Night fisherman. Real fishing starts at dusk Night fishing from a boat
Fishing for bream at night
Fishing for bream at night
There is a long-standing "Soviet" fishing rule that prohibits fishing from a boat at night, at least in the waters of the Moscow region. If then this paragraph of the rules was introduced solely to combat poaching, now I would consider it as a paragraph of the safety rules for the angler himself. If near Moscow on the reservoirs of the canal them. In Moscow, private planes fall at any time of the day, if you fish in a winter tent, it means trying your luck with the possibility of being under the skis of a high-speed snowmobile, and fishing from a boat at night is a real opportunity to be under the propeller of an ocean liner.
Not later than a year ago, during the filming of a fishing program about catching scavengers on the channel named after. Moscow, I watched with bated breath the proud entrance to the canal. Moscow from the Volga ocean racing boats of the Cigarette type, which raced across the Atlantic thirty years ago. With bated breath, for the reason that I was still at school with rapture reading the magazine "Boats and Yachts", now I saw with my own eyes the boat of my childhood dream.
However, I would not want to get under the propellers of such a vessel at night, being in a fishing boat. And this can happen. Since the Moscow GIMS, water police, fish protection, Mosvodokanal regulate the movement of such means of water transport, as well as ..., that is, in no way for the benefit of all other participants in the movement, then such points of fishing rules appear that infringe on the interests of the majority.
To be honest, since the age of fifteen I have been catching bream on the Middle Volga from a boat and at night. Therefore, my experience of fishing at night from a boat in the course will be useful for those anglers who live near the river, located from the channel to them. Moscow at a distance greater than to Paris or Cyprus.
Fishing on a large river with a fairly strong current is the most interesting and lucrative. Firstly, because it is quiet at night, there are no mosquitoes and horseflies, elegant passenger ships, barges and pushers are sailing along the fairway. And a large bream pecks.
Mid-end of August is the ideal time for this kind of fishing, which can last until the end of September.
At night the bream emerges from deep watering near the fairway to places located near deep coastal pits adjoining sandy beaches with a gradual lowering of the bottom from the upper edge to the riverbed.
If the depth of fishing during the day is 9-12 m, then at night the bream comes out for irrigation with a depth of 3-5 m. It is characteristic that often the bream comes out for watering not above, but below the pit. The best fishing time is from 11pm to 4am.
Catching bream from a boat, as I believe from my own many years of practice, is best with the help of a "spring". I will not dwell on the design of the "spring" here, I will only say that this tackle combines a feeder and a sliding sinker, that it is much more effective than the well-known classical "ring". This is a topic for a separate conversation next year, but now I would advise Muscovites to do this kind of fishing outside the region.
Today we will concentrate our attention on fishing from the shore in reservoirs without a current. By the way, I personally like fishing from the shore at night. than from a boat. On the shore you can put up a tent, light a barbecue and at any time have a bite and take a nap.
Choosing a fishing spot is critical. A large bream migrates along some of its feeding routes. No bait is able to turn him off the chosen path. Usually such places are located on the upper edge of the pit or on irrigation near this pit. Very good places in which the pit is not far from the shore or adjacent to the shore. Promising in all respects are underwater hills, located quite far from the coast. You can get to them with a match. Here I need to apologize to the readers, but I will not reveal "my" places, there are not so many of them, and let everyone find their places of fishing.
The preparation of the place consists in the fact that the cage, stands, seat should be arranged as they will be located in the process of fishing. It will be too late to do this at night. After preparing the fishing spot, you need to assemble the rod and carefully measure the depth and study the bottom topography, it will be very difficult to do this at night. After measuring the depth, I advise you to get or make a spare rig and immediately install a "working" descent on it, or even better not be too lazy and install the descent on two spare rigs. Then you can move on to feeding.
For effective fishing at night, the amount of bait should be at least five kilograms with the addition of a liter of maggots. This is due to the fact that the bream actively feeds at night. But feeding at night is not recommended. Big fish don't like it when something falls from above. She becomes alert, freezes and ceases to be caught. If you throw one or two balls of bait at the point of fishing, then the break in the bite can stretch for one and a half to two hours, or even stop until the morning. That's why better evening calmly and slowly prepare 6-8 kg of high-quality bait, and immediately after sunset feed the chosen place, throwing approximately 80 percent of the bait into it. What to add to feed? When the water has not yet cooled to a temperature below 12 degrees, you can add to it all those additives that are used in the summer. When the water temperature drops to 12 degrees, it is recommended to add flavors that are in a solution of an inert, but not an oily solvent.
