Bream is an enviable trophy for a winter fisherman. However, catching bream during the freeze-up period is quite difficult, especially on the river. If in closed reservoirs, when searching for bream places, they often focus on areas where the water is most saturated with oxygen (where the fish feel better and are more active), then in fast-flowing rivers such as the Ugra, Oka, Tvertets, Don and some others, the oxygen level is water level continues to remain quite high throughout the winter. Fishing for bream in winter on the current is difficult for beginners. Let's figure out what gear to use, where to fish and what to offer winter bream.
Winter fishing for bream on the current
Bream, which always stays at great depths in winter, constantly moves in fast-flowing rivers. But a school of bream can remain in one or another area of interest until the food supply becomes scarce.
What does bream eat in winter?
Bream in winter feeds mainly on food of animal origin - it is high-calorie, and a small amount of it allows you to replenish the energy that the fish expends in harsh winter conditions. In medium and large rivers, zebra mussels often form the basis of nutrition for bream. Plantations of this small mollusk in rivers can be found in the most unexpected places.
In addition, in winter, bream often search for food on rocky areas of the bottom. Dying or weakened mollusks, crustaceans, bloodworms and other larvae are carried away by the current and get stuck between stones in minor silt deposits, where the bream often discovers food by picking the ground with its head.
Features of winter fishing on the current
In winter fishing for bream on a river, compared to still water, there are a number of the following features:
- Use of heavy weights in rigs - the presence of a constant flow of water requires the use of sinkers weighing from 2-3 to 8-10 or more grams in bream rigs;
- Use of thicker and stronger monofilament. When landing fish, the current creates additional resistance. Monofilament with a cross-section from 0.12-0.14 mm to 0.2-0.22 mm is used as the main fishing line;
- Feeding exclusively “to the bottom” - unlike reservoirs with stagnant water on the river, a feeder - a dump truck with bait is lowered to the very bottom. Feeding at half-water and 0.5-1 meter above the bottom leads to the mixture drifting to the side.
- Possibility of using gear with a feeder (winter feeder) - due to the presence of a current, the mixture in the feeder will be washed away, forming a feeding path that attracts fish.
- The use of bait mixtures with ballast. In medium and strong currents, add a small amount of clay or other weighting agent to the bait mixture. This helps not only to prevent rapid erosion of the feeding spot, but also to create additional turbidity.
- In addition, when fishing on a river, it is necessary to take into account its unpredictable ice conditions. This is especially true when fishing on the first ice and the last loose and fragile ice. In such situations, an ice pick is used to check the strength of the ice and the safety of movement.
In order to avoid falling into a ravine or lane on the river, you need to move along well-trodden paths. It is better to avoid areas with suspicious brown, yellowish or dirty white ice.
Where to catch bream in winter
On an unfamiliar river, the first question a fisherman faces is where to look for bream. In winter, this fish often chooses areas where calm water borders fast water. In this case, the bream will stay where it is more comfortable, that is, in silence, and, as we have already said, look for food on the ground or wait for the fast current to carry away food for it. As a rule, such places are located near great depths, holes where bream rolls down when weather conditions are unfavorable for it.
During its activity, a school of bream, emerging from holes, can look for food, moving along the channel edge, especially at its bends, where food carried by the current also lingers. Sometimes such edges are located directly under steep banks near calm reaches or below riffles. Often, especially during a thaw, schools of bream enter the quiet water of deep bays, and also appear on underwater elevations near channel dumps.
Considerable attention should be paid to breaker jets, where all kinds of fish, including bream, often hang out, both in winter and summer. Since such places under the ice are quite difficult to determine, they need to be taken into account in the summer. When everything is covered with snow, the angler navigates by isolated bushes or trees, unusual coastal topography, etc.
Winter bream prefers certain routes, which are popularly called bream trails. Finding such a trail can be a great success. Sometimes it’s a good idea to “spy” on local fishermen’s fishing spots for bream.
Where to look for bream on the river in winter
Bream like to stay near river-bed dumps or walk along the slopes of pits where zebra mussel colonies settle. At the bottom, near the bottom of the slope, other organic food that is tasty for bream may accumulate. The nature of the bottom in such places allows it to be divided into sections at certain depths. Often the bottom there has several ledges with a certain depth value, for example: the upper ledge is 4 m, the middle one is 5.5 m and the lower one is 7 m.
