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Video: Spring Whitefish
2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47
Fishing tales
April is a kind of mixed fishing month. In the first decade, fishing continues from under the ice. At this time, after the winter hunger strike, fish rush to the shores in search of food. And then do not yawn: catch and catch.
In the third decade of April, active ice melting begins on the reservoirs of the Leningrad Region, and summer fishing becomes the sovereign mistress.
On a warm April morning, I went out at a halt on the Karelian Isthmus, and headed to the lake, where, according to rumors, whitefish is very good at catching. This was not the first time I visited this lake and got used to the fact that it is always crowded. But not today. There were only two anglers on the ice in sight.
One was lying on the ice about a hundred meters from me. The other was far enough away and therefore looked like a black spot. I went to the nearest fisherman and said hello. Lying on a wooden pallet between two holes, into which the tackle was lowered, he, without taking his eyes off one of them, nodded and suddenly made a sharp cut. The small sludge in the hole stirred, and a half-kilogram whitefish flew out of it as a bullet. While I was dumbfounded looking at the fish, the angler pulled out another whitefish from another hole.
I quickly drilled a hole about twenty meters away from the successful fisherman, planted bloodworms on the hook, lowered the tackle into the water and froze in anticipation of the coveted bite. Simultaneously with these manipulations, I watched a successful fisherman out of the corner of my eye. He was still lucky - in a fairly short period of time he caught two more whitefish and a perch. I have not a single bite!
In search of somewhere lost fishing happiness, I drilled a few more holes: some - closer to the shore, others - into the depths of the lake. However, after an hour of useless waiting, I realized that I was clearly doing something wrong. But what?
The lucky fisherman himself helped. Approaching me, he asked: "How are you?" And when I spread my arms to the sides: they say, it's empty, he, critically examining my branded tackle, concluded: - With such a fishing rod you can't get a whitefish or a perch, unless you can catch a seedy brush. In response to my bewildered look, he explained that there was no need to chase the whitefish. That this fish is in motion all the time, and therefore it will find a fisherman itself. According to him, the main thing is patience and the correct setting of the tackle.
“It's two meters deep here,” he continued. - As you can see, I am lying on a piece of wood, looking into the water and waiting for a flock of whitefish to approach. And as soon as they appear, I start playing with a spoon.
Seeing my obvious distrust, my new acquaintance, as it seemed to me, even mentally swore, but immediately offered to follow him with a gesture. When we came to the place where he was so successful in catching whitefish, he showed me his tackle. I must admit that outwardly his fishing rod, compared to my light, graceful tackle, looked rather heavy, I would even say primitive. At the end of a thick fishing line (0.8-1.0 mm), a narrow, long, weighty spoon was fixed. Above it, at a distance of about one meter, a leash about half a meter long with an artificial front sight was tied to the fishing line.
- When twitching the spoon at a fast pace, - the lucky fisherman returned me to reality, - the fly on the leash dances seductively, thereby provoking the fish to bite. Hence, as you can see, the result.
And he started getting ready to go home. Of course, if I had not seen how he dragged whitefish from the hole, I could have doubted the effectiveness of his tackle. However, in this case, it turned out that you had to believe your eyes.
After his departure, I, with my elegant fishing rod, stuck on the lake for about an hour, but except for small perches and brushes I caught nothing. It turned out that whitefish were attracted not by a beautiful fishing rod with a jig, but by something else that I did not have, but the recently departed fisherman had.
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