Welcome to Specineers We have traveled to Sweden where we will fish for pike and zander for two days together with Christian We are in the area called Småland and it is a couple of hours drive from the Danish border In this area there are many good lakes for fishing We will primarily fish with shads like these Christian has them in many different colors and sizes We will try a little different and see what the fish want We will also cast with smaller shads It´s more like “soft jigging” We have some of them here in different colors The special thing about this is that we search for the fish We've been fishing for a few hours We are in March and we started out this morning with minus seven degrees celcius Now the sun is shining and it's great weather I know you're not so happy about this sunny weather when we fish for pike No, it reduces the activity level of the fish We have seen how the pike have swum around under the shoals of prey fish We hope that there will be a bite period later We focus on the evening fishing It tends to be good It is completely new to me to fish with the help of this livescope system It is a kind of extended sonar Can you explain what it is? A traditional echo sounder will show you what you have passed Livescope works more like a kind of underwater camera that can point in different directions We see what happens live (below the surface) So what happens is that we find the fish and place our lure in front of the head of the fish and can sit and watch the screen Yes, then you can see that it gets closer and maybe opens its mouth (to bite) you think We experienced it a moment ago, where I thought you had a bite We'll see that here in the film and I can promise that it's really exciting It's almost more exciting to look at the screen and see a fish come up and bite on a lure than it is to hold the fishing rod when the fish bites Yes, sometimes you strike too early when you see the fish attacking the lure on the screen It gives the concept of guiding a different perspective You fish and are guided to just reel in a little or give a little line... Now you have to make some small movements... Now the fish comes so you have to be ready It's super exciting! Someone might say it's cheating What do you think about that? Then you have not tried it! You can find the fish, but it also increases the frustration when you see the fish, but they will not bite You see that the fish are there and they look at the lure and then swim away again It's a new technology that offers some new possibilities but it does not provide a catch guarantee No! One of the funny things is that you can clearly see what the fish are reacting to When you change the color of the bait you can see that it suddenly reacts and then you try with this It is also effective in that you can see that the fish sometimes stands under the prey fish and are inactive and other times you see the fish swimming into the shoals of prey fish and you know that now something is starting to happen It's another way of observing the fish Let’s try to see what we can see on the screen and how it works Yes, it's actually a good moment right now Down here we have a screen and here we look out in a range horizontally under the water Here we can see something and it is prey fish This one in the middle looks out in a vertical column and it can be rotated so you see different things Here you can see the flat strip of prey fish Often you will see pike and zander standing and lurking below There is actually a smaller predatory fish here It's hard to see It was there before There are many prey fish You're sitting and turning on the transducer? Yes, I have a handle so I can turn it There it was again! They are standing close to the bottom It is probably a smaller zander We can zoom in a little It is down at nine meters so it is not something worth fishing for How big an area does the transducer cover? In my settings it is twenty meters but it may well go further out It's a cone that goes like this The further it goes out the more data comes in Then the resolution also gets worse It becomes quite indistinct after twenty meters It looks twenty meters in a narrow pillar You sometimes see the pikes swimming across the shoals (Music playing) Earlier... I mount the rig like this Sometimes I use the stinger there I'm hooking it there Not too far in, you must also be able to strike I let the lure sink to the bottom Then reel slowly in You can vary the speed and make some spin stops The fish often bite in a spin stop where the bait sinks Just continue... It is interested It's coming up Can you see it? It's rising It almost looks like a zander You're doing it right Maybe just lower it a bit.
Perhaps more aggressive movements It was interested in the beginning Yes. It's coming up now You have to be ready to strike Come on It swims away It got scared and withdrew Sometimes when they swim fast to the lure you strike before you have felt the fish It disappeared completely It's still there, it's just moved There are two small fish here I thought it was one big fish It looked good as it swam up through the shoal of prey fish It took the lure It's a zander I told you! This shad is good for small zander It is not a monster It has bitten gently Just let it sink And stop Reel in half a meter of line A little down again Reel straight up again Right down here. 2.5 meters out No six meters out Yes that's fine Stop! A little up It is coming YES! There it is! A nice little zander Fantastic Is this your first zander? Yes! Is this your first zander? Congratulations – then you buy beers A small beer ... That is right A little bit up Stay there It is coming Didn´t it bite? No I saw it swim fast against the lure Just let it sink Sink - sink and stop Just jig slowly It is coming You must have a bite now? It was straight at the lure. Did you feel it? Yes You have to strike when you feel it (laughs) Well, that could have been the bottom Even if it's the bottom, you strike! I could feel it just vibrating in the rod I could almost see it standing and chewing and almost hear it through the screen (laughs) It did not taste good It may not have been scared because it has not moved Please try again It was funny Reel in a little Like that Easy - easy Stop... A little more It is coming No, it got scared I think it thought: it was the one I got sore teeth (interrupted) No, it bit the lure I striked Yes you did. I saw that
It is coming - it is a pike It is coming It is coming It's right beside the lure The shad is dancing just beside the pikes mouth Lift the rod a little Keep on jigging It is still there - it is coming It swam away (Music playing) It was a pike ... Was it a pike? Yes I did not see anything.... It was catch & release We catch another! Oh, that's a pike! Yes! - NO! It was a pike It was two meters below the boat I thought it was some prey fish It's not quite tired yet See how slim it is. It has spawned
Try to see the colors on the belly It is dark all the way down (Music playing) Day 2 The zanders are completely apathetic at the bottom We have completed two days of fishing for pike and zander The dream was to catch a big pike or a big zander, but we didn´t So is fishing. But we have tried It has been a bit difficult due to the weather You should have been here last week We bad weather but the fishing was good We have been in good company and have had really nice weather and we have tried We have seen that there are big fish here. Yes, we have seen them on the sonar This is what we have illustrated in this film It is almost sightfishing We've seen them on livescope Yes, we also lost a big fish We've had the chance. It must be next time Yes, it will be next time Then maybe we can try for a big zander That sounds like a good plan Thank you for a great time and thank you all for watching! (Music playing)
2022-04-19