Fishing in Transbaikalia in the spring. Map of fishing places in the Trans-Baikal Territory. Features of fishing bases

Despite the views and beliefs of many fishermen, taimen continues to be caught throughout the winter. However, it makes sense to catch it at this time of the year only in Siberian reservoirs - where there is the most taimen. But even there it is not caught everywhere. On those rivers that flow into the Pacific Ocean on the first ice, you can’t catch him, because at this time a lot of salmon come to spawn and there is more than enough food for taimen, so he won’t pay any attention to any bait.

The search for this predator is not particularly difficult, since the water becomes very clear in winter and allows observation at almost any depth, which greatly simplifies the task of the angler. He also keeps alone, so catching one makes no sense to stay in the same place.

The most common tackle for catching taimen in winter is a vent. Moreover, tackle of the simplest design is often used, consisting of a strong fishing line with a tee wound on a reel, which is most carefully fixed on ice, for example, tied to a wooden bar, placing it across the hole. Large roach, grayling or lenok are usually used as live bait. The lenok version is even better because it stays active for a long time. Tackle is usually checked once a day.

You can also catch taimen with artificial lures - the same spinners and balancers. They are even more likely to catch a large fish. However, baits should be equipped with stronger hooks. This will slightly worsen her game, but there will be no withdrawals due to unbent hooks.

Taimen's bite is very sharp and powerful, and sometimes not every angler manages to cope with it. Therefore, be especially careful, at the moment of fighting, do not grab the line with your hands, extinguish jerks with a fishing rod or reel brake. To the surface, the fish must be dragged not with the help of a reel, but gradually moving away from the hole. Of course, in this case there is a risk of cutting the line, so the edges of the hole should be made rounded in advance. Then it is pulled out with the help of a hook.

Catching perch in winter - useful videos

The most popular and effective methods of catching perch from ice include:

mormyshka fishing;
on the devil;
on the balancer;
on a lure;
on the ball

Catching perch from the ice with a mormyshka

Mormyshka is a bait in the form of a hook soldered at a certain angle into a small sinker of a special shape. Mormyshka loads are made of lead, tungsten or other metals.

By feeding the bait to the perch, the angler must give it an attractive game. To achieve this, it is necessary to perform rhythmic jerks of a certain amplitude and frequency with the tip of the rod.

For catching perch from ice, both a baitless mormyshka, or a baitless mormyshka, and a mormyshka with a bloodworm, maggot, fish eye or other bait put on a hook can be used. Fishing with a revolver is the most sporting and interesting, but it requires a high level of skill and a refined lure animation technique.

Video about catching perch on mormyshka in winter

Perch on the devil

A devil is a large elongated teardrop-shaped mormyshka equipped with a tee. The technique of fishing with this lure is significantly different from fishing with other mormyshkas, so fishing for the devil can be classified as a separate category.

Exist various options devil games - here you can use both standard "mormus" tricks, and tricks reminiscent of the animation technique of a vertical spinner. They can sharply tap the bottom or gently rock it in the water column.

Video about winter perch fishing

Catching perch in the winter on a balancer

Balancer - good bait for hunting large perch. Small balancers from 2 cm long can also be used for catching minke whales, especially if the fish is active. But in the dead of winter or on days with “non-cool” weather, you can’t count on good catches of perch on a balancer.

Catch this bait, as a rule, at a depth. The main technique for animating the balancer is sharp swings with the tip of the rod of a certain amplitude and frequency.

Video about catching perch in winter on a balancer

Lure perch fishing

Vertical flashing is another effective method hunting for striped "above average" size. Powerful game of bright baubles attracts perch from afar, which allows you to lure a flock of striped predators under the hole from a long distance. Like the balancer, this lure is used more often for fishing at depth.

To catch perch from the ice, as a rule, small narrow-bodied spinners are used. There are a lot of options for their animation - these are slow rises with accelerations, and short swings of the fishing rod, as well as swaying it from side to side, “jittering” and other techniques.

Video about catching perch on a lure in winter

Winter perch fishing

Balda is an original bait that you can easily make yourself. It consists of a massive sinker, two hooks and several colored beads or pieces of cambric. Balda is very easy to use, and at the same time it brings good catches. The main animation technique of the bulldozer is tapping the bottom with the bait by swinging the tip of the rod.

Video about perch fishing in winter

With the right approach, perch fishing by any of these methods will give decent results. The most common bait is the classic mormyshka, but catching the devil, lure, balancer or bulldozer is no less interesting.

Everyone who is fond of fishing knows that it is better not to find the time when the first ice rose, although it is fraught with dangers and it is impossible to predict the outcome of such fishing. During this period, predatory fish very special behavior, since small fish, such as snails, rudd, crucian carp, have already left for wintering in wintering pits, and predatory fish, such as pikes, pike perches and perches, have not yet figured out where to hunt now, due to because their main food has disappeared. During such a period, it is more difficult to catch a live bait than a predator.

Pike on the zherlitsa in winter

Fishing on the bait is very popular among anglers. Each angler strives to come up with his own unique design. However, the most popular girders are in the form of a tripod, and those whose main components are racks and a stand. Tripods are ideal for the first ice, they are well attached to the ice, even the wind does not blow it away, it practically does not freeze into the ice. A vent with a stand, a spring and a stand is the most popular type of vent for catching certain types of predatory fish. However, for catching different types fish, amateur fishermen use different, more modernized types of vents.

So, for example, for pike fishing, I use a vent, consisting of a stand, a rack, a reel and springs. Its design is simple and does not cause difficulties and hassle to install and use, besides, they are quite light, as they are made of plastic.

You can also make a plywood rack, but it gets wet from the snow, loses its shape and gets heavier, and hands freeze to metal racks in the cold. Of course, the design of the girders can be simplified by simply refusing to use coasters and simply freezing the girders into the ice. But in this case, your hole will be covered with ice faster, it will be covered with snow, it will be very difficult to clean it. So we should not neglect this detail in the design of the vent, so as not to complicate the process for ourselves. fishing.

The design of the girders

Technically, the design of the vent is quite simple, and does not cause any difficulties in assembly for either a novice fisherman or an experienced fisherman.

So, the racks are attached to the stand using a metal plate, which is screwed to the rack at one end, and inserted into the groove on the stand at the other end. The groove is made using a plate that is attached to the rack. Mounting is simple but secure. For the manufacture of coils, it is best to use foam. You can also buy them in specialized stores, if you wish, you can paint them halfway so that when you use it, you can see if the coil is moving or not. Attaching the reel to the post is also quite simple - just below the top end of the post, attach your reel with a simple bolt and nut. It is necessary in the design of the girders and a signaling device. It is with his help that you will know that the fish "peck". For its manufacture, even a spring from a military cap is suitable, to which a flag of bright, waterproof matter is attached.

A necessary attribute of any vent is a fishing line, do not take too thin a fishing line, otherwise you will simply cut your fingers when hooking a fish. The length of the fishing line should be no more than twelve meters, but not less than six. The fishing line can be attached to strong rubber, and the rubber will be at the beginning of the fishing line, where it is attached to the reel, then this design will be a kind of shock absorbers. If you fish at great depths, then choose a weight that is heavier, at shallow depths standard weights will do. The fishing line ends, in the design of the vent with a swivel with a leash. The material of manufacture of these parts can be either steel or tungsten. However, you can do without them altogether, and many fishermen do this, but other fishermen argue that in this case, the strength of the vent structure is reduced significantly. But they all agree that fishing success depends on the quality of the fishing line, on how flexible and resistant it is to the teeth of a predator, because the sharp teeth of a predatory fish cause scratches on the fishing line and its strength will decrease. And then. When you wake up to fish for large fish, such a fishing line may simply not withstand and break off, and you will lose your catch.

Video about winter fishing on zherlitsy

And then came this long-awaited day, about which my fellow fishermen spoke so much. On September 5, a company of avid anglers of six people and two dogs of the Akita Inu breed skillfully slowly load everything they need into two UAZ 3909 equipped for camping life. and wild corners of the Trans-Baikal nature more and more embraces not only dogs, but also people. To understand this, you need to see for yourself these smiling faces and the eyes of anglers sparkling with joy.

