Fishing boat
To fish for bream, you need to choose a boat that is low, light, quiet, and also has provisions for anchoring both from the bow and stern. High sides are not for bream fishing! For anchors, a bunch of stones or cast iron bars weighing up to 10 kg are usually used. If you take too light a load for the anchor, the boat may be carried away by the current. But if you take a very heavy load, problems will arise with raising the anchor.
Reservoir areas for summer bream fishing
When searching for promising areas for summer bream fishing, they usually navigate along the chains of islands scattered across the reservoir, which were once the banks of the channels.
As a rule, there are also small channels between the islands of the reservoir.
But on both sides of the islands, along the current flowing off the coast, you can look for promising areas for summer fishing for bream with bottom gear from a boat at depths of 2 meters.
If the search for fish is successful, then we begin to catch bream in the stream of food washed out of the feeder.
Usually, fishermen from our company catch bream from the islands during summer fishing by placing a fishing line along the slope of the sandy, gently sloping bottom across the current. In the same way we catch sabrefish from the shore.
These same sections of the dammed mighty river can be very good places for fishing during the course of sabrefish using an elastic band raised above the bottom. But mostly we catch bream in the summer on the Novocheboksarsk reservoir with side rods with a soft feeder in a moderate current from a boat. Often quite close to the left bank of the Volga.
In calm water with a small current, you can do without a special search for bream - a school is easy to spot by the paths of bubbles rising from the bottom of the gas. Most likely, at this time, more than one flock or large school of bream is feeding near the reservoir island in the summer.
You can look for large bream on the slope of the pit area of the reservoir. If the depth there is no more than 4-5 meters and there is a weak current, then it makes sense to use a float rod with sliding equipment for summer bream fishing from a boat. Here, too, there is no place for a feeder with flavored bait at the bottom.
Then the hook with the nozzle, while guiding the float in a weak water current, can plow through the slope of the reservoir pit. A similar method of finding fish during summer fishing is described in the topic Float rod for catching bream in summer.
Choosing a fishing spot
Fishing for bream from a boat at shallow depths will only bring results at night. For daytime bream fishing, the depth should be more than 4 meters. The best sign of a fishing spot is the slopes of underwater plateaus, which are surrounded by deep water, the edges of holes, mainly the slope closest to the shore. The bottom should be hard, consist of shell rock and clay or a rocky-clay surface.
An important point is that when anchoring, the boat must be positioned facing the sun. Then its shadow will not fall on the fishing spot.
Finding a suitable location
When you have to fish in a new body of water, you should carefully study the area from the very beginning in search of the most suitable place for fishing. Bream is one of those fish species that search for food at the bottom in the mud.
The depth in the proposed fishing area should be more than 4 meters. The presence of a current, even a small one, is welcome.
You can fish with different gear at different times of the day. For example, some fishermen advise fishing with a ring in the evening or at night, others say that bream can be successfully caught during the day, because the fish is at depth, and therefore is not exposed to the strong influence of the daytime heat.
Mostly bream is found near:
- deep holes;
- ditches;
- in the riverbed.
But, if a suitable place is located near the shore, then fishing is unlikely to be successful. This is explained by the fact that local fishermen quickly find such places and catch everything possible. In this case, the fish tries not to approach such places.
It is best to fish from a boat in deep water, because there is a real chance of catching a decent trophy. Near the shore you can also try your luck in quiet, calm and windless weather, when bream leaves their camp site in search of food.
Onboard fishing rod
Before you start fishing, you need to securely secure the fishing rod in the boat. An important point: the side rod should not sink as if it fell out of the boat, you could lose it. In addition, if a bream steals a fishing rod that does not sink in the water, then it can be easily found in the pond.
We also recommend reading:
Catching bream with a ring: technique, feeder and tackle with your own hands Bait for winter bream: preparation, application features Winter fishing for bream with a small pull Winter fishing for bream with a float
Tackle for catching bream from a boat
Before choosing equipment, you need to pay attention to the structural features of the fish. Bream have very weak lips and you need to be careful when choosing a hook; a very thick hook can tear the lip, and a thin one can tear it apart. It is recommended to give preference to medium hooks with a thin shank. The choice of fishing line depends on the characteristics of the reservoir; most often it is fishing line with a diameter of up to 0.3 mm. For example, if there are no hooks on the river, it would be a good idea to choose a thinner fishing line. You also need to take the color of the fishing line seriously and choose it to match the color of the bottom. When choosing a float, take into account your preferences; for fish it practically does not matter. The only thing worth noting is the preference for sliding float mounting. We wrote about this in the article catching bream with a float.
Ringing is one of the most effective ways to catch bream. It is suitable for fishing either from a boat (pier, bridge) or in winter. That is, we fish with a ring in deep water.
