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Andrey Soprykin
Professional fisherman with 23 years of experience.
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Fishing in the last autumn month is carried out in open waters. But many fishermen are starting to use winter gear. Much depends on the water temperature, which can vary in different regions of Russia. There is no point in comparing artificial reservoirs in which the fish are not in danger. Fishing will become more accessible in terms of opportunities to quickly catch a trophy. When compared to natural resources, carp fishing is different. And so let’s begin a detailed analysis of what carp fishing is like in November.
Feature of November: You go for carp, but you catch crucians. This phenomenon occurs often; it is worth taking everything that mother nature gives. In this case, change the bait and bait and start fishing. A month of successful fishing should please you with new ideas, experiments and large catches of tasty carp. It is hunted not only by fishermen, but also by underwater predators.
Baits
In the last month of autumn it is worth trying different baits. As a rule, small specimens rarely bite, but large specimens are active at the bottom of reservoirs.
We suggest using plant baits with the addition of special ingredients:
1. Red earthworms are planted in bunches, you can add peas or corn. The worms squirm, and the smell of boiled peas will attract hungry giants from the watery abyss. The fish picks up the aroma and begins to rise, become active, and begin to try the bait with their lips. Then he makes a sharp jerk, at this moment you need to hold the tackle in your hands.
2. A common option is a sandwich. Plant maggots, then bloodworms. A tempting natural look will definitely lure the carp out of their parking spot. Double deliciousness will still tempt wary fish. The only condition is complete silence and immobility of the fisherman. Then you are guaranteed a trophy. After catching, take a break for 15 minutes. Equip a new bait, submerge the tackle in the water and hide. You can scatter bait. Don't overdo it, otherwise you'll waste your time. The fish can eat and dive under the snag.
3. Boilies will give good results in November fishing. Homemade balls will make the carp hungry. We recommend trying and alternating baits, as the fish are quite whimsical. She's been trying different baits all summer and can change her traction dramatically.
Homemade recipe
Mix birdseed with semolina, take 400 grams of each ingredient. Add 50 grams of fish fat and 40 grams of wheat flour to the composition.
Add 6 eggs and 20 ml unrefined sunflower oil. Then add 1 teaspoon of ground coffee and dry garlic. Mix into a homogeneous mass.
Roll large balls of 3 cm each. Then they need to be boiled. Readiness can be determined as soon as the dough rises to the surface. Remove the balls with a slotted spoon and place them to dry for two days. The new effective bait is ready, it’s time to go fishing.
Where to fish
Knowing the slow actions of this individual, we cannot exclude the fact that in paid ponds that are not deep, carp will be easier to catch. In the wild, its habitat is the presence of snags, steep banks with deep depressions. Remember these two factors that will help you reduce your time searching for fish.
Expert opinion
Valery Andreevich Sizov
Professional fisherman with 35 years of experience
Found a place? Start feeding the sloth as it prepares for winter. If you visited the place for the first time, then use the opinion of experienced fishermen; they are rarely mistaken, especially when asked by beginners.
In November, carp stay in a school at three meter depths. It is not difficult for them to move when it comes to food. You need to study or make preliminary measurements.
How to catch on a feeder
Pros prepare for fishing for several days. To fish with a feeder, you need to carefully prepare your gear. Feeders weighing 40 grams are suitable in the last month of autumn. The equipment has a dark green cord that reaches up to 100 meters in length when casting over long distances. If you are fishing from a boat, you can swim closer to the carp’s habitat and cast short distances. Feeders should attract fish, not repel them.
Expert opinion
Valery Andreevich Sizov
Professional fisherman with 35 years of experience
Fishing from the shore on a feeder has advantages. The fish does not see the fisherman, it hears the lowering of the tackle, then freezes or gets scared, but observes from the side.
It can tug and let go, everything will depend on its satiety and the rules of the equipment’s operating technique. Frequent twitching is a sign that the fish has been caught. All that remains is to fish it out of the water correctly.
Tactics for catching carp in autumn
Tactically, autumn carp fishing is characterized by a decrease in its activity in general and the concentration of a large number of individuals in individual local areas. As you can see, there are pros and cons. If an angler knows a body of water well and has been catching carp on it for several years, he is in an advantageous position. In an unfamiliar body of water, fishing will most likely be doomed to failure - the carp moves little around the body of water, so if the place is chosen incorrectly, the carp will be unlikely to reach the fishing point.
Another feature of autumn fishing is associated with a decrease in carp activity - feeding tactics.
For fishing in cold water, the amount of bait should be limited to one or two kilograms of dry mixture for the entire day of fishing. Of course, the starting point needs to be fed, but with a smaller amount of feed mixture compared to summer. Carp eat little and selectively, so the requirements for the quality of bait and bait increase significantly.
When fishing on a feeder
It is better to use feeders of reduced volume, but maintain a fairly high fishing rate. “Quite tall” is a relative concept. If, when fishing for roach, four casts per hour is considered a low fishing rate, then for catching autumn carp this will be the required rate. This will allow you to feed the point in portions and constantly maneuver the nozzle and dips.
