There are many ponds in this suburban area where you can successfully go fishing. First of all, consider those of them that are located along the main route of the southwestern direction - the Kaluga highway. So, let's start with the village of Voronovo, around which there are several vast and fish-rich ponds at once. Right behind the village, to the right of the highway (if you drive from Moscow), Voronovsky Pond, popular among fishermen, stretches for almost three kilometers. It is rich in a wide variety of fish, and the fish here are large. The pond is famous primarily for its carp, which reaches a weight of 10 kilograms. There are also bream, roach, perch, pike. The pond is divided by a dam into two parts - northern and southern. In the southern half, fishing is paid.
And if you turn right at Voronov, towards the village of Yuryevka, then after about three kilometers there will be a pond no less attractive for fishing. There are a lot of perch and pike here, so the reservoir is of interest primarily for lovers of predator hunting.
On the opposite side of the highway, if you turn left towards the village of Yudanovka, you can find several fairly large ponds rich in fish at once. The main fish in them is crucian carp. Although there are roach, perch, pike. On one of the ponds, located north of Yudanovka, fishing is paid.
You can get here both by private car and by regular bus from the metro station "Teply Stan" to Voronov, from here you can even get to any of the named ponds on foot.
Literally a few kilometers from Voronovo towards Moscow, near the village of Babenki, there is a large pond rich in large crucian carp and carp. They fish here both with float rods and with donks. Directions: along the Kaluga highway with a left turn near the village of Babenki towards the village of Filino. From the turn to the pond - two kilometers.
Fans of catching rare, noble fish can be recommended special reservoirs where such fish are bred. There are many such ponds. For example, at the 47th kilometer along the Kaluga highway there is a remarkable pond, where carp, trout, grass carp, carp, catfish, pike, crucian carp can be prey for the fisherman. Fishing here, of course, is paid.
Once I happened to fish on this pond in a pleasant company from the ice. We came specially for trout, the weight of which here reaches two kilograms. It was in December, at the most cool time. I drilled a hole, put it on a big hook winter fishing rod a piece of sea shrimp (a favorite delicacy for trout), lowered the tackle into the hole.
And he himself stepped a little to the side to drill another hole. He looked around and was stunned: the fishing rod was not in place. The trout, having swallowed the shrimp with the hook, swam away with my fishing rod. I had to equip a new fishing rod, which I no longer let go of. And he experienced many exciting minutes from single combat with a fiercely resisting large trout, when it seemed as if someone invisible under water was trying to snatch the tackle from his hands.
Another similar pond is located to the right of the highway (if you drive from Moscow), near the village of Krasnaya Pakhra. The "range" of fish here is also impressive: carp, grass carp, bream, trout, catfish, crucian carp, pike, perch, roach. I have fished here several times in the summer. I especially remember one of the May fishing trips, when I caught 17 kilograms of carp!
The closest such reservoir from Moscow along the Kaluga direction is located near the village of Sosenki, just a few kilometers from the Ring Road.
The rivers Protva, Pakhra, Nara and Desna
On the territory of the Moscow region under consideration, the Protva, Nara, Pakhra, and Desna rivers attract attention. They have already been partially mentioned in a previous publication, but there it was only about those sections of the named rivers that are located strictly in the southern part of the region.
Protva - the most full-flowing and rich in fish river this region. On the territory of the Moscow region, it flows only in the Mozhaisk and Narofominsk districts, and then crosses the neighboring Kaluga region for a considerable distance. The most interesting and attractive places for lovers fishing start from the city of Vereya, Narofominsk district and further downstream. Here there are deep pools, rifts. Fisherman's trophies can be roach, perch, pike, chub, ide, bream, dace, gudgeon.
You can get to these places by private vehicles along the Minsk highway with a turn near the village of Yazevo towards Vereya. Or by train to Dorohovo station, then by local bus to Vereya.
However, the most preferred places for fishing on Protva are located downstream, where, thanks to the rivers and rivulets flowing into it, Protva becomes full-flowing, wide and deep. And the closer to the confluence with the Oka, the more full-flowing the river.
And although Protva in this section flows through the territory Kaluga region, fishermen near Moscow, especially from Narofominsk, Podolsk, Odintsovo, Chekhov and Serpukhov regions, this river is quite accessible in terms of transport. Depending on the place of residence, some can travel by train to Balabanov or Obninsk, then on foot or by local bus to the river. Others travel by private vehicle. Entrances and approaches to the river throughout this section are quite accessible.
