Although near Vizimyara, on the Volga, fishing for bream attracts many lovers of good fishing, some experienced fishermen have never tried to get their catch on this famous Russian river. As experienced professionals say, knowing how to properly fish bream, knowing good places, you can catch so much on the Volga that all your friends will be amazed. Indeed, it is a very rich pond. In addition, spending time on the Volga is pleasant in itself, and if the season is warm, then, in addition to fishing, you can entertain yourself with swimming and other traditional fun.
How to come with a catch?
Of course, experienced fishermen say that fishing for bream on the Volga from the shore or from a boat is always successful, but for a beginner it is not so simple. You need to know how to properly hunt this fish, only in this case the catch will please with its volume and become a source of pride. Several general tips and tricks are known. Following them, you will be able to catch your fish, and even one that all friends will envy. Some people believe that bream fishing is one of the most difficult tasks. You need to have specific knowledge, equipment, and in addition, thoroughly prepare for the process.
The first and main thing that determines the success of fishing for the bream on the lower Volga (and in other areas of the reservoir) is the correct choice of a point for fishing. The most successful options are considered to be pockets. You can settle in a semi-bay or choose a place where water flows slowly, calmly. The optimum depth is about three meters with a deviation up and down per meter. If there is a fallen tree, this area is especially suitable for fishing bream. It is advisable to choose zones whose bottom is clay and sand. If possible, clean the bottom.
What's next?
The process of fishing for bream on the Volga (middle, lower and other parts) continues with fish bait. Lure is prepared in the morning. Mix 100 g of millet and half as much rice, the same amount of buckwheat. 0.2 kg of barley is added to the mixture. All components must be properly prepared. Barley is boiled for about a quarter of an hour, the remaining components are added to the container and cooked for no more than ten minutes. The container is removed from the fire and 100 g of bran and the same amount of corn flour are added. The contents of the dishes are thoroughly mixed, evaporated for half an hour. When the porridge has completely cooled, special aromatic additives are added to it. They will make the bait interesting for the fish and activate the bite.
In order to make fishing for the bream on the Volga successful, the bait is scattered around the selected area about half an hour before the start of the “silent hunt”. The mixture is divided into balls with a diameter of about seven centimeters. A couple or three of these pieces are thrown into the water. After another successful bite, you need to throw another ball, already smaller - four centimeter in diameter.
Rigging
The most successful bream-oriented fishing on the Volga is a process for which the fisherman has previously stocked up on suitable equipment. The line should be bluish or a light shade of brown. White can be used, but not recommended. The best diameter is 0.25. To make a leash, use a fishing line with a diameter of 0.2. Convenient and suitable hook sizes - from 8 to 12. Long and thin specimens are suitable as a float. Very good bird feathers, plastic, foam floats. The sinker should be medium in size. You can take grains of dark lead - a few pieces. The best leash length is up to 35 cm.
Having finished the selection of equipment, they proceed directly to fishing on the Volga aimed at bream. In addition to equipment and skills, patience is important. The fish is quite cautious, it will not swallow the hook by itself. On the hook put on maggots, bloodworms. Experienced fishermen are advised to make a complex filling, combining a worm and maggot. The worm can be replaced with a bloodworm. In this case, do not take too large a nozzle. Large worms, crawls are not suitable for catching bream. The sting should be open. The task of the fisherman is to beautifully plant the bait, carefully. If using a worm, there should be no long tails. If the target is a large bream, the worm will not help.
Options
If a fisherman goes hunting for bream, on the Volga you can find places where there are good chances to catch very large fish of this species. True, you need to navigate the situation, choosing bait and equipment. Experienced fishermen believe that hunting for a large fish requires mormyshka. It is not necessary to use tackle with a sinker; a combination of a bobber with a jig is enough. The bait will be calm, that is, it will be easy to trick the fish. If the day turned out to be windy, the fishing process becomes easier, since it is easier to fish. For such fishing, the gear described earlier is suitable. The best fishing rod length is within 5-6 meters. You must have a 0.2-line fishing line, as well as a reel and a float. The only difference is the replacement of the bait and a sinker on a mormyshka. Choosing the right one, take into account the need for a durable and very sharp hook. The best plywood is high.
Experienced fishermen who have often gone to the bream on the Volga are advised to carry out fishing, having a mormyshka of horizontal suspension. The most useful for the conditions under consideration is such a mormyshka, in which the hook is placed on top. It is perfectly masked in the bottom, while the nozzle remains visible. To make it easier to fool the fish, you need to take a gray mormyshka. A brilliant instance, on the contrary, does not fit. If you decide to fish with a float, you need to balance it so that the nozzle lies at the bottom. It is equally important to preoccupy the presence of a feed. This is especially important if the coast is steep. The bite indicates a swift take-off and slow diving float.
Fishing is fun!
