“… How much is known about all sorts of nonsense and nothing is known about biting fish. Why don't we discuss this problem? " (ancient Greek philosopher Socrates).

Until now, a person has not been given to understand why a whole worm does not cause bites, and a torn one attracts carp. Versions are different. Some believe that the torn one smells more appetizing, others - that the crucian does not like it when it wriggles. The carp willingly takes worms that suffocated on the way to fishing.

Crucian carps keep separate from the line, and they never peck complementary foods together.

The tench has been noticed to like windows in the grass. So they try to please him: they cover the bottom with sand and pebbles. And some even came up with the idea of ​​crushing the bottom grass with a piece of slate.

It is generally accepted that nothing spoils fishing like the holidaymakers swimming along the coast. However, those who take this for a fishing boon are also right. Bathers mix the layers of water, raise mud from the bottom, create new situations with their movements in the usual course of the river, and this attracts fish. Proof: decent catches on the beaches. The boats are the same. A motorboat on a medium speed - but not on a fast one - always "drives" the fish to the tackle.

Factors

If there are many dragonflies above the water, catch a few with a landing net. Tie on a spinning tackle and hook the dragonflies. You will be with rudds.

Not a single fish pecked until some pike bit off a spatula from a wobbler. Apparently, after that, the movements of the wobbler became so attractive that the bites followed one after the other;).

A belief that you can believe, but you can not: if the sun has not yet set in the sky, and the moon is already visible, this is a bream.

The fish are well caught in the same months in which the zodiac signs patronize the planting of plants.

Bite forecast

Opinion from: "Still, the main influence on the bite is influenced by factors that we are not able to take into account, because we are not fish."

What happens in a pike when the wind blows? Noted: northern and northeastern - takes little or no take at all. South and southwest - active biting!

The bite in winter, if we discard all pagan beliefs and omens, as well as random coincidences, depends on the nutrition of * predator *. Got enough - the fish walked up fat in the spring-summer-autumn, do not wait for it on the hook in the first half of winter. Hungry entered the winter - you will be with good ice catches. That is why the same bite changes from winter to winter.

Each type of fish is active for fishing at the same water temperatures at which it spawns en masse, plus or minus 4 degrees.

For fans, and those who fish, as it were, by the way, the same natural factors act. Therefore, without rejecting knowledge and experience, The best way communication with nature - to surrender yourself to its power, and not to be upset by failures, but to take them for granted.

IN Vitebsk region fishing is in progress all year round and can delight fans of sitting on the shore with a fishing rod with a variety of locations and an abundance of fish. Numerous guests from the neighboring countries of Belarus only confirm this.

Free seats

Most of the rivers and lakes located on the territory of the Vitebsk region are absolutely free for fishing. This does not at all detract from their dignity over paid ones, but only warms up the sports interest of hunters. We suggest that you familiarize yourself with the most attractive of the free places.

Western Dvina River

Western Dvina has:

• average flow rate;
• length of 300 km on the territory of Belarus;
• maximum ice thickness 75 cm.

In the first third of December, it partially freezes, and the ice lasts until mid-March.

The following types of fish are found in the river:, gold, damp, dace, comes across. Fishing on the Western Dvina at different times of the year will have its own characteristics;

Lake Zaronovskoe

It is located 25 kilometers from Vitebsk on the border of Shumilinsky and Vitebsk regions. Its area is 3.61 sq. km., maximum depth - 13.5 meters. The lake has an elongated shape and several islands.

Fishing Features:

• the access to the place is very convenient, you can park the car right by the water;
• low coastline makes it easy to fish from the coast;
• the lake is home to a dozen species of fish and a large number of crayfish.

Tip: if you catch a perch during winter fishing, follow the trail and drill a few holes, as this fish is a flock.

Zaronovo is the most popular place among Vitebsk hunters. According to their confessions, the fish from the lake does not give off slime and is very tasty. In October 2016, stocking was carried out here, it was introduced:

• 2,000 specimens of pike;
• 500 copies of grass carp;
• 300 specimens of carp.

Paid places

Legislation of Belarus in the field of paid fishing for recent times has undergone significant changes, and the number of reservoirs with paid fishing has increased significantly. Below you can familiarize yourself with the peculiarities of such fishing and find out about the best fishing places.

How to catch more fish?

I have been active fishing for quite some time now and have found many ways to improve my bite. And here are the most effective ones:

1. Bite activator. Attracts fish in cold and warm water with the help of pheromones and stimulates their appetite. It is a pity that Rosprirodnadzor wants to ban its sale.
2. More sensitive gear. You can find reviews and instructions for other types of gear on the pages of my website.
3. Pheromone baits.

Remaining secrets successful fishing you can get it for free by reading our other articles on the site.

Novolukoml fish farm

Despite protests from local residents, the new management of the fish farm recently made fishing paid. But this has certain advantages:

The owner of the fish farm voucher will be provided with a parking lot, feeding, barbecue and firewood. According to the guests, the Novolukoml reservoir is very fish place... Carp and are excellently caught here. In total, you can safely train 3-4 kilograms of fish at a time.

Please note: there is a quota for paid recreational fishing - no more than 56.6 tons per year.

Rybkhoz Novelties

The fish farm is located in the picturesque lake part of the Postavy district of the Vitebsk region and is one of the leaders in the cultivation of pond fish: carp, pike, tench, pike perch, peled, variegated, European, grass carp. The enterprise has organized paid fishing, there is a possibility:

1. Rent fishing tackle.
2. Use the required inventory.

Amateur fishermen come here mainly for carp, which is found here in abundance, and they also speak well of the local service.

Fishing base "Ptich"

The enterprise is located five kilometers from the Minsk ring road. There are two ponds on the territory, where paid fishing with hook rods and spinning rods is organized. She may be:

• sports;
• amateur;
• club.

One of the ponds is stocked with pike and silver carp and is intended for sport fishing, the second - with three types of carp, grass carp, tench, silver carp, crucian carp and catfish. This reservoir is included in the "Karp-Club" system, according to which you can purchase a permit for seasonal or annual fishing with the right to carry fish.

An infrastructure for recreation has been created on the territory of the base:

1. Gazebos are equipped.
2. There are places for a fire and a barbecue.
3. There are houses for rest and spending the night.
4. There are conditions for organizing family vacations, picnics, corporate events, sports.

The places described in the article are the most popular among fishermen, and each of them has its own advantages. But the main advantage of the lakes and rivers of the Vitebsk region is an excellent bite, a variety of fish species and the opportunity to practice your favorite hobby all year round.

Bite forecast Vitebsk today - 20.08"19 .

Today it is cloudy with a chance of light rain, in the afternoon without precipitation. The temperature in the morning is +19 C °, in the afternoon and in the evening +23 C °. Stable pressure 741 mm Hg The wind is weak all day, northwest wind up to 3 m / s. The leaves and thin branches of the trees sway all the time. The waves are short and well defined, the crests, overturning, form a glassy foam.

Bite forecast bad 3 /10 ... This month the bite is generally good, pike perch and trout peck slightly better, crucian carp, carp, rudd, bream, tench, chub, asp, perch, catfish and pike are slightly worse. Nice weather for fishing. In cloudy weather, the fish bite is very good, especially before the rain.

Bite forecast Vitebsk tomorrow - 21.08"19 .

It will be cloudy, no precipitations, and light rain in the afternoon. The temperature in the morning is +17 C °, in the afternoon and in the evening +23 C °. The pressure will change slightly throughout the day. The wind is moderate all day, northwest up to 5 m / s. The wind raises dust and debris, sets in motion the thin branches of trees. Waves are elongated, lambs are visible in many places.