As one of the most attractive places, we can also recommend a section of the river at the confluence of the Luzha River south of Obninsk. Here you can fish well both with a float rod and bottom gear. A scavenger is successfully caught on steamed peas and semolina, roach is successfully caught on hercules and pearl barley.
The Nara River deserves the attention of fishermen. In terms of the power of the water flow, it is noticeably inferior to Protva and is of interest for fishing only below Narofominsk. The river flows in places among picturesque wooded areas, narrow rapids alternate with quiet reaches. Chub, ide, roach, perch, pike, dace, gudgeon live in it.
I remember one of the summer seasons, when for almost two weeks I met every sunrise on the banks of the Nara with a fishing rod in my hands. I stayed with relatives near the village of Chubarovo along the Kaluga highway and did not miss the opportunity to go fishing. Chublets, roaches pecked, and there was simply no end to minnows if the hook with a piece of worm touched the bottom. And once he was very surprised when he picked up a tench. In a word, although the fish in Nara are not large, you don’t get bored.
Winter Nara
The next most important river for fishing in the southwestern Moscow region is Pakhra in its upper reaches. From the outside, the river is not particularly impressive. However, it is very rich in fish. Large roach, bream, crucian carp, tench, silver bream, ide, chub, asp, pike, perch are found here. Moreover, crucian comes across up to a kilogram, and bream - up to two kilograms.
True, the biting of fish on Pakhra is capricious, you have to not only select the right nozzle, but also guess with bait. Apparently, constant fishing pressure affects the behavior of local underwater inhabitants. After all, the reservoir is close to the capital, transport links are convenient, so many fishermen always come here. And those amateurs who come here constantly and have studied the peculiarities of the local fishing well, usually return with a fairly rich catch.
Near the village of Shaganino, the river is blocked by a dam. The resulting reservoir reaches a width of 200 meters and a depth of six meters. Here on bottom tackle you can catch large bream and even carp. Those who like to catch a predator hunt for pike with spinning and mugs. It is not difficult to get here: by car along the Kaluzhskoe highway before turning left near the village of Krasnaya Pakhra towards Shaganino. Before reaching Shaganino, you can stop right behind the village of Sofyino, where there are also convenient and attractive places for fishing.
Winter Pakhra
You can sit with a fishing rod and on the banks of the Desna River. It is quite rich in roach, perch, pike, bream. There are even carp. I remember fishing with inflatable boat on the Desna River near the village of Vatutinki. Here, dammed by a local factory, the river forms a fairly wide bay with standing water. Around the forest, a cozy corner of nature pleasing to the eye.
Pecked roaches, perches. And after another strange bite, atypical for roach and perch, when the float first began to slowly rise from the water, and then moved to the side, plunging at the same time, I hooked and was even a little confused by surprise: the rod bent into an arc, at the other end of the fishing line some is a powerful fish. I had to take on the landing net. Pulled a carp about a kilogram. Then more and more. Caught three carp.
However, such luck on the Desna is the exception rather than the rule. In general, the bite of fish here is unpredictable. Only in early spring in wiring, roach, scavenger are successfully caught on bloodworms. It should be borne in mind that during the year the water level in the river is different: in spring the river is shallow, with fast current. At this time, and you can go fishing here in the wiring. And later the river is blocked by a dam, the water level rises, the flow is almost imperceptible.
You can count on the capture of roach, perch, and scavengers here.
In the evening I decided to go fishing on the Desna and at first I planned to fish for spinning, but the weather forecast showed that the next morning it could be frost down to -10. In such a frost, I don’t like fishing with winter spinning, gear freezes too much, and it is possible that the river will be covered thin ice.
So I agreed with a friend to go to the zherlitsy. We chose Desna not by chance - closer and fewer people. Fishing on the lakes is no longer an option: on many, fish die from a lack of oxygen, but on the Desna it makes sense to look trophy pike or perch.
The turn of the river at which we stopped was unknown to us. The zherlitsy were set according to the old scheme: part under the steep in the snag and part on the whirlpool. For live bait, roach and a few perches were used. I would not take perches to the river, but now there is a problem with live bait, and we catch what is available.
