In jig fishing count down the seconds of the fall lure is a very necessary thing. It not only allows you to understand more clearly how deep is your bait, but on subsequent casts to compare the figures and draw conclusions: throw to the sideline or throw, managed to score just above the drop-off or the lure is sinking and flew directly into the pit. Yet, perhaps, it is very important to count the seconds of the fall to be ready for the strike, when bites occur on the furthest outlier. However, in my practice often it happens that I begin to count the number of stairs in the area.
Not to say that is paramount, but sometimes there are situations when it is necessary. I first began to practice counting the touches of the bottom with a bait at speed the transaction at the Volgograd reservoir. Blame the steep stone edge, overgrown with barnacles. Just not any cargo in the stones gets stuck tightly, or twist cut on the sharp edge dracena. Because large spaces often we throw as far as possible, and the bait flies about the same distance. And after the first contact of the lure with the bottom, I begin a countdown which I call the common count touches the bottom. After 3-4 casts this reference allows you to understand at what figure you need to start exhausting and inevitable evil side. But let’s be honest. Assume “step” is a chore. When I arrive at the same place a few times, it did not even make the countdown at all. Sensitive spinning, the nature of the bottom and pause at these very easy steps to help understand the time when to stop catching and start quickly exhausting, trying to avoid meeting bait with edge. That is, when the break fall is shorter than twice srednestatisticheskiy – I’m exhausted. But this specificity is only one place on the reservoir.
Recently on Akhtuba I had two of fishing, which actually made me sit down at the computer and write the maximized Pro “countdown.” First fishing trip, I thought, was terribly banal. I came to the old pike place. Is a gentle drop-off below the sandbar. This place often gives a good perch and jacks. Occasionally – perch small. Happen hooks. Not as wild as the don, but there is. And so I came to check this place out for the first time after the flood. Walked along the shore, making a throw with the cast. In the expected location of the bite increased. I caught a few jacks and, being in some confusion, why pike didn’t bite on the far outlier, but only in the middle of casting – went home. On the second fishing my friend retired, severing 4 of the lure, asked about my losses. While I tore off one porolono. And there is one important fact. This poranki-nezatseplyayki was enough for me to count exactly 10 steps after a long cast. Then I began to put silicone lure-mounted double 1/0, to realize exactly 9 steps and quickly exhausting. Because I’m on the last fishing have realized that all the pike bites occur approximately on the same parallel to the shore line.
This allowed me to offer the pike of various models of twisters, and the reapers. Play with color and length of the baits. Of course, it could not give effect. On this day, more bites occurred on the long twisters of dark colors. No matter, dark purple or dark green. The main thing – not white and not bright yellow. And, of course, sticking the hooks did not leave pike no chance for salvation. Implementation was at a good level. My friend retired to listen to my short report, shook his head and lamented that young people can not keep up. But I disagree with him. He has the weapons there is a similar technique. He preys on inertia reel “nelma”, so it is easy dokazyvaet on your network is something like a shock leader. Apparently, there are still some nodules, in which he determines how far away the lure and at what distance happening around bite. Therefore, it is easily adapted to catch the pike on zatsepistye bait to hooks. For the sake of experiment I gave him two smerovani bait, and he caught the two biggest pike for the day.
I continued to experiment with a countdown. Using the network, with different colors along their path, I spotted a color, which one would expect the inevitable hook. Then I tied more volatile lure and already is focused not on the number of steps, which became more, namely by the color of their braids. This allowed me not to lose any lures. However, and pike I never caught…
