Got it!
  Oho! Yeah!
  24 hours ago
  Hi, guys!  Hi!
  Look, I have a small surprise for you!
  You even cannot guess who is sitting here!
  I know that you are very much interested in trophy pike, so
  let me introduce you to Anton, - one of the best
  trophy hunters in this area!
  So, I think you might fish together today.
  Meanwhile we will catch some perch,
  and  you could catch some real trophy! Are you ready?
  You see, Normunds, - he is one of the most serious
  trophy hunters in Latvia.
  - I have heard a lot about him.   - Yes.  - Even seen him few times.
  - Hi, Anton!   - I believe you'll have fun.
  talking and fishing together.   - Ok, ok, come here!
  - Or maybe we wont give him, we are also interested!
  - Come on, give us "vernjaks"
  - Fine, fine!   - Listen, you had some
  unfinished deals with big perch
  from winter fishing  - Yes, yes, we lost a huge one
  and now we'll find it!  -  Great! Keep in touch
  and send photos! However what can you get with those small
  soft baits, we will show serious equipment!
  - Let's have a look!
  - Yeah!
  - Hi everyone! Copes Garša #10!
  We have a guest from Belarus!
  Famous Anton Fisherman!
  He's speciality is big pikes, and today he will help
  us to catch a big pike of Aluksne Lake!
  It is middle of the summer, so probably
  not the best time for catching pikes, but we'll try.
  So let's go!
  Since we have international team on board,
  we'll be talking Russian today,
  so that Anton would
  understand what we are talking about.
  There are subtitles in Latvian so that you could
  better understand if not so good in Russian.
  Ok, let's start!
  - Anton! Hi, once more!  - Hi!
  - Look, our theme today
  is.. as I understand this Aluksnes lake
  is quite similar to yours in Belarus.  - Yes! We crossed it with
  those guys, and they showed me the lake a bit
  and I observed, that some 17 - 20 thousand years ago
  one and the same glacier came and made all those lakes,
  mine in Belarus and yours here, because it's just 200km distance.
  It looks very similar, relief, water and...
  everything looks similar, and I have to confess
  that this is not the best time to catch
  trophy pike, but well... you can never know.
  And sometimes even in heat
  I've got some good pikes
  and just had great fishing, that's why
  I think we'll combine our knowledge
  about this lake... you have also been here before  - Yes
  and I'm fishing in similar conditions
  that's why I think .... ah, yes, the main thing we have Normunds,
  who is always catching big pikes, so
  if we fail, he will catch something for sure!
  - I have an offer! to make all this more interesting
  for us and
  for all others
  I will show you depth map of the lake
  and you'll show what do you think
  where the trophy pike should be.
  - Ok, let's try. Won't you put on black bag over my head?
  -No
  - We'll mark points and then we'll see
  whether there are some fish or not.
  - Even not looking at the depth map
  First of all I would look for
  the vegetation
  and bait fish
  because a pike always lives in places where food is.
  She won't stay anywhere
  and generally I think she is not moving a lot.
  So, first of all, you know spots you
  have already hunted for big fish, and, let's
  say this area ...
  more shallow, because now water temperature is
  around 20-21C degrees.
  This is quite cool water, because in
  our lakes now it is around 25-26C degrees
  So, I think we can try these shallow areas...
  big meadows with vegetation.
   
  Besides we need to fish fast and
  constantly moving with drift anchor
  I mean one cast and keep moving
  to cover large territory
  Also I think we should try ...
  ... let's try to find
  let's say here like small hills,
  in my lake such spots are productive
  at this time of the year. Like these small hills with depth around.
  I think, ... I haven't seen them yet,
  but I think there should be
  vegetation on top.
  We should see is there any bait fish
  and then quickly check those hills
  with three, four casts for each of us
  is enough to understand.
  So, we can spend some time
  to check those hills.
  Then we can check also some holes
  because it is possible that ...
  Do smlet live in that lake?  - Yes.
  - Small, white bait fish.  - Yes.
  So at this time of the year they are gathering
  in deeper areas at 10-12 meters
  and then there we can trey to
  search for some pelagic pike, who
  is sitting in the mid water near that bait fish crowd
  and then it might react on our big bites
  and rise if active.
  - It's high time we should move!  - Long time ago!
  - Can't wait already!  - Yes!
  - Let's go!
  - If I'd stand there and cast ... .
   
  - There is one
  - Looks like pike,
  but not big.
  - If we catch mother
  and if the drag is not tight enough, we might lose it.
  - Tell me, what we're going to do now?
  - Are we drifting along with the wind?
  with drift sock?
  - Look , we'll check
  the wind direction
  and if it fits our trajectory ...
  now I see we'd need to move
  where we marked.
  -Yes.
  - I'd be moving like this way.
  But now wind is taking us
  - We can use electric motor
  - Yes, we can pull drift sock out and use electric motor
  which is better solution now.
  I have started with such a bait.
  I've experience that in
  clear water
  such colour is effective  Middle size, not the big one...
  just for checking,  and then we'll change colours.
   