Before we had time to set all the vents, two had already worked, and those standing next to each other. Of course, the drawings turned out to be idle. I think that this is done by small zanders or just passing ice knocks down the vent.
At about eight o'clock, more fishermen pulled themselves up for fishing, we undertook to catch on a skating rink. I had to drill a lot of holes in search of the silver bream, and when I found it, after the second fish, the bites stopped. The nosar came to replace the bream and pecked from almost every hole.
In the meantime, we have a drawdown on the vent, and again in the place where there have already been three idle failures of the flag. I didn’t even take a hook, I started to choose a fishing line and felt heaviness, it seemed like a good pike had bitten. It resisted strongly, I even thought that there was a pike keel under three, but a toothy one and a half keel weight came out of the hole. Still better than nothing.
Until twelve in the afternoon there were no more drawdowns, then a flag lit up on the very last one, we ran up, it was empty. They had already begun to get ready to have dinner, make a fire, as again they were working. I noticed her late. I approached, all the fishing line was wound from the reel, and this is not a current, because the vent was in a quiet place. As soon as I took up the fishing line, and it is stretched like a string. I feel that there is a fish on the other end, and it does not allow me to pull myself up to the hole.
I was able to pull out only half a meter of fishing line, as the fish rested and began to put pressure on itself, making jerks. I can’t give her the fishing line, she’s already taken everything, I just have to keep it. And then the weight disappeared, the fish jumped off the hook. After that, I couldn’t recover all the fishing, because, judging by the resistance, the fish was big, but no one will know how big. It's a shame, in a word.
We fished on the Desna until the very evening, but all the catches were idle, and so we went home with one morning pike.
Is it easy to catch a bream on the Desna?.. The question is not idle. Now, when there are frankly few fish in the rivers, the once common “Vasya” (as bream is called in the Kiev region) has become not only a trophy, but a very desirable fish and by no means ubiquitous, as it was twenty years ago. "On the arap", simply arriving on the banks of the Desna and throwing donks or a float, is rarely possible. At the same time, for a number of anglers, bream continues to be a target and common trophy. A large number of Kiev and Chernihiv residents purposefully and regularly catch bream and scavengers.
So, let's figure out what, in principle, awaits us on the Desna and how to make sure that among the abundance river fish did the bronze handsome man become the predominant, or at least very likely prey? First of all, it should be noted that the bream, despite the thinned ranks, did not change its habits. It's the same schooling, sedentary fish. So, having caught a bream in this place, you can count on more bites with a high probability. Secondly, the bream, apart from humans, has few enemies. There are practically no large pikes and catfish left in Desna. So, if you manage to attract the attention of the bream to the feeder, or if you are in the "bream region" at all, you will naturally have very few bites of small fish - the bream (especially a flock of bream) drives it away very effectively. There will be few bites of other large fish - simply because of its small number. 
Although, a few years ago I came across a paradoxical bream area (we will talk about this concept later) in the Desnyanskaya wilderness, where the bream was completely absent. The reason for the "paradox" became clear after sunset, when the worm and live bait were literally attacked by catfish weighing 1-3 kg. Whiskers in large numbers simply squeezed the bream out of this area. We didn’t have a quok and special catfish gear - it is possible that there were specimens here and much larger than 3 kg, which can be tritely eaten by a scavenger.
Success conditions for catching bream, like the other peaceful fish, several: a combination of place, time, tackle, bait, bait. It is in this sequence that we will consider catching bream. PLACE
First, let's define terms. 
We will call bream areas vast areas (0.5-1.5 km), where bream definitely exists, it is constantly caught here.
Bream places in our story will be local zones (3-10 m), the most attractive for bream, where it currently accumulates and feeds.
Favorite areas of the bream are gentle depressions (2.5-5 m) with a soft bottom and a moderate current. Holes behind capes, just deepened sections of the river - all of them are worth checking for the presence of bream. Required condition- clayey or powdered with silt bottom. The bream is almost indifferent to snags, and does not particularly distinguish the boundaries of the forward and reverse currents. That is why it can be very comfortable - without tackle hooks for underwater obstacles. To be more specific, bream often feeds on the coasts reinforced with stone, if the depth in such places is sufficient. You can often meet bream along steep banks (very good if they are clayey, which is not often found on the Desna). If we consider typical bream areas (on the "near" Desna, this is a rocky shore near the village of Khotyanovka, similar areas near the villages of Pirnovo, Voropaev, Vypolzov and the famous "poplars" near the village of Evminka) - they all have a moderate depth, clay at the bottom and enough long (0.5-1.5 km). Arriving at one of these sites, first of all, you should study the general nature of the underwater and surface areas, and start fishing optimally on anomalies - edges, pits. Ideally - an exit from a hole of a small size. Both complementary foods and a feeder will linger here. This will already be a likely bream place where you need to try to catch. 