Bite forecast will be weak 4 /10 ... This month the bite is generally good, pike perch and trout peck slightly better, crucian carp, carp, rudd, bream, tench, chub, asp, perch, catfish and pike are slightly worse. Good fishing weather, but strong winds. In cloudy weather, the fish bite is very good, especially before the rain.

Catfish. Of all our freshwater fish, the first place in size is undoubtedly the catfish. In this respect, only one beluga surpasses it, but it is known to be an anadromous fish, which enters the rivers only for spawning. The appearance of the catfish is extremely original and ugly. In terms of the general shape of the body, it bears some resemblance to a burbot, but its head is much wider and flatter and makes up almost 1/6 of the entire naked body, covered with a thick layer of mucus.

His mouth is huge and armed at the edges with numerous, very small, but rather sharp teeth, which look like a short brush; on the upper jaw there are two long whitish whiskers, and on the lower jaw, somewhat protruding, there are 4 yellowish antennae, three times shorter than the first; the eyes are disproportionately small in size with the mouth and are very close to the upper lip.

The tail, strongly flattened laterally, especially towards the posterior end, occupies more than half of the entire body; the anal fin is very long. The color of the catfish changes, depending on the water, also by age and season, but most often its back is black, the belly is yellowish-white or somewhat reddish and is almost always speckled with bluish specks; the sides of the body are blackish green and covered with olive green spots; eyes are pale yellow with black spots, fins are dark blue, pectoral and abdominal with a yellowish stripe in the middle.

In young catfish, the color of the skin and fins is sharper and brighter. Lake catfish are always darker than river catfish and their belly is gray-bluish. The exterior of the old, large catfish is disgusting: the head turns from whitish to dirty yellow and many water worms stick to it, like leeches, covering both the body and the head. Catfish is the only European representative of the catfish family, the species of which are quite numerous in South Asia and tropical Africa.

However, it is not found in all of Europe: it is not found in France, Spain and Italy, and p. The Rhine forms the western boundary of the distribution of this predator. The common catfish lives in our country mainly in the rivers of the Aral-Caspian and Black Sea basins, and it is most numerous in their lower reaches, especially the Volga and Kura; in the rivers flowing into the Baltic Sea, it is relatively small in number and does not reach such large sizes as in the south of Russia.

The reason for this is more intense pursuit, relative lack of fish, that is, lack of food during a longer winter fast. It is very likely that catfish, like carp, spread in Central Europe already in historical times. In general, the geographical distribution of these fish in Russia is almost the same and continues to expand more and more, although in this respect the catfish is somewhat ahead of the carp.

In Lake Onega, for example, catfish appeared no more than 25 years ago. In the mouths of our southern rivers, especially the Volga, Kura, Don and Dnieper, catfish are among the most common fish; in the sea itself, however, they adhere to the river water. Under favorable conditions, catfish reach tremendous growth. In the rivers of the Baltic basin, as well as in the tributaries of the upper Volga, they rarely exceed 80 kg; however, on the Oder, famous for the abundance of catfish, a specimen weighing 400 kg was caught back in 1830.

Catfish are one of the most sedentary fish and very rarely make long journeys. For the most part, he lives for decades, from young years to ripe old age, almost all year round living in the same pit, coming out of it to search for food nearby, and even then not always. Only in spring, in hollow water, the catfish temporarily leaves its native pit and rises somewhat up the river, often entering the floodplain and floodplain lakes, where it often spawns.

On the lower Volga (probably also in the lower reaches of other Russian rivers), the spring run of catfish begins with the onset of the flood, in this case, around mid-April. Sensing the warm water, they wake up from their winter sleep and go out of the pits into backwaters, lakes, sometimes into the sea, more often, however, rising upward. Catfish cannot stand very muddy water and, like pike perch, sometimes even perishes from it, and therefore each more significant flood makes it leave its pit and look for more pure water at the mouths of small tributaries.

For the same reason, in hollow water, it rarely occurs in the riverbed and until the very decline it stays on the floodplain and in the floodplain lakes. Like all other fish, catfish go the farther upstream, the longer and longer the flood of the river. In general, the smaller the river and the shorter its flooding, the more sedentary life this fish leads and the more often it spawns in the riverbed itself, and not on the floodplain.

In the secondary rivers of central Russia, catfish cannot spawn on the floodplain, since they enter the banks by the beginning of May, long before the start of spawning. Most often, catfish spawn on flood in the lower reaches of the Volga, where the main profit of water begins in late spring. A lot of time passes between the awakening and the beginning of spawning of catfish, at least a month. During this period of wandering life, catfish feed heavily on fish, especially spawning fish, and thus reward themselves for long-term fasting.

At first, it also feeds on worms, which in summer it pays almost no attention, even not particularly large. In general, catfish food is quite diverse, although exclusively animal. The main food is, of course, fish of all types and sizes, from the smallest to the largest.

But, as, incidentally, it is easy to see from its build, the catfish is not capable of long-term pursuit and catches fish almost always from an ambush, swiftly bursting into the past flock or, with lightning speed, grabbing a solitary fish swimming close by. There is no doubt that the catfish owes this swiftness to its powerful and flexible splash, that is, to the rear half of the body with a tail, and that with the same splash it sometimes stuns several fish in a school.

Chasing live bait, the catfish sometimes jumps out of the water, clumsily, in a bag, falling back, while scattering water in a heap and deviating its tail somewhat to one side. Large catfish, over 32 kg, are very clumsy and clumsy, and therefore fish, especially large ones, are relatively rare for them to catch. However, such giants are known to resort to a rather ingenious trick for catching small fish; Namely: they run aground or stand under the shore in a place where many young of the year fry, also spruce trees, bleaches, and lie here motionless, half-open their huge jaws.

As soon as the flock of little things approaches the predator, unaware of the danger threatening it, the somina draws in water and dozens of fish, carried away by the suddenly formed strong whirlpool, disappear into the mouth. In addition, a catfish lurking behind a stone or snag undoubtedly uses its mustache as bait: a fish seduced by these delicate, fleshy, worm-like appendages, and, not seeing the catfish itself, comes close, and the predator, having seized a free moment, quickly grabs an inadvertently approaching fish.

Since this method of catching is not particularly reliable, overweight catfish feed mostly on frogs, crayfish and shells, that is, large river mollusks from the genus Unio and Anudonta, and in the sea and estuaries, probably, many others. Frogs, mostly green (Rana ridibunda), are a treat for catfish; lying on the bottom, he always listens carefully to see if the frog is croaking, immediately swims up to the singer and swiftly, opening his huge mouth in advance, rushes at her.

This weakness for frogs prompts the catfish not only to visit river grassy backwaters, but often get stuck in flooded lakes; the most prey and interesting fishing, the so-called shredding, is based on it. Catfish, especially large ones, do not allow anything living floating on the surface to descend, and exterminate a large number of ducklings, goslings, as well as adult water birds. Often they drown swimming dogs, even calves, and several examples are known that large catfish dragged into the water and drowned bathing children.

Catfish also eat any carrion that has fallen into the river, and from hunger they even throw themselves on rotten rags and even snatch the laundry from the hands of the women rinsing it. Nearby fishing gangs (trades) in the lower reaches of the southern Russian rivers, especially on the Kura and Volga, catfish feed almost exclusively on the remains of cooking fish and at certain times when these remains are thrown out, they gather around the rafts in such a multitude and grab food with such greed that they represent a terrible sight.

Catfish spawning begins relatively very late, when the water reaches a temperature of at least 15 or even 16 ° R, generally almost simultaneously with carp, mostly in May. It is doubtful that anywhere in southern Russia, except for the Transcaucasus, catfish rubbed in early April. According to Varpakhovsky, catfish in the Kazan province spawn in the first half of May, which, taking into account observations in the lower reaches of the Volga and Don, is somewhat early.