Road. Passing through familiar places (Domna, Lesnoy Gorodok, Khadakta, Ulety, Gorekatsan, Nikolaevskoye), thoughts are already there - on the Ingoda River with a spinning rod or a fishing rod amid the murmur of water and the singing of birds. Four hours later, the cherished turn to the village of Tanga finally appeared, and further along the bridge between the lakes Tanga and Khundui forward to the village of Leninsky (if only the leader of the proletariat had known what “holes” would be named after him).

after Leninsky, a real road extreme begins. Here you have mud lakes with old gats and quicksands, rocky cliffs and sharp turns, steep ascents to passes and barely perceptible fords through many taiga rivers. There are also huge boulders on which cars jump like camouflaged frogs. Of course, on such a road there were some incidents in the form of breakdowns, but it doesn’t matter, because we finally arrived at the end point of our overland journey - a long-familiar camp of fishermen, located right on the banks of the Ingoda in a miraculous “pocket” of the steep slopes of a hill overgrown with birch and pine.

By evening, our beauties and indispensable helpers appeared on the crystal clear waters of the river - the SOLAR-555 and 420th boats, armed with water cannons, reflecting the sunset of the September sun with black lacquered heads and decorated with white rails on both sides, like aiguillettes of a demobilized soldier .(Maestro, carcass!!!)

The night, as expected, seemed the most endless in the entire fishing life. I couldn’t fall asleep thinking about the upcoming fishing, about the choice of tackle and the method of fishing, about the beauty of the natural corners of Transbaikalia that have not yet been polluted by man, and simply about the upcoming adventures and the need to film as much material as possible on a video camera, because this was my first fishing hunt for grayling and lenka.

At last the morning came.

wash up on the river bank and, lo and behold, the morning fog slowly rises in absolute silence over the water surface of Ingoda, like steam over the cauldron of an old shaman, and the farther you look at the river, the more it dissolves in this haze, filling all the space and leaving untouched only the tops of gigantic hills, as if they were hanging in the air. And under your feet the purest water, through which you can see flocks of minnow and grayling fry scurrying between underwater boulders, showing curiosity to the guest who appeared on the shore. Looking at such beauty, it becomes a pity to break this idyll even with the slightest splash of water.

After a short breakfast, having loaded everything we need, we take three and one dogs to their places in the boats. The silence is broken by the roar of two water cannons, bringing their cargo against the current to a given fairway. The rise to the upper reaches of the Ingoda is simply impossible to describe. This is a separate, breathtaking adventure. This must be seen with your own eyes: the transparency of the water, and the majestic stone giants-cliffs, crashing their bodies into the river, and causing its streams to boil and change direction, this is the taiga, covering almost the entire space, these seething and dangerous rifts, and it is the air that is intoxicating with its purity and not littered with primeval shores, along which not a single person has walked. You feel like a discoverer of new and wild lands.

After two hours of ascent along the river on motors, they arrived at the place. The first to set foot on the untrodden lands were given to the handsome Akita Inu. On the left bank, which we occupied, there was a vast pebble beach, and the opposite bank was determined by a sheer cliff, leaving like a stone base deep under the water of Ingoda. I won’t describe my first attempts to fish even near the camp with a spinning rod and the available arsenal of spinners, which later turned out to be completely unsuitable for catching grayling and lenok, but will move on to describing the tackle with which I successfully fished the rest of the period.

So, the tackle: two Chinese-made telescopic rods with New Hunter rings, six and five meters long with a test of 10-30g, are quite rigid, which is extremely necessary for controlling tackle in the current, any inertia-free reel would fit, preferably lighter, and I have was this - my favorite from my arsenal - Shimano 2500. The main line is also quite tough - "SVP Exstra power" with a diameter of 0.3mm with a breaking load of 8.4kg. Okuma’s fluorocarbon “SHOTAI” with a diameter of 0.205 mm and fluorocarbon Yoshikawa with a diameter of 0.17 mm (later turned out to be too thin for catching Ingoda lenok) acted as a leader line, and then everything is simple - floats with a large and bright knob on an antenna with a carrying capacity of 5, 7 and 10g, swivels and a set of all kinds of Cottus sinkers. But this is all a prelude to the most important thing - to artificial loaded fly baits, simply called mormyshki.

On the eve of the trip, having spied an arsenal of flies from more experienced and sophisticated comrades in catching trophy graylings and lenoks, having run around the shops pretty much, I finally found what I was looking for in the Perekat fishing store - the entire assortment of that very professional arsenal of fly-jigs.

There are many options for fast current gear, but I chose the easiest to manage and the most catchy. On the main line there is a sliding float and a sliding main sinker (an olive or a drop - it doesn’t matter). Both stop so that you can adjust the depth, and at the same time the sinker should be 10-15cm from the float (that is, the sinker rises along with the float, and vice versa), then the swivel, and a 60-75cm long fluorocarbon leash is tied to it . There are two cargo flies on the leash: the lower one is large (lenkovy), the upper one is smaller for grayling, and between them there is an additional pellet-weight up to one gram. The distance between all the elements on the leash is approximately the same - 20-25cm.

The top fly is tied on a leash with a drop-shot knot, only with a hook down. The disadvantage of such equipment is that in order to change the upper fly for a more catchy one, it is necessary to change the entire leash, but with all this there is a huge plus - saved nerves. Indeed, with such a rig, there is no entanglement of the leashes and practically no overlaps for the float, the main thing is to make sure that the additional sinker is in the middle of the flies and does not slip to the bottom.

Everything is imposed and tied, fastened and tested. And finally, the moment came for which we drove so many kilometers on dry land and on water. While I was preparing my gear and at the same time filming the surrounding beauty with a video camera, my comrades had already caught a good deal of grayling and medium-sized kilogram lenok and settled down on the shore to take a breath. I went into the water alone, made a swing and with an accurate throw sent my flies into free swimming along the stream along the cliff.

The wiring, the float abruptly dives under the water, I hook (or rather, I pull the equipment in excitement), a fraction of a second is lost to pull the formed loop and ... naturally, ZERO. I feel the views of my comrades drilling into my back, from which the excitement grows even more, and with thoughts: “I wouldn’t lose my face in the dirt,” I make the next cast. Posting, biting, hooking with a delay of already a hundredth of a second - ZERO, or rather, two-zero in favor of the fish. But I don’t hear laughter, and it pleases, the guys behind are serious.

The coast, however, has turned into a “tribune for fans”, I hear the voices of commentators and sports observers, listen to them, draw conclusions, correct mistakes. Casting, wiring, biting, hooking and ... a pleasant heaviness at the other end of the fishing line. The fish, saving its life, makes incredible pirouettes in the water, making me overflow with joy from excitement. All!!! The fight is over, I bring to the shore a fairly large grayling-greenfish, the “tribunes” are delighted, and I am even more so, because this is the largest grayling caught today by any of the fishermen of our company. Photo session, smiles, congratulations. Everything, the milestone is passed, it remains only to improve their skills. That day I successfully caught both graylings and lenoks.

But not everything is so simple. The next day we changed the place of fishing - a little downstream, choosing a site with a turn of the river between two rapids. Large boulders on the beach, especially under water, kept the fishermen in good shape all the time, because one careless movement and you are already in icy water in all your ammunition. We started fishing with a short meeting, distributing who and what types of flies will be caught in order to quickly determine today's gastronomic preferences of the main objects of our desire - grayling and lenok. Some flies were imposed on their own by Ivan Yuryevich and Sergey Sorokin, but the bulk of them had already been bought at the Perekat store and, as practice has shown, they were very successfully bought, and most importantly, on time. The most catchy flies were the so-called "fry" and "dragonfly larvae", and for grayling - several "Gold Hear" flies I purchased in Perekat, mostly light shades with a brass head.

Having identified catchable flies, our success grew every minute. Fishing began to remind me a little of the monotonous production of fish: casting, short wiring, biting, hooking, careful exit from the water to the shore, and then dispersal of the fish towards the shore, and now it flies out on the boulders like a torpedo - again entering the water, casting, and everything repeats.

My attention is a little dull, casting, wiring and ... A blow of such force that I almost fell into the water from surprise. At the other end, something with frenzy and great speed pulls into the depths and into the fast current - away from me. The rod bends into an arc and starts to crack. I release the clutch on the reel and begin to retreat to the shore. I feel from the jerks and tension of the tackle that I have not yet caught such a fish. On the way, my foot treacherously slides along a wet underwater boulder, the horizon tilts unnaturally, and, not wanting to let go of the rod and trying not to give slack to the line, I make a convulsive movement and miraculously restore my balance.

I continue to retreat to the shore, but more carefully, and my legs are not the same anymore, my knees are trembling a little from overexertion. The excitement is growing. I'm almost on the beach. And then the fish abruptly changes direction and swims with great speed straight towards me. "All!" - Think. The fishing line is weakening before my eyes, I convulsively shake the handle of the reel, at the same time retreating to the shore. Being already on the shore, I notice a black shadow of a fish in the water, which once again changes direction and pulls my tackle to the limit. Everything, I think again. But no, the tackle rings, but holds.

