Description and lifestyle of bream
Bream
Common bream
- the most important and important representative of its genus, which also includes syrty, klepets, blue bream and silver bream. All these fish are distinguished by a more or less compressed body, a very high and at the same time narrow dorsal fin, an extremely long anus, and the fact that the upper lobe of the caudal fin is noticeably shorter than the lower one. In addition, all bream have a groove stretching from the back of the head to the dorsal fin, bordered on each side by a row of small scales, and between the pelvic and anal fins the belly forms a sharp, leathery rib.
Bream is easily distinguished from other fish related to it by its extremely high, as if flattened, body, making up about 1/3 of the entire length, blackish fins and 29 rays in the long anal fin, which, undoubtedly, like in flounders, plays like the role of the keel and gives the bream greater lateral stability. His head is small and his mouth is very small. Small breams, usually called breams, however, are always significantly narrower and elongated than older individuals, have relatively large eyes and bear some resemblance to the silver bream, from which, however, they differ at first glance by their dark swimming feathers. Body color also changes with age: young bream are grayish-white with a silvery tint, then they gradually darken and acquire a brownish or blackish color with a golden-yellow tint, which increases with age. The white bream, weighing up to 600 g, has a white-silver color; then it begins to turn gray, and its gray fins turn black. Along with the transition from silver to platinum, a pink tint is noticed under the throat and on the belly, which is most intense, that is, brightest, in early spring.
The bream fish grows to a very significant size, and this, due to its extraordinary abundance, gives it almost the most significant place among other carp fish. Typically, bream are from 30 to 45 cm in length and weigh up to 4-5 kg, but sometimes you come across giants more than 70 cm in length, 32 cm in width, 9 cm in the back and 8-10 kg in weight. Such breams are brownish-yellow in color, and their scales are the size of a five-kopeck coin.
Bream lives up to 20 years, usually up to 12-14 years. It can reach a length of 75-80 cm and a weight of 6-9 kg. The usual dimensions are 25-45 cm and weight 0.5-1.5 kg.
Bream
prefers slow-moving ponds and lakes. Leads a gregarious lifestyle. In terms of nutrition, bream is a typical benthophage. Mainly feeds on bottom invertebrates (insect larvae, mollusks, worms, crustaceans, etc.). The retractable mouth allows the bream to obtain food from the ground to a depth of 5-10 cm. Large bream can eat juvenile fish.
Bream becomes sexually mature in the south at 3-4 years, in the north - at 4-5 years. In the south, spawning occurs from late April to early June, in the north - in May-June. Spawning at a water temperature of 12-14° C. The diameter of the eggs is 1.0-1.5 mm. Fertility from 92 to 338 thousand eggs. The eggs develop in 4-6 days.
Fishing with a float in early autumn
Float fishing rods of any type are used in the fall. You can fish from the shore using a plug, Bolognese or match fishing rod. These tackles allow you to deliver a hook with bait relatively far. This is very important, because you have to fish at decent depths.
But it would be wiser to fish with a fly rod from a boat, since the tackle does not imply long casting. It is this method that seems to me the most interesting in autumn float fishing. A fly rod 7-8 meters long allows you to safely fish at a depth of about 5-7 meters. The bream bite in September is confident, there is a chance of catching a trophy bronze beauty. At such a depth, the fish is not afraid of the boat and the swings of the rod, especially if there are ripples in the water. However, in strong winds it will be impossible to fish with a float; here you should choose the option of coastal fishing.
A long, high-quality fly rod allows you to fish with thin equipment. This has a positive effect on the bream bite in September and October. Don’t be afraid of thin lines and hooks; the rod will reliably dampen the powerful jerks of large fish.
Habits and habitats of bream
Bream is found in almost all rivers, except small rocky and fast rivers, and in flood lakes. It also avoids cold water, and this explains its relative rarity in the rivers of the northwestern part of Russia and its absence in the alpine lakes of Western Europe.
Usually, as a permanent resident, bream chooses deep pools in rivers, and even more often clayey pits under steep ravines. In grassy areas, they stay in the river for the most part during spawning, but in lakes and especially in ponds bream feed in the area of reeds and reeds. Bream fishing will be successful there. In general, bream likes a clayey, slightly silty, but not muddy bottom; in some places, on the contrary, it is somewhat gristly (under the holes). However, it is found relatively rarely in sandy areas; however, some fishermen believe that bream prefers a sandy bottom to any other. Probably, this opinion was formed from the fact that breams actually stay in the sand in most cases. In September, although they already approach deep places for the winter, they mostly lie down separately from the bream. Adult bream are found in sandy areas only in passing, often at night, during their transitions to search for food. Given the abundance of the latter, they, however, rarely and by no means every day come out of their pits and fatten on the spot or nearby, changing this habit only after a flood.