  - Oho!
  - this is ...  - I have seen this Guppie somewhere!
  - No doubt I'll see good equipment now.
  - Right ones!
  - Right toys for boys!
  - There is one more 30cm  - 26 cm
  -  ok, 26cm, wonderful
  -  Spotted Bullhead
  colour
  - this year 110cm pike with this one
  - I also have experimental task
  or how it is called...
  I'll be working also with
  bigger hard baits
  130-140.
  What I have observed with spinning reel
  big lures are tangling up with leader
  upon casting
  especially with fast and sharp cast
  but with baitcasting reel  this is not happening, because
  line is running out straight.
  That's why today I have picked up some new
  test set
  and will try to twitch with baitcasting reel.
  This is new for me and let's see what comes out of it.
  I've used for big baits, but not for
  such lures.
  Let's see.
  New Shimano baitcasting reel
  I'm not an expert yet
  but will see.
  I'm not sure how many  tangles
  I'll have. Let's see.
  -  Here are centrifugal drags
  and they all were on
  which is for 40-50g.
  We'll
  all, maybe 3 of 4 switch off
  one is left, because
  I tried to switch off all of them
  but then you might have tangles.
  One is left on,
  which is sufficient for that type
  of lures.
   
  - After that if you need more tight
  adjust with magnetic.
  Should be ok now.
  - Clear! Thank you!
  - Welcome!
  - That's it! i'm going to work with normal baits.
  - I did'n like my cast at all.
  Just around 20m, Anton adjusted,
  so now should be better.
  Now it is about 45m.
  Keep fishing!
  - What is interesting in such glacier lakes
  to my experience
   
  July,
  especially if it is so hot,
  and almost all August
  most inactive months.
  Meanwhile in Finland it's vice versa,
  in July and August, still difficult to catch
  but lots of catches and small pikes are very active,
  regardless of the warm water. Apparently it depends on bait fish.
  - You want to say for us is "mission
  impossible" today?
  -  well....  look, you know as they say about Musky
  pike - yo need 10000 casts
  the same about trophy pike. There are days you have 5
  and days when there is none in a week.
  - And the main thing, as my fellow says,
  less pause between casts.  - Yes! That's right!
   
  - Listen, flies like arrow!
  Thank you!  - Always welcome!
  you know my card number?  - Of course!
  - Water is blossoming, omg!
  - Regarding clear water, many have stereo types that
  if water is murky, you should use bright  lures
  but if it is clear,
  then natural colours.
  For me many times it was contrariwise.
  Besides...
  in murky waters
  dark lures are visible better
  than bright ones.
  At least ichthyologists say so.
  May time I had situations that in clear water
  in Finland closer to the sea
  when  completely bright colours
  like green, yellow
  were more effective than
  natural colours. I think it is related
  to that if a pike has lots of food.. of bait fish,
  sometimes you need to imitate bait fish,
  close to to the natural one,
  but sometimes it is vice versa, if there are a lot of bait fish
  pike works like sanitary
  fist of all it eats what is easier to eat.
  Some sick fish
  or not good at swimming
  so when there is a crowd of bait fish and
  some bright lure appears in the middle, so
  this might better irritate pike
  than natural colour.
  - Regarding hard lures. I think that
  the colour almost doesn't matter.
  - Yes, because
  pike is looking up
  how can it see what's on lure's sides?
  - Besides, look, - good fish!
  - Yes,
  we can even mark it.
  - If you would be asked to choose one colour, what would you choose?
  Universal, working in any water, for pike.
  - Something like this,
  with dark back ...  - I would choose....
  and light sides...
  so that during
  rolling action
  there would this contrast.
   
  I would choose that kind of lure.
  - I would choose
  Matt Tiger or Fire Tiger
  composition of green, red, yellow
  with stripes.
  To my mind it works
  always   - Yes, because it is right colour.
  Theses always have contrast,
  dark back and lighter sides.
   
  - Fish!
  - I didn't really understand, is it fish or something?
  - Give it to me, I'll fish with it!
  - We are not fishing with live baits
  - I have got fish with my new spinning set
  But at the beginning I didn't understand
  was it fish or not.
  That's a small one.
  On Ballisong
  Active
   
   
  - How long pike can you take.  - 50 cm
  - Still in the middle of the summer one small pike
  we've got.
  As to size, it's like
  our big baits today.
   
  - Such a big crowd beneath us.
   
