Always interesting to fish in unfamiliar water. So when the opportunity came to go fishing on Yauza reservoir, I gladly agreed. Because I’ve never been. Wanted to go to a new place, to test the so-called “rocker”, to try their own homemade jigs, to work new rod, etc. Plans were great…
The road to the reservoir is long, but the time in conversations with like-minded people went by. Good news was that the pond is quite clean and the fish in it, unlike the rouses, Moziki and Lake, not sick ligulata the polls, mites, etc. Alas, solitaire here: on the next day, gutting fish, I discovered one infected. Apparently, to the trouble of getting used to, having overcome his own aversion to those parasites, which are considered non-hazardous to humans.
Went at night the thermometer in Moscow – a minus 10. Arrived on the scene almost 5 am, the thermometer showed minus 25, minus some even 28. Here is the change. We did not realize right away that terrible cold, and she realized, immediately began to gather and quickly got into the sleigh “Buran”, which took us to places known to have dimensional of bream and other carnivorous fish. Well that didn’t take the bait, is what it tackles such holotaenia!? Warms the soul just what dawn was to come a General warming, therefore, it was possible to count on the weakening of frost.
The sky winks with stars, no wind was felt, and the trees were covered with sparkling silver. If not for the noise of the engine and exhaust… that’s exactly the feeling that got into a fairy tale! Life here seemed to be frozen. However, numb the nose was not allowed long to enjoy the starry sky, I had to cover her face with the hat warmer. What can you do, “being determines consciousness”.
Enjoy the surrounding views and did not work on arrival. It was to put up a tent and something warm. Unfortunately I still failed headlamp flashlight, which significantly hindered the installation process, saving house of the fisherman.
However, to waste time on sadness was not necessary. Intensive raking kicks the site for the tent from the snow, I began to warm up (a tent I have a triple, but still have stretch marks…), then grabbed the drill and, while continuing to warm up your body with “exercise” (and only because the use of alcohol at fishing do not accept), drilled six holes. Covered them with a dome tent, which is such a cold did not immediately want to reveal (for the first time, by the way), began to change in ice wertish. Everything seems to be! Sincerely I confess I got warm. Even myself was amazing.
But still in the tent, lit a gas stove (well, that Mace is not frozen) and a few candles. It was warm, and it was possible to unbutton the jacket. After about an hour the tile was blown out, and the candles remained lit during the whole time fishing (3 days each only half burned).
In the process of creating a warm refuge have a lot to do with your bare hands (do not get me gloves or a rope to untie-tie, no pockets unbuckle to fasten or remove wertish out of the plastic case). So the hands are freezing fast and strongly. The solution was mittens on elastic band (like kids) that I modified to hold, when they are not needed under other elastic bands on the sleeves (the elastic band around the sleeves sewed myself), and if necessary quickly to reach and warm the brush. Thus, when the fingers were frozen, I warmed in mittens. And they get warm quite quickly and I could continue working.
Bite started when I was about 8 in the morning, despite much earlier complementary feeding. As foods I used to purchase a mixture, generously diluted small bait bloodworms (not freeze hands, mixed bait fishing skimmer, then she put the mixture in a bowl-dump). Fish gladly grabbed the moth and was hooked. The closer to the afternoon, the activity intensified. In most cases, was falling on the ice detail: silver bream, skimmers and the perches. But there were instances and bigger skimmers in the region of 400 g.
Improvised jig reaffirmed the right to exist, worked with a crank and without bait, which pleased doubly. However, the first measuring small bream caught on the foam, impaled on a hook float fishing rods together with three feather dusters. Successfully worked as a “rocker” with a split shot about 2.5 – 3 years
Shop rocker arm has a fixed length of both leashes, about 5-7 cm In homemade products are often the leash is made uniform on both the hook and not fixed. At the moment it bites a fish swallows the bait, the leash is easy to pull until, until you hit the edge of the “rocker” another hook. The yoke in this case is made from a plastic tube that fits over the cargo olive. I have a suitable tube at hand was not, and I put the line (leash) with two hooks at the ends through the center (pre-making a loop of thin wire near the weight) and wrapped once around the upper arm of the rocker. As a result, the mobility was ensured. I guess this has influenced a clear notch for the upper lip, and so that the fish could hardly go yourself. But if the fish feel the weight when ingestion of the bait (in the case of a fixed-length leashes), notch it would be much harder.
If you compare the number of bites for one and the same time ordinary float fishing rod with one hook and bait, are equipped with a rocker, the rocker made itself felt about twice as often. In future, I will certainly use this tackle for catching bream.
The only trouble was the tangling lines of adjacent holes. Perhaps, I have never so often untangled the fishing line, sitting on the ice in winter tent. But what can you do?! But did eat well, and move on to another place there was no point.
The new jig fish took, perhaps more than the devil, who showed good results last year. Apparently, the role played shiny faceted ball-bead, worn on the shank and moving freely on it (jig – gwozdecky), which I began to use relatively recently. The fishing line with the lure is used in a thickness of 0.1 mm. To the pits, where the depth is 8-10 m, to catch on ultralight tackle and fine fishing line (0.08 mm thinner) don’t see the point. The danger of rupture when you catch a big fish large and small fish better and are easier to catch at a depth of 3-5 meters. Kevock used the medium length about 8 cm, although in recent times prefer a shorter bow, with a length of 4-5 cm (they are easier to perform fine tremor – dribbling, which often helps out, tempting the fish conventionally, high-frequency microscopic vibrations).
Because the catch happened at a depth of 8-9 m (or rather is not identified, the sounder this time to function rejected – too cold for him too), lowering the bait was carried out for a long time and all the time I wanted to load the additional jig lead sinker ball.
Unlike me, practically bezvylazno have stayed in the shelter, two of our company were in search of perch and trolling. The result was caught 3 of these humpback whales (more than 400 g each) and a dozen small Ososkov. And drilled countless holes!
On the way back to the place where the cars stop, managed to see caught by fisherman-fan Lin. I could not have imagined that in the winter on an ordinary fishing rod with a crank you might get a handsome Lin.
By the way, for dinner, as promised, the meteorologist, is much warmer, it was a shame to leave. But there are free weekends, so we will definitely choose here again. Even if you hit a hard frost. This angler cold – not a hindrance!
