It's starting strong in Holland, but also in Spain! This nice first fish should give you confidence after a complicated morning?
Exactly! We knew the big boys were going to fish at night and fish well. We find Nays in great shape. Abu Garcia too!
We do not enter the points this year on the number, because Abu fished really well and made a beautiful quantity. As well as Nays, who starts on a fishing of edge in the currents and without echo sounder. It's clean!
In Finland Westin starts strong too and puts the pressure on from the beginning of the episode for the Top Five!
Yes! It's not a surprise either, we know they are guys who know how to fish! They would have deserved the Top Five, but it still makes a 93! We all know that from 90 on, they are golgoths and that really tips the Top Five score. Congratulations once again to Nays! Linear fishing in addition, so not vertical with the sounder.
Abu Garcia makes numbers from the beginning of the episode. Isn't that what was intended?
I don't think so! Maybe they saw our results in the morning and adapted their strategy by thinking that this point was accessible. For example, we see Dustin in the previous episode saying at the beginning of the competition that they would not go for the number, especially compared to what we had achieved last year, but they adapted.
We can see that this is not their priority by observing their equipment. They use powerful rods and lures of 20 cm. They are really focused on big fish.
Stephane says from the first fish that it is going to be impossible for the number for you on this first day. You knew that before you even started?
Yes, we knew that considering our pre-fishing. The conditions did not allow us to bring in 30 fish and we knew it. Despite everything on this lake, it is completely feasible! But well the conditions were not with usâ?¦ And then perhaps also that we did not succeed in fishing them correctly. We must not delude ourselves and also question ourselves, perhaps that other teams would have succeeded in making 30 fish on this day.
But well, we did not know either what was going to be taken by the others, we finish nevertheless with 10 fish, what is not top, but it is not pathetic either.
In the end, with Stéphane, considering the conditions, we were quite happy with our fishing of this first day.
The objective was perhaps more to go for a Top Five ! but we already see halfway through the episode that Westin is at 385 points. That's a bit scary for you!
We have 3 fish of 70 only in our Top Five and it is true that it is short compared to what they do in the Netherlands or in Finland. 385 points for example we didn't make it in prefishing, but these are achievable scores on this lake if the big ones are out and active. And if you find them of course! It's not easy, but there is the potential to do it. Not every day, but it is possible! You just have to find themâeuros¦
We found this population of pike perch of 70 cm and we wanted to ensure the blow by trying to enter the point of the number, but we know that a Top Five with 70 cm of average, even if it is insufficient, it is not disgusting nevertheless! But it is short compared to what can be done in other countries.
We see that at night things really speed up! Do you think the Zander pro can be won during the day?
I think the Zander Pro can be won from the shore especially! By day? Yes, everything is possible, but you need to have the right conditions and hit it hard from the shore.
You say it speeds up at night, but don't dream, fishing at night like they do is not easy. These are big areas, when the wind picks up, the waves start to come in and the barges are moving around, I think that ¾ of the average fishermen would not be smart and would not be comfortable with completely lost landmarks. For me it's not easy to fish like they do, you need experience! In Spain or in France, we are not used to this kind of fishing because it is forbidden. It's very complicated to go looking for them on these fisheries!
I have often heard from people who have tried it, they were necessarily accompanied to guide them, because it is not simple.
But to answer your question, I think that even though they will always have that advantage of big fish and that activity on the night fishing, it's possible from the shore to go out and get points to win. That's how Nays won last year!
By the way, Hannu says that in Finland, as soon as it gets dark, the activity stops, so night fishing is not a truth everywhere!
Nays takes 2 points on this day in the end. That's what we call taking a big option!
Yes, it's a very big option! It's not going to be easy to go after them! But the truth of last year is not necessarily the truth of this year.
We do not know what will happen, will they not get a storm or a deterioration of the conditions that will complicate the situation? We don't know, it's still fishing and nothing can be taken for granted.
We know what we caught from the edge next week! We also know what we didn't catch! (laughs!) We do not know what the others do, but it will be necessary to count on us.
Stéphane is an excellent fisherman on board and we will see next week how we will fare against the other teams! But for us too, it will be the discovery. Because we know what we caught on this second day, but not the others. We will be in the dark from the end of the next episode.