Is it possible to catch a bream on a bream area in the first place that comes across? Yes. But this fishing will not be very productive. So, by the way, many anglers do this, especially when they combine bream fishing with recreation (and they are combined on the Desna like no other type of fishing) - they don’t bother looking for a bream place, and then they are very surprised when the author of these lines catches one many times more than they - six. Bream (or rather, fish) places can also be outside the bream areas - Sabaneev wrote about them excellently, and I will only repeat his thought - “the more the place differs from the general character of the river, and the smaller its area, the greater the concentration of fish here". But the fact is that any white fish accumulates in such places, but the bream, most likely, will be “passing”, and there is no guarantee that you will be able to catch it in principle on this trip. 
Is it far to throw the bait?.. The bream can take both 10 and 50 m, and float rod I often caught bream at a distance of 6 m from the shore. There are two main factors here: the presence of eyebrows and the strength of the current, as well as the mass of the feeder. According to my observations, the bream, unlike the podust or roach, does not like the moving feeder. That is why the mass of the feeder when fishing for bream on the Desna on the feeder can be 150 grams! But better, of course - the minimum possible weight for these conditions.
From the characteristics of the place, we smoothly move on to the description of the tackle. Bream on the Desna, in principle, is also caught on a float bait. But the main tackle when hunting for bream is a bottom tackle (donk), moreover, it can be either a metal rod with an inertial "Nevka" and steel, or modern feeders with cords. The reason for the vitality of the "old times" in catching bream is easily explained. Steel is less blown away by the current, duralumin rods can easily cope with the weight of feeders up to 200 gr., And the bite of a bream (by the way, this is one of the reasons why anglers love it so much) is so strong and noticeable that even a hard metal rod signals it perfectly . Although I myself catch bream on a modern feeder, I fully understand the “Stalinists”, and sometimes they catch no less than the author of these lines. So, a feeder for catching bream should have a mass of at least 80 grams. But this is the absolute minimum. The optimal weight is 100-120 gr., and it is not always enough. It is for catching bream that the feeders are equipped with all kinds of hooks and wings, the purpose of which is to firmly hold the feeder at the bottom and lift it steeply into the upper layers of the water when unwinding the tackle in order to avoid hooks. Composite or carbon fiber inexpensive feeder with dough up to 150 gr. and a length of 3.6 m is quite suitable. The main requirement for a rod is strength and small price. It is when fishing for bream that two feeders are justified. After all, you often have to experiment with the range, bait, length of the leash and the "point", and the bream (we'll talk about this in more detail in the next chapter) bites "overhand" extremely rarely. Therefore, we set one feeder to the preferred distance (bait, place), and experiment with the second. After the nuances and preferences of the bream are determined, we transfer the second feeder to the catchable “parameters”. Reel. Any, strong enough, at least 3000 in size, with at least three bearings, preferably with an instantaneous brake. I have had experience with an ordinary Chinese reel for two years, and judging by its condition, it will live for some more time. It is only necessary to remember that the diameter of the spool of the reel and the “slipperiness”, as well as the diameter of the line, are the two main factors that affect the casting distance. For Desna distant casting it is not always necessary and not always possible (due to the strong current that blows the feeders, which is highly undesirable), but still it is more comfortable to “work” with a large diameter spool. 