Another thing is supplements of animal origin. It is very good to add small bloodworms at the rate of 100 g of bloodworms per kilogram of dry bait, but adding maggots to bait is even more important. For a long time I did not really believe in the effectiveness of maggots in "bream" bait. It was knocking down that you try to catch on a maggot or on its "sandwich" with a bloodworm, and the bream is caught either on a "clean" bloodworm, or on a worm, or just on bread. So you think, why add maggots to the bait if fish are caught on bloodworms. But after all, when a bream is caught on a bloodworm, then why crackers or oatmeal in bait? So, not everything is so simple. Fishing experience suggests that no matter what the fish prefers to peck at today, other feed elements of both plant and animal origin should be included in the bait. Maggots in the "bream" bait unequivocally and always sharply increase the effectiveness of its action. The total volume of maggots per 5-10 kg, bait can be half a liter or even less. So, the bait is prepared, balls are molded from it, the balls are thrown into the fishing point, and you can proceed to the selection and adjustment of gear.
There are two "working" options here. You can fish with a traditional fly rod or use a short rig pole. Both types of fishing have their pros and cons.
Fishing with traditional fly gear has the undoubted merit of being clear and simple. It is customary to work with a fly rod. These are virtues. The disadvantages include the fact that the fly rod does not allow you to absolutely accurately deliver the bait to the fishing point. This is impossible, because at night there are no exact landmarks by which you can find the point of fishing during the casting of the equipment. Surface current can quickly sweep away rigs and is also difficult to control, again due to the lack of visual cues. We have to go to increase the weight of the equipment in order to put the shed on the bottom, that is, to anchor the equipment. A large bream at night takes only the bait that lies on the bottom, as, indeed, during the day.
The use of a plug rod allows you to get rid of all technical problems. There is no point in dwelling on the "chewing" of the advantages of the plug. In order to appreciate them, you just need to try to master fishing with this tackle.
The biggest technical challenge for an angler when fishing at night is when designing float rigs that replace the traditional antenna with a firefly. It seems to me that this problem is solved quite simply. Namely. I personally take any float with a carrying capacity of 1.5 - 3.5 g with a thick antenna, remove the antenna from the body of the float, and insert a "firefly" in its place.
And finally, about the nozzle. Despite the fact that the bream pecks more faithfully at night than during the daytime, it is still preferable to use bloodworms or small dung worms as bait on the hook. We can discuss at length why bream prefer these baits in late summer and autumn, but the most important thing for the angler is that these baits are the most effective and attractive for bream. Of vegetable baits, I would put bread and barley in the first place. But in fairness, it should be noted that, just in case, it is worth taking a bloodworm with you to catch.
A. Yanshevsky
"Russian Hunting Newspaper No. 33 - 2005"
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An article from the site " Kaliningrad fishing club
Night fishing is always romantic and unknown, and especially night fishing zander on wobblers. What are the requirements for night fishing with spinning from a boat, where to look and what kind of wobblers to seduce pike perch at night - an article by Mikola Zukhar.
Mykola Zuhar: Night fishing for zander
By evening, after a hot summer day, the heat recedes. Gradually, along with a refreshing coolness, silence and peace descend on the shore. The last ray of sunlight flickers over the tops of the darkening fir trees, then begins to sink, entangled in the floodplain coastal thickets, leaving behind a fading pink trail.
High above the river, hesitantly and stealthily pierces the darkening and dense celestial emptiness, a pale trembling point of a distant star, then another and another. On a sandy shallow spit, protruding far from the shore, two fast jets are visible, bending around a single boulder and diverging to the sides. Where the current weakens, smoothing the flow, the polished water mirror is now and then covered with cracks of bursts of small bleak. Gradually, a lilac-violet dusk is thickly approaching from the opposite shore.
The colors of the landscape fade, turning into dark gray cottony blurring spots. And suddenly, where the bleaks frolicked peacefully playfully, briefly, deafly, but capaciously and powerfully: boo-boo! .. And for a moment, small fish crumble like a silver rain ...
Back in my distant carefree youth, when until pitch darkness, or even until dawn, I sat up with donks on the shore, enjoying the silence and coolness, I heard a lot of fish splashes that cut through the romantic twilight of the night and inflame the dreamy fishing imagination. These sounds are different.
Biting, sonorous, when the fish, most likely an asp, almost completely jumped to the surface. Or, on the contrary, soft, smooth, but strong low frequencies, and then it was dreamed that it came to the surface of a catfish. And somehow it was fixed in my memory by someone's wise hint that it was a deaf short splash, almost not scattering splashes, that means that a pike-pike robber went out on a night hunt. As a rule, such deaf persistent blows most often occurred almost at the very coastline or on river banks of rocky, pebbly or sandy spits far cutting through the river.
At the right time to the right place
It is wasteful to try to catch fish in a place where there are none. However, we often do not know about this, and we try, hoping for luck, to try our luck. After fishing I in short sentences, dotted strokes, I record in the fishing diary of observation of fishing. I pay much attention to additional circumstances: what I noticed around.
