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Video: And The Dace Is Well Done
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Fishing tales
Coming to fishing in the Vyborg Bay, my constant companion Vadim and I always stop at the caretaker of the sanatorium Fedotycha. So we kill two "birds with one stone" at once: we have guaranteed housing and a boat.
On our next visit, when we were packing our gear into the boat, getting ready for the evening bite, a small punt moored next to us to the footbridge. A middle-aged man with a cage full of fish got out of it. Here, on the walkways, he began to sort the catch: he neatly packed the rather large roach and perch into his backpack, and poured out the rather crumpled dace and a few small roach onto the grass.
“Whoever wants can take this small fry,” he suggested, looking from us to the fishermen from the sanatorium, who surprised them from the footbridge.
“But don’t you need this fish yourself,” one of the audience asked.
- Is it a fish? - the man grinned and, throwing his backpack on his back, added: - This is not a fish, but a pure misunderstanding …
No one responded to his proposal, and he, without looking back, went to the station. The fish remained lying on the shore. True, when we returned from fishing late in the evening, the fish were gone. According to Fedotych, the catch was taken by a local pensioner … for a pig. “To catch Yeltsov is to feed the pigs,” Vadim jokingly summed up.
A few weeks later we met another fisherman, whose catch was also mainly dace. That morning, Vadim and I were fishing from the same footbridge in the sanatorium, when a motor boat crashed into the bank not far from us. After muffling the engine, the guy in the tracksuit tied the boat to the post, scooped up the water and, picking up the cage with fish, went ashore. Looking at the catch, Vadim and I looked at each other in surprise. And there was why!
In the cage were not just dace, but calibrated, as if matched to each other large fish. The questions naturally began: "What and how?" The guy turned out to be quite sociable and willingly shared his secrets. And that's what he told. He catches dace with fly fishing, a fishing rod without a sinker and a float, on natural large flies and horseflies. The length of the line is five to six meters.
Having chosen a place near the coastal bushes or trees, from which all living creatures fall into the water, he throws the bait so that it is carried away by the current until the line stretches out in a straight line. An insect swimming with the stream invariably attracts dace, which grab the bait. There are practically no gatherings. Moreover, large bait does not allow small fish to bite.
And yet, according to him, fishing with small grasshoppers (gray filly) is the most successful. This is the bait that the largest daces take.
- These fish keep mainly in deep sections of the river, in thickets of vegetation, - our interlocutor finished.
- And do without bait? - I could not resist.
- The bait, of course, is good, but large daces keep one by one, and therefore there is no point in feeding everyone.
On that we parted. It would seem that two fishermen were catching the same fish - dace, but what a striking result! An abandoned change from one and a large one from another. The question naturally arises: why? Yes, because one knew where and what to fish, the other did not.
“It turns out that a dace is a good fellow,” Vadim repeated thoughtfully, looking after the retreating successful fisherman.
True, I must admit: Vadim and I never had a chance to catch large dace, that is, these very good fellows …
Alexander Nosov
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