On the Klyazma, in the Vladimir province, the catfish begins to rub during the blooming of the wild rose - in early June. Only the lower Dnieper catfish can spawn at the beginning of May, maybe even at the end of April. According to Yakovlev, catfish spawning near Astrakhan, or rather, preparation for spawning, begins during the spill - in May, and according to Popov, on the Don, catfish rub from late May to early July.

This long period probably depends on what is meant here is the beginning of spawning and the final hatching of juveniles and the departure of old catfish from the spawning ground. The spawning ground, or tyrlo, of catfish occurs in quite different places according to the conditions of the area, but, apparently, is very rarely seen in the pit that serves as their permanent home.

The only exceptions are, perhaps, only small rivers, where catfish, by necessity, lead a completely sedentary life. In southwestern Russia, catfish mostly spawn in deep but quiet gullies and channels filled with sunken snags; on the Don, the catfish rub against the reeds of kuga or other grass, in shallow places; on the lower Volga - always on flood, in flooded meadows, mainly where old hay and last year's reeds float.

In the flooded lakes, spawning of catfish is not seen as often as in the channels, but even here they are sometimes seen before spawning in large numbers, in whole flocks. But although these catfish gatherings in areas abounding with catfish are accompanied by an extraordinary splash and rolling blows, which can only be compared with the noise made by a herd driven into the water, although the catfish chase each other and even twine around like snakes, but this is not yet real " tyrlo ”, but only, so to speak, a prelude to spawning.

Catfish gather in flocks and perform the described evolutions for two purposes: firstly, they "break eggs", and secondly, the choice of spouses by the catfish takes place here. Somovye tyrlo is a kind of current, on which, however, the female half prevails. Where there are few catfish, 3-4 males usually swim behind the female, of which the catfish chooses one, probably the strongest; then, with a joint effort, the couple chases the supernumerary gentlemen.

There is a widespread belief among many industrialists in central and partly southern Russia that the catfish cluck, calling on males with this clucking. Some even believe that the so-called shredding of catfish is based on imitating the cackling of a catfish, and not the croaking of a frog. Maybe male catfish do sometimes go to a tuft, believing to meet a female, since there seems to be no doubt about the ability of catfish to produce sounds, but since shredding is almost always done in the summer, after the end of spawning, then, obviously, the catfish is not attracted by the catfish , and the frog.

In any case, more accurate observations are desirable in this respect, and not only unfounded opinions. Having chosen a male for itself, the catfish leaves with him to a secluded place on the flood or in the channel, as mentioned above, and pulls out a hole with its breast feathers (fists). This hole, the so-called "mazlo" of the Lower Volga fishermen, is sometimes up to 1 m and deeper. During spawning, catfish often float on the surface, turning upside down.

On a hot day, they lie in the sun in this position for quite a long time, "steaming a teeshka" - in the jargon of fishmongers. In all likelihood, spawning takes place not in one, but in several stages, but, like almost all other fish, it still has a lot that is dark and unexplored. Young catfish, especially the first 5-6 years, grow extremely quickly. A month later, they are already 15 cm long, even in the Moscow River in July, there are 20-cm underyear catfish, which hatched here, probably at the end of May.

In autumn, in September, catfish reach a weight of 400, even 600 g. Voronin says that in September a catfish comes from the Velikaya River to Lake Pskov, about 400 g in weight, moreover, in a solid mass, probably for wintering. According to Bram, a one-year-old catfish also weighs up to 600 g, and a two-year-old catfish - up to 1.2 kg, and, however, the growth is greatly influenced by the low or high standing of the water (in Western European rivers): with low water, the catfish grow twice as slow, than big.

On the basis of some fragmentary observations, I believe that the first five years, the growth of catfish occurs almost exponentially, that is, every year the catfish doubles in weight; a three-year-old somen at the end of May weighs 2.4 kg with a growth of almost 70 cm, a four-year-old 4.8 kg, a five-year-old 8-9.5 kg. 16-kilogram catfish, about 1.5 m long, at least 6, but hardly more than 8 years old.

Mature catfish increases in weight more and more slowly. Based on the fact that the catfish transplanted from the Oka River to the Archireyskiy pond near Kolomna reached almost 80 kilograms at the age of 35, and taking into account also that pond and lake catfish grow slower than river catfish, even with more abundant food, I believe that 32-kilogram som is not less than 12, 64-kilogram is not less than 24, 128-kilogram is not less than 50 years old and that the largest catfish in 240-320 kg weighs at least a century.

After hatching the fry, the catfish return to the pits that serve them permanent stay, and, probably, the couples are separated. In the lower Volga, around mid-July, downstream catfish migrate in masses, after spawning, from ilmen back to the sea. Where there are few catfish, they live constantly in the deepest pits, and the deeper and more inaccessible it is, the more numerous and larger the catfish living in it. Somata up to 8-12 kg do not particularly adhere to deep places, and they can be found in some places at 1.5-2 m depth.

For catfish, it is not so much the depth as the inaccessibility of the place and the shade that is important, and therefore they can very often be found, especially in the south, under the so-called floats, that is, floating shores, under overhanging bushes, coastal canopies, roots of willows and pussy willows, under dams, etc. In rocky rivers, eg. Dniester and Buge, catfish are often found between rocks and in large crevices in community with burbots, which they persistently pursue.

The catfish's lifestyle cannot be called completely nocturnal, since it still wanders more at dawn than at dead midnight, and sometimes comes to the surface and generally declares its existence during the day. Both during spawning and after it, on quiet hot days, you can observe catfish that have come to the surface and, turning their belly upside down, basking in the sun. In most cases, the appearance of catfish during the day portends bad weather, a thunderstorm or a change in weather.

Very muddy water after prolonged rains and strong floods also bring the catfish to the surface, forcing it to temporarily leave its pit and move to quiet places, creeks with a sandy bottom and sometimes to the mouths of tributaries that were previously cleared of turbidity. But the catfish is very fond of warm rainwater after a short summer rain and approaches the formed streams even during the day. Catfish show particular concern during a thunderstorm and before it begins.

At this time, he can no longer lie calmly at the bottom, but keeps to the upper layers, completely aimlessly floating back and forth in his pit; in a night thunderstorm, it swims all night and at such a time even its most ancient inhabitants rise from the bottom of the pool, the largest giants of the catfish kingdom, personifying the aquatic. Indeed, they raise such a fuss that it is difficult to attribute it to a fish. Swimming on top, the catfish flip sideways, rarely sticking out their heads, especially during the day.

Most often they declare their presence with a characteristic strong surge, sometimes giving a large wave. The catfish puts its mighty reach vertically and then strikes it with force to the right and left on the surface. Catfish splashes, except for the largest ones, however, almost every night at dawn, coming out of the pit to the fat and returning to it back. Sometimes, as they say, the catfish doze at dawn, sticking its head to the surface and floating with the current.

Although, according to the South Russian fishermen, catfish feed on the new moon (according to others, also at the expense), but nevertheless, catfish feed daily, or rather every night, although, perhaps, not with the same greed. Each small and medium catfish, up to 16-32 kg in weight, leaves its daytime shelter around sunset. Usually, the catfish first of all goes around the whole pit, sometimes several times, then rises upstream, visiting mainly those places of the river that are abundant with live bait.

It happens that, in search of food, a hungry catfish is very far away from its brothel, but nevertheless, by the morning it will certainly return home. It must be assumed that the catfish, which are sometimes observed dozing with their heads on the surface, and floating with the current, are those tired wanderers who have climbed very high. In general, the paths of catfish to fattening, like any other fish, are more or less constant and are known to every observant local fisherman.