And it happens that a pattern is built up: in the same place at the very late dawn, no, no, and a powerful fish tail will hit the water. I check the depth, and there it is not at all - a vast shallow comes out among the expanses and depths. And the river flow is much more noticeable here. There may not be splashes of large fish here, but if a flock of bleak or horned has chosen a place aground, there is no doubt that sooner or later a predator will appear here.
This is how a point appears in the navigator, which should be paid close attention to during several fishing trips, and not to jump further after a couple of idle casts. The main thing is to catch the fish at least once. And then there will be not entirely successful trips. This is one of the outlets for pike perch, just different circumstances today prevented successful catching, or even the right key was not found at all. Under the term “other circumstances”, I tend to understand reasons independent of the angler that in any way affect fishing.
So, for example, in a flowing reservoir regulated by dams, the biting of fish, as a rule, depends on the presence of a current, alas. It's good when the water discharge schedule is settled and you can somehow predict the strength and direction of the current. But in our area, I have never been able to calculate this regime, or maybe it does not exist at all. However, the lack of flow is no reason to be upset. Happened to catch without it. Simply, fishing then is not so generous for bites, but no less interesting. But the most popular "other circumstance" is, of course, the weather.
As a rule, during the short summer nights in our area, the wind subsides. But I happened to successfully catch even with his strength of 4m / s. If more, I refrain from going out on the water in the dark. Light intermittent rain is also not a hindrance. The fish are biting - checked. If the rain is lingering, I think it is better to sleep at home.
The first bite of pike perch often happens before dark. As a rule, these are specimens up to a kilogram. And the thicker the dusk of the night falls on the water, the fish seem to become bolder and more active. Increasingly, now farther, now closer, deaf buzzing strikes on the surface begin to be heard. The best time for fishing on a night spit, according to my observations, is the darkest hours. With dawn, pike perch gradually shifts to the depth.
Its place is immediately taken by the ubiquitous perch. But there are cloudy matinees, and pike perch can linger on the spit for more extra hour after sunrise. When zander splashes are heard with an enviable frequency on the shallows, everything is clear - the fish is hunting. But I also went fishing at a time when, in a tested place, all night long you can hardly distinguish between the playful jumps of "whites" one or two gossip deaf blows. But the fish continued to regularly catch or, more often, attack the bait. That is, the absence of visible (audible) activity on the surface does not mean that failure awaits us today.
The demands of the night
On regular fishing, I tend to experiment with gear. I would like to try this fishing rod, and that one, and even the one that hid in the depths of the tube. And how is it in today's conditions with this coil? And in larger size? But with such a fishing line? Having caught one or two fish, or even just having received a few idle bites, I renew the tackle in whole or in separate parts. But when I go hunting for zander at night, I take only gear that has been tried and tested by many fishing trips.
Firstly, the night is short and sometimes you don’t have time to figure out the current fish preferences, but it’s already getting light.
Secondly, easy hooking of the line for the rings, a single overlap for a tulip or dropping a pair of loops from the reel, insufficient tension of the line at the first turns of the reel, perceived as an insignificant trifle during the day, easily fixed and corrected, at night can turn into a real problem.
Although I sometimes went out to fish some spits in waders, a boat is preferable - more degrees of freedom. In the midst of a pike battle, when the night cannonade of bursts is heard here and there, you can forget about the anchor rope and, having caught on, get out of the battle for a long time. By the way, if this does happen, sometimes, even during the day, I prefer to cut it off, so as not to break away from the place of a well-placed boat.
In a word, every little thing is important in night fishing with spinning. And the simpler and more reliable our arsenal, the better.
Catching a place
So it looks like the fish are active today. Every now and then, closer, then further, predatory impudent bursts are heard. But I have noticed that casting directly to the splash can bring a bite in the proportion of almost one to twenty. And vice versa, there are no visible and audible signs of the presence of fish, and suddenly an unexpected bite. At night, I try to constantly maneuver with the setting of the boat, not really masking it. Sometimes, I even set it directly on the smallest area. It's just that, according to a habit worked out over the years, I completely exclude any noise.
Sometimes pike perch can peck at the very side, which indicates his carelessness in the dark.
If the spit is saturated with bottom hooks, I completely try to exclude the bait from touching the bottom. Although, as a rule, it is often the blow of a wobbler shovel on sand or a pebble that provokes the fish to bite. But it also bites with a creative approach to animation in the water column.
And I still prefer to catch before the risk of saving the wobbler and turning it off from the process for ten minutes, or even longer. The fishing technique with the constant movement of the boat in a circle has proven itself well. It's very good to have a partner. So, having stood for about twenty minutes in one place, having received a bite or even a fish, I slowly begin to shift, lightly raking. And the partner, now and then continuing to make idle casts in the same area, suddenly gets an excellent effective bite, although he threw it again in the same place where he had done it thirty times the day before.
A small change in the angle or sector of fishing can lead to success.