Fishing for bream on the Volga from a boat, from the shore is a process that at the same time requires patience, dedication, and the ability to maintain concentration on the process. Experienced fishermen advise one easy way to get fish attention. It works regardless of what is used as bait. Every third or half an hour, the float is slightly raised, the hand holding the fishing rod is moved to the side, and then returned to its original position. This simple maneuver attracts the attention of fish; catching the treasured bream becomes easier.
If you managed to catch a large specimen, you can not pull with time. You need to immediately throw bait into the water. Only after that they remove the fish from the hook and throw the released gear. If the bite is over, you should try with a different nozzle. Surely this will lead to success. In summer, fishing in this way is possible from the moment of sunset until the very morning. In the daytime they start fishing from seven or eight in the morning. In autumn, you can catch bream at about the same hours.
Summer and fishing
According to many, fishing for bream on the Volga from a boat and from the shore in the summer months is perhaps the best pastime available to a modern person who is keen on fishing. Indeed, the area is incredibly beautiful, the weather is pleasant, especially if a good day is chosen. They come to the bream when the spawning of fish comes to an end. It is believed that June is the best time for summer water hunting. In addition to bream, during this period you can catch all the other cyprinids. Take into account that during this period the diet of fish changes slightly. The scavenger with pleasure will eat a vegetable bait, use of an animal will be no less effective. You can go hunting for fish both day and night. In the cold season, night fishing is unpromising, so many fishermen look forward to the summer, when you can once again give yourself unforgettable nights under a starry sky on the banks of the greatest river in the European part of the country. Bream zhor is especially active from the first June days and remains intense until the middle of next month, so adrenaline is provided to the fisherman.
After mid-July, the fish’s interest in the bait drops sharply. A new surge is observed in the last days of August or in the first days of September. Although during this period fishing for bream on the Volga on a feeder, fishing rod and in other ways will give less impressive results than in summer, still the pleasure will be great. But in June, fishing is especially nice, because during this period the water level drops slightly. Bream, scavengers try to go to great depths, and any pool, edge is a great opportunity for an experienced fisherman. Choosing a place for arranging gear, it is worth taking a closer look at the pits in the channel.
Features
Catching a bream on the Volga at night attracts many people with a double extreme and strong impressions, which means more pride in the catch. As experienced fishermen know, in the dark, the desired fish is selected in the relatively shallow areas of the channel, where it tries to find food. It is here that it makes sense to catch a bream when night darkness has fallen. The place is chosen while the sun still illuminates the river. The deeper the site, the greater the likelihood that the desired production will come out only at the end of daylight hours. If you don’t have the opportunity to go fishing at night, the only option for a summer fisherman interested in a bream is to find a suitable hole.
In the summer it will be successful on the Volga fishing for bream on the donka, on a simple fishing rod. You can fish using a fishing rod with a special shock absorber. You can select a wiring instance. It will be possible to catch the bream on a feeder, fly fishing rod, match tackle. You can catch on the ring. In a word, any option is good and promising, so the fisherman can choose what he likes best, what he is used to.
Rules and Risks
When planning to bream on the Volga to the Donka, feeder, ring and any other gear, you need to familiarize yourself with the rules. In the dark, this river is navigable. In our country, it is strictly forbidden to be on the water in a simple boat in the dark, if industrial ships can sail along the channel. Accordingly, in the summer season at night it will not work to fish from a boat using a ring, flywheel tool. You have to adhere to the restrictions - they are designed for a reason. If a collision suddenly occurs, an amateur fisherman is likely to suffer, with the worst possible consequences.
When planning fishing, you need to take into account the tendency of the fish to move. As indicated earlier, in the afternoon the bream hides in a deep dark place, and at night it moves to shallow water, trying to find food. The morning period is the moment of fish migration. During this period of the day it is better to fall in love with slopes and eyebrows for water hunting. In the daytime, it is advised to fish using a boat and all those tools that are relevant for this option.
Nutritional nuances
To make bream fishing on the Volga a ring, feeder, donka and any other version of gear was effective, it makes sense to look at the possibilities of using various lures. As indicated earlier, in the warm season, the nature of the nutrition of the fish changes, and this affects the choice of complementary foods. If in the cold season the best aromatic additives are spicy, then in the warm season it is better to take the smells of fruits, sweet. According to experienced fishermen, preference should be given to caramel, cinnamon, cherry aromas, vanilla and strawberry additives and those that smell of honey. Equally effective are mixtures prepared with fresh anise and dill. It is known that in some places fish bites best on anise and dill, but in other parts of the Volga water inhabitants completely ignore this option of bait. To understand how things are in a particular case, you need to experiment.
