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the 3 most common species in
Swedish lakes are
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Pike
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Perch
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Zander
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You've always heard that zander is
the best fish to eat amongst these 3
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Perch is so tasty on sandwich
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and pike is so much bone in it
but you can eat it with horseradish
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Sara and I will fish in a regular
Swedish lake
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and catch those 3 species and then we'll
do a tasting test
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Is it possible, by cook them the same way,
feel a difference in taste
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Not only a challenge to see if they
taste different
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The big challenge will be to catch
these 3 speicies
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It's early spring, cold in the water
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You can't count on the fish to be active
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But the things we do to see if it's
actually any difference in taste
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In lakes this early in the spring,
the perch can often be found in deep holes
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or on the edges,
pressed against the bottom
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The pike is where the bait fish is
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The zander can be tricky but you often
find them on a shallow
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There is one lure that can catch
all 3 species
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And that is flatnose mini
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Flatnose mini is a well known lure
which we fished with a lot
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And most often it has been the
key to success
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Let's hope it's the same this time
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But first we'll read some of your comments
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First comment is from Grisfeber
and he wonder why
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I turn to a Skåning when I say toad
as I did in the latest video
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A toooaad
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A real toooaaad
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A toooaaad perch
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And the reason is that I fished bream with
Alexander Björk a few years back
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He's from Skåne and say tooaaad
to al the big breams
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This was a toooaaad, it was
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It sounded so funny so I started
to say that aswell
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toooaaad to all big perch or fish
or whatever
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We've got a comment from Frejsan14
who wants us to say hello to her mother
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So hello mother and Frejsan 14
So fun you watch our videos together
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HolyN-Evil wonders if we will fish
at the west coast this summer
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We've actually planned that out, Me and
Edvin will go there and try som sea fishing
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after a vary of species, and you don't
want to miss out on that
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Dick Löfrgren says that we gilding his
sundays, so thank you
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I hope you keep on watching now
cause me and Tobbe is about to catch some
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A good start to the day
It's stormy weather
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Not that easy to ramp the boat
when the water is pushed straight in
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task number 1 today is to get the boat
in the water, there are a lot of stones
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I don't want to scrape it all up
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The idea is for us to start fishing for perch
but it's hard to even feel the strikes
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it wont be easy, but on the bright side
we have no rain
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If i push the boat that way, it will just
blow straight back
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we need to push it alongside the shore
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and then jump in the boat out there
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come on Sara, let's start pushing
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- No stones please
- easy to say Tobbe
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push Sara!
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No need to worry, this was easy
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You don't want to rig the rods in the
storm on this lake
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with really clear water
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Therefore we'll go in there where we
can have som shelter from the wind
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behind this point it looks perfect
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we will catch perch, pike and zander
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In this small forest lake only holds
perch and pike
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so the zander we'll have to catch later
on another lake
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I want the perch and pike to get the best
chance to taste as good as possible
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If we where to fish perch and pike in a
small muddy lake
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The risk is for them to taste a bit muddy
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This lake has very clear water
and the quality of the water i good
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It's much of sand an stones on the bottom
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And then you know the perch and pike
get the best chance to taste good
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flatnose mini is the lure I fished
with the most
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Edvin designed it for 10-15 years ago
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what's great about this softlure
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you can catch big perch....
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big pike...
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and even big zander
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flatnose mini isn't only good for big fish
it works great if you want a lot of fish
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today we're after fish to cook and don't
want to spend to much time catching them
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so flatnose mini is a safe bet
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you can find flatnose mini in photofish
where you can design your own colours
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and we also got some brand new
standard colours
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I'm so stoked to try out this new colour
fantasy which is blue/red
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I think it will be hot in this clear water
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I want the best chance to catch a big per.
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Not a big perch but catch one fast
I usually want big fish
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So therefore I'll try this new colour
Sara brought today, Ultimate Silver!
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It looks like a cool silver fish
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The perch can't resist it, even the pikes
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The plan is to catch both perch and pike
in this water
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and the pike will be like a bonus fish
when we try for perch
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It's time to start, I'm feeling hungry
already
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Let's see if the perch or pike will
be the first fish
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When you try to catch fish to cook
it's so much more on stake
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We want to avoid being hungry
so we must deliver
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Sooner or later we'll find them
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I got one! got one!
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I told you we'll find them sooner or later
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- It was sooner rather than later
- yeah like 2 seconds after
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I don't know if it's a pike or a perch
but I think it's a pike
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It may be a good fish to cook,
It's a pike
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Is it big enough to eat?