The catfish tracts can be identified all the more easily because, even when floating not on the surface, but at the bottom, the catfish leaves clear signs of its presence. When he swims in a shallow place, he leaves behind him a light stripe, indicating his trail, and on the shallows in front of him is like a small wave. In addition, the catfish almost constantly "burrows", that is, when floating on the bottom, it touches various objects, from under which, as well as from under the crayfish and shells it gets, air bubbles come out.

These bubbles are seen very often even where the soil is rather hard and not muddy, depending on the structure. swim bladder these fish, communicating with the esophagus, why the catfish can voluntarily release air from the anus, like a loach. In cold weather, closer to autumn, the catfish lies at the bottom, all day without leaving the pit. Catfish, like a fish in temperate and even warm countries (almost all species of the catfish family belong to a tropical climate), are very sensitive to cold, and therefore ceases to feed and lays down earlier than all fish, sometimes even (in the middle provinces) in September.

On the lower Volga in August and September, catfish, which returned to the sea a month or two ago after the end of spawning, again rise into the river and lie in deep pits. Judging by the words of Voronin, a similar autumn movement, only the opposite, is seen on Lake Pskov. The arriving catfish, as you know, goes in masses to the lakes for wintering in September. In October, all the catfish are already at winter camps. In the past, in the Dnieper pools, the Don holovert and the Volga pits, catfish lay in hundreds, in continuous masses, but now, even in the lower reaches of the Volga, it is difficult to find more than fifty in one place in winter.

In the Urals, where all fish are generally of little concern in the fall, catfish enclosures are undoubtedly more numerous. In total, the catfish lays down under clay steep slopes, where the coast is washed away and large pechuras have formed. However, it seems that for the most part, catfish dig out separate pits for themselves for wintering, or rather hollows, sometimes up to 1.2 m deep, burying their whole head with "fists" in the silt.

Thus, the entire flock lies in an almost continuous mass, in one tier, and other large white fish often lie on them in several layers, most often carp, constant companions of catfish, which, due to their speed, rarely get prey even in summer. In winter, the catfish is quite safe for any fish, since it is completely motionless, does not eat anything and sleeps so deeply that it does not have time to come to its senses and show resistance when it was hooked with a hook and dragged onto the ice.

Catching catfish on hooks with a nozzle is carried out in quite different ways: by girders, on bottom and float rods and finally, floating, with a shred. But before proceeding to a description of these more or less hunting methods of catching catfish, I consider it necessary to give more details about the time and places of fishing, baits and indicate the general rules for pulling out. The most full information about fish char is - here.

The best time for fishing is in the summer, after the complete end of spawning, that is, after hatching the catfish. Spring fishing, before spawning, is subject to many accidents and is not always convenient; depending on the terrain, it sometimes lasts (from April) to the end of May and even the beginning of June. On Sviyaga, as local fishermen say, catfish harvests best in late May and early June, but this is too late for spring and too early (locally) for summer.

From the end of May begins summer fishing only in the south and coincides here with the molting time of crayfish; in the middle provinces, catfish begin to be taken only in July, even at the end of the month (Vorona river); According to the Klyazma fishermen, biting begins with the blooming of the wild rose and from the time the leech begins to pester the catfish, but, of course, it is not about leeches. Even in the lower reaches of the Volga, the main fishing takes place from the middle of July, when downstream catfish returns to the sea, spawning in ilmen and on river floods.

Summer biting of catfish lasts all August and most or less of September, depending on the weather. Fishing is successful only in warm weather, in cold weather and prolonged bad weather, the catfish lie at the bottom and do not come out of the pit for fat. According to some fishermen, catfish take the best bait in moonlit nights, although it cannot be denied that at such a time catfish willingly go to shallow places, where they are caught, but it is more accurate to accept, along with the majority, that the zhor happens around the new moon and at a loss, in general on dark nights.

However, in some places, in May, that is, before spawning, catfish are better taken during the day than at night, and in summer they are most often caught at dawn, before sunrise. During a night thunderstorm, they greedily grab the nozzle if it is only launched close to the surface. Nights, when it is drizzling with light rain, should be considered the most convenient time for catching catfish: catfish love fresh and lukewarm rainwater and are often caught on tackle at this time (Dombrovsky). It is rather difficult to determine the place of fishing, that is, where it is necessary to place the lines, gutters and fishing rods, since it depends on many conditions.

Only observation and experience can accurately indicate those points where catfish are constantly or only by passage. An experienced fisherman will always determine if there are catfish by their characteristic splash and "banging", but without preliminary reconnaissance, catching catfish is not worth it. We can only say that it is more profitable to put hooks of various kinds not on the pit itself, where the catfish live, but at those points that lie on the path of the catfish's night journey, which always goes by the same "path". The easiest way is to put overhead lines, especially in small rivers, from one bank to the other.

According to Dombrowski, it is better to set "hooks" near a grassy roll, rich in live bait, or near a shallow roll, on which the bait could see both the bottom and riding catfish, or on the bright side of the coast, that is, facing the northwest. Good places the corners of holes and grits, places with a weak current, with small thickets of grass, in which rudd, carpenter and chub are kept, - the so-called (in the south-west) "zakabai", are considered. If the bottom is muddy, then the catfish occasionally goes along the bottom; here he expects to find either crayfish, or crucian carp and molt; but more often it goes on top.

Further, good catfish places should be recognized as deep rifts, overgrown at least from one side with ribbon-like, less often with any other grass that does not reach the surface of the water, and over which chubs and rudd like to swim. Quite often not bad places can be called short shores of holes jutting out in any direction; these pits are almost always round, have one bank with a circumference of 300 °, and the other is short, almost straight and connecting adjacent rifts.

The catfish, passing from one pit to another, goes straight past this bank, and not along a rather long arc of the pit; there are a lot of such places on small, meandering rivers; if such a shore is unclean, due to willow bushes or algae rising up, then the fisherman should take care of cleaning this place with a fishing scythe or just an oar before setting the hook, and the labor expended will very often be rewarded with good catch.

Good places for setting a hook should be considered peremesh - pits that have bushes of vines between their corners and the actual peremesh, bare roots of trees, living or dead. In general, it is most convenient to attach a riding hook where there are live baits: this is the best sign that can indicate the existence or absence of a catfish in a given place in the next 2-3 nights.

So, a torn live bait will indicate that there is a catfish; alive - what else needs to be tried for one or two nights; only where there are many turtles, whiteness, ides and pricked catfish, which knock the bait off the hook with their tails, it is difficult to determine the quality of the pit. As for the bottom hooks, they are generally placed on the rifts in such a way that the nozzle (live bait, cancer, ramming bladder) falls at the junction of the pit with the roll and not far from the bottom; the joints of the grind and deep pits often serve as the abode of catfish, which will not hesitate to see the nozzle.

Catfish baits are quite diverse, but almost always of animal origin. Although the catfish is unpretentious for food and eats everything edible, it is unlikely where it is caught on pieces of bread or steeply cooked porridge, which, however, can undoubtedly be fed to the hook. Preliminary bait for catfish, if used anywhere, is only in exceptional cases, although it is undoubtedly useful.

Most often, lines, girders and fishing rods are planted with live bait. Almost all species of fish can be livestock; they should not only be very small or too large, and most importantly, it is necessary that they be "tenacious", that is, they have the ability to stay awake for a long time, even in warm water. In each locality, fishermen have their own favorite live baits, which seem to be preferred by catfish to all others.

Chubs are very good, also crucians and small molts; on the river Voronezh for some reason prefer the scoundrel to everyone, because, probably, he does not like to hide in the grass; in other places - burbot, loach, small pike and a lamprey or its larva - a blind bindweed; on the river In Voronezh, 1-1.2 kg ides are planted on catfish lines.

