How And What To Fish For In June (Until The Water Warms Up)

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

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June in our climatic conditions is the beginning of the calendar summer. At this time, all aquatic plants grow rapidly: not far from the coast there is an abundance of pondweed, snow-white water lilies and yellow egg capsules. Reeds, reeds, horsetails and telorez keep up with them. Catfish, rudd and bream spawn in rivers and large bodies of water. Somewhat later - silver bream, bleak, carp, crucian carp and tench.

In the first two decades of June, fish is caught with almost any tackle. In many reservoirs, large and medium-sized pike perch are caught on a float rod with a small fish attachment (ruff, perch, gudgeon, roach, rudd). Hunting for pike-perch is especially catchy among steep and snagged pools. If the angler is lucky, then a small pike (mostly “grass”) or a large perch can take on the edge of thickets of grassy plants.

At the same time, fish such as carp, crucian carp, rudd, and tench are actively caught on a float rod with a caddis, maggot, worm, line crayfish and bivalve shell meat. Roach takes a wide variety of baits.

On the spinning rod you can catch pike, perch, zander. Chub and asp quite energetically participate in the feast of predators. In June, bottom tackles are caught on crawling fish, live bait, a heap of meat of moth crayfish or shells - catfish (before spawning) and bream. Chub and ide can be caught for the May beetle and its larva, boiled peas and the meat of the crayfish. A pike perch may well "covet" a gudgeon.

In the wiring for pearl barley, steamed oats and wheat, semolina dough, maggots, caddis flies, you can successfully fish roach, chub, dace. I happened to see a very successful catch of podust on boiled kernels (kernels are cereals made from peeled whole buckwheat grains). But I myself have never used such a nozzle and therefore cannot draw any conclusions about its constant effectiveness.

Fly fishing in June on the May beetle, dragonfly is caught chub, ide and asp. Very often roach bite on flies, small bugs and butterflies near grass thickets. On the circles and paths come across zander, pike, perch.

Our great fisherman L. P. Sabaneev advises to fish in June with bloodworms. Both natural (Fig. 1, position a) and artificial (Fig. 1, position b). Here is what he writes: “Although the hook is here in plain sight, one must take into account that the artificial bloodworm is intended for angling at a rather fast current, so that the fish cannot, or rather, does not have time to examine the hook. However, it is very useful to cover the sting of the hook with a piece of red wool.

The characteristic features of fishing in June is that tench, crucian carp and rudd begin to spawn late, and when the water warms up well. Spawning occurs in several stages and stretches for a rather long period. Therefore, the biting of these fish in June is unstable: it can be active, then fade out or stop completely and resume again.

By the end of June, the sun reaches its highest point of midday, and therefore heats up very much. Since the water in reservoirs is very hot, as a result, the fish becomes lethargic. The barking situation is aggravated by the fact that in the last ten days of the month, mayflies fly at night most often (Fig. 2). Above the river at this time - a real blizzard, consisting exclusively of flying moths. The mayfly flies in countless hordes and gradually falls into the water. Poor fish immediately rush to the surface and greedily grab the insects carried by the current. After the flight of the mayfly, the fish, having fed it, does not take any baits for 5-7 days.

The biting also noticeably worsens the fact that during this period there is an abundance of food in the reservoirs. Many tender sprouts of young grasses sprout around, pitfalls and trunks of sunken trees are abundantly covered with greenery, water thickets are teeming with mollusks, crustaceans and various worms.

At the end of June, fishing for large pikes is very difficult. They move to deep places, where they settle. Favorite places of their camp: littered areas near grassy thickets, pools and pits with washed-out banks. The pike also loves to hide under the crowns of trees and bushes hanging over the water.

Success in catching pike, however, like other predators, and not only them, largely depends on ingenuity, knowledge of a particular reservoir and the angler's ability to act correctly in this more complex than usual environment.