Cord. Almost any budget, strong enough, abrasion resistant and preferably round or close to it will do. The thickness of the line is a compromise between strength, resistance to water pressure (drift) and the desired casting distance. Since the actual diameters of the cords are very different, and there is often no faith in what is written, I can only give advice based on actual diameters. The actual thickness of the cord can be 0.14-0.19 mm. Less - lower strength, higher - strongly blown away by the current. The thickness of the leash when fishing for bream on the Desna can be in the range of 0.16-0.24 mm. A bream can easily break a thinner line, 0.24 mm is already a little alarming (unless, of course, luck smiled at you and a flock of up to 10 individuals did not approach your feeder - then the bream will peck at anything). In general terms: while it is summer in the yard, and the water is not very clear - 0.2-0.22 mm will be just right. With the autumn clarification of the water, you need to switch to thinner leashes - 0.16-0.18 mm. The length of the leash. My general impression is that you need to start with a length of 50-60 cm. Then, depending on the situation, you may need to lengthen the leash to 80 cm or shorten it to 40. Two leashes, short and long, make the task easier.
It is for bream fishing that it is preferable to use an anti-twist tube. Another, quite working option is an “old-style” mesh nylon feeder with a wire rocker (what exactly such a feeder is interesting for, I will tell in the “bait” section). Usual feeder feeder I categorically do not recommend clinging to the yoke - often there is not enough “shoulder” for the bream to catch on its own or transmit a distinct bite on the rod. And one more thing. Fishing for bream is the only type of fishing I know of using a feeder (apart from catching catfish on bottoms in the dark), where I directly advise using a bite alarm. One bite per hour (and this is already a “bite”) may well go unnoticed. Is that bad. Here the point is not even so much in the lost potential trophy, but in the fact that as a result of this unnoticed bite you lose information about what the bream is interested in at the moment and at what distance. After all, the bite of a bream is very characteristic (more on this below), it is difficult to confuse it with the bite of another fish. Hooks when catching bream can be different. I use Owner Chinta #6-9. No. 6 is a purely bream option, for fish 0.7-1.5 kg. "Nine" and "eight" are used when the silver bream, white-eye and sabrefish peck mixed with bream. The hooks are good, and, in my opinion, they have only one drawback - they do not hold earthworms very well.
In most cases, in fishing articles, I consider this subsection useless, but it is in an article about bream fishing that it is necessary. I have already mentioned the beauty and strength of the bite itself. Further, a sign of the approaching bite of a bream is often a sudden cessation of the bite of another, smaller fish. But there is one more nuance - the bream, if it is dispersed, bites quite rarely. It happens that it is worth waiting for his approach for about an hour, and the interval of 5-10 minutes between bites is an intense bite.
Naturally, food from a standard metal feeder is washed out all the time - after 5-10 minutes nothing remains in it, and it ceases to attract fish - the food was carried away by the current. It is necessary to do a recast, which is alarming for the bream. Therefore, it is precisely when catching bream that they are used with bottoms and lids. Of course, you can start feeding with large (volumetric) feeders with a large amount of complementary foods. Moreover, such tactics are often (but not always, if we talk about bream) effective. But this, unfortunately, is not affordable for everyone, it requires good casting technique, a large amount of complementary food and, alas, does not exclude the advantages of a “bottom” feeder. That is, after feeding with volumetric feeders without a bottom, it is optimal to rebuild the bottom gear by attaching a heavier, preferably closed feeder.
Is it possible to do without all these nuances and get a few bream? It is possible, but on condition that the fish is currently active, and the correct place is chosen. 
BAIT FOR BREAM
Bait for bream - the question seems to be both understandable and difficult at the same time.
First, aromatics. This question is important for us because we are going to fish for bream (or mostly bream). That is, we need a selective bait - such that if another fish gathers instead of a bream, and the bream does not fit, we should be sure that it is most likely not in this area, and it is necessary to change the place. But the fact is that ready-made bait mixtures produced by various fishing companies, and sports anglers (and not only) have several opinions that are not very compatible with each other as to which flavor attracts bream better. For example, there is a group of bream baits with a creamy (from the word "cream") smell, with a chocolate and chocolate-molasses smell, finally, bream baits with a coriander smell are popular. Bream baits with a cinnamon-ginger smell stand apart. It should be noted that all these flavors are not always combined with each other in a bucket for mixing bait.
