to eat amongst these 3
Perch is so tasty on sandwich
and pike is so much bone in it but you can eat it with horseradish
Sara and I will fish in a regular Swedish lake
and catch those 3 species and then we'll do a tasting test
Is it possible, by cook them the same way, feel a difference in taste
Not only a challenge to see if they taste different
The big challenge will be to catch these 3 speicies
It's early spring, cold in the water
You can't count on the fish to be active
But the things we do to see if it's actually any difference in taste
In lakes this early in the spring, the perch can often be found in deep holes
or on the edges, pressed against the bottom
The pike is where the bait fish is
The zander can be tricky but you often find them on a shallow
There is one lure that can catch all 3 species
And that is flatnose mini
Flatnose mini is a well known lure which we fished with a lot
And most often it has been the key to success
Let's hope it's the same this time
But first we'll read some of your comments
First comment is from Grisfeber and he wonder why
I turn to a Skåning when I say toad as I did in the latest video
A toooaad
A real toooaaad
A toooaaad perch
And the reason is that I fished bream with Alexander Björk a few years back
He's from Skåne and say tooaaad to al the big breams
This was a toooaaad, it was
It sounded so funny so I started to say that aswell
toooaaad to all big perch or fish or whatever
We've got a comment from Frejsan14 who wants us to say hello to her mother
So hello mother and Frejsan 14 So fun you watch our videos together
HolyN-Evil wonders if we will fish at the west coast this summer
We've actually planned that out, Me and Edvin will go there and try som sea fishing
after a vary of species, and you don't want to miss out on that
Dick Löfrgren says that we gilding his sundays, so thank you
I hope you keep on watching now cause me and Tobbe is about to catch some
A good start to the day It's stormy weather
Not that easy to ramp the boat when the water is pushed straight in
task number 1 today is to get the boat in the water, there are a lot of stones
I don't want to scrape it all up
The idea is for us to start fishing for perch but it's hard to even feel the strikes
it wont be easy, but on the bright side we have no rain
If i push the boat that way, it will just blow straight back
we need to push it alongside the shore
and then jump in the boat out there
come on Sara, let's start pushing
- No stones please - easy to say Tobbe
push Sara!
No need to worry, this was easy
You don't want to rig the rods in the storm on this lake
with really clear water
Therefore we'll go in there where we can have som shelter from the wind
behind this point it looks perfect
we will catch perch, pike and zander
In this small forest lake only holds perch and pike
so the zander we'll have to catch later on another lake
I want the perch and pike to get the best chance to taste as good as possible
If we where to fish perch and pike in a small muddy lake
The risk is for them to taste a bit muddy
This lake has very clear water and the quality of the water i good
It's much of sand an stones on the bottom
And then you know the perch and pike get the best chance to taste good
flatnose mini is the lure I fished with the most
Edvin designed it for 10-15 years ago
what's great about this softlure
you can catch big perch....
big pike...
and even big zander
flatnose mini isn't only good for big fish it works great if you want a lot of fish
today we're after fish to cook and don't want to spend to much time catching them
so flatnose mini is a safe bet
you can find flatnose mini in photofish where you can design your own colours
and we also got some brand new standard colours
I'm so stoked to try out this new colour fantasy which is blue/red
I think it will be hot in this clear water
I want the best chance to catch a big per.
Not a big perch but catch one fast I usually want big fish
So therefore I'll try this new colour Sara brought today, Ultimate Silver!
It looks like a cool silver fish
The perch can't resist it, even the pikes
The plan is to catch both perch and pike in this water
and the pike will be like a bonus fish when we try for perch
It's time to start, I'm feeling hungry already
Let's see if the perch or pike will be the first fish
When you try to catch fish to cook it's so much more on stake
We want to avoid being hungry so we must deliver
Sooner or later we'll find them
I got one! got one!