I take the initiative in my own hands, turn the fish towards me and start to fight. And then attack again. Approaching the shore, the fish rests its muzzle on the coastal boulder, and I, feeling that the limit of my gear has come, yells to Valentinovich, who was watching the battle: “Mo-ha-aaaay!”. Valentinovich jumped up to the fish from the rear and helped throw it ashore. The battle is over and just in time. A handsome dark-colored Lenok was lying on the shore with my fly in his lip and a torn leash. Who said that fishing is an activity for infantile weirdos? Personally, my adrenaline in the body at that moment just went through the roof. Lenok, of course, is not a trophy, even for our places (a little more than two kilograms), but what a fighter is just a pleasure for life.

Ivan Yurievich and Dmitry Valentinovich showed a real master class on the same day, catching six-kilogram monsters. Photos of them now adorn our fishing trophy gallery. The brothers Maxim and Sergey Sorokin were equally successful in catching grayling and lenok with spinning. Spinners used spinners, mainly Blue Fox Vibrax Fiuorescent No. 2, with one small feature: due to the high transparency of the water, they put a fluorocarbon leader.

All good things come to an end. The sounds of bubbling water on the rifts are still noisy in the ears, the singing of birds from the yellowed behind a short time groves, joyful exclamations of comrades, bringing their trophies to the shore. The tongues of the evening campfire and the countless lights of fireflies-stars in the night sky are still dancing before my eyes. The taste of smoked grayling has not yet disappeared on our lips, and the wheels of our UAZs are already taking us along the same familiar road farther and farther away from protected places, where on the very bank of the Ingoda there are small particles of fishing souls and, looking back at the running away road, you feel longing and hope that you will come back here again and again.

Source: GdeKluet.ru

Fishing in Chita and the Trans-Baikal Territory

Today, fishing in Chita and the Trans-Baikal Territory is of particular value to a fisherman.

Fishing places located on large rivers:

Chikoy;
Ingoda;
Shilka;
Khilok;
Onon;
Argun, there are a lot of them here.

Among the reservoirs, the largest are the Kuando-Charsky, Ivano-Rakhleisky and Toreysky groups of lakes. Good fishing on Lake Nichatka.

Here you can catch salmon species of fish, as well as burbot, davatchan, spike, goby, perch. But the most common in the region are lenok, ide and grayling.

It is worth visiting for lovers of natural healing Lake Arey, which is located between the Yablonev and Malkhansky ridges. In the reservoir there is a large content of various useful elements. Local mud is recognized as curative.

The main thing is that they float in the water:

rotan firebrand;
snakehead;
yellow-cheeked;
squeaky killer whale;
wow;
Kaluga;

Excellent fishing awaits lovers big catch on the Menza River. Here are found: grayling, taimen, catfish, burbot, perch, lenok.

Professionals advise stopping at the mouths of flowing rivers and streams. The use of large motor boats is not recommended due to the huge number of rapids and rifts. Tourists along the way can visit the local historical landmark - the site of an ancient man.

The Shilka River is almost the record holder in terms of the variety and volume of fish. From the Amur, killer whale, beluga, and chum salmon visit it. Fans of spinning will get weighty sturgeons.

In spring, spawning is caught: Amur whitefish, grayling, taimen, pike, lenka. Stop your gaze on the stretches - curved sections of the channel.

In its lower part there will be lenok, in the middle - carp, chebak, rudd, pike. In the upper and deepest - taimen, beluga, sturgeon.

Fans of fantastic views that give birth to lakes near snow-capped mountains should visit Small Leprindo. This is the north of the region. The reservoir was formed as a result of the shift of tectonic plates.

The origin and composition of the inhabitants of the lake are very similar to Baikal. More than 15 species are found here, including lenok, perch, roach, golei-davatchan and others.

Extreme lovers can come to Transbaikalia in winter, when ice fishing is underway. You can stop on a visit to the fish farms, where they will offer a comfortable overnight stay and a place with a guaranteed bite.

An impressive sight will be the surrounding untouched nature, against which you can take unique photos with a catch at the ready.

Source: www.ulovanet.ru

Fishing V Transbaikalia

Fishing. that's life!!! Honored friends and fishermen! Posted on this channel video about fishing and fishing.

WINTER FISHING!!!PERCH ON THE SPINER!!!ARAKHLEY!!!2017!!!

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Of particular note is the charm of pristine nature surrounding the rivers and lakes of the region. Age-old hills, hard-to-reach taiga - all this adds a bit of mystery to everything that happens. Winter fishing in Transbaikalia in their romance and feelings, akin to an African safari, the difference is only in air temperature and trophies, but in terms of adrenaline rush and the pleasure they get, they are almost akin. Winter fishing on the Kama River, Perm region from the video in excellent quality. Fishing in the Perm region in the daily updated collection of records on our website from 06/28/2018. Winter fishing in a cube tent and a revolver too. If you have the opportunity to visit these parts, do not refuse the offer to visit winter fishing.

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Born of the moon and chius

With the December frosts, a radical winter comes to Transbaikalia. From the unthinkable cold, the little snowy land is covered with cracks, and even the taiga itself at this time groans from the fierce cold, loudly crackles the frozen woods, giving rise to an echo in the loaches and ridges. Hard frost and bright sun - like inseparable friends, always together. They constantly test the strength of people and the earth, animals and birds, taiga and rivers. There are more than three hundred sunny days a year in Transbaikalia, and in winter they are accompanied by frost. It is thanks to the sun and, of course, low humidity (15-20%) that the Trans-Baikal frost is relatively easily tolerated. Rarely bright stream of sunny days is replaced by cloudy weather. A "gray" day brings wind, snowfall, warming and often excellent bite of Trans-Baikal salmon - taimen, lenok and grayling.

However, even on cloudy days, of which there are no more than two or three in a row, a sharp increase in frost can occur, caused by the appearance of a chilly downstream wind, chius, in the ravines, valleys and valleys of the rivers. Chius descends from the mountains, his weak breath does not sway either the trees, or the dwarf birch, or the withered grasses. This is not even a wind, but a wall of cold, leaning on all living things. Chius penetrates clothes, reaching the bones, burns the face, chills the soul. Some kind of unclean force is robbing the yard, turning the harsh but tolerable frosty weather into a severe test of vitality. A day or two, while the chius is blowing, it is difficult to leave the winter hut even to the woodpile for firewood, and you can’t drive the dog out into the street, it clings to the stove.

In severe frost and bad weather, the fish does not walk, which means they are not caught. Salmon do not show their presence in the river in any way. But the burbot, the nocturnal predator of the Trans-Baikal waters, has a holiday. He loves the cold of the chius, comes out of hiding and takes a bait in the daytime. He takes it greedily, swallows it deeply and beats, being spotted on a lure, with all his might. And this is during the day.

But what about at night? After all, burbot is a nocturnal predator. It would seem that the night catch at a time when burbot is active during the day should be even richer.

And then the moon intervenes in fishing. Does not like burbot full moon. Even in overcast clouds, on a chilly night, when the light of the full moon only partially breaks through to the earth, its magical effect remains in force anyway. Burbot in the full moon in the river is not visible.

However, if the chius fell on the "lunar morning" (new moon) or on the "lunar evening" (the last quarter of the moon), turning the night into a icy hell, then the fisherman is waiting - no, not a bite and not even a zhor, but a reckless feast of a night burbot!

Khius - a phenomenon of indigenous winter - does not often come down from the mountains. It happens only on a “gray” day, which in itself rarely happens in winter in the bright Transbaikalian climate. Even more rarely, chius is observed on “lunar morning” or “lunar evening”. And only when he grants, then the reckless burbot festivities happen. During the eighteen winters spent fishing in the upper reaches of the Chikoi, only four nights, blessed by the moon and chius, fell on wonderful burbot fishing.

I was left with the impression that it was not me who was catching the burbot, but he, having gathered at the knock and the light, tried to pull me under the water, and if not pull me, then at least freeze me on ice, in hellish cold, indescribable.

If in the morning, at sunrise, the thermometer shows -40 ° C, then by noon the frost weakens by half - to -20 °. By the beginning of the evening twilight, the frost gets stronger to -30 ° and below, and together with chius, in general, it is able to stop the angler from recklessness. But passion is stronger than frost and wind.