Typically, bream bypasses fast currents, grassy thickets, shallow water, and sections of rivers and lakes with a flat sandy or muddy bottom. Bream selects habitats in quiet and deep river backwaters, in pools with a clayey or slightly silty bottom. In such areas of the reservoir, bream stay in large schools. Bream comes out to shallow depths at night to search for food; at night, the bite is often very good, the bream becomes bolder and approaches the very shore. The place where a school of bream is located can be seen by external signs - frequent small bubbles that appear on the surface of the water. This is a sign that the bream is digging through the mud in search of food.
The bream bite is observed throughout the year, both from the ice in winter and from the shore in the warm season. During the feeding period, bream can be caught at any time of the day, but it is best in the evening, morning and on moonlit nights. The bite stops only with the onset of inclement weather.
Bream distribution map
Bream habitats
Consideration of behavioral factors
When fishing for bream, you need to take into account its behavior. It rarely swims far from its habitat - it hunts and prepares to spawn there. What to catch bream with depends on the chosen fishing method. This is partly a predatory fish, but it can also bite on bread bait and boiled corn. Lives in mud, loves to hunt for small crustaceans and insects.
Depending on where bream theoretically lives, two types of catch can be distinguished:
- Day. At this time of day, he prefers depth, with the exception of the behavior of spawning individuals. During the day they can swim close to the shore. It is then relatively easy to catch bream if it is allowed.
- Night. In the dark, the fish prefers to stay near the shore. At night, when bream are biting, it is better to choose a place near the shore. You can use a worm as bait. To make the bite better, it is recommended to feed them. For bream fish, you can throw bread crumbs, for larger specimens - pieces of worm.
When fishing for bream, you should not hook too sharply. This is a shy fish, afraid of sudden movements. When spawning begins, small schools can be observed, which is already unusual for bream in June, when the spawning time ends. Then he prefers to stay apart from other individuals. Fishing for pike perch: choosing tackle, bait and fishing location
Tackle and technique for catching bream
Bream fishing begins in early spring, but the real fishing begins in the summer, after spawning. Fishing for bream is a fascinating activity; it is like solving the riddles and quirks of this sensitive, cautious fish. Not everyone succeeds in this, but only attentive, thoughtful, purposeful fishermen. Perhaps we can say that bream fishing is suitable for lovers of quiet, classic fishing, far from the “city noise”, from all the signs of civilization. This fishing is leisurely, one might say patriarchal. The fisherman’s tactics are wait-and-see, ambush. Caution, secrecy in everything! Of course, camouflage is needed; the fisherman should not give himself away in any way. No cracking of branches, no stamping of feet, no cigarette smoke. Even at full height, it is advisable not to stand up; it is better to sit on a folding chair, camouflaged behind coastal bushes, reeds, and trees. You need to be patient - several hours may pass from the time of starting feeding to the first bite. At the same time - extreme attention; when biting, movements must be fast and extremely accurate. The main thing is not to miss the moment of a super-cautious bite, to make the hook in time. Bream does not forgive the slightest mistake. And the tackle itself must be assembled with skill. It all starts long before fishing, with preparing the gear. The choice of gear depends on the preference of the angler. Bream are caught with a float rod in the wire and on a feeder (donka).
Catching bream with a float rod
The most common tackle for catching bream is a float rod. Large bream is a strong fish. His first jerks are sometimes so powerful that they can break an unreliable fishing rod, tear the line, break a hook, so every detail of the tackle must be carefully verified.
To catch bream, it is best to choose a rod of medium hardness, the so-called media action (from the Latin media - central, middle). The most suitable rod test is 5-20 g. For a sports fisherman, a test from 5 to 20 g is too big, but for an amateur it is quite acceptable. This rod is universal. It allows you to catch a wide variety of fish - from bleak to small carp. You can purchase a telescopic rod or a plug rod. The latter is stronger, but its dimensions are larger.
As for the reel, here again the price determines the quality. But from relatively cheap reels (800-1000 rubles) you can choose the right one.