The bream chooses the level at which it feels more comfortable in a given weather. So, with a decrease in atmospheric pressure, bream goes to the greatest depths, and with an increase, on the contrary, it can rise to the middle layers of water, that is, be on the middle or upper edge.
Particularly effective for catching bream are areas where channel and pit dumps are adjacent to rocky underwater ridges. The bream school does not leave such places even when the zebra mussel colony has been significantly eaten away. With the onset of favorable weather conditions, bream come out of the pit, starting to look for food on the ridges, and always find something to eat.
Fishing for bream in winter on a river with a current
In winter, fishermen often face the question of how to choose a suitable place on the river for a good catch. After all, bream will almost always stay near the current, waiting for the current to bring it food. Especially in places with large depressions and holes where it can hide under poor natural conditions. In search of profit, a school of bream cruises along the riverbed edge. When the thaw begins, bream like to settle in deep bays and near large riverbeds.
Fishermen give their preference to breaker streams, where any fish likes to accumulate. In winter, it is very difficult to find these places; many people have been making notes for themselves since the summer. After all, when everything is covered with a thick layer of snow, fishermen are often identified precisely by coastal objects: sprawling trees, large bushes and the special topography of the shore. Bream is a very cunning and practical fish; it often chooses specific trajectories of movement, which are popularly considered “bream paths.” Finding it is considered a great success for the fisherman. Sometimes, you can “spot” good biting spots from experienced fishermen who know this place and the river as a whole very well.
You can determine the size of channel holes using a depth gauge. After which, you can start drilling small holes, with a distance between them of at least 14. The holes can be drilled in a chaotic order or in a square, the most important thing is to know that at the bottom there are depressions and holes in which bream look for nutritious food for themselves. After checking each hole in turn for a bite and waiting for the first catch, you can feed several holes located near the catch spot. When a hole does not give a bite, you need to drill in another place where there is not only good depth, but also washouts near the banks. It is worth considering that bream can hide in the lower part of the hole.
This method of actively searching for fish will lead to good results. In addition, it is advisable to protect not only yourself, but also your fellow fishermen from unnecessary fuss. And all because, even on frosty winter days, the ice on the river may not freeze evenly; gullies may form, which are successfully masked under a thin crust of snow-dusted ice. During the thaw period, it is very easy to identify dangerous areas, since they are darker in color due to the close location of the water to the surface. To be on the safe side, it is advisable to use a strong rope, which is enough for confident paired movement on ice with a distance of at least four meters.
Bream bite mainly from 10 am to 3 pm. More valuable and larger specimens can be caught mainly at night. This kind of fishing does not require quick action from the fisherman; bream likes to try bait for a long time and only then can it swallow the bait. The moment of hooking should not be delayed too much, as you may lose your catch. The line should always be in tension. Bream has very weak lips, so you should fish it out very carefully and slowly, especially for a large catch.
Winter tackle for bream
Catching bream in winter with a fishing rod
For fishing in the current, you can use different types of fishing rods and equip them differently. Some anglers prefer to fish with a “filly” with a float rig, others prefer to fish with a fishing rod equipped with a reel and a nod. However, you can do the opposite - equip the “filly” with a nod, and the reel fishing rod with elements of a float rod. What will be located at the bottom, a jig or a leash with a hook, is also a matter of taste. We prefer to use an end sinker and a 5-10 cm long (20 to 50 cm) leash with one or two hooks standing above it. If we use jigs, then only small ones, which are placed one after another on a leash with an interval of 5–7 cm.
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A good nod made from a clock spring is a good bite alarm. The sensitivity of such a nod, depending on the strength of the current, is easily adjusted by its length, whereas in a strong flow the carrying capacity of a conventional float may not be enough, and it will go under the ice. If parts of the nod equipment - throughput cambrics or rings - freeze in the cold, you should first rub them with wax.
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To connect the main line and the leash, it is advisable to use a snap hook and a swivel. It would not be amiss to install a swivel at the connection with the sinker, the weight of which can vary between 10–50 g.
Fishing line for bream in winter when fishing in the current
When fishing, the bream actively resists, so the main fishing line is taken with a diameter of 0.16-0.18 mm. Naturally, it must be of very good quality. The leash is placed with a diameter of 0.11-0.13 mm. Tackle made from a fishing line with a smaller diameter, exposed to the additional influence of the current, may break. It is better to take small hooks: with a normal shank and a straight bend, No. 15–18 for bloodworms and No. 12–15 with a long shank for a worm.