At burbot -
all contrary

Despite various rumors about burbot, mostly unfair, people in Transbaikalia love this fish. Some, of course, for the delicious liver, for the excellent burbot fish soup and delicious meatballs, and small smoked burbots are good with beer.

However, this is not what attracts true anglers to our hero. Winter night hunting in difficult conditions has its own romance. And how does a combat burbot behave in a duel! Takes boldly, sometimes does not give the fisher rest almost all night.

Everything or almost everything is known about burbot. However, its rare features never cease to amaze. In the magazine "Fisherman" some authors called burbot "transverse fish". Aptly noted, to say the least.

After many nights spent on the ice, I have an opinion about burbot as a fish that has everything “against”. His instincts and behavior are not only not similar to the habits of other predators, but also appear, it would seem, in defiance of circumstances.

Indeed: for predators, the most favorable time for hunting is the day when it is light and all the fish are active; burbot hunts at night, becoming rather not a hunter, but a greedy and promiscuous robber.

Contrary to nature, burbot spawns at the very peak of the radical winter, in December-January, in the crackling Christmas and Epiphany frosts.

In the most bad weather, in blizzard and chius, when all living things freeze, burbot, again contrary to nature, comes out of its hiding places and leads a daytime lifestyle. On the contrary, in summer, when reservoirs abound with food, on warm days, burbot clogs into holes and does not feed, “declaring a hunger strike” just at the time of the general zhur of river inhabitants. Almost without eating a hearty summer, it does not grow and only gains weight in a hungry winter.

There are other oddities in the behavior of burbot - for example, this hater of the full moon willingly goes into the light of a fire.

Burbot does not have powerful teeth, like taimen, whose mouth resembles a bone trap. He boldly takes the bait and, sitting on the hook, fights for his life with all his last strength. Getting him into the hole, especially during chius, is not easy. The stronger the frost, the steeper the bad weather, the more enduring the burbot.

Its biological features are also amazing. Burbot is the naked king of the night, he does not have the usual scales. The disproportionately large liver tastes like cod liver* and is highly prized by gourmets.

For us, two features of the behavior of burbot are important, which must be used when catching it: it goes, as if enchanted, into the light emanating from the fire and highlighting the hole, and just as boldly goes to the source of sound in the river, on ice and even on the shore. It is difficult to explain the burbot's passionate love for the hiss and creak emitted by the drill when drilling through ice. Quite often, especially after renewing an old, frost-worn hole with an ice drill, there is a burbot under it, which immediately takes the lure.

Catching tackle and its application

Catching gear for burbot should have elements that emit light and make sound.

The picture shows winter fishing rod For night fishing burbot on the light and on the knock, which is used when fishing in a fast current. It is equipped with a heavy spinner - "stalker".

1 - fishing rod handle; 2 - fishing rod; 3 - large winder; 4 - small winder;
5 - hole for fishing line; 6 - fishing line; 7 - cambric; 8 - "firefly"; 9 - swivel;
10- fastener; 11 - baubles-stukalka.

A short fishing rod with a handle with a total length of 50 cm has two reels - a large one and a small one. 25-30 m of fishing line with a cross section of 0.30-0.35 mm are wound on them in the following sequence: first, a supply of fishing line (22-27 m) is laid on a large reel, and the remaining part of it, used for fishing, is wound on a small reel. The fishing line is passed through the hole at the end of the fishing rod, two cambric with a diameter of 3 mm are put on it, holding the “firefly” capsule. At the end, a swivel with a clasp is tied with a universal knot, on which a spinner is fastened by a ring.

The presence of a fastener makes it possible to quickly replace the lure and other artificial lures.

The main elements of the equipment are the “firefly” and the “Bullet” spinner.

"Firefly" is usually used in Taiwan, two capsules are included, one is enough for the night. Inside the capsule contains an ampoule, which, when broken, begins to glow. It is attached to the fishing line with cambric - by shifting them, you can change the distance between the spinner and the "firefly". The optimal distance between them is 10-12 cm.

The spinner-"stalker" is made of a rod with a section of 8-10 mm, which is ground into a cone. Material - copper, brass, bronze. The length of the spinner is 40-60 mm, weight is from 10 to 20 g or more.

The hook is soldered large, No. 12-16 according to domestic numbering, large MUSTAD hooks with chemical sharpening are best suited.

Burbot spinners - "stalkers".

Everything will fit for a bait for an illegible burbot: loach, pied, minnow, minnow, worms, bark beetles, squirrel entrails, pieces small fish, even salted, grayling and lenok meat, cut into ribbons along with the skin, and even the meat of the burbot itself.

The “Bullet” lure was made after long experiments especially for burbot, its game with somersaults at sheer lure attracts a night predator, and the knock delights the ear of burbot.

The game of tackle is simple, but requires a certain sequence of actions that can be divided into phases. They are.

knock phase. After lowering the baubles to the bottom, they begin to shake the equipment, while the lure should knock on the pebble bottom as often as possible and with a small amplitude. It is at the knock that the burbot most often takes the lure in his mouth. The hand has ceased to feel the severity of the equipment - it means that a bite has occurred. The cut should follow immediately.

However, the bite may go unnoticed, so after 5 seconds of playing at the bottom, the lure is sharply raised to a height of up to 5 cm in order to feel the fish that has landed on the hook. When twitching the spinner, the bite is perceived as a suddenly hanging weight or a blow to the hand.

The knocking phase, together with the twitching of the lure, lasts about 20 seconds, this is the most productive stage of the game, since the burbot loves sounds, willingly goes to them from afar, arranges a dance near the lure, wriggles and, finally, attacks it.

The “firefly”, attached to the fishing line at a distance of 10 cm from the fastener, trembling and bouncing to the beat of the knocking and twitching lure, also attracts burbot and contributes a lot to the success of the angler in the night hunt.

Pause after knocking lasts about 15 seconds. The spinner is raised by about 5 cm and held in this position. It is also an effective technique, during which bites are not uncommon - they are felt as a blow or a sharp pull.

sheer flash phase continues, as with knocking, for about 20 seconds. Flashing consists in slowly lifting the bait to the lower edge of the ice and lowering to the bottom. Sometimes they make a sharp drop of gear to the bottom. At the same time, the lure, due to its specific balancing, falls with its back, heavy part, followed by a “firefly” that can be grabbed by burbot instead of a lure, which sometimes happens. Therefore, you need to have spare capsules. In extreme cases, instead of Taiwanese "fireflies", you can use fluorescent elements, including commercially available "luminous" jigs.

With a sheer glint, the pecked burbot hangs, as it were, on the tackle.

Pause after a sheer flashing, the duration is the same as the first pause, with the same position of the bait 5 cm from the bottom. In this phase, there are also bites.

Thus, the game cycle lasts a little over a minute, then the lure is placed on the ground, providing some rest to the hole. After 30-40 seconds, everything repeats again. And so - until dawn, with a break in the middle of the night.

Burbot trails of Ust-Chikokon

In the deserted upper reaches of the Chikoy and in its tributaries, there are many large burbots. Here it is found almost everywhere, from the village of Povarnya to the Semiozerye itself. There are also many salmon here: there are more graylings in Chikoy, and lenok prevails in its left tributary Chikokone. Burbot inhabits both rivers. And it's hard to say where it's bigger.

Individuals 70-75 cm long are common in catches, large ones - up to a meter - are kept at favorite sites that are not so easy to find.

Remarkable burbot trails were found on Ust-Chikokon - this is the name of the place where its tributary flows into the Chikoy, into which the Solontsovaya rivulet flows nearby; thus, two mouths adjoin here (see fig.). Using the example of this place, I want to clearly show where to look for this fish.

Rice. Ust-Chikokon:
1 - furrows; 2 - channel pit; 3 - parking lot of large burbot;
4 - parking lot of small burbot; 5 - Ust-Chikokon sector - a place of successful fishing for the author.

At the bottom of Ust-Chikokon there are three "furrows" - longitudinal pits 1 extended along the coast and one channel pit 2. During the day, burbot spends half-asleep here, and with the end of evening twilight and the onset of darkness, it goes hunting.

Each age group- its own territory, its own section of the river, where it feeds. Large burbot enters the adjacent shallow water, shallow shallows, where the current is quiet and where there is only 20-25 cm between the lower edge of the ice and the bottom itself, sometimes even less. It stretches to the gently sloping shore, where small fish are hiding.