For the most part, when fishing by weight and in calm water, live baits are planted, hooked with a hook under the dorsal fin, less often by the lips (on the current when fishing on the bottom) and even less often they are sewn live bait to the hook or (on the Oka), passing a leash (copper) through the mouth and the anus so that the hook sticks out of the mouth. An excellent bait for bottom fishing is a loach, but since it sticks to the lips, the catfish often plucks it off; loaches (and burbot, and in the west also eel) should be put on a hook, after wrapping it with a rag, since these fish are extremely slippery.

Near Smolensk they catch on a spindle (blind bindweed), also catching it on the lip; catfish takes it from its tail and chews it often. Some fishermen prefer to plant very large live baits of 1-1.5 kg in weight for catching catfish on the grounds that these predators take them more willingly. This opinion, however, is completely mistaken. On the lower Volga, catfish are usually planted with fry, that is, with small fish.

In addition to live fish, fish and poultry offal, especially a "ram bubble", a fried sparrow, a starling, a jackdaw or other bird, are used as attachments, which is probably completely indifferent to the catfish; finally, all meat in a large piece, no less than a fist in size. Almost all of these attachments do not hold very tightly on the hook, which is why you have to sew them on.

When fishing for meat, in order for the hook to come out of it better when hooked, it is useful to cut a piece in half, insert the hook into the cut and tie the meat with a thread. To make the meat softer, it is sometimes smashed with a stick. A frog (mostly green, constantly living in water) almost everywhere constitutes one of the favorite, if not the most beloved, baits for catfish, but in places where there are no frogs at all, they (for example, in the Vorona River) are not used at all.

The opinion that it is better to strip the skin from frogs is completely mistaken, since the catfish, of course, prefers living half-dead. The method of planting the frog will be discussed further when describing the gills and shreds. As for the invertebrate baits, the most common of them is the crayfish, the slicker one is better, but the hard-skinned one is also suitable. Small catfish are excellent for crayfish neck, moreover (it seems, 1-2-year-olds) and at a time when adults are still not caught for anything.

Some people advise to keep the faded crayfish on ice, where they remain for a long time. The crayfish is planted as always (see chub), but Esipov recommends the following method for catching catfish: a hook with a part of the fishing line is passed, starting from the end of the neck (tail) to its base, through the anus; then the hook is passed a second time from half of the neck, so that the leash forms a loop, and they hide it in the body of the cancer, and the line is pulled.

It is very difficult to rip off a cancer planted in this way. For fishing on the bottom or with a float, cancer and cancer neck are indispensable. For a worm, or rather, a bunch of worms (mainly red dung), only small catfish takes, and moreover in the spring. The shell or oyster (river shell - Unio and Anodonta) is highly respected by catfish in places, but it is both more difficult to get and more difficult to plant.

Occasionally, catfish are taken for eels or omentum. In the lower reaches of the Volga, locusts are considered the best bait for downstream catfish when fishing for it, which grass-roots fishermen stock up with whole baskets or sacks, finding it in the reeds by flocks of rooks and kites circling over the place where it hatched. Collect locusts the most early morning, at dawn, when the dew has not yet dried up, since it is calmer and does not fly away. They keep it on glaciers, where the insect falls into a daze and does not show signs of life, but soon revives in the sun.

Catfish is a very strong fish, but nevertheless it cannot rush with such impetuosity as a carp, barbel, carp, and is relatively weaker: it resists mainly with its mass, that is, its weight, then, like a bottom fish, it strongly rests below, lying or touching underwater objects. The strength of resistance depends a lot, however, on what the hook is hooked on: if in the mouth or in the lip, then the catfish, almost without feeling pain, goes ahead and often tears a rather strong tackle; the catfish that swallowed the hook is much quieter and goes up the walker.

You should not only drag it too forcefully, since sometimes it happens that in a rage a large catfish, even swallowing the nozzle, not only breaks off the twine, but the hook jumps out of its gut with a piece of kutyr (stomach). In general, the catfish rarely breaks, since the hook always hooks well in its fleshy mouth, but a fish that has once been on the hook does not go to the bait for a very long time and can be caught this year only in a different way, and not in the same way, and on a different bait ... A stuck catfish, which was in alterations, very often knocks the nozzle off the hook with its tail.

The best way to pull out small catfish is to drag it to the surface, to the boat, as smoothly and together as possible, slowly, without jerking or haste, non-stop twisting the string with two fingers of both hands in turn. Catfish, tired enough on a fishing rod, go up very quickly, especially if the hook is in its stomach: it hangs like a weight, drooping its tail and occasionally waving its head.

Small catfish, up to 4 kg or more, must be pulled out without any ceremony and as soon as possible, unless, of course, they fell on the tackle intended for even smaller fish; there is no special need for a net and it is better to drag the prey directly into the boat or ashore. Some (Radkevich) believe that even an 8-kilogram catfish, if you put your hand awkwardly into your mouth, can not only crush, but even crush your hand, but this is sheer absurdity: at the most, a not tired catfish, with convulsive movements, will tear off part of it with its toothbrush. skin from the fingers.

Larger catfish have to be dragged with both hands, picking up the other under the gill, and smaller ones, about 8 kg, by putting it in your mouth thumb and pressing in with the index chin. For the most part, hardened fish have to be pre-stunned with blows of a butt or a beater on the head, partly for the convenience of being dragged into the shuttle, but also because a large catfish in the boat, having come to its senses, easily threw over the side; in addition, he sometimes puts a lot of strong blows and even knocks the angler off his feet.

You should never forget that a 32-48-kilogram catfish can pull a fisherman off a boat or overturn the latter, and therefore, without first exhausting the giant to complete exhaustion, you cannot drag him too soon, even if he walked (from the pain caused by a swallowed hook ) is very popular. Convinced of imminent death and seeing the hands of the fisherman, the catfish forgets about the excruciating pain and, unexpectedly dashing, or breaks off the tackle, or forces the fisherman to take an involuntary bath.

Some minor rules for pulling caught catfish will be given when describing their fishing and shredding. The device of the galls is well-known: the main component of her-flyer. The difference between pike and catfish girders is that all parts of the latter are made stronger: the poles (pokes) are thicker, the flyers are larger, the strings are thicker, and the hooks are larger; then, catfish gutters are placed for the most part not on small and grassy places, but on pits or nearby pits.

The best poles are considered to be birch and mountain ash, and the best roguli are made from zhosta (honeysuckle); twine, preferably Dutch, must withstand at least 32 kg of dead weight and must be tarred, that is, soaked in a composition where oil varnish plays the main role, or at least blown (in a decoction of oak, willow bark). This is necessary both in order to protect it from rotting, and because any predatory fish is reluctant to take a light or white string.

As for the hooks, they should be on basques (or on copper wire leashes), and have a significant size (zero numbers), and most importantly - strength. Double or triple hooks are not necessary. The best hooks for catching catfish are usually homemade, handmade made of bone steel, but this opinion stems from the fact that anglers do not know at all high varieties of English hooks for catching large, mainly sea fish.

These hooks, for example Virginia hocks, are not inferior to Kirsan and other homemade ones, but they are much cheaper. The dimensions of the hook depend, of course, mainly on the size of the attachment. The spears, which can be up to 6 m or more long, are stuck either in the shore or in the bottom; the twine wrapped around the flyer should not be particularly long, since otherwise the catfish will lead it behind the snags. The nozzle is launched in different ways - sometimes near the bottom, sometimes at half water, and sometimes almost on the surface itself (17-32 cm from it) - depending on the terrain, weather and other conditions.