Also, without removing the anchor, you can increase or shorten the length of the anchor halyard. But at the same time, do not forget where this halyard stretches. It seems to me that there are as many tricks of wobbler animation as there are anglers who are able to invent them. I don’t catch on the countdown type aground. But floating and suspending give great opportunities to maneuver with wiring. And not necessarily it can be a smooth twitch with long pauses, a popular stop-and-go or a sluggish uniform winding on the verge of stopping the bait.
What to seduce
When a pike perch is fattening on a spit, it can bite, as it seems to me, on any spinning bait from their modern great variety. He caught on the oscillating lure of the "slice" type, or, more understandably, the "kastmaster", on spinners of 2-4 numbers in the Mepps classification, on a variety of jig, including a retractable leash.
I do not think that the fish would have ignored many other types of spinning lures. But still, it seems to me that it is easier, simpler and more accessible at depths of 0.5 - 1.5 meters to offer a variety of wobblers to pike perch, which involve elements of creativity in their animation. After numerous experiments with various kinds of “fatties”, which, for simplicity, I refer to the extensive group of “cranks” and, on the other polar side, “minnow”, I have now established myself with the idea that for fishing on a spit you need to have both.
After spending a whole season of night fishing with only "cranks", I realized that I would not be able to refute the classic postulates of the theory about the preference of walleye for long lures. Although I did not remain without bites even when I offered exclusively “fatties”, for example, Poonton 21 Red Rag. But when the “fat guy” tried to “stretch out”, for example, into the Lucky Craft Moonsult CB100 model, bites became more frequent.
It seemed that crank must necessarily be thundering, while minnow and in the "silent" performance is able to show excellent result. Currently, many eminent manufacturers of fishing lures offer just a huge selection in their lineup.
I would like to try this model, and this shape, and this color, but there is sorely not enough time to “embrace the immensity”. I tried to form my catchy set of wobblers for fishing on a night spit. But there are new items, there is no time to return to proven models, and some lures from the “youth line-up” begin to surpass the results of previous achievements of the “oldies”, both “cranks” and “minnows”. For example, Flash Pointer 115 “performed” excellently this season from LC.
It seems that the zander attacked the wobbler with particular frenzy. And the novelty of the summer Pointer100SR from the same company consistently brought test pike perch on every fishing trip! I'm sure there are worthy replacements for these baits, but I'm only talking about my own practice.
But what about the intermediate group of wobblers between the "fatties" and "minnies"? I deliberately did not indulge in a variety of pike perches with “sheds”. In order to somehow draw a line in understanding, I tried to catch polar forms of lures. Rapala Shad Shallow Runner 9 acted as a controller, "silent", but always (!) Responsive with bites.
As a rule, if I have a partner in the boat, I suggest catching this “classic of the last century” and the comrade does not remain without a catch. And in his person I have a “catchy control group”, based on the results in my experiments with wobblers of “thick and thin” shapes.
A set of voluminous lures, more simply called wobblers, is easily supplemented and changed. In addition, it is subject to subjective assessments of the angler himself, depends on his own preferences and capabilities. And each bait requires individual animation features. And this is such a broad topic that within short story don't even touch it. In the next season, I would like to understand if there is a clear advantage in catching night pike perch on a spit with minnow class wobblers over the shad form. For now…
I fussed, making more sweeping strokes with the oars. One hand quietly lowered the anchor, while the other already felt the warm handle of the rod. Wobbler whistled through the surrounding dusk and splashed down in the splash area. Accurate selection of slack while pulling the rod. One more time and a pause. The bait hung in the thickness and slowly began to sink. I again slightly tugged at the tip of the rod, imagining how the wobbler “nods its head”. So gradually and exhausted the entire forest. Nobody responded.
Sighing, he threw not far and completely into opposite side from a splash. I waited until the current began to carry the bait and became as slow as possible, barely turning the handle of the reel. And suddenly an electric shock pierced his hand, a powerful jerk and a persistent pull "give me the bait"! "Boo-boo!" - this is already a thunder of splashes deafeningly cut the silence of the night over the gloomy smooth surface of the river, and the fish desperately beats on the hook. Heart somewhere deep inside thumped and failed. He!
In summer, bream fishing at night on the river with the course is quite interesting and productive. Just after dark large bream less careful, so the probability of catching them increases significantly. this can be easily checked if you come to Kazan for the summer holidays.
July conditions
The “day regimen” of fish changes with the onset of July, especially in hot weather. Often, fish are fed, and therefore well caught, only in the early morning and late evening. But during daylight hours, fish hide in the depths, where it is not so hot, completely ignoring even the most attractive food. The exception is cloudy days, then they do not refuse to eat in the daytime.
In July, bream fishing is effective at dawn or at sunset.