Speaking of attachments:
The carp has never been overly modest and does not disdain large baits. But in the fall, it is advisable to reduce the size of the nozzle a little. A dozen selected bloodworms on a hook are more likely to attract carp than a twenty-centimeter crawl. Of course, bloodworms can only be attached to a carp hook by fastening it into a bun using a silicone ring.
In conclusion, we will dwell on flavoring agents, without the use of which carp fishing is already unthinkable. Yes, aromatics are needed, but autumn fishing has its own characteristics. Firstly, this is the concentration of aroma. It needs to be reduced to a subtle aroma.
There is an old rule:
It’s better to add less aromatics rather than more. This is especially true when fishing in cold water. An excessive amount of flavorings can scare off fish, and if when fishing in a weak current the degree of saturation of the aroma quickly decreases, then when fishing in closed reservoirs, where they are usually caught, the fish can be scared off for a long time.
Second feature
consists of changing smells.
Sweet and fruity scents worked wonderfully in the summer, but their time is over. For autumn fishing, you will need odors of animal origin:
squeezes and attractants based on fish, bloodworms, worms, etc. As a budget option, you can consider adding ground zebra mussels, bone or fish meal, powdered milk, and blood to the bait.
The above recommendations apply primarily to “wild” reservoirs. On a paid pond the situation may be different. As a rule, such reservoirs are relatively small in area and do not have a complex bottom structure, and the food preferences of carp directly depend on what the owners of the reservoirs feed it.
With the onset of autumn cold weather, the behavior of carp changes. The water begins to cool, especially in shallow areas, and heat-loving carp have to look for areas with warmer water, that is, deeper water.
With the arrival of autumn, carp do not change their traditional deep-sea places, especially if these places have reliable shelter. He will be able to leave such an interesting place only if the temperature conditions change, and in winter there is only oxygen starvation.
Deep-sea places do not feed fish, so they have to leave them in search of food, and this is, first of all, shallow water, but the cold snap is doing its job.
- At the beginning of a cold snap
, when the water has not yet completely cooled down, there is still something to eat in the shallow waters and carp come out to feed on them, especially in the morning and evening. - When the water has already cooled down
, and this is the middle of autumn, then the carp have nothing to do in such areas.
But not everything is so simple. During the autumn period, intervals are possible when days are marked by increased exposure to sunlight, which leads to abnormal warming and, as a consequence, to rapid warming of shallow waters. This, in turn, certainly attracts fish, including carp. At this time, it is better to catch carp during the day, when the water warms up to its maximum temperature. At night it will certainly cool down and in the morning fishermen have nothing to do near the reservoir.
With the onset of cold weather, aquatic vegetation sinks to the bottom, so that carp are no longer attracted to promising summer spots. Dead leaves and stems of underwater plants cease to attract living organisms, and if there is something to profit from at the bottom, it is covered with an irresistible carpet of dead plants that have settled to the bottom.
An excellent promising place may be areas where colonies of mollusks live, located at depths of more than 2 meters. Therefore, in the autumn such places can be catchy.
Carp don't mind rummaging around in the muddy bottom to find something edible. Such places may border on a hard bottom. Therefore, knowing these boundaries, the tackle should be cast onto a hard bottom, but closer to the silt.
Based on this, we can draw a conclusion that the nature of fishing in autumn is different than in summer. In the fall, you can’t count on a productive catch in the morning, but fishing during the day can bring a lot of fun. We can safely say that the main bite occurs from 10 in the morning until the evening, when the sun’s rays stop warming up the water.
Catching carp with mugs in November
Fishing with mugs attracts interest. They are quite effective and much more convenient than other gear. The carp practically does not notice their installation. What you need is a strong fishing line with a baited hook and a floating disc with a bright antenna tip. It is she who will give the signal to fish out a large individual. Let’s say right away that anyone who has ever been on such a fishing trip has a lot of impressions.
Carp fishing in autumn
Catching carp in the fall requires knowledge from the fisherman. Carp is a fish that loves warmth. And the further south the reservoir is located, the later this fish will bite. It is not worth hiccupping in rivers with strong currents, because it loves quiet and calm water. Most often, in early autumn it can be found near the shore, where there is vegetation. In late autumn, carp, like other fish, migrates deeper. Flooded water meadows are a favorite place for carp. You can actively catch it throughout the fall, right up to severe frosts. Carp fishing in the fall is no less exciting than in the summer. And this is despite a decrease in activity in this fish associated with a decrease in temperature. It is in the fall that fishermen manage to catch truly large specimens. This is happening largely due to the fact that there is less and less food, and more and more people want to feed themselves. So large fish are forced to visit those places where they did not look in the summer. At this time, fishermen should pay attention, first of all, to the weather and atmospheric pressure. You need to catch large specimens before they stop activity along the coastline and in the depths.