In general, it should be borne in mind that most of the largest catfish are taken from the bottom in deep pits, and therefore the nozzle should be larger on the bottom vents. The bait is most often live bait, planted or behind the back, less often (as, for example, in Ryazan province) sewn to the hook in two places - at the head and at the dorsal fin. In addition, all other already known catfish nozzles are used. In order for the live bait not to describe too large circles, avoiding the catfish mouth, the sinker must have a proportionate weight.

In some places, where there are many grassy bays, a green frog serves as the best bait for catfish. However, it is better to catch it on top of it, without a sinker, hooking it with a hook (relatively small) behind the back. Usually such girders are placed near the leaves of burdock and other aquatic plants. In an effort to swim to these leaves, the frog will constantly rake with its hind legs, producing a rather strong splash, which attracts the catfish from a distance, which is why this method can be called the most perfect of all zerlichny ones.

Since when fishing with flyers, it often happens that the catfish, after winding the line, goes into the driftwood and gets tangled there, and in any case lies at the bottom, saving its strength, then in southwestern Russia real girders are replaced, etc. "Hooks", which in essence represent a simplified girder. There is no flyer here and it is replaced by a small supply of fishing line, 1 m, pinched in a split at the end of the butt. The latter is somewhat different from a pole or pole and has more in common with a rod, since it must be very strong, rather flexible and resilient.

It is not necessary to stick it very tightly into the shore or the bottom, like a pole, so that a large catfish cannot break it or break the string, but only pull it out. These pokes, like the zerlichny poles, should by no means be white, but dark (linden, sverbovye), which is why they sometimes have to be blackened, like twine. The very "hooks" used in the Kiev province are somewhat different from the usual ones, as can be seen from the figure (Fig. 191), and are prepared here on the spot by the fishermen or locksmiths themselves from a thick telegraph wire.

The advantages of this hook over others, however, are very doubtful, and among the hundreds of samples of English hooks you can find many much more reliable and more tenacious. The jabs are stuck in such a way that their free end is 1 m from the water; the nozzle, almost always live bait, should be either 35-52 cm from the surface of the water, or 17-35 cm from the surface of the bottom.

Usually, both bottom and top hooks are placed, and the former have a sinker, and the latter do not. For fishing in strong places, "hooks" are irreplaceable, since the catfish, especially caught on the top hook, for the most part remains in place; having pulled off the supply of twine, it is cut off with an elastic poke and, after floundering for more or less a long time, it hangs helplessly on the hook; even if the poke is pulled out by him, he still rarely has time to huddle in scrap and driftwood.

The similarity of catching with hooks and sniffing catfish is further increased by the fact that the angler always has to pull out a predator that comes across on a butt, as well as on a rod, which is completely impossible with a several meters long string. A small amount of twine, in my opinion, however, is mainly necessary for a more secure hook.

A large catfish, from 16 kg in weight, carries the boat back and forth along the pit, so you need to be very careful and keep the jab with both hands towards the bow; but even then, if the catfish decides to “hit the bottom,” the bow begins to sink and the boat scoops up water. Fishing catfish in any way is possible only in clean places, free from grazing for a more or less significant distance, i.e. for the most part not on the pits themselves, but a little further away, in the places with which catfish constantly go for fattening.

Almost always, catfish are fished from the shore, firmly sticking fishing rods into the ground or the dam wall when fishing in mill pools; fishing from a boat, fortified in place, for some reason is not at all used, although the catfish is not at all afraid of it; there is no doubt, however, that it is much more convenient to fish from a boat, especially on rods with a reel. For short bottom fishing rods They usually catch only small catfish, about 8 kg, since it is very difficult to breed large ones on short sixes.

The nozzle is a crayfish or a crayfish neck, less often a loach or chub, hooked on the lips, and the sinker must be so heavy that the bait almost cannot move it. It should be noted that even the Somenok very strongly rests on the current, bending its wide reach with a ring, so that it is very difficult to move it. Somata, on the other hand, are very often found even at a fairly decent rapid and at a shallow depth.

A real hunting, quite active, method of catching catfish can only be called the so-called clutch, in which the angler constantly moves, always holding the fishing line in his hand. A scrap of catfish is known on many rivers in central, southeastern and part of northwestern Russia, but it is very strange that in southwestern Russia they have almost no idea about it, at least I could not find any indication on this matter anywhere.

In general, fishing with a klokovy fish is widespread in some places and is not always practiced even in rivers teeming with catfish, as, for example, on the river. Crow. This strangeness can be explained most likely by ignorance, rather than by the assumption that in some places catfish are almost never taken on a frog - the main, although not at all exceptional, nozzle when torn.

The very idea of ​​shredding, as I noted above, has not yet been clarified with sufficient clarity: according to some anglers, for example. Western Vinsky, Neman, Klyazminsky, Ufa and others, males go to shreds, and the clownfish imitates the voice of the (widowed?) catfish, which, as if at dawn, clucks or hounds three times, calling for males. For this reason, fishing with a fishtail is carried out here (also on the Sviyaga River) very early, starting from the spawning time, already at the end of May.

It is very strange, however, that southern fishermen, who live in places much more abundant with catfish, do not say anything about shredding during spawning, but believe that the catfish goes to shreds because it reminds him of the croaking of a frog, or even because he believes that that any animal is drowning. Only Potekhin says in passing that the shred used in the Saratov province produces the sound that catfish makes.

However, as far as is known, the real fishing of catfish is carried out only in Vitebsk province, where, according to Terletsky, catfish very soon approach the boat to the sounds produced by the "wab" and then they are beaten with prison. In other localities, they always shred with a nozzle. The main accessory or feature of the catfish scraps is the tool with which the catfish are lured. Its principle is the same as that of the famous botal, and the Vitebsk catfish wab, or wabik, differs little from it, since it is also a kind of wooden glass, planted on a stick.

A simple Central Russian klokusha, or klok, looks like a small plank 27-36 cm long, 2 cm thick and 4 cm wide, from one end of which a depression in the form of a funnel is hollowed out no deeper than 1.3 m, while the other is constrained and tied to 22 - centimeter handle. A real hunting klokhtusha, klokusha, or catfish, is a slightly curved crutch, about 44 cm long, made of bird cherry, mountain ash, elm or apple tree; at one end of the crutch, a hat or thickening is made, in which a small depression is hollowed out, the size of a three-kopeck coin.

As for the nozzle, the frog is considered the best for shredding; On the Don, however, the bait is most often a crayfish and a dry ram's head, also an eel (a white dung beetle larva), a sparrow, a piece of meat. This diversity does not support the assumption that the catfish goes to the klokushu because it imitates the croaking of the frog. But it goes without saying that when fishing with a frog, it is very useful for the klokusha to really croak, as it were.

Almost always floaty, very rarely anchored in a pit. The boat must be light; catch together or alone, but always with one correct oar, and first go up and then go downstream. On the Klyazma, an iron ring is usually screwed into the nose of a botnik; a fishing rod is threaded through this ring, the free end of which (i.e., the butt) is tied to the stern. This is done so that a large catfish cannot overturn the canoe.

The fisherman, having arrived at the place (the pit where the catfish are kept), controls the oar with his left hand, and with his right hand takes the fishing line tied to the fishing rod attached, as said, and, releasing a shallow hook with a nozzle (oysters), slightly winds the string around his fingers and the same with his hand he strikes with a regular clownfish. Klokhtusha makes such a sound as if hitting the water with an overturned glass only much louder (?); after three hits, the angler moves his hand to move the bait.

