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the boat with as little use of the electric motor as possible. Many anglers ask us how we work with the wind and we say: “Don’t fight against the wind, try to use it and it will not be that bad.” Many anglers here in Holland use drift sock’s and drift anchors (drogues), we didn’t use one in last year’s competition, but maybe we will next time, depends how we want to target the spots we want to fish.
Chris L: You did well on both day one and two of the competition, how did you cope with the pressure, because, you must have known you were seen as favourites. Did that add to the tension or do you sleep like babies before a big day?
LuC: This is a question I wanted to ask the USA pro’s for long time as their results are even more important, but I tell you I slept very badly, almost no sleep. Like you say, when people point to you as
one of the favourites, there is a lot on pressure on your shoulders, if you like it or not. First, you have the huge pressure that you
need to handle, after the first day we were in a good position and the adrenaline is pumping, you need to compete for another two days with the knowledge that you still can lose your good position you owned on the first day. That’s a feeling weighs heavily, but I like it so much, this adrenaline. This is a drug you cannot buy and it’s
something that maybe comes or not, but when its there its very intense and it gives me a lot of energy! Instead of sleeping I was laying in my bed and thinking about the tactics for the next day, counting the minutes to start again, I don’t like that sleepless feeling but it’s something I have to deal with.
Chris L: We’ve changed the format for this year, now there are just two zones and the lengths of fish are being turned into points, do you see that you’ll fish differently this year?
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LuC: I think it’s more or less the same, the fair deal is that you have to start every day with a clean sheet, I think that the formula from the two zones gives a few more possibilities for the guys who don’t know the lake so well, so this could give us a complete new winner this year, whatever happens the guys who’ll win, will be an angling team who knows what they are doing.
Chris L: Moving on from that, as your main prize, you won a fabulous Nitro Z6 fishing boat with a 115 Mercury engine that’ll certainly get you out of trouble, but how does this boat perform in the choppy water, is it the super- stable fishing platform that it looks?
LuC: The Nitro is fantastic boat, that’s for sure. We tried to use it on choppy water and it can handle those conditions with no problems, the Mercury motor is one that stands out, it has a lot of power, in fact, I just changed my two year old motor from my own boat to a Mercury as I was so impressed by the performance from the Mercury !
Chris L: You also won a heap of Navionics and Raymarine technology, we all know it helps to find the fish, but the skill is in the catching, right? Do the fish on big waters like the Haringvliet behave differently from small water predators?
LuC: Technology is very important these days as most anglers have access to it and
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Many anglers will go to our spots from last year .. the simple outcome that the spot will be dead fished before the event starts
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