Feed. When the temperature in the reservoir decreases, the composition of the food supply changes. And if on warm days the fish could gorge themselves on plankton, then with the temperature dropping to 12 degrees the situation changes in many ways. Now plankton hides in the silt layers and practically does not stick out. In addition, as the temperature drops, aquatic plants begin to gradually die off, covering the bottom with their waste. All this forces the insects that the carp feed on to either hibernate or hide in secluded corners where the carp is unlikely to find them. There is a decrease in the level of food ration of fish, which are now forced to compete more fiercely with each other for food. Carp fishing in early autumn is still similar to summer fishing, which cannot be said about the middle and end of this season. Carp become aggressive when biting, so fishing can be fast and efficient. At this time, the carp moves in a school, and an experienced fisherman just has to find it and successfully feed it - and consider it a good catch in his pocket.
Effect of oxygen
Carps are a rather sensitive fish species to oxygen content and cannot tolerate waters with low oxygen concentrations, migrating to places more suitable for oxygen saturation.
Fishing for carp in autumn is problematic in shallow waters not only due to the strong cooling of the water, but is also associated with the rotting of aquatic vegetation dying at the bottom, as a result of which the oxygen balance of the reservoir is seriously disturbed. The depths are not so susceptible to the changes presented above and schools of fish shift to these water areas suitable for comfortable living. An observant fisherman, having noticed the absence of surface aquatic vegetation that grew vigorously in this place in the summer, will make allowances for an important nuance when choosing a fishing location in the autumn. The effect of oxygen in combination with the death of aquatic vegetation is especially important for stagnant ponds and lakes. For flowing reservoirs and rivers, this factor in terms of negative impact on the oxygen regime of the water system is reduced significantly and may not be taken into account at all when choosing a point for carp fishing.
Important! In the daily cycle, the afternoon hours are the favorable time for fishing.
Choosing a place and time
1. Advantage can be given to places that are sheltered from the wind. This will prevent the mugs from swaying. In addition, they will be visible at a decent distance. For example, if you are fishing alone, then you can scatter at least 4 pieces of tackle. A call to action to fish for prey will be immersing the mug in water and quickly turning it over, rotating in a circle or to the side. Until this moment, if you notice a wobble, you should not pull out the tackle; let the fish grab the hook tightly.
2. Installation of circles in holes and depressions with a depth of up to three meters. It is also preferable to place gear in reed thickets. The carp will definitely try to pick the bait, the main thing is that the hook does not fail.
3. The time of day practically does not matter. Since November is a cold and rainy month, you can take a tent with you. Set up and equip a place on the shore for evening and night fishing. It would be good if the night is starry, then your mugs can be clearly visible from the shore. At night they fish from the coastline 30 meters.
Expert opinion
Valery Andreevich Sizov
Professional fisherman with 35 years of experience
It is also worth noting the early morning hours, with the appearance of the first glimpses in the sky, the carp begins to scour the middle of the water between the bottom and the upper parts. The line can be of different lengths. From 2 meters to 3 meters. Therefore, it is worth making preliminary measurements so that out of your 4 options, at least two will work.
4. A characteristic feature of November is a drop in water level, it is the same as in the summer months. Much depends on the season; if it rains constantly, the level will change. This means that the length of the fishing line must be adjusted.
5. The base of the circle should imitate the natural colors of reservoirs. The bright side is at the top, the bed tones should be present at the bottom. For convenience, use a fishing line with a diameter of 0.35 mm and attach it to a leash with a diameter of 0.2 mm; it will not interfere, but on the contrary will help you fish the trophy out of the water faster and more reliably. We do not recommend using braids.
6. Don’t forget about the bait, it should be prepared in advance. Fish eat literally everything. But imagine how many fishermen visit paid ponds, and each of them brings their own bait to the fish. For this reason, the carp may simply be full. This means you need to take a dozen baits with you and try them one by one.
You can put different baits on 4 mugs and watch the result. Either way, either one should work. For example, a carp pecked at a potato, you can load the tackle with potatoes, but this does not mean that the bait will work next time. It's better to experiment.
If you fish in the wild, then notice where the bite is coming. Then, use again and again what gives results. Always act according to the circumstances, but still do not get hung up on one type of bait. There have been cases where there were mugs sticking out nearby; carp were caught using peas and at the same time using dough. Do you get the point? The main thing is to keep everything under control and not to get scattered looking for a place.
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Carp habitats in November
In order not to return from fishing without a catch, you should carefully choose a place to catch carp. Fish in November reduces its activity, it moves little and is very careful. It’s good if the fisherman already knows the reservoir and the bottom topography. Another win-win option is to go to a paid pond. But in this case, no knowledge is needed.
Read: Features of autumn carp fishing, choice of bait and gear
The month of November is the right time to look for winter shelters for carp. The favorite habitat of fish is snags and the deepest areas of the reservoir. Usually in small ponds the fish do not disperse far, so hunting for this giant is promising. Successful fishing will be at the maximum depth of the reservoir, especially in places where the banks abruptly go into the water. It is in wintering pits that carp spend most of their time, resting, and occasionally swimming out to feed.