At this sound, the catfish approaches the boatman (it happens that several of them come up), piles on the oar so that you can't move the oars, he sees the bait and does not immediately swallow it, but as if sucks, and hangs like a weight; at this moment the fisherman lowers the forest from his hand a little, then he hooks it harder. If the catfish is small, it must be dragged into the boat immediately; if it is very large, then it is necessary to lower the string so that it goes to the bow of the boat; in this way the hunter tries to reach little by little to the sloping shore, where he gets out of the boat and pulls out the prey, which, however, is not easy for one.

Sometimes a large catfish at first weakly drags towards the boat, then, at the very side, suddenly throws its reach out, touches the sides, head downward, headlong sinks to the bottom. Probably, with such a maneuver, he manages to overturn the boat, examples of which are not uncommon. Catfish are caught in Klyazma for clownfish only until mid-July. On the Don, they scrape a little differently. Twine - a strong linen or hemp cord, here called a trim, is wound around a small thick handle, which is held in the hand by lowering the hook with a nozzle to the proper depth.

They also catch from light longboat boats together or alone, but first they drive far up, keeping near the shore; then the angler swims to the middle of the river, puts down the oar, stops rowing and lowers the hook with a nozzle into the water; with his left hand he holds a cut, and with his right he takes a klokushu, because it is much more convenient to shred with the right. It is customary here to never wrap the string around your hand, because if the string does not quickly reel, then a large catfish can pull the fisherman off the boat. Catfish are best caught here on shallow rapids, where they go out to hunt for fish.

But it is impossible to positively and accurately determine where the catfish takes better, because they catch it both in a deep place and in a shallow one, which depends on the weather and the time of year. When the fisherman senses that the catfish is on the hook, he begins to pull out the prey. Of course, they do not stand on ceremony with catfish, but if the catfish is large or torn strongly, then the fisherman does not pull it up at all, but allows a cut, that is, allows the fish to wind up part of the twine from the handle. Thus, this latter almost completely replaces the coil.

However, you should not allow the cut too much, since the catfish can run under the stern and lie down there. In this case, a block or board is tied to the handle and the edge is thrown into the water. The catfish, feeling more free, hurries to leave; the fisherman catches the edge and starts to fish again. Having tired of the catfish, which often drives the boat back and forth for a long time, it is carefully brought to the boat and, stunned with a blow of the butt (ax), is dragged into the launch.

If the catfish is not hauled out enough, it sometimes knocks it upside down with a blow of its tail on the edge of the boat. The caught catfish is stunned on the head with a butt so that it cannot jump out of the boat and does not interfere with continuing fishing at all. The stunned catfish lies calmly or falls asleep altogether, but often comes to his senses, begins to beat and the fisherman again resorts to the butt. It is rarely possible to catch more than four catfish in one evening.

Catfish are best caught on the Don in calm weather, in the evenings and in the mornings; in the evening he goes well to the shrub, from the time the sun sets until dusk; in the morning before sunrise. Quiet weather - necessary condition when catching catfish; in bad or inclement weather, the catfish lies at the bottom, not rising, and does not hear shreds. In the horse-drawn villages, people tend to clump more in the evening than in the morning. Catfish comes across on the Don in the daytime, but not on a clump, and the hook is simply thrown into the pool.

In the evenings near the village you can see several longboats on the Don; fishing (fisherman) sits on each of them and shreds; will carry it down with the current - he will take an oar, turn from the middle to the shore and, resting, will again go up and again turn to the very middle, and shred until he is again carried down or until he sits on a hook with a catfish.

Crossbow nod for winter bream fishing

Let's pay attention to a device unique in its structure and capabilities - a nod "crossbow" for winter fishing. It has many modifications. It is done quickly, does not require large physical costs. With such a homemade nod, a catch of a couple of small bream in frost is guaranteed. All about how to make a nod "crossbow" for winter fishing with your own hands, read below.

A quality ice fishing rod - what is it

The winter fishing rod, in contrast to the summer one, is distinguished by its short length, compactness and simple design. Convenient models are equipped with a nod (gate). With such an element, you can count on the necessary bait play and prompt signaling about a bite. It is attached to the whip with a small clamp, electrical tape or wire. Homemade fishing rods with similar designs are not inferior to branded ones. The main thing is to do everything in the manufacture as the professionals advise.

The nod "crossbow" for catching bream is the same winter fishing rod small size, which has a rubber shock absorber. The idea of ​​using such a mechanism is not new. The first such models appeared in the 70s. Models with a gate and on a rubber shock absorber do not give everything because of the time spent on manufacturing, however, those who were not too lazy to design the device note the high efficiency of the product.

At its core, the crossbow has a stainless steel frame with a diameter of 0.9 mm. The average length of the shoulders is 5 cm, the total width is 7 cm. A rubber ring serves as a shock absorber, which is put on, stretching tightly, over the horns. As for the cambrics, they are located on a pole and a gatehouse. The best option for a fishing rod for a crossbow is a model in which the reel is not fixed quickly.

What is a crossbow in action? Using it, you can fish with one tackle and any bait in different ways: at maximum depth with a rise, for a game, by slowly lowering the bait. When casting a fishing rod, it is not recommended to lower the tip of the nod as much as possible above the water. It would be good to set the element horizontally during the adjustment process. So it will better fix the bite. As for the gatehouse, it is regulated on site. Adjustment for lures of a certain weight is carried out by increasing / decreasing the number of revolutions. The additional lead can be placed on or off the line. Due to the well-designed structure, when pulling out the fish, it does not feel the weight of the jig and the sinker during the lifting process.

Pros and cons of "crossbow"

"Crossbow" is a winning tackle for catching bream in winter. It is designed for use in severe frost and wind. Many take it for fishing in the current. All popular solutions are suitable as bait: plant food, maggots and worms, modern designs - jerkies. The adaptation is enough for many years - 3-4 seasons for sure. Advantages:

• clear display of even the most careful bite;
• simple, quick adjustment of the mechanism for any kind of bait;
• the fish does not feel the resistance of the nod, the weight of the hook, attachment.

The disadvantages include the following nuances:

• only smooth, slow play. With sharp, frequent movements, a nod is lifted;
• the setting is quickly lost. The diving of the bait is only smooth.

"Crossbow" do it yourself: instructions for making

For manufacturing, you will need the following materials:

• waterproof glue;
• cambric;
• round fishing (model aircraft) rubber band;
• light and hard plate;
• steel wire;
• heat shrink tubes;
• whip.

For bonding, joining raw materials, you need tools such as:

• scissors;
• pliers;
• matches

Phased production of the "crossbow":

1. Prepare a base from a hard wire, about 20 cm;
2. Attach the wire cage to the whip using heat shrink tubing. The distance from the end of the whip to the arc of the crossbow is 5-10 mm;
3. Apply water-resistant cyanoacrylate based glue to pieces of fine line cambric;
4. Attach the segments to the attachment point of the frame and the tip of the whip;
5. Fold the elastic in half and tie the ends. The length of the segment should be such that it can be easily put on the frame by slightly pulling it;
6. Thread the loop of the elastic into the silicone tube;
7. Glue a rigid plate to one of the ends of the cambric;
8. Insert the resulting gate into the holes of the silicone tube so that it is between the veins of the elastic. The crossbow arrow came out;
9. Attach the resulting boom to the wire frame. The result is a crossbow. Insert the finished structure into the fishing rod.
10. Thread the line through the cambric passages and attach a weight.

Adjustment is carried out by twisting the ends of the elastic. As for the reel, the line should slide out of it smoothly, without locking. Otherwise, it will be difficult to adjust. When setting up a homemade nod, the baited jig should touch the bottom. Sizes depend on the rod you have and the fisherman's preference. The design, the shade of the arrow, the coil, can be anything.