Anglers know that the warmer the water, the more active and better the fish of the carp family feel in it: carp, carp, bream, ide. Spawning in these fish occurs much later than in others, at high water temperatures. Therefore, in July - the hottest month of the year, these fish feel just fine.
Most likely, in summer the behavior and appetite of fish is influenced not only by air and water temperature, but also by the strength of sunlight. And experienced anglers in July prefer to go for large and careful trophies at night. In particular, fishing at night for crucian carp and bream is successful. And with the help of bottom equipment, you can also enjoy catches of ide and pike perch.
At night they fish both from the shore and from a boat on the water, which is anchored.
Bream in the dark night
In summer, bream fishing at night on the river with the course is quite interesting and productive. It is with the onset of darkness that large bream are less cautious, so the likelihood of catching them increases significantly.
You can fish both from the boat and from the shore.
Basically, side fishing rods with reels are used for this: one or two on each side of the boat, equipped with bottom equipment, which are lowered downstream directly under the boat.
You can use an ordinary lead sinker, a leash with a nozzle or a feeder feeder also with a leash. The current will carry the load and hooks (depending on its strength) by about 15-30 meters.
If you do not have a constant source of light with you, but only a temporary one (for example, a lantern), then it is advisable to attach a bell to the top of the fishing rods.
At night, bream feed actively, so you don’t need to spare bait. It MUST contain living components. One more nuance, it is necessary to feed the place of fishing before dusk, because. with the onset of darkness, the bream can be scared away from the place of fishing with particles of bait that will fall on the fish from above.
If you fish from a boat, then the baiting procedure is much easier: you don’t need to “shoot” bait balls over a long distance, but carefully let them into the water from the side. The current will do the rest of the work: the bait will sink to the bottom in the place where the hooks with the nozzle lie.
The groundbait should have a sufficiently viscous consistency so that the balls do not crumble before they reach the bottom. So that the balls do not carry away far from the boat, it is reasonable to mix clay or a handful of small pebbles into the mixture.
Night catch
It must be borne in mind that the bait will be washed away by the current and its particles will go downstream farther than the place where the balls fall. Therefore, it is necessary to correctly calculate the mass of the sinker or feeder. In a different situation, you will feed in one place, and the hooks will be in another. It will turn out fishing "in idle".
If fishing occurs from the shore, then the load must be increased so that the nozzle remains lying on the bottom, and not dragged along it. As a nozzle for catching bream, you can use:
- worms;
- a bunch of 3-4 maggots,
- a few grains of steamed barley + canned corn grain,
- cooked pasta - horns or "stars".
If the place for night fishing is chosen correctly, if it is fed in time with good bait, then night fishing for bream will be 100% interesting and successful. Summer is just beginning - great catches and good luck to everyone!
- From the end of May to the first half of summer best time for angling fish - this is dawn and night:
- active evening bite usually occurs when the sun is already clinging to the horizon with a disk, and lasts about an hour after sunset;
- morning fishing is most successful in the pre-dawn time - at three or four in the morning, while the sun has not yet risen and direct sunlight has not penetrated the water.
With the onset of dusk, the entire fish army, in calm weather, rises to the surface of the water for insects that have fallen on the water, combs the shallows in search of mollusks and fry, fumbles in coastal grasses, picking off larvae from them. Small fish flock to the shore to feed, and large individuals keep apart and go aground, bordering on the depths. If you find a small strait, whirlpool, rift or twist around an underwater ridge or luda, then you should definitely look for night hunters - here is their favorite parking place. Now I will fish under the rift at a depth of about one and a half meters.
The best places to catch a predator in the dark can be considered clayey or rocky shallow ridges with a strong current, spits, clay capes located next to pits, deep brows and steep ridges, where water turbulences are created. Such elevations are formed by the exit of layers of clay or pebbles. The strength of the current here is such that after the rift, the water washes out the sand and a hole is formed. Twigs, snags and snags drawn in by the current on the shallows create a reliable shelter for an underwater hunter. I drive in two large horns, on which it will be possible to install a fly rod to change the bait or “refuel” the feeders, hang a small landing net and strengthen the cage. The equipment of the fishing rod is medium-sized: hook No. 5 or mormyshka, fishing line 0.15 mm, a small 3-gram sinker, a light pear-shaped float and a metal antenna that is clearly visible in the dusk. As a result, roaches, roaches, large ides, dace, scavengers, chubs and perches can please with bites; solid bream will not refuse to go into the warm water of shallow water in search of food.
How can you see the float antenna in low light? To do this, there are "fireflies" worn on the float. The cone floating inside is slightly broken, all the liquid is mixed, and the antenna glows for several hours. Yes, and without a luminescent headlamp in the dark, you can not do. It is worn over the head so that the hands are free.
