The territory of the Komi Republic and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug is crossed by the Pechora River. With a length of 1800 kilometers, with a basin exceeding 320 thousand square kilometers, the Barents Sea is annually replenished with 130 thousand cubic kilometers of its purest waters. In addition, in the basin of this river there are more than sixty thousand lakes rich in fish, not to mention the Pechora Sea. Fishing on Pechora and its many tributaries - the event is simply fabulous!
Terrain
One of the most interesting tributaries of Pechora is Unya, almost five hundred kilometers of a winding waterway. These are amazing places for fishing enthusiasts. The nature of the course is flat, with a channel width of up to two kilometers, and therefore there are many channels and branches, where fishing is especially good. Fishing on Pechora and its tributaries differs from others in that this place is taiga, distant, where in some places a person’s foot didn’t step at all.
This factor, of course, is positive for fishermen: nature almost does not experience poaching pressure, fish can spawn calmly. That is why there is a lot of it, and the catch of lovers is diverse. The season when fishing is allowed on Pechora lasts from November to April. Coming from the "Big Earth" to these wild places, complete deserts and impassability will seem like a completely different world with unknown laws. It really is. Fishing on Pechora and for locals is most often a real adventure.
Sovereign Fish
Yes, this is a real fishing paradise and a mosquito kingdom. Here you can see how much gracious frolic frolic in clear water grayling, as it shines on the stretches and hides in deep whitefish pits, as in ponds and curies pike and perches hunt. There is also a burbot here, and a large ide will give unspeakable delight to an amateur. Fishing on the Pechora River will not leave anyone indifferent. And a real fairy tale, when the local fish queen, salmon, spawns through the Pechora waters and its tributaries.
Of course, in spite of these reserved wild places, fishing here is developed both commercial, amateur, and sports. Any tourist will be interested in catching grayling, salmon or whitefish with his relatives - nelma, omul and teal. The king at salmon, of course, taimen, now, unfortunately, disappearing. Yes, and the pike fisherman will be happy, and burbot, and roach, and dace with a brush. All local fish have a special taste - the cleanliness of the environment is almost pristine. Both summer and winter fishing on Pechora will not only satisfy the catch, but also assure that there are still protected places on the earth, untouched, which any soul rejoices.
On grayling
It is better for beginners themselves not to try, these places need to know. Fishing in Pechora is especially dangerous in winter. Yes, and in the summer often unlucky townspeople disappear. In addition to fish, there are all kinds of animals. It is necessary to enlist the support of locals - for example, in Syktyvkar, quite a lot of travel agencies provide escort services for distant fishing, and there are many lone hunter-fishermen in the city who will be happy to make company guests in the region. A tour accompanied by an experienced guide is no less an adventure. Usually guests come to that city, where they are waiting for companions in the hunt for grayling. Naturally, it is necessary to agree in advance, stipulating in detail all the details regarding time, place, equipment and supplies.
Fishing in Pechora in the summer is no easier than winter. Even at the end of June, it is still not warm, there is a lot of water in which ice floes everywhere. If you can get in touch with people who know the area, then the trip will be very eventful. Firstly, you can charter a helicopter that will deliver a group (maximum four people) to the fishing spot. On earth at this time of year there is not much to go. It is listed above how many rivers, tributaries, lakes are here, and they all flood in the spring - until July. It is a must to take a rubber boat with you. And from the city - right to Shchugor (a tributary of Pechora), or to Bolshoi Patok, or to Unyu, there are many places.
Big Patok
This is a tributary of the tributary - flows into the Shchugor River, which then flows to Pechora. Two molasses - Big and Small, starting in the mountains. A river with rifts, but without rapids, in places up to four meters deep, but at the bottom all the pebbles are visible. Picturesque landscapes! The shores are gentle, then rocky, but not high, the view of the plain is magnificent. Here are places almost never visited by a person, as in the song “only a helicopter can fly.” Grayling will certainly be caught, and everything that is necessary for its preparation grows nearby, right on the shore. For fish, wild onion is best - wild leek. And what is so amazing growing nearby?
These are reserved herbs, the most valuable, medicinal. Rhodiola rosea, for example. In June, you can put together a whole pharmacy, it's time. Maryin root. St. John's wort and oregano. The herbs here are simply unprecedented. If fishing in the upper Pechora takes place at the end of August, then in addition to fish splendor, you can enjoy pine nuts. But the most important thing is the “playing" grayling and that unique feeling when you still don't know who will win - a fisherman or a 1.5 kilogram fish. Here, in the Subpolar region, all places are good - both on Shchugor and Podrechye, and which ones are Ilych, Vangyryu, Torgovaya, Sedyu ... However, many experienced say that there are no places more favorable than the Great Molasses.
Equipment and food
Need a boat and a tent, as well as a sleeping bag and warm clothes. The climate here is northern, and in any month of summer there may be ice rains. Warm sweaters and woolen socks - with a margin, wading rubber boots and a raincoat - will definitely come in handy of clothing. Best of all, a special raincoat is for chemical protection; it does not get wet. It rains here often and for a long time, and is very lucky if three for a row spoils the sun. You need to have an hatchet, a bowler hat, necessary utensils, etc., including tackle, that every fisherman already knows if he is not traveling for the first time.
