What To Do Fishing While There Is No Real Winter

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

November and December are perhaps the most difficult time of the year for anglers in our region. There is snow all around, it's cold enough, but there is still no ice.

What should we, avid fishermen, who are difficult to keep at home, do? But for this time of year, I also have my own routes and gear. You can't sit in a boat for a long time - it's cold, so we will fish mainly from the shore. For such hikes, we need a wide river, preferably with a decent current. On small narrow rivers, by winter the fish rolls into large reservoirs or goes into pits.

For this fishing we will take 6-7 donoks and an ordinary spinning rod. And, of course, spinners, wobblers, tackles. Arriving at the place, we immediately prepare firewood for the fire (you can pull the awning). Without hesitation, we are engaged in setting the donks with an interval of 8-10 meters from one another.

The autumn-winter day is short and darkness falls quickly. In addition to the bell at the end of the line at the shaft of the donkey (rod), it is advisable to tie something white (a button, for example). The fact is that on dark autumn nights, when biting and twitching the line, only white is visible. The end of the rail with a donkey-zakidushka must be sharpened and, after casting, inserted into the shoreline. It is very troublesome to carry donok-zakidushek on spinning rods with you (without a car). Therefore, we get by with the simplest example of a donkey on a painted rail (paint it white - it will not get wet and it will be clearly visible at night). And now you can go to the fire. Friendly night conversations, embellished stories about fishing, as well as the night, the sky (if it is starry), fire and crackling fire, the sound of the river - all this brings variety to our everyday stressful life and brightens it up a little. However, the onewhoever has not sat by the night fire probably will not understand the delights of such fishing.

Every hour my friend and I check donks. It shines, I shoot the fish, transplant or replace the bait. Then I light it up for him, and he goes about his tackle.

It happens that, together with the burbot, at night, roach and scavengers begin to bite. If this does not suit you, change the attachment, switch to some other blanks (meat, fish). It can be pieces of meat and fish, liver (preferably chicken and duck). Even slices of common herring attract burbot.

In the morning, taking a spinning rod, I go to the rifts, dams and pools. If the casting of baits does not work, I switch to wobblers and tackles. For reference: tackle- this is a hook at the end of the line with a small sinker capable of flying 25-30 meters when casting. During the day, you can catch a float rod in the wiring and, it happens, get a wonderful surprise. In some clean rivers of our Leningrad region, there are trout and medium-sized European grayling. You just need to take with you flies (dry and wet). And put an ordinary roach, caught on a float rod, on a tackle and make spinning casts. Catfish loves such tackle. If the river is not very wide, then there is another fishing option (extravagant, Siberian). It is necessary to move to the other side of the river, tie the pulley block from the belt drive to the bushes (tree) and stretch the twine with leashes across the river (through the block) in a loop. It turns out a mobile crossing. By winding it up without going into the water, you will pull the leashes with prey to the shore,and then, also reeling, return the hooks back. In practice, this is all quite simple; I know that this method is actively used on not very wide rivers. Such a fisherman will bypass his lines, remove the fish, replacing the nozzle, and - home, to the hut, to bask on the stove.

Many anglers call late autumn and even January (wilderness) the dead season, but even at this time you can get pleasure from fishing. There is no need to immediately set yourself up for the role of a sort of fisherman and earner (grab more and bigger). With such a mood, there will be no joy from the fishing process and we will return home not always satisfied. Remember that your privacy to interact with fish, nature and yourself is not worth any money. It is priceless.