Finally, there is the good old peas, which are still relevant, especially as a source of large particles when stuffed into the feeder with “plugs”. And personally from myself I want to add a white loaf. An excellent source of large particles, I really like bream and dust, it is cheap, always at hand. So, what to choose? Probably, after all, spicy aromas, perhaps - sweet-spicy. To make it clear what I'm talking about, I'll give an accessible example - because it's better to feel once than to read a hundred times. One of my favorite baits for bream fishing is Big Roach & Bream (Competition series, TM Flagman) - a strong spicy flavor with sweet notes. Actually, it was advised to me by athletes from the Flagman Feeder Team. In a mixture with Feeder Big Fish (Competition series), the aroma of the first bait becomes softer and more voluminous, and the fraction becomes larger. The composition is very working and versatile for catching any Desna fish, and it also catches bream. I specifically experimented and repeatedly used sweet, fruity flavors on the Desna in places with the known presence of bream - the bream reacted very weakly. Especially - closer to autumn. If at the beginning and middle of summer sweet aromas still work on bream, then by the end of summer - not or weakly. Several times the bream responded well to bait, not quite intended for it (judging by the name). For example, when fishing, the Flagman Gold Roach Black bait (a complex sweet-spicy delicate smell of moderate intensity) proved to be excellent, moreover, it was for bream, and not for roach. Oat flakes were added as large components. Four characteristic bream bites in the middle of the day within an hour occurred after I applied the sweet-spicy groundbait based on Roach Black. Prior to that, on bait with sweet aromatics, I “smoked” for three hours, however, like my neighbors. Only I had one feeder against six of them. Of the dry, aromatic additives of TM Flagman (it just happened, I use them because of the affordable price and wide range) for bream fishing, I would single out two: “Copra-molasses” and “Chocolate” . They, in principle, can be poured into home-made bait based on cornmeal and barley grits in order to give it a “breaminess”. And my friend, also a specialist in catching bream, loves to add cinnamon and ginger to his bait. I somehow didn’t work out with ginger, and cinnamon and coriander, judging by the aroma, are part of all the above-mentioned baits. They also recommend red pastoncino as an additional source of large particles. To be honest, there is a difference only if the bream is active. In principle, pastoncino can be replaced with millet, peas and oatmeal. The advantage of pastoncino and flakes, as well as dry bait, is the shelf life. Millet "lives" until souring in fishing conditions for no more than a day, and boiled peas - even less. Keep this in mind. An excellent addition to bait for bream is worms. Maggot, rain and manure. A live maggot seductively protrudes its actively wriggling body through the holes of the feeder, where the mouths of hungry bream are already waiting for it. This intimate moment - the culmination of attracting gullible "basils" - should, like a show, last as long as possible. This is also why (see the “Tackle” section) when hunting for bream, do not ignore the old mesh feeders made of nylon mesh. Sometimes they help out. Their principle of action is as follows. Unlike open feeder feeders, the nets are pulled together when the food is washed out, large components (bread, cereal, maggot) remain inside. That is, all the small particles have already been washed out, and large components remain in place, which either wag their tails seductively or tease with their aroma. At the same time - “the elbow is close, but you won’t bite” - the bream cannot eat them, at least not quickly. And this is very important, because when hunting for bream, you can not often recast tackle. Brutal bream (sees the eye, but the tooth is numb) as a result, they begin to toss the feeder (it can be seen very well by the sudden sagging of the cord), and this is a sure sign of an imminent bite. It’s better not to be stingy with the animal component, but in order not to spend a lot - buy maggot in bulk. Take 200 grams (you are unlikely to be sold less). And try to add it to the bait. I think this will not be your last purchase - the result of such a "bait animation" is always very noticeable.
And, finally, there is such a paradoxical additive as bread. But if she hadn’t “shooted” periodically, I wouldn’t have mentioned her. Hammer large and medium pieces of bread crumb into the feeder mixed with bait - it happens to work, and how! In general, the topic of feeding with bread is still waiting for its researcher, because this is de facto terra incognita, and after all, bread, when compared with porridge, is very tasty (even for our human taste), well-preserved and available for use at any time. We they talked about bait - about a mixture that must be hammered into a feeder feeder (or a mesh “kormak”) or rolled into balls and thrown into the river during float fishing immediately before or during fishing.
But there is still such a chic thing in catching bream as a bait. It is made up of the above components with the addition of a large amount of Desnyanskaya clay (try to find clay without a marsh smell), thrown in large balls by hand (very rarely - from a boat) to the place of intended fishing in the evening. If the place of fishing is located near the shore and allows you to accurately feed it in this way (do not forget - it is desirable that this be a bream place on a bream site), then with a high probability morning fishing will be very productive. 
