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

here you have the ribs, 
so I'll cut that off

they are very shallow so just cut
carefully

Now we are at the hardest part
to cut out the bones in the middle

The pike has got Y-shaped bones

You need to cut at a very special way

You feel all the bones with your fingers