Pike and pike perch are good for live bait near the riffles. They come out at night to feed the fry. Breeding solid predators at night is an unforgettable pleasure. In the dark, the predator comes close to the shore, where it can be taken on catchy baits- small and medium diving luminous wobblers. Moreover, the wobbler works well not only when wiring, but also on a pause. In addition, it allows you to catch wide depth horizons from the surface to three to four meters with a sufficient casting distance. I throw the wobbler upstream and let the current draw the line. After choosing the slack, I stop the wiring until the bait reaches the lower reaches of the roll, then the energetic wiring begins. This allows you to catch a dump in the depths where pike perch, asp or pike usually feed. It is best when the current gradually carries the bait to the rip current or to the coastal calm. There gluttonous hunters are always waiting for their prey. When fishing at night, tackle can go both above the very bottom and in the upper layers. In the most crooked places, fishing from the shore is almost impossible. Then the catch is transferred to the boat, when the bait is launched along the coastal edge and lures the predator standing in snags. Night fishing success various baits and bait largely depends on the ability to adapt to the predator.
Most often, fish are kept in small grassy bushes, such as sedge and horsetail., picking up countless crustaceans, caddisflies and other invertebrates from the bottom - the fish are actively fattening. In the serene backwater, where I set up a bivouac, only occasionally a fattened pike rises a breaker, and a well-fed ide lazily melts in steamy water, eating numerous rotifers, water striders and nymphs and picking up fallen moths from the surface. There is an opinion that a well-fed fish does not feed. However, often, having had a hearty dinner, she continues to hunt. This is due to her desire to stock up for the future, just in case. In addition, the feeling of fullness comes, like a person, not immediately, but somewhere in half an hour. So it is worth continuing to seduce underwater hunters, picking up new gear, baits and baits.
On calm, bright nights, the fish feeds quite actively and approaches the water's edge without fear. right down to the shore. Such fearlessness is explained not so much by bright nights, but by the fact that the inhabitants of the depths have long been ill after spawning (those fish that spawn in the spring), the water is now warmed up, and the fish are greedily “working up fat”. At dusk, shallow waters suddenly come to life from loud splashes, and here and there humpbacked backs of breams, emboldened ides, and squint above the water. Right now, casting under the very shore or on a half-meter shallow will bring frequent bites of the fastidious "fish elite". By night, bites also become more confident near the bridges and dams, near the moored boat in the thickets of coastal grass, near the breaking jets under the rift, where the fish are constantly spinning. The current under the rift carries the dead fry, to which the predators are great hunters. As a rule, underwater hunters control shallow depressions, from where every now and then newborn tadpoles splash out to freedom, which immediately become the prey of hungry predators. When juvenile fish appear, they also plow the shallow coastline without hesitation. Therefore, in such places, predators are well caught by spinning on small and medium rotating and oscillating lures of the Kemi type and pear-shaped perch, preferably brass or copper. The sinker is usually not placed, and the threesomes No. 5-6 are masked with a red edge. The fishing line is preferable with a diameter of 0.25-0.35 mm. A small streamer, launched by swimming with short-term pulls, often brings bites of solid fish. When fishing with spinning on bright nights, you can become the owner of a solid pike, asp, pike perch, large ide or perch.
I land on a granite cape, surrounded on both sides by thick reeds, and prepare two fishing rods for fishing: a telescopic and a donk. On the shallows near the young stems of elodea and sedge flocks of newborn fry bustle about. Surely the okushki at dawn will want to feast on the first years. Yes, and ides, large roaches, fattening fat in late spring and early summer, become voracious predators. A four-meter "telescope" is designed for them, with which I will fish the coast. The rod is equipped with a 0.17 mm fishing line, a sensitive spindle-shaped float, a light weight-shot and a hook No. entrains the float and carries it along the coastline.
Spinning, converted into a donk, designed for fishing in areas remote from the coast, where the shallow, overgrown with bushes of elodea, pondweed and uruti, smoothly turns into a silted reach. Breams and perches come out to feed on this line. I equip the donka with a 0.4 mm fishing line, two leashes 0.2 mm long, 15 cm long, with hooks No. At the end of the fishing line, a weight of 50-80 g is attached. When using live bait for the donkey, it is necessary to catch them in sufficient quantities before dark. True, when fishing on live bait, it is better to put leashes with a diameter of 0.3-0.4 mm, because grips are possible big fish. The rod and donka simultaneously catch far and near water, which often brings success. On summer nights, when the whole shallow is teeming with various foods, it is quite likely that a bottom fishing rod will catch a cold-loving burbot on live bait, which comes out onto the rocky shallows in search of prey.
At first, a timid, then more and more ringing voice of a bell was heard. Tackle sensitively caught a bite. The line trembled slightly and sagged in a moment. Suddenly, someone impudently pulled the fishing line, so much so that he tore the rod off the rack. I hook and with pleasure take out a stubborn, well-fed “minke whale”. Again I send the tackle to the difference in depths, again a sharp pull, and a large perch beats on the hook. The most energetic bites occur at a depth of two meters, where the shallows smoothly run into the river. However, the bite ends as unexpectedly as it began. Apparently, the flock, intensively moving, went to other layers of water.