You can also use equipment based on a sinker made in the shape of an olive. In this case, one leash is placed behind the olive, and the other in front of it. At the same time, the use of different baits, for example a worm and a bloodworm, allows you to determine which one is more catchy. Here it should be said that long leashes are good only when fishing is carried out in a strong current with a sinker fixed at the end of the line; only then does the leash move widely from side to side, attracting fish.
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Tactics and technique
In order for fishing to be successful, you will have to thoroughly study all the intricacies of fishing with a specific type of gear. Only in this case can you count on a rich catch. There are several types of gear for catching bream. Almost everything can be used not only in winter. For example, there are winter and summer types of feeders.
On the float
You can fish with this rod all day long. In winter, it is better to use it for catching bream only in weak currents. Therefore, for this type of fishing it is worth keeping a lighter hook or jig. Very light ones can be used together, secured at a distance of about 20 cm from each other. itself on a stand - vibrations of the fishing line transmitted by hand can frighten the fish.
Expert opinion
Knipovich Nikolai Mikhailovich
Zoologist, hydrobiologist. I am interested in fishing at a professional level.
Even if there is no bite, do not forget to feed the bream. This fish loves to hunt in one place and is extremely reluctant to leave it.
It is better to determine the weight of the sinker for the float on site, depending on the temperature. If the water in the hole freezes quickly, it is better to submerge the float. The main thing is to follow a simple rule - the less the tackle weighs, the less chance of scaring the fish.
On the jig
For fishing at great depths or in strong currents, it is better to use tungsten baits. In all other cases, the material is not particularly important. Much more important is the ability to fish correctly with a jig.
The wide amplitude of vibration of the jig during retrieving should be combined with smoothness. No sudden movements and slowly.
How to properly catch bream with a jig:
- slowly raising and lowering the jig to a height of about 30 cm;
- moving the bait near the bottom;
- tapping the jig on the bottom;
- pause at the bottom point after several transactions.
Expert opinion
Knipovich Nikolai Mikhailovich
Zoologist, hydrobiologist. I am interested in fishing at a professional level.
The bite of bream is extremely characteristic - the nod rises or freezes during the retrieve.
With a feeder
Before loading the bait, it must be moistened. For this, it is best to use water from the river - bream perfectly distinguishes odors and can get scared if it smells something unfamiliar.
After lowering under the ice, the current moves the hooks to the side, and the heavy feeder is lowered vertically. The bait is gradually carried away towards the hooks, where the bream swims up, which is no longer frightened by the feeder.
The hole for the feeder should be located about a meter from the fishing spot , this allows you to create a good feeding path. But if you are fishing in a strong current and a depth of more than 6 meters, the distance between the holes needs to be approximately doubled.
On the “yoke”
This type of tackle is very suitable for catching large bream. The leash does not hang vertically, but at a slight angle. The fish, approaching the bait, does not touch the fishing line with its head, which can scare it away.
Expert opinion
Knipovich Nikolai Mikhailovich
Zoologist, hydrobiologist. I am interested in fishing at a professional level.
If there is a large fish, you should prepare a hook. Otherwise, the bream may fall off the yoke.
When fishing “with a rocker”, first drill the required number of holes in a checkerboard pattern, where it is better to immediately lower the bait. You need to give the fish about half an hour so that it gathers in one place. After this you can start fishing. The bite is very visible - the bream, raising one of its shoulders, signals to the fisherman with a float or nod, which means you can hook.
To the "helicopter"
The tackle can be used on rivers with different current strengths. For fishing, two fishing rods are used, which are placed in two nearby holes.
The optimal distance between them is from 0.5 to 1 meter. The first feeder with a feeder is thrown into the hole upstream. On the second, it is replaced with a sinker of the same weight, about 20-30 grams.
As a result, the bait washed away by the current forms a food path that lures the fish to the hooks of two tackles at once.
What to use to catch bream on the current in winter
The winter bait for catching bream is usually a brush made of large bloodworms. Each larva should be placed under the second joint, making sure that liquid does not leak out of it. Also very attractive for bream, especially during periods of thaw, can be a cluster of small worms - dung beetles or subfoliates, which are harvested in the fall and stored in a wooden box with soil at zero temperature. In some cases, bream are caught on small maggots, with 3–5 larvae per hook.
