The unique body of water, which will be discussed below, consists of several connected large and small bays formed during the damming of the Vazuza River in the Smolensk region and its tributaries. The width of the sleeves closer to the north reaches about three kilometers. It is not surprising that fishermen have long chosen this place, because in such a huge lake there are many diverse fish that are caught all year round. That is why fishing camps lined up on the endless winding coastline.
The Vazuz reservoir is famous for good fishing for predators and peaceful fish. A temporary lull occurs only during periods of life-threatening freezing, ice drift and turbid floods. In the reservoir there are bream, pike perch, pike, asp, roach, perch, ide, silver bream and scavenger. Occasionally come across dace and burbot. There are practically no networks on the reservoir, Rybnadzor began to strictly monitor this. The upper region of the reservoir is divided into seven conventional sections assigned to the Smolensk Society of Fishers.
Cold season
Winter fishing at the Vazuz reservoir can please both predatory fish and linen. Excellent pecking perch, pike and pike perch, bream, scavenger, roach, roach, silver bream, dace, bleak, rarely carp and carp. You can find places where burbot and large ruff come across.
Local and visiting fishermen practice all types of winter fishing, trying to do a few leashes. For example, one with a bloodworm and mormyshka, and the other with a bloodworm and an empty small hook. Peaceful fish pecks well on a fishing rod with a gatehouse, on a float. Moreover, the same result is obtained at the beginning of winter, when the first ice rises, and later. Bait is a feeding bloodworm with chernozem.
Fishing at the Vazuz reservoir (2014) showed excellent results in winter fishing as a plumb line for balancers and spinners, as well as for non-mounted mormyshka. In the areas of the villages of Vyrodovo, Blagodatnoye, and Igurovo, fishermen staged a real competition for scavenger and predatory fish, such as pike, for girders. By the way, they immediately planted a ruff. Although capricious pike in winter, many were lucky. Here you have the Vazuz reservoir - fabulous fishing!
Popular places
The village of Dubinino is a favorite winter place for many fishermen, because no one leaves here without a catch. In this section of the reservoir there is a relatively calm course and a long-fed place. At a depth there are pits, but it is caught at six to eight meters. In general, the conditions are ideal, and then everything depends only on the weather, fishing luck and skill. If you put the necklaces in shallow water, then you can catch a good pike, perch and rare gnarly.
Those who come to perch fishing, it is better to head towards the village of Vyrodovo. Despite the fact that you need to walk two or three kilometers to successful places around a neighboring island, there are always a lot of fishermen. The thing is that around the island in very short sections of rivers flowing into the Vazuz reservoir, very large perch is caught. The main thing is to stock up on balancers and lure.
Near Zhernovka and Popsuyevo, deep pits are found in the reservoir where burbot can stand. To find them in winter, you need to know the depths of the Vazuz reservoir, so visiting visitors to fishermen, even with an echo sounder, will be difficult. Those who know the location of the pits can go fishing at night in a plumb, equipped with a luminous lure. You can also try the nibble on the zergelis.
If you go fishing in the Vazuz reservoir in winter, it is better to take a snowmobile at the base. Then you will definitely not be left without a catch. The main thing is not to freeze.
Summer fishing in the reservoir
What is characterized by lake summer fishing? Of course, the fact that during the hottest hours the fish goes deeper, where it is cool and has more oxygen. The Vazuz reservoir, fishing at which is good at any time of the year, is rich in quite deep holes. Therefore, there will be the best bite in the daytime.
But on this unique lake, even in the sultry July, when the water almost boils, peaceful fish pecks very well. In the Dubinino area, for example, it takes a multi-sized bream well for a float with bait from dung worms. Here you can pull a large asp on a spinning rod.
Float fishing
What could be nicer than classic float fishing? It seems that the Vazuz reservoir was created just for this. Sit, hypnotize the float, and have fun! Although, no, do not just sit: study, practice, hone your skills.
Do not come up with a reservoir better, where you can alternate gear for different fish. Lower to the bottom - the bream and the scavenger bite, slightly raise it - there is a roach, dace, silver bream, roach. Silver bleak will take at shallow depths, so prepare a light tackle. And do not forget to lure the fish with friable bait, which, when dissolved, will create a cloudy, but attractive-smelling cloud in the water around the tackle.
Bait and feeding
It is characteristic of the reservoir that the fish is not too spoiled by the variety of food and bait. The most suitable option can be considered a dung worm and universal food for carp fish. The first can be digged ashore, and the second is enough to moisten and mix with the ground. That is, almost everything is mined right on the spot.
Fishing for spinning, donk, gum
You can fish for spinning anywhere, but near Vyrodovo, where brooks and rivulets, many plants and snags are intertwined, large pike and perch are perfectly caught. If the pike prefers “turntables” and “poppers,” then the perch is given to spinners. In places of currents near the thicket, a good asp can stand, and in pits with a clean bottom, zander is hidden. The first is caught by the “cookmaster”, and the second by the foam rubber fish and the “jig”.
If you catch donka and gum, then a win-win option would be to go to a wide section of the reservoir, stretching from the village of Dubinino to Vyrodovo. The catch will be roach, scavenger, silver bream, crucian carp, carp. By experimenting a bit, you can find the habitat of the ruff. Lines are caught poorly and reluctantly, but lovers of carp and crucian carp will be satisfied.
At the very end of summer and at the beginning of September, a fish begins to have a zhor, when it bites like an abnormal one. During this period, you can catch truly trophy specimens of peaceful fish and predators of kilograms of 4-6, or even more - as someone is lucky!
If you tune in to outdoor activities and serious fishing, it is difficult to find a more suitable place for this than the Vazuz reservoir. Even if you do not know this territory, the lake will not leave you without a worthy catch, and at any time of the year. In winter, it is proposed to rent a snowmobile, and in summer - to use a boat with an outboard engine. Those who wish can officially purchase permits for fishing, and they are provided to pensioners free of charge.