From food except bread (there must be a good supply of it, at least half a loaf per day) and salt (here you need a lot of salt, at least two kilograms per person), you do not need to take anything. It is such a blessing to surrender to the fish entirely! And there are so many fish everywhere that there will be a king’s ear, and fried grayling on the grill, and in foil, and the local fish is especially tasty - salted. Tobacco will be needed for those who smoke. Moreover, just in case, like salt, you need to pack hermetically in case of unexpected bathing. Necessarily alcohol - also just in case, at least half a liter - for medical purposes. Remedy for mosquitoes - always in abundance. Better is a spray.
Tackle
In spring, you need to rely on grayling, in autumn - on salmon, they also take whitefish, perch, sometimes burbot. Grayling can be caught on a fishing rod, spinning and "boat". Spinning is usually a more successful getter, and also practical. Spinner is better to take spinning, small and medium size.
In general, the spinners must have at least twelve, of different types. A few spare veins must be taken, fishing line with a diameter of 0.3. A spare coil is also needed, a stock pocket does not pull. Many take a spare spinning rod. Experience shows that it is not in vain. Fishing in the tributaries of the river. Pechora (Komi) everywhere and in abundance provides all kinds of unforeseen cases. For that and adventures, isn’t this why fishermen go to Pechora?
Tourist bases
Ten kilometers from the village of Ust-Tsilma, founded in 1542, the Alyokhino camp site is located right on the banks of the Pechora. Here you can live, spend the night, eat, visit the bathhouse with enough "unreliable" comfort, and give fishing any amount of time. The nearest ponds are delivered by the Buran snowmobile, to the distant ones - by vehicles and also by snowmobiles. It is in the winter. In summer, a motor boat is used, of which a sufficient number of camp sites are available. Accompanying the instructor in all cases is required.
From the equipment you need to have tackle and fishing equipment with you - the amount is at your discretion, you definitely need warm clothes and rubber shoes. Fishing is organized on many pribechera reservoirs of your choice - small rivers Sosya and Nizyova, many lakes, as well as Pechora proper are offered. The fishing will be licensed, sports - vendace and whitefish. In addition to fishing and with it guests will find the cleanest air, the beauty of landscapes, silence, birch brooms in the bathhouse. And all this together - rest for the soul and body, romance, optimism.
Law
Laws in Komi to preserve nature in its untouched purity, and the fish population intact, are very harsh and strict. There are bans on fishing in certain rivers. For fishing you need to get a special permit - a ticket. For example, species such as salmon (salmon), taimen, nelma, char, sterlet, omul, whitefish, grayling, muksun, lenok, can only be obtained with permission. All of them are valuable.
Pike, bream, crucian carp, ide, roach, perch, as well as other species can be obtained without a ticket. Famous fishermen also mention this, whose videos from fishing places are watched admiringly by all amateur fishermen, the Prikhodko brothers. Fishing on Pechora is one of their favorite routes to which they have devoted many publications. And the number of difficulties and hardships that even real fishermen endure with some pleasure: midges and mosquitoes, wild animals, cruel polar cold in winter, is surprising. But trophies! They impress everyone.
Pike
The local pike is a selective predator, impudent, not frightened, with its recognizable habits. If you find a deep pit, dump, backwater or whirlpool in any body of water in the Pechora basin, you will certainly find a pike there. Especially successful hunting for them under dams or near the piles of the bridge. There are such happy places on the lake where there are a lot of snags, plentiful algae. In quiet water, it goes to a depth of three meters. Large individuals hide in pits, and in shallow water and shallows you can catch small ones.
In spring, in Komi, pike are caught in small rivers and lakes, and after the decline of water, it is already possible to catch large water - Mezan, Vychegda, Pechora. If the days are not hot, the pike goes right up to sunset, the most active fishing is morning. It is very good to fish on windy days - ripples in the water mirror hide both the boat and the person. Then the eighty-millimeter “oscillators” or “rotators” are used most successfully, the pike also actively goes to the spinner - yellow and red, with all the variations of shades of these colors. Experienced people prefer to fish for bait, without spinning.
Salmon
There are two subspecies of salmon in Komi - the White Sea and the Oceanic. The latter spawns in Pechora, and the first in the tributaries - Vychegda and Mezani, Tsilme and Tansy. Both subspecies have individuals of summer and autumn. Summer salmon spawn in the same year when it arrived in fresh water. With silt going into Pechora, it passes into the tributaries. Her caviar and milk are ready, as the ripening process began, even when she frolic in the ocean. This fish is large - up to a meter long and weighing up to thirty and sometimes more than kilograms. Autumn begins to enter the river before August, and its course continues until the beginning of October. She lives in river pits all winter and eats nothing.
As soon as spring begins, the salmon continues the path upstream. She spawning will come only in the fall. During this time, hunger - the appetite disappears in the fresh water of this fish - leads the fish to the point that it begins to have a kind of mutation, changes color, stretches the jaw, scales go under the skin. She gives all the nutrients from her body to her offspring; for a year, she herself has practically nothing left. Of course, you can catch such fish, but people are not recommended to eat. They catch it either for caviar, or only at the entrance to the river.