An ide and a chub in the summer are good for a grasshopper and especially for a blue dragonfly … Fishing for roach on the "green" is simple and catchy … woodlice. Where can I get them?
Me and my fishing travel partner Vadim spend every vacation in Karelia. We have long chosen a deep forest lake and every year we fish there. It is clear that this closed reservoir does not differ in diversity
Surely there is not a single fish that has been mentioned as much in proverbs and sayings as pike. Suffice it to recall: "They drowned the pike, but the teeth remained", "That's what the pike is for, so that the crucian does not sleep", "The pike is happy - took a ruff from the tail" and many others. And this is no accident. After all, pike is rightfully considered the most formidable and numerous predator of our fresh waters. The appearance of this fish is a clear
Although it is generally accepted that the pike is ubiquitous and that it can be found in any part of the reservoir, nevertheless, it prefers to stay at a certain time, in certain places. Most often, she chooses a small area with a calm current or a bay with a rocky bottom, overgrown with reeds and sedge along the banks, and from there makes throws at the victim. Sometimes the predator stands under the roll, where small fish usually gathers
November in our climatic conditions is an extremely unpredictable time of the year. Sometimes this month seems like a continuation of the summer-autumn fishing season. Blue, cloudless sky, freezing temperatures. In a word, warmth. And if it had not been for the bare trees that have thrown off their foliage, and the withered grass covered with frost in the morning, it is difficult to even imagine the imminent approach of winter
When my bosom friend Kuzmich and I went on business to his brother Mikhail, a well-known fisherman in the district, Kuzmich, probably wishing to whet my interest in the visit, warned: - You will see and learn something interesting
As soon as a pale yellow winter dawn dawned over the jagged wall of the forest on the eastern shore of the lake, a half dozen fishermen hurried to their cherished, or rather, catchy places. Vadim and I, my constant fishing companion, did not lag behind them. However, unlike most, we headed not to the reeds, but to the sand spit, near the dump, near which the pike invariably pecked in the summer
I talked about summer pike fishing in the magazine. Now I want to share my experience on how to fish this predator in winter. In my opinion, winter fishing for a toothy hunter is much more interesting than in summer. Because in the cold season it is necessary to take into account not only the cold, but also the lethargy, inertia of many fish, including pike. The more valuable is the toothy trophy obtained with such difficulties, which I wish all anglers to catch
Last summer, my friend Igor spent his vacation on a fishing trip in the small Karelian town of Lakhdenpohja. And now, in the midst of winter, the owner of the house where he lodged called him and told him that in the surrounding bays, as he put it: darkness is a dark bream and, they say, local fishermen catch it almost with sacks. Without thinking twice, Igor and I went for the weekend to this still verbal Eldorado for bream
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-breeders there are many different techniques of playing with a jig. I will give only a few of them that I use or have used myself
Bream is a cautious and cunning fish. Noticing even the shadow of a fisherman on the shore or on the ice, he immediately goes into cover and does not return to his former place for a long time. In winter, fishing for this fish is complicated by the fact that, firstly, bream go into wintering pits, which are not so easy to find; and secondly, in the cold season, they become lethargic and inactive
If we alter the well-known biblical saying, then we can say with good reason: "Fishing ways are inscrutable." In fact, who is not familiar with such a situation … Today, at some point, the fish takes very briskly, and in a few days - there is not a single bite. And this is not surprising: the fish went to another place - and that's it
This, alas, is the psychology of a fisherman: he always gazes at an already taken place. It seems to him that it is there that whole schools of fish are standing in an impatient line for bait. And if the anglers notice that someone is biting, they will immediately be "chopped off", that is, they will be surrounded by a dense ring. And then, of course, goodbye fishing: no one will bite. I saw something similar this winter on the Gulf of Finland near Vyborg
Fishing AcademyJanuary-February is rightfully considered the middle of the so-called deaf winter - the time when frosty, calm weather is sometimes replaced by long blizzards. High snowdrifts poured over the thick ice of the reservoirs. It is gloomy and uncomfortable under water
When my constant fishing companion Vadim and I got off the train, we immediately noticed that, contrary to usual, there were no fishermen on the platform besides us. We looked at each other in surprise
Winter fishing is a very unsafe activity. Especially on the first and last ice
The main fish I hunt with a spinning rod is pike. Fighting this predator with a fighting spirit is a real pleasure for the angler. In anticipation of the opening of the fishing season for this fish, I prepare spinners. He made several new ones, polished some, replaced double hooks and tees with others. My friend Vadim, also a passionate fisherman, but only engaged in bream caught me doing this
Tips for beginnersSwivel float. When bream, roach, silver bream, tench, crucian carp bite, the usual float falls to one side or simply leans over, and the fish has time to leave before the hook. You can avoid such a nuisance if you make a hinged float (see Fig
We are three inveterate fishing friends: Alexander Rykov, Oleg and I fished on a small lake on the Karelian Isthmus. According to information received from other fishermen ( and in fact, by word of mouth ), we knew that it was in this lake that large roach and rudd pecked perfectly. Early in the morning, before the sun rose, we were there