Donka fell silent, but the fishing rod float declared itself. Having danced fervently, he darted into the water. I cut and pull out a silver pod tongue, another, then a roach. Near the shore, at a depth of less than a meter, it takes a white bream. The white fish gradually moved away, and a gang of "sailors" attacked the bait. That's a great catch! During the day, the inhabitants of the reservoir kept in shady pits, and at sunset they went out to feed, first visiting the edges, and then approached the shallows. But here again the float rolled over from side to side, rose slightly and smoothly went under the water. A weighty “copy” came stubbornly on the fishing line, bending the rod in an arc. The shiny silhouette is getting closer, the fish is moving in circles. The bronze bream reluctantly appears on the surface, gulping air, without resistance, it surrenders to the mercy of the angler.
There is an opinion that the pike is a diurnal predator and its most successful bites occur in the pre-lunch hours.. I do not exclude the activity of pike at noon, but it happens on dim days. However, most often spinning is burdened by both large and not very weighty specimens in the morning or evening dawns, in deep twilight, and also on a bright summer night. The object of hunting for pike is juvenile cyprinids or perches, flocks of which break up at dusk, the fish are little active and little mobile and, to the delight of the predator, are easily accessible. Although by night they change their color somewhat, they are shaded to be less noticeable.
In the daytime, fish huddle in tight schools, and hunting for them delivers underwater hunters a lot of trouble, except when the predator is very hungry, and the flock moves "under the very nose." In addition, during the day, a friendly flock can easily confuse the enemy, scattering like a fan, it leaves the aggressor "not salty slurping." It is known that the larger the pike, the lazier it is and “does not exchange for trifles” - she does not really want to constantly chase young animals. Therefore, it is better to deal with a lonely "dozing" fish, which means that you need to go hunting in the evening twilight, bright night and early dawn. At dawn, juveniles begin to move faster, trying to quickly stray into a flock. At this time, and there is a real massacre. Just then, spinners appear, who are trying to guess the mood and taste preferences of predators that have arrived in time. Lures are selected similar in shape and color y, as well as the nature of the movement of young fish at a given time of day in a given section of the reservoir. Now the vents and mugs are especially catchy, placed for the night along the reed lining or grasses growing under the shore. And if you manage to guess everything, then the success of the angler is guaranteed.
Bait for fishing at night
Any bait for night fishing can be used, including steamed barley grains, semolina, pellets of bread, grasshoppers, flies. But it is better to keep the fish in one place near the edge of underwater vegetation for two to three hours with a bait with a small content of breadcrumbs, large maggots and small earthworms mixed into balls of clay and earth. In the dark, the fish responds better to bait, not only tasty, but also fragrant. Moreover, the aroma can be created not so much with the help of artificial additives, but with the help of "natural products". To do this, several worms and larvae should be crushed, then a strong, persistent smell will go far from them. Strongly overfeeding at night is not advisable, since the fish are actively moving, followed by the angler.
But now the serene summer night is imperceptibly melting away. And a solemn anthem is already sounding to the life-giving power of the heavenly body, giving birth to a new day. And for a long time I will hear the wonderful sounds of bird calls piercing silence, splashes of a playing fish in dark water and remember the mysterious fishing between light and darkness.
Editor's note: Dear readers! By publishing this material, we still want to warn you: night fishing from boats is prohibited in most areas.
August is the most popular month for bream fishing. It is in this month that you can most often observe this fish in the cages of those who like to sit at their leisure with a fishing rod by the pond. Fishing for bream is one of the most exciting types of fishing. It is especially appreciated by fishermen when fishing for a ring.
Upon arrival at the reservoir take a close look at the area. The bream is a fish that searches for food at the bottom, exploring the silt. The depth should be within 4-10 meters. The place for fishing is chosen so that there is a current. Catching a fish such as bream on a ring is associated only with the presence of a current. If there is no current, then it is useless to catch on the ring.
Ring fishing is usually done from a boat. But there is an opportunity to learn how to fish from a bridge or a pier. Approaching the boat to the right place, turn it sideways to the current and secure position of the boat by dropping two anchors. If you go fishing in a place where there is a fairway and heavy ships go, you need to anchor very carefully so that the ship does not run into your anchor rope, otherwise fishing will end unpleasantly.
You can use any boat for fishing, both solid and inflatable. On a solid boat, you can easily fix tackle, and inflatable boat makes much less noise.
The best time to fish for bream is in the evening. However, experienced fishermen claim that night fishing is no worse and, using a flashlight, they catch it at night, and they believe that you can feel the bite with your hand. There are also supporters of daytime fishing, believing that bream, like a fish that feeds on the bottom, is less exposed to the heat of the day, so it will peck at this time of the day.