Equally important is the composition of complementary foods. You can take a finished store product, you can do it yourself. According to many fishermen, it is better to cook "Salapin" porridge. It is distinguished by the balance of ingredients, good both in mechanical qualities and in taste. As a nozzle, bloodworms and maggots are appropriate. In the summer you can use peas and dough. No less successful result will be when fishing for corn, pearl barley and semolina, pasta. You can boil potatoes, steam wheat or use bread made from wheat flour. The bream is rather careful, therefore it is not easy to please him, and a combination of several products at once gives a good result. You can put corn on a hook, then an asterisk (pasta). This form is convenient due to the presence of a hole, but you can use any other product. The design is fixed with a pair of maggots. The number is changed based on the characteristics of the case, the size of the fish. Well, if you don’t want to cook such a complex structure, you can just catch the combination of maggot with a worm.
When the cold is not a hindrance
No less attractive than summer fishing on the Volga bream in winter. At this time of the year you can also use different gear. According to experienced fishermen, the little devil is the best and most reliable option. This is a fairly simple method of water hunting, it is quickly mastered even by those who first came to winter fishing. If you adjust the little devil correctly, bites will please you with frequency. The bait is a tee from a drop-shaped base. No less important than bait, wiring. The little devil for winter suits more mormyshki. You can make a system with a hanging hook or a "jellyfish", you can make a soldered triple or hang movable hooks. On average, the length of the bait is about one and a half centimeters. Weight - not less than a gram.
There is no doubt in the success of the event, because the coveted fish does not hibernate in the cold season. The bream is found not only in the Volga, but also in many other reservoirs. In the cold, the fish weakens, it is somewhat more sluggish, relatively inactive. For this reason, the bream does not react so actively to the bait, which means that it experiences the patience of the fisherman. As experienced specialists note, this only makes the process even more interesting, exciting, and exciting. True, you need to remember the basic rules. Of course, winter fishing is interesting, but safety comes first. They go fishing only in the dead of winter, when the ice is very thick, the oxygen concentration in the water decreases. In the temperate climate zone, this period begins approximately in the middle of the first month of the year and lasts at the beginning of spring. According to fishermen, such a time is best suited for fishing.
Nature and weather
During deaf winter, the climate strongly corrects the life of the inhabitants of the reservoirs. In winter, bream fishing on the Volga is completely subordinate to these natural processes. The fish responds relatively weakly to the bait, feeding does not give the desired result. The colder the weather, the deeper the fish goes. The bream gradually migrates to the maximum depth, and it is simply impossible to catch something off the coast. If a certain zone is distinguished by an abundance of benthic vegetation, if a lot of grass grows here, you should not even try it - there will be no success. If the ice layer has just appeared, if it is thin, you can catch fish in areas up to four meters deep. In the dead of land, however, no one can be found in these areas - the fish goes deeper. Mostly the level is five meters or more. Breams prefer to stay in the cold season in bottom holes, uneven areas.
Experienced in winter fishing for bream on the Volga, fishermen say that it is easier to find fish where streams or other rivers flow into the great river. If in a certain area there is a bottom spring, it is worth trying to catch it here. The more actively the water moves, the more oxygen in it, the vital bream for survival, is in it.
About habits
You need to know about the habits of fish. If the frost is very strong, the bream goes to a depth of 12 meters. Such sites are located at the edge of the cliff, in the bay or at the edge of the pit. This is where it makes sense to search and fish. If the pit is littered with snags, the bream does not swim into it. Fish prefers a bottom made of clay, sand. If you plan to travel to a new area, whose features are still unknown, it is worth talking to the locals. Fishermen will probably tell you where to make the hole best. Not knowing the features of the bottom landscape, one cannot count on success.
Lifestyle & Weather
Fishing for bream on the Volga in February, during the dead-end season, is organized taking into account some features of this fish. For example, it has long been known that it belongs to the herd, the dimensions of each fish are quite large. As a result, the areas most suitable for habitation are large-scale zones, where there is enough space for all members of the flock. For a fisherman, this means that you don’t have to rely on large prey with one hole at your disposal. In addition, according to experienced people, it is unreasonable to stay all the time at one hole in the thickness of the ice, since a person is noisy, his presence leads to the penetration of light into the water column. This scares the fish and worsens the bite. If there is no desire to wander between the holes, you need to use complementary foods. It is necessary to throw supplements generously, plentifully, regularly. Only in this way will fish gather at the hole.
For the winter season, it is very important to follow the rules of complementary foods. If you prepare it correctly, the very next day after the release of products you can count on a good catch. However, it is worthwhile to mentally prepare for the fact that first you have to feed the fish for several days, only after that there will be some kind of reaction. The more bream, the later he notices food. The larger the fish, the less likely it is to start pecking. The fisherman must understand that the fish’s interest in food is also related to its size. Less than a kilo bream eat almost anything, but big fish are finicky. To catch a large copy, you have to stock up on delicate equipment. The best food for bream is protein. This means that bait should be with animal products. Bloodworms are taken as a basis, breading, sunflower meal, semolina are added. Plant products form nutritious turbidity near the animal ingredient, and this arouses the interest of the desired fish.