Winter Bream Fishing: Know And Be Able! Part 2

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

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However, it is not enough to have a suitable jig for catching bream, you also need to be able to “play” with it in order to induce the fish to bite. In the arsenal of fishermen-fishermen there are many different methods of playing with a jig. Here are just a few of them that I use or have used myself.

Slow rise to a height of 2-3 centimeters in 3-5 seconds and the same smooth descent to the bottom. Tapping on the bottom with a jig can be very effective. Light, barely noticeable movement at the bottom, after a series of active shaking and lifting of the jig. Slow ascent to a height of 20-30 centimeters with frequent fluctuations. Smooth, without hesitation ascent, with acceleration, to a height of up to 50 centimeters.

More and more popular among anglers is fishing for bream with a jig without a nozzle. The techniques of jigging with this method have some peculiarities. The most important thing: with such fishing, it is absolutely necessary to achieve a high frequency of oscillations (masters in this matter say - at least 200 oscillations per second), with a slow rise of the jig. Try to do such manipulations and clearly see that it is not easy at all. Therefore, to increase the frequency of oscillation, some anglers use the technique of doubling it, hitting the tip of the rod between the thumb and forefinger of their free hand.

When fishing for bream without nozzles, with the greatest effect such jigs as “devil” (see fig., Pos. 7), “swimming devil”, “goat” (fig., Pos. 8) are used. Mormyshka "devil" is a tee of hooks No. 4-6 with tin soldering on the forend, vertically mounted on the fishing line. On one hook of the tee, a small piece of porous rubber or black foam rubber is usually put on, on the others - a colored bead and a piece of white or yellow cambric. Cambric is a sheath of an ordinary electrical wire without metal conductors.

Another jig often used by anglers is the "goat". It has the shape of an elongated black drop with two hooks on which pieces of cambric are planted. One or two small movable beads, one of which is white or yellow, are put on the fishing line to which the “goat” is tied. This jig can be used with or without an attachment. Now that we have at least some idea of what to catch and how to catch bream in winter, it remains to find the object of our fishing aspirations and try to fish it out. That is, to find bream under the ice.

Experienced bream anglers, not without reason, argue that more than seventy percent of success depends on the correct choice of fishing spot. And to the fisherman, who first found himself on a specific reservoir and does not know the bottom topography (that is, where the pits, banks, spits, ridges, dumps are located), in most cases, as it is sung in the famous song: "You will not see luck."

An experienced fisherman knows that as the water cools, the habitats and feeding areas of bream also change. So, for example, in large reservoirs in August-September, bream is caught at a depth of 5-7 meters, then with the onset of freeze-up - at even greater depths. They go into the so-called wintering pits. The most promising for winter fishing for bream are both the pits themselves and the exits, isthmuses between them. Remember that the largest bream - "bast shoes", are always kept in the center of the pit. But for this it is vitally important to determine the depth at the fishing site, and therefore a depth gauge is required. And not necessarily branded. How to make the simplest depth gauge yourself, will be described in the material "Useful advice" in one of the next issues of the magazine.

Once the depth has been determined, you can start fishing for bream. I must say that the success of fishing for this fish largely depends on the feeding. Catching bream without bait can only be accidental and, mainly, after spawning, when it is hungry and wanders around the reservoir in search of food.

Groundbait can be small pieces of various worms, bloodworms mixed with clay, as well as more "cultured" forms - mixed in different proportions: bread crumbs, fried hemp or sunflower seeds, oatmeal, bran, cereals, oilcakes. It should be noted that the given components of the bait are only a small part of the possible options. The main thing here, of course, is not what components the bait consists of, but its effectiveness. In a word, there is a wide field for creativity. Do whatever you want, as long as the fish likes it.

The bait can be dipped into the water using special feeders or balls of different diameters can be sculpted. You just need to remember that in no case should you overfeed the fish, and that bloodworms are very fond of ruffs. But, even after feeding the holes and avoiding the ruff invasion, do not rush to grab the rod and immediately start catching. Wait about half an hour. Because in winter, bream moves very little and feeds mainly near the habitat, and therefore it takes time to find the bait and come to the lured place.

Even with an active bite, do not linger for a long time at one hole, do not try to catch all the fish that come up. Having caught 2-3 bream, suppress your excitement and move on to another hole. Feeding bream remaining at the hole will attract other companions, which will provide a bite when the angler approaches this hole again. But if you didn’t manage to catch, for example, kilogram bream, then you may well be lucky in the screeching. However, if they are not there, then roach and perches, which are always close to bream, will certainly help out. So, as they say, no fluff, no feather, no fish tail!