Guster is a fish of the carp family, few people know, as they say "in person". She looks very much like a bastard. And they live practically together
Who does not know this favorite fishing proverb: "There is fish for fish without fish". Although, of course, how else to look at it! After all, cancer has many of the characteristics inherent in fish: it lives in water, breathes with gills, reproduces with the help of caviar, knows how to swim, eats the same food as many fish
Vasily Fedorovich, are there crayfish in the local lakes? - Rakov is at least a dime a dozen here, - he answered and, looking from me to the kettle on the stove, said: - This kettle gave me cancer
While still a student, I came to a tiny village in the south of Karelia for the summer holidays. The desire to fish led me into this wilderness. I must say that, despite the abundance of lakes in the area, the range of fish was very scarce: crucian carp, roach, perch, and even pike in some places
What is "beard", "knot", "donka", "live bait", as well as "prudence", "sleep" and "days off"
Probably, having listened to our heated discussions with Alexander Rykov about the past or the upcoming fishing trip, his wife Irina decisively stated that next time she would definitely go with us. In vain did Rykov prove to her that it was the height of winter and that it would be very nice to visit her mother, whom they had not been to for a long time. Or hit the road to the dacha to throw snow off the roof after heavy snowfalls
Jigsaw is a primordially Russian lure and tackle for fishing with it, perhaps the most effective device for winter fishing. Countless types of jigs, and an even greater number of varieties of their game, give the angler an excellent opportunity for creative search, both in improving the jig itself and in its movement in the water. I suggest several such improvements
It would seem that the weather is quite suitable for biting: a cloudy, dull, windless winter morning, moderate frost, and for some reason the fish was capricious and did not take it. And not only here, but also among the numerous fishing brothers who gathered on the lake
Fishing AcademyIf a well-known proverb says: "A fisherman sees a fisherman from afar," then this fisherman - a middle-aged man, I saw very close, we were traveling with him in the same compartment of the train. His belonging to the army of fishermen could be easily identified by his clothes and a fishing box
Having finished winter fishing, we, the trinity of avid fishermen: Vadim, Oleg and I, having gathered together, began to recall the most significant events of the past season. Oleg and I had nothing interesting. But the case that happened to Vadim, I think, deserves special attention: it is too unusual. Here's what he told
April in the conditions of the North-West, one might say, is a month of mixed fishing: in the first decade - from the ice, at the end of the month - in open water. This is a month of intense arrival of spring. This means that winter fishing turns into a very risky activity, since the ice from the water thaws both from above and below, and therefore becomes extremely unreliable
I fished with two rods, casting them in opposite directions. From time to time crucian carp ( or other fish ) pecked. But these were not bites, but a sheer misunderstanding! Judge for yourself: the float jerks a little and freezes or jumps and goes to the side, and suddenly stop. You can't guess when to hook
Crucian carp is one of the oldest fishing words, first mentioned in the Nikonian Chronicle of 1216. This fish leads a leisurely, measured life: slowly digging in the bottom silt in search of living creatures, thoroughly savoring fresh shoots of grass or slowly swimming along coastal thickets
Who of the anglers does not know or have not heard about how capricious and unstable the crucian carp is in its gourmand preferences. There are legends about this. However, there are anglers who know some of the habits of this fish
Somehow in the middle of the week my constant fishing companion Oleg called and asked to come to his house immediately. I was about to ask why there was such a rush, but he got ahead of me: "It's about fishing. You will find out all the details when you are with me."
You can catch crucian carp with a float rod, zakidushku, jig, bottom fishing rod and, in some cases, with a spinning rod. The fishing rod rigging for the float rod should be light and sensitive. Fishing rod 4.5-5 m long, fishing line 0.15-0.3 mm in diameter, hooks No. 4-6, sinker - shot
Probably, the well-known expression "Lazy like a crucian" stems from the way of life of the crucian carp. Or an even more famous saying: "That's why a pike is in the sea ( river ) so that the crucian carp does not sleep." I don't know how long this saying has been in use, but it is either outdated or initially erroneous
There are many misconceptions among fishermen, and one of the most persistent of them is that crucian carp with the onset of cold weather supposedly burrow into silt. This statement is found in many publications, both fishing and art. For example, in his lyrical story “The Year of the Fisherman,” the famous comedian M. Sem
Catch the green handsomeFor me, acquaintance (then still in absentia) with the most curious fish - tench - took place in the distant barefoot childhood. Now, several decades later, I don’t remember exactly where exactly: either in the Pionerskaya Pravda newspaper, or in the Pioneer magazine. I
Since in my youth I had the opportunity to catch crucian carp in winter, I naively believed that there was nothing, but I still have experience in catching this fish. However, already as a student, I became convinced that my "crucian" experience is worthless. All attempts to catch crucian carp in winter in large enough reservoirs were unsuccessful … As usual, the case helped
All perch anglers fall into two categories. The first one is trying to catch him with a jig. The second is looking for a perch, changing spoons on a fishing rod