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there's a lot of bones in the pike
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so it's a lot easier with a bigger pike
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But I don't want to take home those
big pikes
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It's okey to take this small pike
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It's a test and not supposedt o get full
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so this small pike will be enough
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This pike really wanted that flatnose mini
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It'll work great for our taste test
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We'll prep it for the soup
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There's 2 ways to put the pike to death
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One thing is to strike something hard
in it's head
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The other thing is to use a knife
through it's brain
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I don't have anything that hard
in the boat so I'll use the knife
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It's important to let it bleed out
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otherwise it may taste a bit blood
and iron
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I'll make a cut through the neck of it
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- here you go Tobbe
- thanks
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yummy!
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Check on the pike, let's catch a perch
in this lake
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I've googled a good recipe on a fish soup
I can't wait to try it out
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I believe it'll taste good
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So it's time to catch that perch to cook
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This wind is brutal, It's like a wind from
the North pole has reach Sweden
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and made chaos on this lake, It's not that
easy to fish if I'm being honest
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It's hard to feel the lure, you'll really
have to concentrate
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It's positive that you can cast really far
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It's a deep edge where we fish right now
I've seen some perch earlier on the sonar
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It's important in this wind that you either
fish against the wind
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Or with the wind, otherwise you'll
not feel the strike
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if you fish from the side wind the line
is like a bow
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and you can't even feel if there's a perch
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a good tip, just hope we'll catch one soon
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I've got a bad feeling with this lake
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I don't think the perch will strike
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often in clear water lake there are
not so much perch
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But they are often bigger and should
taste better
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If we don't catch one it'll be hard to
do a tasting test
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We'll have to go to a more muddy lake
a little bit darker water but more perch
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This is our last try, we don't have
much time at this lake
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It's bigger, muddier but not
super muddy
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It's kind of ok clear water
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I'll cross my fingers that we can catch
a perch to cook
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It wont be to much to ask for
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nothing else to do than to get going
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I've not given up on this fantasy, let's
see if it can give us a half muddy perch
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Then I know when I taste, if it tastes
a bit muddy it's probably perh
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we'll see, now let's catch a perch
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It would be nice if you get
a strike at least
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well at least something, a nibble or so
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- It's totally dead now
- feels like you fish for nothing
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hello!, where are you perch?
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- really
- that's perch, if they're not up for it
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Pikes you can always trigger to strike
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but perch like "I wont eat today"
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The perch refuse to strike today
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Me and Sara are on land and there's
only one thing to do until tomorrow
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and we can hope for both perch
and zander to be willing to strike
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and that is to clean out this pike
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Pike is a really hard fish to clean out
It got a lot of bones
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and the bones are in strange places
compared to other species
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I'll do my best to show you how to
clean out a pike, bone free
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You don't want bone from a pike
in your soup
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You'll start with a angled cut
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and turn the fish around
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and then a angled cut from tail fin
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When I feel the bone I get the knife
straight and cut alongside the spine
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all the way until it stops
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there we go
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we have the filet
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this is how it looks, pretty big when you
think how small that pike was
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next step is to remove the skin
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and also a similar piece on the other side
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Look at that
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You can see that the pike recently ate
a roach
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I've never seen that before
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I can feel that there's another fish in
there aswell
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always fun when you clean out a fish to
see what's in it's stomach
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You can learn a lot from that, we'll
have a closer look at the roach
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cut it off an press out the fish
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one roach, and another one
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2 roach was the diet for this pike
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What you reckon Sara? shall we try roach
instead of perch in the soup?