I told you we'll find them sooner or later
- It was sooner rather than later - yeah like 2 seconds after
I don't know if it's a pike or a perch but I think it's a pike
It may be a good fish to cook, It's a pike
Is it big enough to eat?
there's a lot of bones in the pike
so it's a lot easier with a bigger pike
But I don't want to take home those big pikes
It's okey to take this small pike
It's a test and not supposedt o get full
so this small pike will be enough
This pike really wanted that flatnose mini
It'll work great for our taste test
We'll prep it for the soup
There's 2 ways to put the pike to death
One thing is to strike something hard in it's head
The other thing is to use a knife through it's brain
I don't have anything that hard in the boat so I'll use the knife
It's important to let it bleed out
otherwise it may taste a bit blood and iron
I'll make a cut through the neck of it
- here you go Tobbe - thanks
yummy!
Check on the pike, let's catch a perch in this lake
I've googled a good recipe on a fish soup I can't wait to try it out
I believe it'll taste good
So it's time to catch that perch to cook
This wind is brutal, It's like a wind from the North pole has reach Sweden
and made chaos on this lake, It's not that easy to fish if I'm being honest
It's hard to feel the lure, you'll really have to concentrate
It's positive that you can cast really far
It's a deep edge where we fish right now I've seen some perch earlier on the sonar
It's important in this wind that you either fish against the wind
Or with the wind, otherwise you'll not feel the strike
if you fish from the side wind the line is like a bow
and you can't even feel if there's a perch
a good tip, just hope we'll catch one soon
I've got a bad feeling with this lake
I don't think the perch will strike
often in clear water lake there are not so much perch
But they are often bigger and should taste better
If we don't catch one it'll be hard to do a tasting test
We'll have to go to a more muddy lake a little bit darker water but more perch
This is our last try, we don't have much time at this lake
It's bigger, muddier but not super muddy
It's kind of ok clear water
I'll cross my fingers that we can catch a perch to cook
It wont be to much to ask for
nothing else to do than to get going
I've not given up on this fantasy, let's see if it can give us a half muddy perch
Then I know when I taste, if it tastes a bit muddy it's probably perh
we'll see, now let's catch a perch
It would be nice if you get a strike at least
well at least something, a nibble or so
- It's totally dead now - feels like you fish for nothing
hello!, where are you perch?
- really - that's perch, if they're not up for it
Pikes you can always trigger to strike
but perch like "I wont eat today"
The perch refuse to strike today
Me and Sara are on land and there's only one thing to do until tomorrow
and we can hope for both perch and zander to be willing to strike
and that is to clean out this pike
Pike is a really hard fish to clean out It got a lot of bones
and the bones are in strange places compared to other species
I'll do my best to show you how to clean out a pike, bone free
You don't want bone from a pike in your soup
You'll start with a angled cut
and turn the fish around
and then a angled cut from tail fin
When I feel the bone I get the knife straight and cut alongside the spine
all the way until it stops
there we go
we have the filet
this is how it looks, pretty big when you think how small that pike was
next step is to remove the skin
and also a similar piece on the other side
Look at that
You can see that the pike recently ate a roach
I've never seen that before
I can feel that there's another fish in there aswell
always fun when you clean out a fish to see what's in it's stomach
You can learn a lot from that, we'll have a closer look at the roach
cut it off an press out the fish
one roach, and another one
2 roach was the diet for this pike
What you reckon Sara? shall we try roach instead of perch in the soup?
We can't catch a perch
I've tried roach one time before and that was not good, so a big NO for me
I'll rather jump in the water and swim for 3 days
both sides are gone, and right here there are a lot of foxes and pigs
I'll do what the old men used to do with the pike, throw it to the fox
It doesn't look that tasty right now but we'll fix that
I'll start to cut off the meat from the skin
same here, just angle the knife and follow the skin
it's easier when you're indoors in a kitchen with a bigger cutting board
But when you're outdoors this will do
Not full chaos but nos as good as if you are indoors
press the knife against the cutting board and just pull
a nice piece of skin, throw that to the fox
and to exactly the same on the other filet bit
This pike may have been a tad to small to take home and eat
I think you should release all big pikes I wouldn't take home a pike over 75 cm
and absolutely not over 90 cm
They don't taste good and they are super important for the eco system
A good pike to eat is around 60-75 cm
A fish filet has 2 bits, the spine and the rear part
which is always bone free, you can feel alongside the spine
There the bones end, so just cut if off and you have a bone free bit
Not the biggest bit, I've seen bigger
but it's bone free so it'll do for our small test
we don't need soup for a whole school class