There are two main baits for bream fishing: maggot and red worm. Better as a nozzle - rain, but more and more often you have to buy manure due to the unavailability of earthen (rain). Which nozzle, maggot or red worm, is preferable? Take both with you. Moreover, an amateur feeder usually has two leashes ...
Of the “optional” nozzles, I recommend having floating puffies with you. Not a panacea, but with a bad bite, it happens, it can help out. If we talk about plant baits, then mastyrka also does not hurt, but, unlike puffy, it can turn sour. The nozzle necessary in the arsenal of a feederist (but not a pure bream) is foam grains or “foam”. It will not hurt to have it with you, it gives an effect very often when catching sabrefish, and rarely when catching bream.
Leech lozhnokonskaya (black) - a good attachment for any big fish, for a bream it is too big, but it steadily pecks at it. If you have free tackle and a free leech, you can try to put it on a large hook, counting on biting bream, ide or catfish, but I don’t take leeches specifically for catching bream on the Desna. The reason is the small size of the Desnyansky bream - more often it is 0.6-1.3 kg, and specimens over 2 kg are extremely rare.
The bloodworm, the larva of the cockchafer is exotic; when catching bream, such baits are completely optional. STORAGE
It is best to keep the bream alive in large cages made of coarse nylon mesh. Yes, that's the trouble - they are magnificently gnawed by an otter, eager for fresh fish, which has bred in last years in the vicinity of Kiev and has already replaced the muskrat (herbivore). Fortunately, the otter hunts in cages only at night. There are several remedies for an impudent beast.
Metal garden. It cripples the fish, takes up a lot of space, but tipsy anglers can laugh heartily at the otter. Tipsy - because the otter goes fishing in the dark, and drunken real fisherman, I can imagine fishing only in the evening, when the fishing is over, and friendly conversations are held behind the bowler hat with the fish soup before going to bed. Stone. A well-aimed "weapon of the proletariat" is capable of repelling the otter, excuse me, otter, but here it is - how lucky.
Flooding the cage so that it is completely and, if possible, deep under water. The trick is that the otter, although it can dive to it, is unlikely to have enough zeal (and air) to gnaw through the cage. The author did not practice such a tool (like the kukan - according to rumors - it also helps), it is written from the words of tourists. ricochets from curved surfaces, which are rubble stones.
Be that as it may, otter-thieves on the Desna are a real problem, and, as you probably understood, the author of these lines is familiar with it firsthand. TIME
The bream starts to be caught well and steadily from mid-May, although the first catches can occur in March. In general, all summer and early autumn, you can quite successfully catch bream. Although I believe that the optimal temperature for feeding and life of the bream, when it is most active, is 20°C. Such water temperature occurs in the Kiev area in early June and late August, which approximately corresponds to the most active biting of bream. But even in the middle of summer, and in September, the bream is caught quite well - just less actively. By the way, when the water is overheated (more than 23-24 ° C), the bream may well leave the lulls and enter a stronger current in search of oxygen-enriched water. fishing. Contrary to the popular belief that fish bite better in the morning and in the evening, bream on the Desna may well bite during the day. Yes, it is undesirable to miss the morning and evening, but I successfully caught bream at 11, 12, 14 hours, moreover, on clear and rather hot summer days. In the very heat, bream are caught at night as well. In addition, there are reservoirs (the Desna is not one of them), where large bream pecks only at night. 
WEATHER
Unfortunately for the fishermen, the bream is not only weather-sensitive, but also weather-capricious. Bad weather - bream peck, if possible, will not. What does possible mean? He will stand with his mouth closed, at least until some improvement in the weather, however small and short-lived. The thunderstorm stopped - the worm will freeze, grab a piece or two, but about real food - zas. The bite is weak. It started raining - it will wait at least a 20-minute "window" to have a bite, but, of course, it won't go far to eat. But when clear, even weather sets in, the bream fats. Especially on a full moon. Such fishing is a joy. The breeze breathes coolness, the sun is hot. You sit in the shade, drinking coffee or lemonade. For complete happiness, a romantic fisherman lacks only ... but, chu! Here is the missing ingredient!.. The feeder bounces on the horn, the bell is poured, the hand feels stupid jerks - and now the bronze handsome man of the river, stretching his lips into a tube, enters the landing net!..