Where to look for bream in winter and a rational search method
A river, lake, pond, reservoir—everywhere has its own nuances. I could be wrong, but finding bream on a reservoir is “more” easier compared to a river or lake. The flooded bed, already starting from the coastline, is a “washboard” - sharp drops to depth, holes and mounds give way to shallow areas.
Bream and white bream love heterogeneous bottoms. In some places they organize rest stops, in others they prefer to feed.
If, as an example, we consider my case, then the situation is as follows.
Previously, the village was located between the taiga hills on the very bank of the Angara. After the water level in the reservoir rose, half of the hills went under water, along with the roads and the relatively flat territory of the village. Beautiful bays with areas attractive to fish appeared - deep steep banks with bottom “plateaus” and the riverbed topography of the Angara became one whole.
The most frequently feeding bream and bream can be found at the entrances to the bays. Here, deep channel edges give way to vast clay and sandy “glades”. Such areas are rarely littered with snags and all sorts of bottom debris. In the absence of massively dying vegetation, the oxygen regime turns out to be favorable and the bream feels great and fills its paths. But he doesn’t go far from reaching the depths. At least in winter.
But knowing the bottom topography and the preferences of the fish is just the beginning.
Having found the first coastal edge, I skip it and look for the next drop to depth. Having found the difference, I make a central hole and from there, following the pattern of a six-pointed star, I begin to drill the next ones. I measure 6-7 meters in steps and drill.
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I made a hole and immediately fed it. This is one of the disadvantages of bream fishing. You go and know that you won’t have to be distracted by catching other fish. You prepare a dozen fishing rods and bait at home. The fishing box turns out to be packed to capacity.
There is an important point . We are accustomed to covering the hole with snow when leaving. When fishing for bream, you don’t need to do this. For fishing in relatively shallow water, “illuminated” holes lure underbream. Large bream in winter are lovers of the depths and there is no need to be afraid that the light will alert the fish. The sun's rays simply do not reach it.
We made a perforation on the ice - we begin to fish. If you're lucky, the first bites occur. If within 20-30 minutes the fishing rods have not shown themselves, we take up the drill and resume the search.
The process is labor-intensive, but it ultimately turns out to be worth it. Fishing occurs at different depths, which expands the fisherman’s capabilities. As a reward for your efforts, you can determine the areas of the bottom of the reservoir most visited by bream.
It's like when fishing for burbot. If you find a path, you will be with fish.
Most often, a bunch of bloodworms are chosen as bait for catching bream and bream in winter. If you prepared the worm in the fall and stored it somewhere, then during the thaw it can be very useful. It is during the thaw that the best bait for bream will be a worm. In those places where the number of bream is quite small, a maggot sandwich is a better bait. It is better to use white maggots, they stand out better at the bottom.
Today we’ll talk about all the ways to catch bream in winter.
It’s no secret that large specimens of bream choose a deep place for wintering, so that there is a lot of food next to it. When the thaw begins, the bream begins to actively feed, it goes out to feed in shallower waters, where it is caught with a float rod.
Float tackle
Winter fishing rods for catching bream are not particularly difficult. Experienced fishermen follow the old, ancient methods, and use a fishing rod called a “filly”; its handle and reel are made of foam plastic. Some people fish with modern fishing rods equipped with reels, but for convenience they equip them with legs in order to install them on the ice. The length of the whip varies from 20 to 30 centimeters. The rigidity of the whip should be sufficient.
If you are fishing in places where the current is small or there is no current at all, then it is better to use a float and a sinker of as little weight as possible. The thickness of the fishing line for such reservoirs is approximately 0.13-0.16 mm. When using a thicker line, there is a fear that the bream will feel it, and if you use a thinner line, then naturally there is a fear that it will tear it. In order to extinguish the jerks of the bream when fishing it, it is advisable that the reel be equipped with a friction clutch.
Fishing with a fishing rod
Each fisherman chooses a fishing rod for himself, since he has to move his brush throughout the entire fishing, the fishing rod needs to be comfortable. One of the main factors in catching bream is the stability of the jig. With a fishing rod that suits your hand, there should be no glitches in the jig game. This is very important, since bream does not readily react to unstable movement.
The fishing line should be used as thin as possible. In order for the jig not to come true, the fishing line should not sail.