Consider the tackle used for fishing. She is a feeder, which sinks to the bottom, with a reel on which the fishing line is wound and, of course, the ring itself.
A feeder is a mesh bag, usually made of metal, where the bait and weight are placed to keep the feeder strictly on the bottom.
Types of food and bait for bream fishing
Bait consists of bread and sunflower meal. You can also use steamed pearl barley, peas or corn.
It is imperative that the composition of the bait for catching bream should include components that create turbidity and are quickly carried by the current, luring fish. It can be already used in a recipe with bread, the same cake or corn flour, breadcrumbs, semolina and barley groats, and so on.
Many fishermen successfully use various aromatic additives to lure bream:
- vanillin;
- anise drops;
- unrefined sunflower oil.
The main task of the feeder is to lure more bream to the place of fishing.
In addition, now there are a lot of different manufacturers of fishing equipment that have developed a huge number of modern and effective baits, gear and other products. So, if you don’t want to bother with preparing for fishing on your own, you can watch videos from various companies and choose for yourself everything you need, ready-made.
As bait, it is best to use red dung worms, bloodworms, maggots, since bream, in general, reacts more to live prey.
Some Experienced fishermen use vegetable baits for catching bream, for example, corn, but you need to consider that the bait in any case should be more tempting than bait, because our task is to catch the fish, not feed it.
The structure and preparation of gear for fishing on the ring
Required components:
As for the ring itself, it should be made by hand from lead. This metal is very soft and malleable, so there will be no problems with manufacturing. The ring should not be intact, but contain a connector on one side, which can be right moment open and close again. Also a hole must be made in the ring itself where the leash line will be threaded. Take the advice and watch the video of making the ring, there are a lot of them, which show various designs.
The tackle consists of a leash 3 meters long wound on a reel, short leashes 5 cm long, as well as a ring - this is the main thing in tackle. The fishing rod should be short and with a reel. The coil can be inertial and non-inertial. Tackle is better equip with a long gatehouse(at least 20 cm) so that he plays on the wave, but does not call. A bite fixer will be a good help in fishing. When the bream bites, the leash goes down to the latch, there is a hard fixation and the fish is hooked even by itself.
Installing the feeder
Fishing begins with lowering the feeder to the bottom. Take and unwind the right amount of fishing line so that the feeder immediately goes to the bottom. It must be thrown downstream away from the boat by two meters. Then fix with tension- this is a fishing line along which the ring will fall to the feeder. A lead ring with leashes and bait will go along the line to the feeder. To catch a bream on the ring, the tackle must be prepared very diligently, avoiding negligence.
Then proceed directly to catching bream. We unwind the leashes. Throwing them from your hand requires some skill. Bait a red worm to start, it is advisable to take the hook 8-10 according to domestic numbering. The tails of the worms should be left in a free position so that the worm wriggles on the bottom, as the bream loves moving prey.
Ring installation rules
Put on a ring on the main line, which should go down to our feeder. The metal of the ring is soft, easily moved apart and a fishing line is threaded through it. To prevent it from jumping off, you need to tightly close the ring back. In the ring, as mentioned earlier, another hole was made through which a sliding leash passes. Due to this, when biting, the bream does not feel any resistance.
So, we lower the ring with a leash to the feeder. Note, need some skill but to throw a long leash and so that it does not get tangled. With the help of the coil, we lower the ring to the bait and here it is near the feeder at the bottom.
You can fish on the ring with two rods and three. But fishing with more than two rods is quite difficult. If you want to catch bream with two rods at the same time, then the second gear is prepared in the same way.
After a bite
Then it remains only to wait for the signal. When the gatehouse rings, we pull the fish out of the water, remove it from the hook and send it to the cage. You can fish out of the water using a reel, or simply by manually pulling the fishing line. If the bream is large, you should help yourself with a landing net.
good to have big long garden so that the fish can walk freely and not die. The sleeve of the cage is needed so long that you can throw the fish right in the boat. Such a garden can be made by hand. Then the sleeve is wrapped around the anchor rope so that the fish does not jump out of the cage.
In this way, bream is caught, but roach, crucian carp can also be taken, some fishermen even manage to catch catfish. Sometimes luck happens when fishing with a ring to catch a predator, for example, pike perch or pike. This happens when small fish approaches the feeder, and at this time pike perch or pike hunts nearby and, grabbing their prey, falls on the hook. Now many fishing enthusiasts are filming their fishing and trophies on video, from where beginners can learn a lot of interesting and informative things.
Fishing lasts until dusk. If you are not planning night fishing, then fishing ends at this time.
Fishing on the ring is very exciting and effective method fishing. He uses the natural habits and way of feeding the bream, which makes this type of fishing so productive. If you are still unfamiliar with this type of fishing, use these tips and, we assure you, you will appreciate its beauty.