Large burbot in Chicocon graze in shallow water opposite the furrows; aground at the very mouth of the Chicocon; in the shallow waters of Chikoya opposite the furrow and behind the protruding promontory, where it shelters from fast jets in a quiet and shallow area; in shallow water near the channel pit, where the path of a large predator rests on the very shore. A small predator hunts at the baffle - the bank hanging over the furrow, at the mouth of the Solontsovaya and near it, in the very channel of the Chikoy.

Fishing in extreme conditions

Chius itself is not a frequent phenomenon. However, besides this icy wind of testing for an amateur night fishing enough. Even in calm weather in the upper reaches of the Chikoi, the thermometer drops to -40 ° and below. This means that there is a real threat of freezing on ice. Trans-Baikal fishermen save themselves from frost with the help of a long-burning fire, called in Siberian nodey .

Choose a place for fishing, arrange it in advance during the day.

Knowing where the burbot feeds, they choose a place to hunt for it - at the mouths, in shallow water near the mouth holes (this is the most best places); next to channel pits, in places gravitating towards a shallow shore; on the edges of the furrow; near the krutoyarov, whose high bank shelters the burbot from the light of the moon; on the talts (cracks in the ice and "bumps"); at the end of the reaches; on shallow shallows.

The picture shows catchable area Ust-Chikokon, showing working and spare holes.

Fishing place (top view):
1 - fender shore; 2 - furrow; 3 - search holes; 4 - screen;
5 - the first working hole; 6 - node; 7 - the second working hole; 8 - spare holes;

The search for a working hole starts from the breakaway bank, where, as a rule, the greatest depth. Several holes are drilled across the river in increments of 2-3 meters, depending on the depth and width of the river. Having reached shallow water (20-25 cm under the ice), the search is stopped. The hole at the specified shallowest depth is considered the first working hole. The second working hole is drilled at a short distance from the first even closer to the shallow shore, the best depth for it is about 15 cm.

Fishing location selected

Now we need to build a fire of long burning. Nodia - the invention of hunters, allowing even in severe frosts to pass the night in the taiga. Such a fire is convenient because it almost does not need regulation - it does not burn so much as smolder. In our case, the fire is not placed on the ground, but on ice, which, of course, requires its own approach.

For a fire (see fig.), a dead tree is felled, spruce is best, larch can be 25-35 cm thick. Two or three fuel logs 3 m long and one 2 m long are cut out of dry land. 7 cm cut support posts.

1 - racks; 2 - fuel logs; 3 - wedge; 4 - raw chocks-linings;
5 - kindling; 6 - log-regulator of combustion; 7 - screen; 8 - coupler.

Then six blind holes 20 cm deep are drilled on the ice - four for the fire and two for the heat shield. Support posts are frozen into the holes - for a fire 120 cm long, for a screen - 170 cm. The distance between adjacent support posts of the fire is equal to the thickness of the logs, between two pairs of posts - 2.5 m. raw chocks with a thickness of at least 10 cm.

A short log is placed close to the lower fuel log - it serves as a combustion regulator. By pushing or moving one end of the log, they increase or decrease the access of air to the fire, thus adjusting the draft.

Between the logs, lifting them with the help of wedges driven in from the ends, kindling is laid - birch bark, chips, dry brushwood. After that, the support posts are tied in pairs with ties for the strength of the entire structure.

A reflective screen measuring 1.5 × 1.5 m is made of a durable polyethylene film.

When the fire is built, it is kindled from the leeward end. Nodya does not flare up soon, but the logs, having caught fire along their entire length, char and smolder slowly and for a long time, they will be enough for the whole coming night. Between the fire and the screen, quite comfortable conditions are created for the angler sitting on the first working hole. Nodia will also heat the angler sitting on the other side of the fire on the second hole. The light from the fire will attract burbot.

After the node has come into force, you can move the regulator log close and go to rest in the winter hut. It remains to wait for the night.

Having rested from the day's work, with the onset of darkness, the anglers again go out onto the ice, fix the fire and, most importantly, drive the working holes covered with ice with a drill, process the sharp lower edge of the ice with an auger. Here they begin to eat.

Burbot comes to the sounds made by the drill and enjoys the creak as music. The “fastest” burbots are caught just after the hole has been refreshed.

If fishing on the first and second working holes did not work out, then you can “drive” all the spare holes and deep-sea search holes with a drill, try them out with short forays from the fire to the spare holes, and if burbot is caught at the same time, then you can let the hole rest and warm yourself campfire. And so on until one in the morning, after which there is a break in the bite, although not always.

At this time, it is better to go to the winter hut, rest and reappear on the holes at about 5 o'clock in the morning. The burbot is active again and can please with bites and its tenacity when fighting.

Large burbot (80-90 cm) is difficult to extract from the water; it is not possible to get a fish curled up into a hole in shallow water. You have to let it go from the hole more than once in order to tire it out and, finally, set your head in the hole and pull the fish out onto the ice. It takes up to 20 minutes to fight a large burbot - he will fight for his life with all his might.

Having entered the hole with his head, the burbot no longer resists. He is taken off the hook and thrown onto the ice away from the fire and from the hole. On the ice, he begins to worry again, and if overlooked, he can find a hole and leave.

Clothing and
safety

The extreme conditions of the Chius night require appropriate equipment. Fisherman's clothing should be warm and moderately spacious. The best option is warm underwear, a fur suit or overalls, a comfortable padded jacket on it, a spacious fur coat over it, a sheepskin coat with a high collar is better. The hat is a deep fur earflap, on the hands are fur mittens.

Spacious felt boots are worn over woolen socks, which do not interfere with wrapping with a newspaper. Even if the boots are good, you feel constant cold in your feet, and you have to warm yourself by the fire every now and then.

Of course, Canadian arctic clothes and shoes made for anglers are good in every way.

While fishing, even near a fire, one should not lose vigilance, since there is a high probability of frostbite - ears, nose, cheeks, chin, legs may suffer. Most often this happens when fishing on spare holes, where the fire is not an assistant, and when moving from a fishing place to a winter hut and back.

On the Chius night, for safety reasons, they fish together, on both sides of the fire. A kettle is hung over the fire - it will always be hot, ready to warm the freezing fisherman. Another condition - nothing else "hot", otherwise the case may end badly.

* Burbot in general is in many ways similar to cod. This is her close relative and the only freshwater representative of the Cod family (Ed.).

Reservoirs of the region

Fishing in the Trans-Baikal Territory

The largest rivers in the region are the Gazimur, Kalar, Ingoda, Shilka and Nercha. Their length is more than 500 km. This is where Amur originates. Most of the region's rivers are relatively small, but during floods and after freezing, many of them may be of interest to amateur anglers.

The uniqueness of the lakes of the Trans-Baikal Territory is that they form interconnected systems. Vivid examples of such systems are the Ivano-Arakhlei system of lakes, as well as the Torey lakes. The largest lake of the first water system is Arahley. The second system includes lakes Zun-Torey and Barun-Torey, which overflow widely during precipitation and spring ice melting, and by the end of summer they can dry up completely. If there is no desire to travel far from Chita, then you can visit the Karpovskie Lakes. They are relatively small, not landscaped along the banks, but are ideal for outdoor recreation and fishing. You can also pay attention to Lake Kenon.

Fishing on the rivers of Transbaikalia

Taimen is considered a symbol of Transbaikalia. This is a real river predator, to catch which is the goal of any enthusiastic fisherman. Taimen are caught mainly on spinners, and enough big size. Most best time for fishing - autumn. most best bait for taimen, a “mouse” is traditionally considered - an imitation of a mouse swimming across a river. Moreover, the taimen pecks at the "mouse" both day and night. Feelings when a taimen pecked are difficult to confuse with something. This is a fighter fish, and it takes a lot of effort to overcome it.

Loved by fishermen and lenok fish, which is caught by spinning. It is smaller than the taimen, but similar in habits to it and usually lives in the same places.

Grayling is also very popular. He is also smaller than taimen. Grayling is caught by spinning and fly fishing using small spinning lures. It is possible to fish with a bait, both from a boat and from the shore, usually in wiring. For line fishing, artificial flies or local natural live baits are used.

In spring, large flocks of fish go to spawn in the upper reaches, and in autumn, after spawning, they roll down the rivers. During these periods, the fish are actively pecking and being caught. In winter, despite the severe frost, it is popular ice fishing. Under a thick layer of ice, the rivers do not freeze, burbot, dace, grayling, pike, perch are caught. At the time of spawning, at the beginning of summer, there are certain restrictions on fishing.