The jig fishing technique is not particularly hasty or energetic. The frequency of jig play should not be high enough. Often the bream takes a pause after moving the jig. He also likes to drag the jig along the bottom a little and then stop. Often the bream also takes the jig, which rises up evenly. Sometimes bites occur when you simply lift the jig up. Sometimes the bream begins to take only the jig, which does not move at all.
Fishing with a jig in mid-water
Bream bite best during a thaw, on first ice. But this biting activity can strike at any time, and it’s not clear when a large bream will bite. The bream feeds constantly and also bites. Often it is caught in half the water above holes and pools. This of course depends on many factors, often the weather, etc. If the bream does not find food in its constant feeding place, that is, in holes and pools, then it begins to search for food where it has never looked for it, that is, in the upper balls of water, or in the middle ones.
The other day I saw an interesting combination of a jig with a fly fishing fly, which is baited with bait. They are caught using such gear at a depth of 4 to 8 meters, but only halfway through the water. You should not use bait, it will have little effect, but if you are going to fish in several holes in turn, then you can feed them with clean bloodworms. Playing with a jig depends on the fisherman himself, that is, on his skills, technique and experience.
Fishing tactics with small baits
For successful fishing, you need your bait to float smoothly to the bottom; for this you need to set up the tackle very well. Some people use lighter jigs with a bunch of bloodworms, because they say that it is best to catch bream using baits that are as similar to living ones as possible. Sometimes the bream bites so that the nod or float only moves a little. In such cases, you need to cover the hook with bait, because the bream first tries the bait, and if it does not spook it, it begins to swallow it.
What to do when the bream still doesn’t swallow the bait? Those who catch bream have noticed that after several jerks of the float it freezes. Those who know that bream does this hook it just at the moment of such jerks. Sometimes they hook fish and sometimes they don't.
Most often, a bunch of bloodworms are chosen as bait for catching bream and bream in winter. If you prepared the worm in the fall and stored it somewhere, then during the thaw it can be very useful. It is during the thaw that the best bait for bream will be a worm. In those places where the number of bream is quite small, a maggot sandwich is a better bait. It is better to use white maggots, they stand out better at the bottom.
Bait for currents for bream
When fishing for bream in winter, bait plays a significant role. To deliver it to the bottom, ordinary cone feeders of different sizes are used. The feeder is additionally surrounded if the current is too strong to prevent it from being carried away. To do this, you can attach a lead plate to the lid of the feeder using copper wire, having previously drilled the corresponding holes. Often, fishermen use ready-made vegetable baits intended for winter bream fishing, which are sold in fishing stores.
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Before loading bait into a regular cone feeder, it must be moistened with water taken from the hole. If you prepare bait at home, moistening it with tap water, it may have foreign odors, to which bream is very sensitive.
To prevent the plant bait from being carried away by the current, it is mixed with sand or gravel taken from coastal outcrops. Adding bloodworms or maggots to the bait mixture significantly increases its attractiveness to fish. Very often, bream are fed only with small bloodworms, which, however, also need to be weighed down with soil.
When fishing for bream in the current, it is important to create a feeding path where the bream will approach from afar. The nozzle should be at the beginning of the feeding trail, so the hole for the feeder is drilled about a meter above the hole in which the tackle is placed.
When fishing at a depth of over 6 meters with a strong flow, the distance between the feeding and working holes can be increased to two meters so that the feeder does not drift too far towards the fishing spot. Sometimes, if they feed only bloodworms, the feeder near the bottom is not opened, but is left closed at the bottom during the fishing process. In this case, the holes in the feeder should be large enough so that the larvae are washed out well.
Do-it-yourself bait for bream in winter
When making your own bait plant mixture, it is important to take into account that it contains light particles (breadcrumbs), which will be carried downstream and attract fish to the fishing site, and heavier particles, which will form a feeding path. Keep in mind also that living components (maggots, worms) will create attractive vibrations in the water, and also with their smell will quickly attract bream to the fishing spot.
In winter, you should not get carried away with large plant particles such as steamed millet. It happens that bream leaves the place because the bait used was prepared poorly and began to rot at the bottom, scaring off the fish with an unpleasant odor.