The main elements of the gear: a feeder and a ring. There are many ways to make a ring. The simplest of them is non-removable. Ring diameter 55 – 65 mm and thickness up to 5 mm. The hole in the ring should be 15 - 25 mm. A cord is passed through this hole from the boat to the feeder, and the ring moves freely along this cord. The ring also has a small hole on the side (no more than 7 mm in diameter). It is drilled at an angle to the plane of the ring (30 - 40 degrees). A leash with a hook is tied to this small hole. The other end of the line goes to the nod of the rod. Some anglers do not tie the leash to the ring, but pass it freely through a small diameter. And then this diameter should be even less than 2-3 mm. And on the side of the leash, a swivel is attached, which prevents the leash with the hook from slipping through the ring.
This is how a permanent ring is made. But if you make a thin bevel cut on the side of the ring, you can put it on and off the cord as needed. But the main advantage of the removable option is that when you bite and pull on the leash, the ring itself will come off the cord under the weight of the fish, and the line will never get tangled around the feeder.
What gear is best for ring fishing?
The rod should be a spinning rod, that is, short. It is necessary that the nod of the rod be sufficiently rigid and react only to the bite, and not to the current. You can catch fish either using a reel or by picking with your hands.
The fishing line for the rig is taken with a diameter of 0.2 or 0.25 mm, and for the leash - 0.15 mm. If you are using low-visibility fluorocarbon line, then take all diameters 0.08 mm larger, as it is less durable.
The leash should lie on the bottom far enough from the feeder, so its length is not small: from 0.5 to 1.5 m. It depends on how strong the current is.
The hook for bream is usually number 6-8. But if you are targeting a large bream and, for example, use a crawler for bait, then take a larger hook.
The feeder should be made of metal mesh. Its capacity is approximately 5 - 6 kg of feed. A heavy sinker is welded to the bottom of the feeder so that it sinks straight and stable to the bottom. The cord must be smooth and strong: so that the ring slides along it as best as possible, and it does not break under the weight of a large bream. It is best to use thin nylon.
The bream bite is confident and strong. It is also necessary to hook: without fuss, with a jerk to the shore. Guide the fish through the water, do not pull it to the surface. A large bream will still not immediately weaken from the air, but will be full of strength even after five minutes of fishing. If the bream is tired, it will lie on its side. At this time, loosen the clutch so that when jerking, the bream does not break the leash, but smoothly unwinds the fishing line. Don’t rely on self-hooking either: even if the fish doesn’t leave, it will scare away the school in the feeding area. It’s good if your partner helps you get the fish into the landing net. If you fish on your own, then your landing net should have a long, comfortable handle.
Finding a fishing spot
You should choose places 4–7 meters deep with a noticeable current. Sometimes the fishing depth can reach 12 meters.
Bream prefers to look for food near the bottom, where it has a better chance of finding it. It is unrealistic to visually see it at such a depth, but if you notice air bubbles rising to the surface, you should stop and check this place for a bite. It is quite possible that the bubbles are a consequence of the peculiar feeding of the bream.
Even if there are no bites at first at a promising place, there is no need to rush to set sail. The bait washed off from the feeder will definitely attract bream to this place. If fishing is supposed to last for many days, then you can use the method of constantly feeding this place.
To make fishing with a ring or eggs from a boat successful, you need to choose the right place on the river. With a boat, an angler has many opportunities, you just need to use them correctly. The choice of a promising point should be based on the habits of the fish. The following water areas look promising.
- Large fish like to occupy areas of the reservoir adjacent to the holes. Schools of bream, crucian carp or ide are concentrated here, where the fish feed at the bottom with bloodworms, mollusks, and small bottom inhabitants.
- You can attract fish with bait on the riverbed edges. The bite will be best when the bait is placed deep in the dumps.
- Snags where fish are hiding can be interesting for fishing. And to feed, it goes out into the adjacent clean water areas.
- In summer and early autumn, in coastal muddy waters, bream usually feeds from late evening until dawn. Here you can successfully fish at night.
- At certain times of the day, large fish visit the watering areas. This is a section of the bottom with a smooth transition from the upper edge to the coastline. A lot of caddis flies and bloodworms accumulate during irrigation.
It is important! Having chosen a place for fishing, you should position the boat correctly so that the food is washed downstream to the fish site
The onboard fishing rod does not like other gear
If we talk not about catching leucorrhoea in general, but specifically about bream, then in my experience, onboard fishing is rarely successful if you start being distracted by other gear. In winter, when there is no bream bite on baited holes, you can place bets somewhere nearby on pike perch or pike, and use a jig to go to smaller places, looking for roach or perch. Onboard tackle requires concentrated fishing with it, its essence is such, and the period of daily fishing is short, there is no time to be distracted. As you know, according to the old classics, a bream fishes a place that is important for several days, generally for the shortest possible period, usually at dawn, when a significant catch is taken in a few tens of minutes, if the flock has approached. If it’s not there, then tomorrow will come – the fisherman will definitely check his treasured point.
Overnight fishing
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