The Shilka River is especially popular among fishermen of Transbaikalia. In terms of stocks and diversity of fish, Shilka occupies one of the leading places in the region. Chum salmon and beluga come here from the Amur, you can even catch a large sturgeon on spinning. But, in any case, fishing on the Trans-Baikal rivers is usually a good catch and great pleasure.

Fishing on the lakes of Transbaikalia

Lakes in the Trans-Baikal Territory are usually complex water systems where lakes are interconnected and fish move from one to another. They say the bigger the lake, the bigger the fish you can catch.

Fishermen of Transbaikalia are very fond of the Ivano-Arakhlei lakes. The water mass stretched for tens of kilometers. Lakes differ from each other in size, depth, composition of water, vegetation. Perch, chebak, crucian carp, pike are caught here. Fishing on the lakes is popular at any time of the year.

Lake Nichatka is also respected by anglers, which is also called a fish lake (from the word "nicha" - fish). Lake Nichatka is one of the deepest and cleanest lakes in the region. Here you can catch not only pike, perch, goby or burbot, but also whitefish, taimen, grayling, davatchan. Having gone fishing on Lake Nichatka, you can be sure that the catch is guaranteed.

There are many wonderful places for fishing in Transbaikalia. There is only one problem - not all of these places are easy and simple to get to. Sometimes the only way is powerboat. But in the summer, when the water is low, this can also be difficult.

The lakes of the Trans-Baikal Territory are entire water systems located beyond Baikal. These are the Ivano-Arakhlei system of lakes and the Torey lakes. The system of the latter includes interconnected unique drainless lakes - Zun-Torey and Barun-Torey. These water systems are characterized by unstable water levels. In rainy periods, their area, in general, reaches 880 square meters. km, in a dry summer they almost completely dry up. In the Ivano-Arakhley system of lakes, the largest is Arakhley. Its area is more than 58 sq. km.

Fishing in the Trans-Baikal Territory is mainly fishing for such fish species as ide, grayling and lenok. But fishing for this fish is not always allowed. During the spawning period, at the beginning of summer, restrictions apply. Most fish are caught on the lake, which is little known. It is not very large, but the very name that was given to it in the old days indicated that the fish in the lake are found in large numbers. Lake Nichatka is not only breeds common in the region, but also spiked, pike, perch, taimen, davatchan, goby, burbot and others, including salmon. The list could go on. Fish Lake - Nichatka is called differently, it is an obligatory and rich catch of fish. Lakes of the Trans-Baikal Territory - this is a must good fishing except during the spawning period.

Fishing Features

Fishing in Transbaikalia

On the territory of this region is located a large number of large reservoirs. On their territory, all fish are in constant migration. Thus, she is constantly in search of food. In this regard, before you go fishing, you need to familiarize yourself with the features of the reservoir on which you are going to fish. During the period of fishing, it is recommended to systematically monitor how the fish moves in the reservoir.

Thus, you can find more fishing spots. It must be remembered that fish do not live in local reservoirs throughout the channel. But its movement is carried out not in dense jambs, but in small paths. It is in connection with this that the descent of fish will directly depend on the nature of the river, the depth and speed of the current. For example, in the reaches there is a fairly large depth. It is in such an area that large fish like to live. A weaker current, as a rule, is inherent in the middle part of the reach. In such a place, you can stumble upon a large accumulation of small fish. For example, it can be a chebak, a minnow or a sorog.

In the Trans-Baikal Territory, a large number of rivers are filled with fish that come here for spawning. Spawning itself in a large number of fish proceeds throughout May and June. But burbot prefers to spawn directly in the cold season. Its last spawning takes place directly in January. During the spawning period, a large number of fish have a very active zhor. Thus, the fish stock up on food for the entire spawning period. As soon as spawning is over, the zhor of fish is restored again.

For example, in pike, carp and lenok, after spawning, the resumption of zhora is observed after twelve days. But in grayling and perch, zhor is constantly observed. Many anglers believe that the wind does not affect the feeding process of the fish. But this is far from true. All the greenery, which is located on the banks of reservoirs, serves as excellent food for fish. In the presence of wind from the trees, various insects fall into the water, which the fish subsequently feed on. Thanks to a good food base in the reservoirs of Transbaikalia, lenka, whitefish, pike perch, and pike feel great.

In the event that the spring in Transbaikalia is very cold and long, then you should not expect good fishing. The thing is that at this time all the fish go to great depths and stop responding to any bait. But as soon as it starts to warm up a little, the situation on the rivers immediately changes. The bite begins to gradually stabilize. As soon as the ice drift is over, the water in the rivers becomes very clean and bright. It is during this period that a large number of fish begin to have a very strong zhor.

The most popular fish in the territory of Transbaikalia is taimen. They usually catch it when using spinners, oscillating or rotating. Experienced anglers advise taking a larger lure for this fish. But in order to catch lenok you need to use spinning. Very often, lenok can be found in the same places where taimen stands. Both types of fish are caught directly when using a spinning rod. Another popular fish in this region is the grayling itself. A lot of people use fly fishing or spinning to catch it. The fish itself is small. In this regard, anglers use spinning lures, flies and streamers.

Throughout the winter period, fishing from under the ice is very popular in these parts. In the cold season, grayling, burbot, dace, pike and large perch bite perfectly. Many anglers at this time catch their trophy fish.

When it rains in a wall, the fish also do not bite, but after the rain the best bite begins. Good fish peck in inclement weather on the eve of rain.

In July, the water is very hot, so the fish bite well before sunrise, after the night the water cools down a bit. At this time, on the outskirts of deep pits, the fish takes good live bait or a piece of small fish, impaled on a hook.

In the grass that has risen to the water surface, you can easily catch large predators that feed on any small fish. On the outskirts of muddy creeks, especially where small streams flow into large rivers, it is also not difficult to catch fish - on small baubles or a floating fishing rod.

The Baikal omul lives in waters containing silt. In it, he finds the smallest crustaceans and insect larvae. Omul loves the upper layers of water heated by the sun, which pleases the fishermen. There is enough fat in the omul - this is what helps the fish to survive in the icy Baikal water in the winter.

With the cooling of the water, burbot becomes active, and in deep holes, near steep banks, it is caught on bottoms or mugs. Trans-Baikal places are famous for their rich and pure nature. The reservoirs of the region are quite different in depth, vegetation, and water composition. Therefore, there are many varieties of fish - burbot, omul and others.

Fishing in Transbaikalia in autumn and winter

While in other regions of the country, anglers are looking forward to spring, when the fish begins to be active, you can come to Transbaikalia not only in spring, but also in autumn, when the real fish rush begins. It is fishing in Transbaikalia in winter and at the end of autumn that is a unique opportunity to organize a real hunt for fattening taimen, for the sake of which thousands of fishing enthusiasts make trips. This fish rightfully deserves respect and it is not in vain that it is considered a real fighter, since far from everyone can cope with this huge predator, so if you have little experience in fishing, you should practice on other types of fish.

They catch taimen on a lure, and in this case size matters - given the size of the fish itself, it is worth using a large bait. Before you go for taimen, it is worth talking to local fishermen who will advise you to make a special bait called “mouse”, as it imitates a rodent swimming across the river. The first bite of a taimen will unbalance even experienced ones, so you need to prepare carefully for a meeting with a giant.

Fishing in Transbaikalia in spring and summer

A huge number of rivers and small streams flow in Transbaikalia, and among the wide variety of “cool” places, fishing in Transbaikalia on the Ingoda is especially popular, where you will meet with another representative of the local fish fauna. This is lenok, which can also be caught with a spinning rod. The fish is somewhat smaller than taimen, and smaller fish prefer to live in a flock, and large lenok lives alone, so it is more difficult to catch it.

Fishing in Transbaikalia in the spring is also a unique opportunity to organize grayling hunting. This local delicacy can be called a legend, and fishermen from all over Russia and other countries come to test themselves in fishing for grayling in Transbaikalia. You can catch grayling with spinning and overlap, for this you can even use a regular float fishing rod. Although grayling is smaller than taimen and lenok, it is difficult to catch it without certain skills.

In addition to a large number of rivers different sizes, in Transbaikalia there are a large number of reservoirs with stagnant water, therefore fishing in Transbaikalia on lakes, which are entire water systems, is no less popular, and it is often difficult to predict which representative of the local ichthyofauna you will meet, since fish is represented here in a wide variety. Among the numerous lakes, it is worth highlighting the Torey lakes and reservoirs of the Ivano-Arakhlei system.

Features of fishing bases

The location of most fishing bases is very convenient: there is usually a fairly large natural or artificial reservoir nearby, where there are enough fish of various species. In most cases, the base has its own pier, rents out boats and other equipment necessary for fishing.

