Bream on the Upper Volga

You can live a life close to the Volga, but did not understand, do not feel that our main river. On the other hand, sometimes only a day spend on the beach - from dawn to dawn - and the river will be mother tongue. The share is leschatnikov fall, I suspect, more than others.



Special caste
With the company spinningists rest on the shore after a successful hunt for walleye. Before dawn again go out on the water and try to repeat the success of the evening. Meanwhile, cook the soup and admire the Volga.

On the water surface, bizarrely reflected stars and moon. Do not see, but hear, downstream straining the motors are running. The barge is - to see, loaded to the limit. Engines, though not alive, and metal, but tired and familiar. Roar, as if complaining that it is difficult to them. Immediately know how in the old days there were carrying on itself barge haulers.

But from the other side, towards the weary barge cheerfully go head to head once the other two. The impression that compete. No one wants to give in the channel. The shallows good spurts. Perch-dodger not want to give yourself extra time, and the roar of the barges has decided to continue the hunt for small fish.

The night sky slowly began to brighten. We re on the water. And from the other side of the channel in disorderly rows of oars moving armada of inflatable boats. Go quietly, like a military assault, even bursts of light from the oars not. Leschatniki. Special caste of fishermen. Rising to the anchor, they will spend the morning in the same place. Often their catches can be very large. Many of them are more hunters than anglers. However, in this, you see, there is something.

Noticed that most leschatnikov have distinctive traits. They, for example, people are calculating. My neighbor in the garage, leschatnik spring pumps his inflatable boat to late autumn keeps it inflated. In this form it from him and kept on the trunk of the car. And so do many avid leschatniki. Yet they are extremely conservative. The whole season go fishing in the same place, usually located as close to the house. They are patient. You know at least one spinning that day without any result will send your bait in the same place? A leschatnik in this situation would be hard to sit in a boat and carefully observe their fishing rods.

It is in the boat. You can, of course, catch a crab and shore, but in this case, the chances of success dramatically reduced. Moreover, it should be borne in mind that the size of fish that beregoviki and boatmen called bream, is very different. The one who catches closer to the fairway, as a rule, fish catches are larger, and it is more bite. I think this is why in our area leschatnikov-boaters on the order more than leschatnikov-beregovikov. Moreover, the first general on the float rod fishing from shore consider child's play.

I must admit that on the Upper Volga boatmen leschatnikov-much more than spinningists.

FOR bream

About fifteen years ago, I am equally fond of spinning and bottom line for bream. Therefore owned subtleties and nuances of this type of fishing. Leschatnikov recently saw with a good catch and rolled nostalgia. Plus wanted to learn about "new technologies", which, I was sure, be sure to have adopted this fishing fans ryby.U spinningists because no season is complete without any new products!

One of my friends - avid leschatnik, and I asked for him to go fishing. Let's go to the area of ​​the Red Profintern. According to my information from several independent sources, bream was caught well and is much closer, but my friend leschatnik insisted. He has all summer perfectly pecked it out there ...

Before dawn arrived at the scene with an already pre-inflated inflatable boat. Drove her to the trunk. In the same way his "Dive" delivered on the Volga local old Sasha - our neighbor on the landing on the water. Right next dozen leschatnikov already forming in their boats fishing equipment.

Boats on the shore just walked next to each other. They passed the coastal thickets lilies, and each boat has gone its course. Leschatniki took their favorite places. Widely dispersed in the water area, now only the captain's binoculars and could consider each other.

Usually avid leschatniki not use sonar. But why? They have a bottom relief in his favorite spot, and so they know inside out. Properly to anchor help coastal landmarks.

- Standing in front of a fluffy tree - tell us lucky leschatniki after fishing.

- What the?

- Get out of - the index finger is very tanned peasant shows a green ball on the opposite bank.

Go there binoculars. Indeed, the foliage of this tree is denser and smaller than those of its neighbors.

And now we are maneuvering in the water area, man stares that one shore to the other. "A bit forward, - he commands - now two rowing stroke to the left ..."

ON-SITE

Finally anchored. Dragged the boat over a bit. My friend, after naduvnushka froze on the water, let go one anchor rope two meters and pulled the boat closer to the other.

The motor on this fishing trip we did not take at all, but I picked up a fishfinder. Study the topography of the bottom. Below us the depth of eight meters and downstream pit - 9.5 meters. I looked through the binoculars. Almost all of our competitors are closer to the fairway. However, there is a little less depth than below us. This I know, hunted there for walleye. But the local old Sasha got a lot closer to its coast, right next to the water lilies. This is a place we passed, and I was able to note that there is a record for these places depth - 12 meters. Proposed friend stay there, but in any ...

Tackle I did not take with him, their friend gave me on the spot. Here are a couple of fishing rods with a nod of tough springy steel. These four motoviltse leash on. Substitutes are needed in order not to lose time if the basic entangled in fishing or would stop. On leads of 4-5 hooks of various sizes. As explained by my mentor to small - maggots, on average - the worm on the biggest - a crust of white bread. In short, the complete otoplasty tackles.

Before you lower the rod, from the opposite side, which is higher up, drop the two feeders. Leschatniki preparation of bait often do some mystery. In this case agree that the bream bait well and ordinary brown bread crumbs. It is clear that for some time they will soak in water, and if we add to it the same crackers, but crushed, or the purchase of bait, the feeder will start earlier.?

I talked to many leschatnikami trying to scout out their secrets for preparing bait. Some buy a couple of loaves of bread, sprinkled them with sunflower oil and send it with a dish on the bottom of the Volga - believe that it is enough for good fishing. And they really caught big bream. Other anglers believe that if the feeder is not put dill, then to catch bream nobles will have nothing to count. The third major role of the activator bite withdrawn garlic. They always tucked in some of his bread slices. At four-all structure of bait literally painted in grams. They believe that you can not do without the milled flax seeds and sunflower seeds. And there are those who do the main part of boiled potatoes, then mixed into it canned corn. And it is caught. And too well.

Then came one of the most critical moments. We assess the effect of flow and according to it, select one of a set of goods that it needs. For successful bream presence of flow is necessary. If it is absent, and in modern times is no longer a rarity, toleschatniki immediately Jacked and head for the shore. In our case, it has decided to mate, well suited moving a mass of 120 g is important to place the nozzle as close to the trough to bream have noticed them. While nothing new in comparison with what used leschatniki twenty years ago, I had not noticed.

My mentor than donok with sliding weights are used and classic koltsopkoy. At certain times, it was considered poaching gear, now it is permitted.

BEGAN WITH feast

Everything is ready to approach the bream, but no bites. Meanwhile, the horizon appeared the edge of the sun. On the water surface. We drink tea from a thermos. Great!

Suddenly, right next to us out of the water, like chub, bream pops up, next second, third ... According to the accessible area went revelry. Clouds bream frolic. No bites. A bream continue to happily jump out of the water. It is hoped that it was a warm-up exercises before breakfast.

Then one time, as if on cue, bream cease to walk. And a minute nod my rod jerked alarmingly. I was late with the cutting. For 15 years, lost skill. Do not miss the next bite. Is. Resists. Time 6 hours 50 minutes. Bite from a friend at two fishing rods. He says that one of them village just two bream, maybe three. It turns out that the abundance of hooks on the ropes can backfire. At the time, I put on a leash, only one hook - believed that it was better to start up the extra bait than to get out of long landing net these same extra hooks and lose precious morning time.