Tactics for feeding bream in the current
Usually on a river, an angler fishes several places that he considers promising for bream to emerge. It is best to use two or three pairs of fishing rods. Having studied the reservoir well in the summer and knowing the places where the flow is calm, where natural food can be carried, holes are drilled taking this into account. Moreover, they choose an area such that promising areas are not very far from each other, no further than 50 m. Having drilled paired holes, they mark them with red flags. A tackle is lowered into each hole, but so that the nozzle is about two meters above the bottom - then it will not be eaten away by small things. Fishing is carried out first on one pair of holes, and if there is no bite within twenty minutes, they change the place of fishing. To do this, you need to prepare your gear in advance.
The choice of each location should be approached carefully. Having sufficiently studied the fishing area and knowing the strength of the current, the direction of the breaker jets, as well as the bottom topography, choose a “point” where the food washed out of the feeder, especially bloodworms, maggots or chopped worms, can linger on bottom obstacles.
Feeding
It is mandatory to use bait to catch bream in the current. This fish always eats a lot, so don't be afraid to overfeed it.
For feeding, it is better to make a separate hole upstream. For winter fishing for bream on the current, there is no need to add flavorings to the bait. In cold water the smell practically does not spread, and too large a dose will simply scare away the fish.
Composition of high-quality bait:
- base, you can buy it at a fishing store;
- baking powder based on sunflower cake or small crumbs of shortbread cookies;
- filler based on steamed millet, corn or barley;
- crushed bloodworms or maggots (it is better to use the main bait).
Life activity of bream in rivers in winter
In winter, bream gather in schools; at this time of year it is not possible to catch a random single fish. The flock lives in a certain, fairly large square, periodically moving around it in search of food and more oxygenated water.
- The main food supply is a variety of crustaceans, daphnia, amphipods, bloodworms, as well as small zebra mussel shells.
- In an area of the bottom that is interesting to them, the flock lingers and feeds, literally tearing up a piece of the bottom, selecting living creatures from the soil.
- On some reservoirs, bream constantly comes out to feed in the same places - tables in front of the lower edge, colonies of mollusks, etc.
- Winter fishing for bream on the current is more of a strategy than a tactic, especially in large water areas. The fisherman needs to guess where the fish are moving at a particular moment in time.
It’s good if the permanent feeding places for bream are known. But if the body of water is unfamiliar, you have to launch a full-fledged search over large areas. In this case, simply feeding and waiting for a bite does not make sense. You need to find at least a square where the bream is spinning, and then collect it there using bait.
At the beginning of winter and at the end, schools of bream are more scattered throughout the reservoir; they can be found even in fairly shallow areas adjacent to holes, under the upper edges, at depths of 2-3 meters. In the middle of winter, you should look for them on the lower edges, at great depths, in and around the riverbed, at outlets and bottom irregularities in which food is retained.
Unlike reservoirs, where bream often go to the same promising places to feed in winter, in large rivers with strong currents the trajectories of schools can be unpredictable. This is especially clearly observed in places where current flows are constantly changing. Somewhere the edge has been eroded, somewhere there are a lot of crustaceans in the rocks - the flock will feed in such hot spots, the location of which is not at all obvious to us, ice fishermen.
The fisherman’s task is to find such areas, for which it may be necessary to drill more than a dozen holes. But when the place is found, it is likely that the bream often looks there. You need to remember such points and start your next fishing trips by catching them. Electronic means such as winter echo sounders and ice video cameras make the search easier.
Winter float rod
You need a fishing rod with a handle and an external reel, but if you don’t find one, use what you have on hand. We recommend resting your fishing rod on the ice using the legs. Fishing with a fishing rod and float involves the use of hooks and jigs.
Take sinkers weighing 10-15 grams, place them at the end of the fishing line. Use a fishing leash made of mono-line with a length of 30 to 50 cm, and place it 30 cm above the sinker. Small jigs of the “Ovsinka” type are tied to it, or hooks number 14-16.
To improve sensitivity, you can install a flexible metal nod approximately 12 cm long to the float. By constructing the tackle, you can fish all day long. The main bait for fishing is several bloodworms, moths or maggots.
Winter fishing rod rig for fishing in currents
Fishermen equip their fishing rod with one or a couple of floats. To catch in strong currents, take heavy equipment, mainly sliding species or a blind weight at the end.
For fishing, it is advisable to use a short whip, maximum 20 cm. A special tulip (hole for fishing line) is attached to it. This is enough to catch a heavy catch in the form of a heavy fish. Attach a float to the fishing line.