For fishing, it is better to choose reservoirs that are located outside large settlements, since a large number of vacationers, the proximity of industrial enterprises pollute both water and soil. It is better to choose the Torey, Ivano-Arakhlei or Kuando-Chara lakes for a vacation in nature. These lakes stretch for many kilometers, differ from each other in depth, size and other characteristics, which affects the species composition of the fish living here. Often, fish move from one lake in the system to another along channels and channels. The deeper and larger the lake, the bigger size you can catch fish in it. Of course, you will need to spend time on the road to the lakes, but the natural beauty of the places and the abundance of fish are worth it.

The species diversity of fish in the reservoirs of the Trans-Baikal Territory is somewhat different from what the inhabitants of central Russia are used to. So, for example, in Lake Arey, grass carp, aukha, skygazer, snakehead, kaluga, yellow-cheeked, silver carp and rotan are most often caught. On Doroninskoye Lake, there is a high probability of catching chebak, loach, crucian carp, catfish. The rivers are inhabited by lenok, taimen, grayling, pike, and roach. Lake Nichatka also deserves the attention of amateur fishermen. Its name is translated as "fish lake". This is one of the deepest lakes in the region, which is characterized by clear and clean water. Here, in addition to the usual types of fish, you can catch a goby, davatchan, burbot, whitefish. On the territory of the region there are reservoirs where it can be carried out paid fishing. Such places can be a great vacation spot for those who love comfort. In addition to the right to catch a certain amount of fish in such places, gazebos for recreation and barbecues for cooking caught fish are provided.

When going fishing in the Trans-Baikal Territory, it must be remembered that there are a number of restrictions on the reservoirs of the region regarding the time and type of fish that can be caught. Almost everywhere fishing is prohibited during the spawning season. In order to spend their vacation in comfort, experienced anglers recommend seeking help in organizing a tour from fishing and travel companies, whose specialists know the best places for fishing in the region.

Video: Fishing in the Trans-Baikal Territory

Since last year fishing calendar in Transbaikalia it is always late by one and a half to two weeks. Autumn did not want to give up, and the first sludge on the rivers went only at the beginning of November. The freeze-up passed painfully, the stretches frozen at night during the day were again freed from ice by the sun. Autumn did not want to give way to winter. For Transbaikalia, this is unusual.

Last spring was also late, protracted. Grayling, having spawned, began to feed only in June, although in normal years it bites beautifully already at the end of May, during the flowering of bird cherry. The post-spawning zhor at lenok was supposed to begin in the last days of June, but spawning was also delayed, and lenok began to catch normally only at the beginning of July.

Late and the first ice. Winter usually begins in mid-November. In any case, by November 7, the Trans-Baikal fishermen always went out onto the ice without fear. This was the case on the lakes this year: although the ice was rather thin, it was confidently holding a fisherman in ammunition already on November 10. About the lake winter fishing this season will tell later. Since I consider myself more of a river fisherman, I will start with fishing on the rivers, namely with catching burbot.

I will say right away: my first trip for freshwater cod ended not in my favor. I left for the river, as it should be, still before dark, so as not to look for first-ice adventures in the dark. When the ice is already fragile, you need to be extremely careful. And when you go out thin ice at night, you need to be doubly careful. I tried to catch burbot on my branded bait - cut "under the worm" beef. Previously, this dish worked exclusively with him. More than once I caught fishermen with him, with whom I fished on the same stretch. Someone caught on a worm, someone on a minnow, I - on meat, and was in the black. I don’t know what this is connected with, only burbot ate my beef much better than live bait, chopped fish or worms! Another important point in burbot fishing: the bait must be kept on the hook flawlessly. This nocturnal predator is a great specialist in pulling the bait off the hook. But he doesn't like beef. In any case, this has never happened in my experience.

But the grayling pleased at the beginning of winter. He pecked well until about mid-December, when the river was half open. That is, until the rifts intercepted by ice ran freely. Fish accumulated at the entrance to the hole or at the exit to the reach, just on the border of open water. When the wilderness began, the grayling, as it usually happens in winter, switched to two meals a day - in the morning and in the evening.

On the lakes, after the ice had finally risen (it became safe to drive a car on the ice only by mid-December), perch pecked quite well. In particular, on Lake Shaksha, the perch took well on small winter baubles. Balancers also interested him, but much less. I tried to put on very small baits, but the perch still preferred the lure. Maybe this is due to the peculiarities of the game of lures. As you know, spinners and balancers play differently. The former play more horizontally, the latter vertically.

Shakshin roach pecked too, but from the approach. I want to tell you more about the roach. I set up an experiment on the lake: I decided to check how river tackle would work. That is, a fishing rod equipped with a carrot-colored river blende with a cock feather winding. The bait is tied on an elongated drop-shaped mormyshka. He twisted it in his hands, as it should be - he blew the pen so that it ruffled. I also thought: why not! - and lowered the bait into the water.

Having determined the depth from the gatehouse, he began wiring. I crush with a brush in much the same way as on the river, with short pauses. The roach is not a grayling and not a lenok, it does not like a sharp game of bait. I raise my hand up and start a smooth, with rare "sighs", flight to the bottom. I remembered fishing on Arakhleya in May, when shoals of roach and dace, preparing for spawning, begin to actively feed. And at that very moment the guard froze. I hooked, and in my hands was a good roach. Behind her is the second - after a short pause and also on the descent. If only one roach pecked at the river snag, then it is understandable - an accident. The hungry fish mixed up and grabbed the first object that came into its field of vision (the lateral line probably also helped). But five roaches could not come to an agreement, you must admit. Especially since I pulled them out one by one for ten minutes. The conclusion suggests itself: river bait works equally well both on the lake, on roach, and on the river on grayling and lenok.

I also went to Ivan Lake. In the summer, pike pecked there quite well. She took spinners and silicone lures. I swam in a boat behind the first wall of grass, about thirty meters from the shore, and caught distant approaches, that is, from the side of the thickets opposite from the shore. In the same place I tried to provoke a pike in December. The ice was still not very thick, forty centimeters. Effortlessly drilled six holes along the grass. I fished for half a day, from morning to afternoon. But, alas, I never managed to feel the impact on the balancer.

Having settled down above the talc, there is no need to feed lenok and grayling with a drill, since all the fish walk somewhere nearby. The sound will help to attract her to the bait. The angler, shaking the tip of the rod with a small amplitude, taps the bait on the pebble, sand and gravel or rocky bottom - and the fish is right there. Why do grayling, lenok, taimen, burbot and even whitefish go to ultra-low frequency sounds (up to 100 beats per minute) and even grab (except for small grayling) bait?

For many years I caught these fish in Transbaikalia “by knocking”, at the same time observing their actions through the hole in completely transparent water, and I will allow myself to make some assumptions about the causes of this phenomenon. The underwater kingdom is filled with a variety of sounds. The fish perceives them as water vibrations and reacts in one way or another. Depending on the source, sounds can be divided into three groups.

The first is fish signals. The space under the ice is filled with their "voices" - sounds announcing danger, pain, flight, injury, spawning, etc.

The second group is the sounds of the "food chain". These include the rustles emitted by insects and their larvae when moving in the water.

The third group is the sounds of the environment. These can be vibrations that occur above the river and are transmitted. for example, from steps on ice or unnatural blows on the bottom, etc.

The frequency spectrum of sound vibrations under water is from 5 to 13,000 Hz, while vibrations with a frequency of 5-25 Hz are perceived by the fish as a lateral line, and from 25 to 13,000 Hz - as an auditory labyrinth. Sound travels four times faster in water than in air and much farther. Therefore, it can be assumed that the sounds of a "stonker" can attract fish to the hole from afar, thereby replacing the bait.

The sound of the bait on the bottom belongs to the third group - the sounds of the habitat, however, the fish willingly goes to it, trying to get close to its source (it can be assumed that the reason for this behavior of the fish is their inherent curiosity). Here's what you can see when watching the grayling through the hole.

With the start of knocking, the first to appear at the bait is a large grayling. After a while, his brothers become more and more, both large and small. Kids do not attack the bait - they stand near it or push it with their nose. Large specimens, albeit hesitantly, can attack the "squealer" and become the prey of the fisherman.

As soon as the sound stops, graylings lose interest in the bait and after a while move away from it, disappearing from view. Taimen behave differently. He always goes to the sound not with the flow, but against it, immediately swallowing the “squealer” or lying down on it. The angler feels swipe in the hand - by biting taimen cannot be confused with other fish.