   
   
  - Listen, we have got four pikes.
  How are our trophy
  hunters doing?
  Actually we are laughing a bit about them
  those big baits... as Ivars said: "Imagine
  if someone would throw bricks on above your head, you would run away"
  but well...
  we'll see
  Trophy hunters are trophy hunters...
  - Regarding soft baits
  in my boat and in my colleagues'
  in Finland for example
  top three soft baits
  Pig Shad
  Mc Rubber and
  let's say few years ago
  also Snack Baits joined the company.
  Also very nice soft lure
  I will show you how I
  prepare them
  For example, now we are fishing in 4-5m
  so logically we need to add more weight.
  There is one version-
   
  stinger attached with ring
  from one side easy solution,
  on other side not convenient storage,
  and each lure should have it own stinger.
  But we can do like this
  attach stinger with snap
  and then
  don't change stinger, but just soft lure.
  When I'm fishing in Finland
  in not so deep water
  all soft baits are kept like his
  just with spiral,
  and we are attaching one stinger and
  then just changing lures.
  Don't like colour just change...
  just a second
  Taking into account we are fishing in deeper water here
  we need to add additional weight,  we have different options
  one of the simplest is
  just tungsten weight
  attached to the snap
  just a bit above lure
  like this.
  Again those weights can be changed
  smaller, bigger ... depends on situation
  or remove at all if fishing in shallow water
  and again with the lure
  fed up with this one, remove and
  easily change to another.
  All those big soft baits are the same size
  and stingers are also more or less universal
  So... guys just presented me new Snack Baits
  Thank you very much
  I'll try to cath something
  with it.
  One more small tip
  that I learned from my
  Finnish friend Mikko
  I'll disassemble the lure
  Armands already cut a bit
  but what we do
  we take Mc Rubber
  by eyes and
  pull a bit aside
  and accurately cut.
  So you see now we have flat surface
  ant that's why we get more resistance
  and lure makes more
  hydrodynamic noise under water
  and even at a low speed
  lure keeps
  it's rolling
  action, which usually stops
  at low speed
  It is not moving, but with
  this cut
  in Finland guys call it "dog face"
  rolling action is present still at low speed
  Really this
  trick is working
  because if look at my PigShads
  those with cut nose
  are more used
  than those with not cut
  Even Claes Swartszonker
  pointed out this
  theme, saying that maybe
  he will produce special series with cut nose.
  So this is what it looks like
  Gints!
  - I feel you'll get big one today
  because we have
  got small ones
  already four pikes ... for us it seems funny
  you're casting those "bricks"
  but let it be
  You are laughing about our lures,
  we are about yours
  but we have 4 pikes, and you?
  - Eh...one.
  - 40 cm  - Ok
  - We are moving on
  - I think we still
  have a chance, because it is getting darker
  and it is going to rain,... wind
  I think we have chance
  we already know, that
  it is hard to catch
  big pike if there is no wind
  so we'll keep casting
  - But Gints, those pikes are not into account, you need to get perch
  - Yes, yes, we are going exactly
  - We got some small perch
   