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The Republic of Belarus is famous not only for its wonderful forests with many "unseen" forest animals, not frightened by humans, beautiful monuments of deep antiquity or sanatoriums and numerous places of rest. Many people go to these places with only one purpose - to catch their biggest fish. Fishing is especially good in the Vitebsk region. There are already legends about incredible successful catches here, and about the Vitebsk lakes, rich in various fish, only a deaf person has not heard.

Fish is everywhere

Local fishermen say that it is not difficult to catch fish in the local lakes. There are more than two thousand lakes in the region. It doesn't matter if you go on a "hunt" for pike on the Great Dvina or have chosen quiet shallow places for fishing. The Vitebsk region, not to mention the whole region, offers anglers such a wide variety that both a beginner and a professional will find a suitable fishing spot for themselves.

Experienced fishermen are advised to explore several options at once. Of course, it is convenient to come to one body of water and sit there all day. But in order not to get into a mess (after all, the fish can sometimes be capricious), immediately outline a couple of lakes close to each other, so that in case of failure you can quickly change the place of deployment.

It is also important to take into account the fact that some lakes give a rich catch only in winter. In other bodies of water, luck smiles at fishermen only when fishing in open water in the warm season.

What's caught?

Fishing in the Vitebsk region is successful all year round. However, in winter, there are more chances to catch a large pike or crucian carp. Also in the cold season, tench and carp go well. In summer, the variety of fish is amazing. You can catch on the hook bream, pike perch, chub and bastard, carp, perch, “for frying” crucians the size of a palm. There are also large red-backed crucian carp, ruffs, bleak, silver bream and asp, roach, dace and gudgeon.

Lisno

Lisno is considered one of the favorite lakes for winter fishing in the Vitebsk region. The reservoir is quite clean, large and deep. If you choose the right day, for example, when an early spring thaw is raging in the yard, then you can catch a large pike in the reeds. The breeder bites perfectly in this lake in winter.

In summer, in addition to large pike, you can catch ruffs, bream and pike perch in this reservoir. The best summer fishing rod is a spinning rod with small bright (green or yellow) rubber baits.

Sho, Drysvyaty

These two lakes are loved by fishermen who prefer to use a boat when fishing. Since the shores of these reservoirs are quite steep and swampy, fishing from the shore is simply impossible. Sho - a shallow reservoir, even, one might say, shallow, but rich different kinds fish. But Drisvyaty, on the contrary, is a deep and mighty lake.

North and South Volos

If fishing from a boat is not your thing favorite hobby, then from the shore you can fish in other bodies of water. Lakes Severny and Yuzhny Volos are distinguished by clean, transparent water, gentle shores, on which it is very convenient to settle down with an ordinary fishing rod. Both lakes are quite deep (about two dozen meters). The fish is well-fed here, calmly going to the hook, not capricious to bait and bait.

Tutche

Despite its shallow depth and small size, Lake Titche is very popular with fishermen. Especially those who are fond of catching ruffs, pike or small perch tend to come here. A wide variety of tackles are used: someone prefers home-made oscillators or turntables, while others choose microjig or spinning.

IN winter time year will be more difficult fishing in the Vitebsk region. Reports from local fishermen indicate that the perch is not doing well in winter, becoming less active and more capricious, fastidious.

Long

Wonderful fishing in the Vitebsk region, according to local fishermen, on Lake Dolgoe. However, it is worth remembering that the reservoir is quite capricious, deep-water, having many places with depth differences. In the deepest places - fifty or more meters. The water is clean and transparent.

Many fishermen from all over the country and from abroad have always come to these places. It is not for nothing that there are many tourist centers and a hotel complex on the shore of the lake. Here fishing in the Vitebsk region is already paid, but not throughout the entire territory of the reservoir. Before arriving, it is better to consult and find out in more detail from the locals all the nuances of fishing, living, resting.

White Kotlyarovskoe

Fishing in the Vitebsk region in winter is especially popular on the Beloe Kotlyarovskoe lake. On the first ice, large perch and pike are excellently caught. In the summertime, fishing rod and boat enthusiasts gather here, because at this time roach, bream, silver carp and crucian carp peck here. But this lake is not suitable for spinningists. The lake is small, good for those who do not like large bodies of water with many fishermen and paid services.

Zaronovskoe lake

This body of water, the width of which is slightly more than a kilometer, and the maximum depth of about thirteen meters, is especially fond of "hunters" for pike-perch, burbot and large perch... Also in this lake there are crucian carp, silver bream and rudd, pike and bleak. As for the tackle, everything will do here: donk, jig, spinning rod and an ordinary fishing rod, spinner and rewinder, balancer and girders in winter.

Washed away

This shallow lake, located in the center of the Vitebsk region, was to the taste of fish that prefer to hunt pike perch, silver bream and rudd. Also, pike, perch and ruffs, roach and large bream are found in abundance in the local waters. The coastline, about seven kilometers long, allows you to find a secluded spot, retire and fish in complete silence. And on the contrary, to find for yourself a lot of interlocutors-neighbors, with whom it will be convenient to while away the time on a fishing trip.

Polonskoe

For lovers of summer and spring fishing, Lake Polonskoye, located near the city of Vitebsk, is perfect. Local fishermen advise to come here early, the best bite is at dawn. And good places for fishing will need to be "grabbed" in advance, because they fly here with the popularity of hot cakes. It is especially advised to take a place located slightly to the left of the car park. There, among the water lilies, in the thickets, in the "windows", you can arrange convenient places for fishing from the shore. Pike and rudd, silver bream and roach, crucian carp, tench and perch peck here.

Yanovichskoe

According to local fishermen, this reservoir is especially good winter fishing in the Vitebsk region. The biting forecast in the cold season is always marked as successful. Breeders are especially happy about their prey, because there are a lot of this fish in Yanovichsky.

For lovers summer fishing this body of water may not seem entirely successful, since in the warm season, the transparency of the water, as they say, is at zero. But despite this, carp, and silver carp, and pike, and silver bream, and even burbot are excellently caught here in summer.

Chevino

If you are a lover of comfortable modern fishing, then you will certainly enjoy fishing at the "Lettsy" recreation center on Lake Shevino. A beautiful pine and spruce forest just calls to forget about the bustle of the city and allows you to fully enjoy the suburban clean air. At the base there is an opportunity to rent a boat or sports fishing equipment.

Obukhovskoe

Fans of small, so to speak, quiet and homely cozy lakes will certainly like Obukhovskoye. Length coastline here is about one and a half kilometers, the width of the lake is 200 m. The reservoir in some places is quite deep - a maximum of 14-14.5 meters.

Here bream, rudd, silver bream and pike, crucian carp and perch, bleak, roach and ruffs bite almost all year round. As for the tackle, experienced fishermen advise paying attention to spinning, feeder, microjig, jig and donk.

Western Dvina

According to experienced anglers, fishing in the Vitebsk region will always be successful. The best places - lake ones - we have listed, it's up to you to choose. But Vitebsk Territories are famous not only for lake fishing. It is impossible not to mention about fishing on one of the most beautiful and largest rivers - the Western Dvina. This river flows, by the way, not only in Belarus and Russia, but also captures some part of Latvia. Its length is about 1200 kilometers.

Fishermen say that for fishing on the Western Dvina it is better to choose small sections of the river, which are located near small remote villages. As a rule, there are few fishermen there, and the fish are not frightened and obedient. The main prey are: chub and pike, pike perch and burbot, rudd and ruffs, ide, asp and crucian carp. Minnows, bream, bleak, roach and tench are also caught.

Chub fishing is especially interesting for experienced fishermen. Rumor has it that this fish is very whimsical, fastidious and cunning. Loves shallows, small islands with boulders and rifts. Perhaps, due to the difficulty of fishing and the increased caution of the fish, hunting for it is especially interesting, and the captured trophy is especially valuable.