Fishing line is one of the most important components of equipment. Currently there is a huge selection of them on the market. But even expensive scaffolding has a serious drawback: it sharply reduces the strength at the nodes. Therefore, after purchase, the fishing line undergoes additional processing. Namely: they are kept for about a day in a hot infusion of oak bark, tea, and willow. The point here is not the coloring (nowadays there are a lot of colored forests), but the fact that the forests become more resistant to ultraviolet rays. In addition, it acquires plasticity and additional strength at the nodes.
When fishing for bream
hooks require the closest attention. Poorly hardened, dull hooks, as a rule, get damaged, become unbent, or cause the fish to escape. To catch bream in calm waters and weak currents, it is most convenient to use sliding floats.
The upper locking knot moves along the line with some effort, but it should not be tightened too much, otherwise the line will spiral. The lower locking assembly prevents the float from sliding onto the sinker, which can lead to tangling of the tackle when casting. Stopper knots can be knitted from fishing line with a diameter of 0.2-0.25 mm. If the carabiner ring slips through the locking nodes, then it is slightly compressed with pliers. Good locking units are made from small pieces of dense rubber. To do this, you will need the thinnest needle, into the eye of which the main fishing line passes.
If the depth in the fishing area exceeds this mark, casting becomes more difficult, since the upper locking assembly may get stuck in the rod guides. This problem can be solved if you tie an upper stop knot from a soft fishing line, leaving a “whisker” of about 1 cm. Such a knot easily slips through all the rings and can be placed on the spool before casting. But fishing with a float rod at depths of more than 4-5 meters is irrational: you need to make a hook that is too sweeping in order to “remove” the angle formed between the section of line from the tip of the rod to the float, and from the float to the nozzle. When fishing at great depths, it is better to use side rods or donks if you have to fish from the shore.
When fishing in shallow water, the lightest, most modestly colored floats are used. At depths of up to 1 m, the most common “goose” is very good.
When fishing for bream, you can use monofilament or braided leashes. For bream weighing up to 700-800 g, leashes with a diameter of 0.15-0.19 mm, and for large bream weighing over 1 kg with a diameter of 0.2 mm. Braided leashes, despite their strength, have a significant drawback: when casting long distances, they often form intricate knots that are difficult to untangle. In addition, with “dead” hooks, you have to tear the main line, leaving carabiners and weights in the water. The use of “braid” is advisable in heavily overgrown areas of the reservoir. Then, if the bream goes into the reeds or egg capsules, then, given the high strength of the leash, you can try to pull it out of the dense thickets of grass.
In summer, when fishing from the shore, the following situation often arises: along the shore there is a wide strip of grass; The bream or bream feeds in the early morning precisely at the border of vegetation and clean water. How to catch him?
You have to either make a “corridor”, which is troublesome and, moreover, scares away the fish for a long time, or throw the bait through the grass. When I go to such reservoirs, I take a stiff rod with a “fast” action. Braided leash with a diameter of 0.1-0.12 mm. In general, fishing for grass from the shore is an extremely adventurous business, but sometimes this is the only way to catch bream.
Fishing for bream in the wire
Fishing by fishing
For fishing by fishing for bream, the most suitable areas are sections of the river with a quiet current, with a depth of one and a half to three meters. Often here you can come across silver bream, sopa, bluefish and other carp fish. Experienced bream fishermen inspect the fishing site and prepare it - measuring the depth, driving stakes for the boat, etc. - not on the day of fishing, but the day before, since wary bream are easily spooked.
The main fishing begins after spawning, that is, from the end of May - beginning of June, and continues almost until November. Bait is mandatory, without it it is difficult to achieve success. For this purpose, worms, bran, steamed oats, various cereals and crushed cake are used. It’s a good idea to season them with vegetable oil. They catch bream using a crawler, dung worm, steamed peas; It catches well on caddis flies and maggots. The nozzle should cover the tip and even the head of the hook and hold firmly to it. They fish in the morning, before sunrise, and in the evening. During the day, from 10 to 17 hours, the bream almost does not take.
The wiring is done in the same way as when fishing for ide, but the nozzle, if possible, is pressed even closer to the ground.
From the shore you can fish with a retrieve only on the weakest currents near steep banks overgrown with trees and bushes. The bite of bream is different from the bites of other fish: the float first sways (the fish touches the nozzle), and then, lying on its side, it sharply goes to the side and deeper (the bream took the nozzle and moved forward). During retrieving, especially on waves, the initial phase of the bite is not always noticeable, but you cannot delay hooking. It must be done at the first movement of the float into the water, and quite energetically, since the jaws of the retractable mouth of the bream are quite strong.