Lenok is more curious - several times he carefully swims past the "squealer", as if studying it. Often, during shaking, he takes the bait in his mouth and stands motionless. The fisherman does not feel the bite, and only when lifting the fishing rod he feels the weight hanging on the hook. Occasionally, lenok falls on the “squealer”, but usually small individuals (30-35 cm) do this.

The burbot is especially partial to bottom sounds. Near the bait, he almost dances - wriggles, comes close, touches the fishing line, swims over the bait. After a long courtship, an attack follows. The bite is felt in a sharp, heavy way. Sometimes a burbot with a rare blow almost knocks the fishing rod out of the hands. There is no need to hook this fish, it sits securely on the hook itself.

Best of all, the fish comes out for a short-term sound of a “stonker”, alternating with a period of “silence” - a pause. The ratio of knock and pause in the lure game cycle is 1:2 (20 seconds - knock. 40 seconds - pause). The fish actively approaches exactly at the beginning of the knock, then its interest in the bait slowly fades away, but the bite most often follows at the beginning of the pause.

Taimen, lenok and grayling willingly go to knock in calm, calm weather, when the “voices” of fish dominate under the ice, the rustles of larvae and nymphs moving along the bottom are heard, and there are no extraneous noises drowning out low-frequency vibrations that come from the beating on the bottom " stalkers." If the taiga is noisy, then catching “knocking” is doomed to failure. It seems that the fish is deaf from the noise under the ice.

The Stukalka is usually caught in the very middle of winter, because it is at this time that calm days prevail. In February, with the beginning of the season of winds and snowstorms, the bait becomes less effective, except for rare days when the winds subside. Any heavy bait can be used as a "stalker".

But horizontal spinners are considered the most effective: a balancer in a crown, a faceted balancer, a “bullet”: a large mormyshka and a bronze ball. The crown balancer is quite easy to make. First, a crown made of copper, brass or cupronickel 35-45 mm long and 7-8 mm wide is squeezed out or knocked out with special strikers.

Good crowns are obtained from brass or copper tubes 08 mm, cut lengthwise into two equal parts. Having processed the sharp edges with a file, the crown is poured with lead or solder, and the nose and tail parts of the “stalker”-balancer are formed. Two hooks No. 6-7 are soldered into the bow. and better - a double, in the tail section - one hook No. 8-10.

The ratio of the length of the new and tail parts is 1:2.5. The tail hook is equipped with a rooster feather, wolverine, bear or kolonka hair. Balancing this bait is an important and rather time-consuming operation. By choosing the place of fastening of the loops, such a position is achieved so that the “stalker” suspended behind it has an inclination of 10-15 ° to the bow of the bait.

In this case, after fixing the nozzle (most often the bark beetle) on the tail hook, the “stalker” will take a horizontal position or close to it and, when shaking with the rod, will hit the bottom flat, making clear sounds.

If the bait is not balanced, then it will hit the bottom, as if waddling from nose to tail or vice versa. The sounds of such a “stalker” are fuzzy, stretched out but over time.

Crown balancers usually weigh between 8 and 20 grams or more. Bait desired weight is selected on the river depending on the speed of the current and the depth of fishing. The faceted balancer was developed by Khabarovsk resident Radchenko. For its manufacture, two plates 40x12 mm and 2-3 mm thick are connected by soldering, one of copper, the other of brass. You can use another combination: copper - brass - copper, bronze - copper, etc.

A symmetrical rhombus is formed from the plates with a file, the edges are turned, and a hole is drilled exactly in the center of gravity for the eyelet for attaching the spinner. Then one of the sharp corners of the rhombus is ground down, achieving the same inclination with respect to the horizon as that of the balance bar in the crown -10-15°. Hook No. 8-10 is soldered into each of the sharp corners, one of which can be equipped with a beard from a rooster feather, wolverine wool, a column, etc.

A fisherman in a pond will need several faceted balancers of different sizes, starting from 35 mm and with various combinations of metals. The sound of a faceted balancer knocking on the bottom is clearer and ringing than that of a balancer in the crown, since the hardness of copper, bronze and brass is much higher than that of lead and solder. Therefore, many anglers quite reasonably prefer these lures.

It is easy to see that both types of balancers are bimetallic spinners. Such baits in water, which plays the role of a weak electrolyte, generate an electric field that pulsates and changes depending on the frequency of hits of the “stalker” on the bottom. Fishermen have long known the high catchability and attractiveness of bimetallic spinners when catching predatory fish with a spinning rod. The same is true for "stalkers".

Two different metals immersed in water, according to scientists, form a galvanic pair that generates an electromotive force. It can be determined by the formula: E \u003d e1-e2. From the standard electrode potential with a larger algebraic value (e1), the potential with a smaller value (e2) is subtracted. So, for example, the electrode potential of zinc is +0.34 volts, copper: -0.29. iron: -0.02, nickel: -0.17, lead: -0.29 volts.

For the balancer in the crown, the copper-lead pair creates an electric field with an electromotive force equal to: E \u003d 0.29 - (-0.76) \u003d 1.05 volts. For a copper-brass pair, its value is even higher. So what happens under water when you hit the bottom with a bimetallic "stalker"? Sounds emanating from the bait, and these are hydraulic low-frequency, more precisely, ultra-low-frequency (5-25 Hz) vibrations, are perceived by the lateral line of the fish at a considerable distance from the angler.

The fish goes to the ringing object. Once at the bait, it enters a weak electric field, the pulsation frequency of which is the same 5-25 Hz. In other words, the noise portrait of the bait is repeated in the electric field of the bimetallic spinner. Scientists claim that fish can generate weak electromagnetic fields, the characteristics of which depend on the state of each individual.

At the same time, fish can perceive electromagnetic vibrations emanating from other objects. Of course, predators are attracted to signals from weakened, unhealthy fish. It can be assumed that the electric field created by the bimetallic "stalker" when hitting the bottom is similar in its configuration to the electric field of an unhealthy and, therefore, excited fish, and thereby initiates the predator's grasp of the bait.

In any case, the higher attractiveness for fish of bimetallic "knockers" has been established in practice. Balancers are good, machined from a homogeneous metal, best of all from bronze, from 25 mm to 50 mm long and even more. Models are especially catchy, in which one hook, as a rule, is tail, soldered into the body of the balancer, and the other is connected to the bait pivotally.

When knocking, the hook baited by the bark beetle, articulated with the “stalker”, does not repeat all the movements of the balancer, but lies on the bottom and moves slightly. Spinner "Bullet" is made of a rod 08-10 mm, which is ground into a cone. Material - copper, brass, bronze. Length 40-60 mm, weight 10 to 20 g or more. A hook No. 10-12 and even 16 according to domestic numbering is soldered into the body of the spinner, at the top of its conical part.

The cone-shaped body of the spinner, resembling a bullet in shape, has a specific balance that leads to tumbling. This lure is specially designed for burbot fishing. Large mormyshkas can also become "Stukalki". The material for them is the "singing" metals of church bells: bronze, copper, brass. This mormyshka is equipped with a loop for attaching the clasp.

This design provides a quick change of jig of different weights and colors. Large mormyshkas are good, having a hinged connection of the hook with the body of the bait. The angler should have several mormyshkas - weighing 5, 10, 12 g or more. They are used when fishing on tals, on other selected fishing spots on those days when the fish are very cautious. Large mormyshkas are universal - not only salmon fish, but also burbot are caught on them.

And, finally, the last, most original design - the “stalkers” -ball. A ball is turned out of bronze (in extreme cases - brass or copper) on a lathe, two blind holes are drilled in it, the axes of which are mutually perpendicular. Loops made of wire with a diameter of 0.6-0.8 mm are soldered into each of them: one for fishing line, the other for hinged hook attachment.

When the ball is tapped on the bottom, the hook only moves slightly, making vibrations up and down together with the bait (usually a bark beetle larva), actually imitating a stonefly, mayfly or caddis nymph. And depending on the depth and speed of the river, as well as the activity of the fish, they select a “squealer” - a ball of the desired weight and diameter.

For light tackle fit balls 06-8mm. Hook No. 6 is mounted to them. For medium equipment (it is better to catch salmon on it), balls of 08-12 mm and hooks No. 6 are used. And finally, balls & 14-20 mm are selected for heavy gear, to which hook No. even 16 (according to domestic numbering) with a long forearm.

Burbot is caught with a heavy “stalker” by hooking pieces of fish, usually minnow or minnow, on the hook.

Viktor Mikhailenko