  but we'll have bigger ones as well
  ok, guys, bye!
  -  We are in hell,
  air is full with flies
  I think we should chnge place
  I should confess  I like working with baitcasting reel
  even don't need to use drag,
  Antons adjusted and everything works fine
  I don't know all yet
  but casts are great
  about 40 m.
  Fishing almost all day
  and I like it
  and didn't hav any tangles
  this is what I wanted.
  I have experimented with casts and
  all are fine.
  So I think I'll continue
  what we need is fish
  who eats lure.
  Rain is comming, getting more cloudy
  hopefully we'll catch
  we don't have a choice.
  We wont use small baits, we are here for
  big pike
  at least remarkable.
  - Going away
  - Yes, look like...
  - in the evening
  a bit more cloudy
  - Mhm
  - But hasn't influenced fishing
  results yet.
  Here in this lake we need to buy licence
  - Yes.
  - We are allowed to take certain amount of fish or all should be released
  what are the rules?
  - Yes, we have
  special rules, because
  in Latvia you can take 5
  50cm pikes
  five 45cm zanders
  and perch
  10kg, no excuse me
  5kg
  here they have limit to 3 fish
  three big fish.  - But you are allowed to take big ones?
  - Yes, it's allowed.
  They are planning more restrictions
  of the big size
  in order to keep trophies.
  - The more trophies...the more interesting lake
  - Besides trolling is not
  allowed in May.
  - Otherwise allowed?  - Yes.
  Just with one rod.
  They were not
  satisfied, but...
  the main things that
  lake is in good control
  I thin this lake is top three
  if not the first
  regarding trophies.
  Persh and also pikes,
  13kg or 14kg was caught
  last year.
  124cm
  - Wonderful!
  - It was great fish!
  Now, Norchik, let's check teeth marks
  as you like it.
  - Yes, have a look!
  It was big pike!
  Really big!
  Bite traces in head
  look those cuts
  so deep...
  are not typical for small pikes.  - Oho!
  - This was normal fish!  - Destroyed your gift.
  - Yeah, just got new...
  - But it is still quite good to use   -  What else, look!
  How I usually judge about size,
  cuts are one thing
  but cuts are here
  I had new fluorocarbon leader,  even here small
  there were jaws
  but then you start checking lure
  this is small one
  - Here as well
  - Look
  - Cuts are even here
  - Generally speaking all lure was in
  jaws of the pike, so generally 3kg pike couldn't eat it.
  - It wasn't small fish
  - These were great jaws
  - What a pity!
  - Brrr...  - I saw your face changed
  - All day casting and then there was one
  -  As I said, clouds appeared and
  Anton had first catch
  he said it was big pike
  so we still have hope
  in all these hours
  we have one .
  Unfortunately
  we lost it
  but you can never know with big ones.
  But at least
  we have better feeling on board
  that some action going on, otherwise sleeping already
  Let's go!
  - So, preparing for trophy fishing
  in deep water and
  also shallow,
  what are conditions
  where to search it?
  - Main condition for big pike is food
  first of all.
  Actually if there is pike in general then there is big pike also
  - So it means
  it doesn't depend just on location
  but also bait
  - Of course!
  Thinking about trophies
  we don't need perfect place
  but right bait.
  - I solemnly believe that big bait
  is essential in trophy fishing.
  Pike is lazy fish
  and eats what it can get with less energy
  so there are no huge baits for pike
  just we cannot cast so big.
  There are many stories, that
  bigger one grasped smaller pike
  and even not just kilo, but three or more.
  But you won't be casting so huge lure.
  So fact that
  20-30cm lures are attacked
  by small pikes
  proves that there are no huge baits for pikes.
  Also considering, why should 10kg pike
  be hunting for this small lure.
  It is even not fulfiling...
  why it is attacking, in order to eat
  with this small lure it even doesn't compensate
  it's energy waste
  in order to
  catch so small lure.
  That's why logically pike will be catching what is bigger
  and nourishing.
  So big baits is good solution
  for trophy fishing.
  While I was fishing with small ones
  I didn't got any big pike.
  As soon as I started to use big bites I got more and more trophies.
  Also I have an example
  in my Braslava Lakes
  we had
  trophy competition
  last autumn and there was...
  GOT IT!  - Oh! Big one!
  - This is pleasure! I even saw it catching my lure near boat! Switch off the motor please!
  - Anton!
  - It is very important to carefully hold big pikes
  because we are releasing it
  so we need to do everything not to hurt it.
  First we need huge landing net with silicone net
  and first we need to remove hooks
  not lifting pike in the boat
  that's why we need big landing net
  so pike can rest there
  and feel well
  carefully take and remove hooks
  and then pike is in safety
  because while there are hooks it can hurt itself cut artery and
  start bleeding
  and it will be complicate to save it.
  All stinger was in jaws, we removed it carefully
  took lure away
  we don't need it now
  and the pike back in landing net
  to be sure it is doing well
  if pike turns herself in right position
  it means it is allright
  meanwhile we are preparing weights, ruler and cameras
  and fish all this time stays in the net
  - Beauty!
  -  Super! We have got big pike of Aluksne Lake!
  But probably we'll got more!
  They are living here!
  and we have a chance!  - Good job, Anton!
  - Lower down the rod!
  - Don't let it rise!
  -  Great!
  - 11.5kg!
  - We have new personal record!
  -  Record breaks each time with Copes Garša!
  - Anniversary broadcast!
  - Too short!
  122cm...
  even
  123cm
  123cm!
  - Almost 12kg, yes?
  - 11.5kg
  - What are you talking about, guys?
  - About pike!
  - Anton, Normund, you are simply great!
  - This pike is great!
  You, guys, showed how to catch...  - So big pike...
  you definitely have to release, because you can catch it again
  Pleasure catching it is so much bigger that eating.   - Catch and release!
  123cm
  11.5kg  - OH!!!
  - Normund, great job!
  - Thank you!
  110 cm and 123 cm
  Aluksnes Lake
  Friends,
  big bait
  is working! And right guys as well!
  - Thank you!
  - Cosmoss!
  but this is something...
  - We also had nice fishing day,
  we had 9 pikes ...
  We gave you Anton
  now we are taking him back. Anton come on, let's go!
  - That's it? You are taking me away?
  - Let's go!
  - Norchik!  - Thank you for fishing with us.
  - I think you've learned something.
  - Come back again!
  - Bye!
  - What can I say
  I'm happy, Normunds is happy, and Anton as well
  and now Gints is happy too
  I hope you also enjoyed
  our adventures in Aluksne.
  Frankly speaking I  was not completely confident
  that we will manage to catch
  such trophy in the middle of the summer,
  but well...
  right guys know how.
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