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We can't catch a perch
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I've tried roach one time before and that
was not good, so a big NO for me
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I'll rather jump in the water and
swim for 3 days
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both sides are gone, and right here there
are a lot of foxes and pigs
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I'll do what the old men used to do with
the pike, throw it to the fox
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It doesn't look that tasty right now
but we'll fix that
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I'll start to cut off the meat from the skin
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same here, just angle the knife
and follow the skin
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it's easier when you're indoors in a
kitchen with a bigger cutting board
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But when you're outdoors this will do
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Not full chaos but nos as good as
if you are indoors
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press the knife against the cutting board
and just pull
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a nice piece of skin, throw that to the fox
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and to exactly the same on the other
filet bit
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This pike may have been a tad to small
to take home and eat
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I think you should release all big pikes
I wouldn't take home a pike over 75 cm
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and absolutely not over 90 cm
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They don't taste good and they are super
important for the eco system
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A good pike to eat is around 60-75 cm
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A fish filet has 2 bits, the spine
and the rear part
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which is always bone free, you can
feel alongside the spine
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There the bones end, so just cut if off
and you have a bone free bit
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Not the biggest bit, I've seen bigger
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but it's bone free so it'll do
for our small test
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we don't need soup for a whole
school class
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here you have the ribs,
so I'll cut that off
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they are very shallow so just cut
carefully
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Now we are at the hardest part
to cut out the bones in the middle
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The pike has got Y-shaped bones
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You need to cut at a very special way
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You feel all the bones with your fingers
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Here's the back filet, I'll cut straight
with the bones
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until you feel the bones
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after that you angle the knife outwards
and cut around the bones
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This is hard to make sure you get as
much meat as possible
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down with the knife and then angle it
and cut outwards
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I actually think this will be ok
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I'm impressed by myself, It would've been
easier with a big pike
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But I managed to cut out some meat
for us to use for the soup
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I'll cut off the last part which is
totally bone free
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I'll cut off much meat because it's hard
to be picky with the bones
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pay attention, here's the row of bones
and I'll make a cut right here
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A lot of meat goes to waste but it'll
be worth it on this pike
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this is all bone free
and this one's full of bones
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This one we'll throw to the fox
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And this bone free we save
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and the pike is done
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There is some light left of the day and
sometimes the perch is willing to strike
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when the sun is about to set, so it'll
be worth trying to catch one
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even the sun has appeared
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or at least you see it far away
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It may be a hot period for perch now
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We'll cross our fingers that it can deliver
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- are you ready?
- I am ready
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When i fish with this flatnose mini, the
first thing I do is just cast it out
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and let it sink to the bottom, you want
the lure to bounce on the bottom
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I can see it reached the bottom when the
line stops going out from the reel
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and then I pull up the rod and keep
doing small twitches
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at the same time I'm retrieving the line
and keep it tense all the time
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no matter the season the perch are
often very picky
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and you don't want to miss out when
the perch of your dream strikes
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In every video, someone always comments
and wonder what gear we're using
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I have a Abu Garcia Zenon reel 2500 size
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2500 is the most common size for perch,
and works best according to me
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This Zenon reel that I have is one of
Abus most expensive reels
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and a really good reel if you want to
indulge yourself great fishing gear
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But there isn't always a need for the most
expensive gear for good fishing
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a reel between 1000-2000:- is absolutely
enough for fun perch fishing
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The braid I'm using is rated at 5kg
and comes from Stroft
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between 5-8kg will be great for perch
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the rod I'm using a Sweet stick from
Bite of Bleak
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there are a lot of good rods out there
this one is 5-20g
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and around 7 foot is good, this one is 7,6
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to be able to cast a good distance
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I had one!
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I couldn't believe my ears, my sight
my feel or anything
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from nowhere a strike
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And offcourse I missed it
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That might have been the one chance today
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Tobbe just stands there with his expensive
reel, I thought he was a pro
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apparently not, he need to hook that fish
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What are you doing Tobbe?
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I cant take it, I've given up
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It kills me
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Now I've done the last cast for today
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I'm tired and we need to reload
for tomorrow
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Because it's so much at stake tomorrow
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It's enough, only one thing to do
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Go home and drown our sorrows
with some pizza
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Tobbe!, I got some pizza for us
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We're here in a nice little cabin we rented
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there's Sara with the pizza
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We have a good plan for tomorrow
I both like it and not
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The thing I like is that we probably will
have great fishing
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what I don't like is that we need to get
out of bed super early
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04:30 because it will be super windy
around noon
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I've had enough of that wind
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I'm gonna hear the wind in my head
and dream about me blowing away
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we'll have another go, I'm ready to smash
this pizza and then go to bed
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and wake up in a few hours again
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Can you hear that Sara? Instead of hearing
the wind and storm
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You can hear the birds chirping
and seagulls
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- It's winderful isn't it?
- it is, can't ask for more
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now it's "only" zander and perch
that we are missing
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this was a beautiful lake, like a
mirror in the morning
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Who would've thought that?
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The boat is in the water and it's time
for the zander to jump in the boat
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I saw a small problem
at the sign over there
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It's not that you cannot dive from the
bridge over there
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It is that the zander must be at least
50cm
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And thinking about the bad luck we had
yesterday
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I would be glad if we just caugh a zander
but 50cm is resonable
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you should not take home to
small zanders anyhow
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Let's hope we have more luck
than yesterday
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Let's go to the first spot
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One thing I've learnt is that zander
like bright colours
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I found this flatnose mini that
Tobbe has designed in photofish
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I really think it will deliver
a zander today, It'll have to
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I'll try a bright coloured flatnose mini
designed in photofish
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but now let's do the first cast