Perch is a common fish. You can catch it all year round with breaks for spawning or freezing. When winter comes, and ice only “rises”, one of the most popular starts - winter fishing for perch. 2014 was no exception. Crowds of fans of the "silent hunt" tumbled into the ponds with ice drills in the hope of finding their catching hole. Although, I must say, this type of fishing is not the easiest.
Experienced "hunters" know that winter fishing for perch will be successful if the right place is found. Search for this fish should be in those places where it prefers to be most often. These are gulfs of rivers and channels between islands, pools at dams, etc.
Winter fishing for perch is sometimes called "marathon": it involves prolonged walking in a pond, especially when it is large, drilling numerous holes and waiting for a bite for many hours.
Places for fishing
On the first ice you need to beware of places near the reeds or stones sticking out from under the ice crust. You need to be extremely careful in the confluence of streams and rivers: there the ice is always thinner. In general, for any beginner, the first fishing in winter is perch. This beautiful fish, even after freezing, still continues to feed off the coast. At this time, it is there and should be sought. Sometimes the perch comes across not at the bottom, but at a depth of up to forty centimeters from the bottom edge of the ice. Therefore, in the ice, you need to catch all the water layers. But the pack will have to look carefully.
At the beginning of winter, perch can be very mobile and actively chases fry. In mid-January, large and medium-sized specimens go into deep holes. However, they will still feed, going to the luda. Therefore, it is precisely at a depth of five meters that the best January winter fishing will be. In the beginning and in the middle of February, catching perch will also be catchy offshore, since an active bite starts again in front of the ice drift from this underwater inhabitant.
On mormyshka
It is on this tackle that winter fishing most often takes place. Mormyshki perch occupy a leading position for fishing in the cold season. Therefore, the fisherman needs to know not only the secrets of winter fishing for perch, but also to choose them correctly, based on weather conditions and the place of fishing. Perch is considered such a fish that bites even when other fish are inactive.
The main criterion for choosing mormyshka is size: it should be small, and the shapes should be the most diverse: a droplet, cylindrical, similar to insects, larvae or balls. Small, with a diameter of one or two millimeters, it is better to use in smaller sections of the reservoir. Mini-mormyshki most often undergo winter fishing for perch in the dead end, when the prey has weak activity.
In deeper areas with a small current, three- or four-millimeter gears are good, the use of which is more relevant at the beginning and at the end of the cold season.
Features mormyshki
As for weight, that winter fishing for perch will be successful when light and small options are used at shallow depths. Or vice versa: at large - heavy, so that at a great depth you can have a good game.
In addition, you need to make sure that the sting of the hook does not in any way go beyond the body of the mormyshka itself. This factor is very important to prevent gatherings and unsuccessful hooks. The color of mormyshka is very diverse. The fisherman himself must determine which one will play well in the pond.
On a spoon
In summer, catching perch with a spinning rod or a fishing rod is considered the most successful . The first tackle can be used in the winter season. But this is only possible if the fast current does not allow the pond to freeze.
Nevertheless, the best winter fishing for perch is lure or mormyshka fishing. It begins with drilling holes. If a fisherman has discovered a perch flock, then the most important factor for good luck will be the speed of fishing.
Spoon-bait is a truly irreplaceable bait. Its optimal weight makes it possible to deliver the fishing line to the right place. The benefits of catching perch are obvious. The search speed of fish is also much higher (compared to mormyshka). In addition, perch responds to a spinner much faster, because its size is larger. And this means that the vibrations of sound and water that the prey senses at a sufficient distance, make it sail even from afar.
And in windy or frosty weather, playing with the lure is less complicated than with mormyshka. For winter perch, tin, silver, brass or copper options are best. According to experienced fishermen, both purchased and home-made spinners proved to be quite good.
Ready-made options can be improved by bringing to the desired state by changing the bend or by shifting the center of gravity using solder. Such modifications are necessary in order for the spinner to oscillate, and not just lay on the bottom.
In this case, the color does not matter much, although it is noticed that the matte options lose in comparison with the shiny ones.
To the balancer
Starting to catch on this tackle, do not immediately expect guaranteed catches. Winter fishing of perch - on the balancer or on the mormyshka - will not be successful if you do not have at least a little skill in lures. But knowing how to catch, knowing how to choose a bait, color and size, properly equip a fishing rod, you can return home with a pretty good catch.
The choice of balancer
In order for the winter fishing of perch to be balanced , it is necessary to take into account many factors. These are the conditions, and the thickness of the fishing line, and even the size of the estimated production. The balancer has not only various shapes, but also color, length, and weight. All these characteristics together are of great importance when catching perch. For example, large specimens are pecked at a large balancer, while only small pieces are pecked at a small one.
But not only weight plays an important role when fishing. No less relevant is the length of the bait. Experienced fishermen know that even if a four-centimeter balancer can be catchy, it’s not a fact that a little longer — only one centimeter — will work well. This happens for the reason that at the moment the perch can feed on fry, having a length of exactly 4 cm.
Color
When fishing for perch in winter, as a rule, two or three colors of the balancer are used. You can catch on a bait yellowish-green in color with black stripes that resemble a small whale. Today on sale there are balancers of golden, blue color, they exist even with fluorescent spraying.
Secrets of perch winter fishing
Catching this fish in the dead end or in the ice has its own characteristics, which you must know. For example, the posting of any bait needs to be carried out quite actively. However, when weakening the bite, you need to switch to a smoother and slower one, with frequent stops and shaking. Moreover, the perch can capture the bait directly under the infusion.
In the early ice, a hook on the spinner is not required, but on the mormyshka you need to plant a bloodworm and a couple of maggots, sometimes a small piece of the worm.
A large nozzle greatly changes the game. This is especially true for mormyshka, which simply freezes, becoming unattractive to the perch.