A fish caught on a hook, having made several jerks, soon calms down, obediently walks on the line and, only after seeing the boat and the net, makes its last attempts to free itself. But getting off the hook is rare. True, after hooking, large bream sometimes stands across the current and stubbornly refuses to go to the boat. It is better to patiently tire such a “stubborn” and only then try to remove him from the water. In no case should you force the course of events, since the lip tissue of a bream is quite weak and can simply come off if fished too vigorously.
Fishing for bream by wire is usually very productive, interesting and requires the angler to have certain knowledge of the behavior of bream. Maintaining complete silence is the most important condition for success. One single loud impact on the boat is enough for the bream to leave the fishing spot. In addition, bream is afraid of the shadow of a boat; this factor also needs to be taken into account when fishing for bream in a retrieve.
Catching bream on a feeder
Catching bream with a feeder
For most reservoirs, when fishing for bream from the shore, the best option would be a 3-meter long feeder rod with a cast weight of up to 120 grams. On such a fishing rod you can install a three- or four-thousand reel with a rear drag and anti-reverse. In this case, the spool on the tackle should hold from 100 to 150 meters of fishing line. The diameter of the main cord should be at the level of 0.12-0.13, but the leading line itself can be thicker - up to 0.2 millimeters. For large bream, it is worth using hooks from 14 to 10 numbers, as they can withstand the gusts of large fish well without bending or breaking.
Having collected the gear, let's turn to complementary foods. Fishing stores offer a very wide range of ready-made mixtures for attracting bream. However, this does not mean at all that you can (or should) limit yourself to them. Homemade millet or pearl barley are perfect as an addition or replacement. In no case should you skimp on the amount of complementary food, since a school of adult bream can easily consume up to several kilograms of the delicacy you bring.
The ideal option is to take two types of complementary foods with you: a “dust-like” mixture and, for example, pearl barley. It’s even better if you manage to mix chopped worms or maggots into the bait. However, you should not immediately expose all your preparations. It’s better to start with light or aromatic complementary foods that will simply attract fish. And only after that you should use your main dish. At the same time, it is worth periodically remembering the “dust” in order to avoid early satisfaction of the fish’s appetite, which entails its retirement.
It is worth paying attention to the way the feeders themselves are arranged. If you arrive at the reservoir for one day, then it is best to arrive at night in order to set up several stationary feeders to attract fish closer to the morning. If you plan to fish for several days, then feeding is best done in the evening, since by this time most of the inhabitants of the reservoir have already hatched.
As for the bait, for starters, it’s worth remembering the indisputable truth: “I fish with what I feed you.” Therefore, if there was, for example, millet in the complementary foods, then you need to take it with you. If you diluted it with worms, then this should also be with you. Moreover, if you diluted it with maggots, it should always be with you, since, along with the worm, it is one of the universal and mandatory baits. In addition, already during the fishing process you can experiment with several combinations of baits to maximize the interest of the bream. At the same time, it is worth remembering the fairly large size of the bait, which should stand out against the background of particles of complementary food.
One of the secrets of catching bream on a feeder
– this is the accuracy of casting. To do this, the feeder must constantly fly to the same place, due to which the area of food scattering is reduced and, as a result, the bream will gather as close as possible to your hooks. If the cast is unsuccessful, it is better to immediately pull out the feeder and try again. Since in this case you will not waste complementary food and will not increase the fishing area, which may entail an increase in the waiting period for a bite.
If all of the above conditions are met, the bream will have nowhere to escape from you. Therefore, all that remains is to wish you not to miss the bite and safely bring the bream into the landing net.
What do they have in common?
Both bream from the river and bream from the oxbow lake are very wary of extraneous noises on the shore.
They are especially frightened by ground shaking. That's why I always try to stay away from my neighbors. And even if this point is not entirely advantageous in terms of the bottom topography, the main thing is that it is quiet. Wherever the bream lives - in a river or an oxbow lake - it loves to eat well and tasty. When going to catch bream, I always take a lot of bait with me. And I try, especially in the first hour of fishing, to use it intensively. Even if there are no bites, a fresh portion of food is sent into the water every 2-3 minutes.
Another common feature of bream behavior is their craving for all kinds of smells. The result of fishing greatly depends on how well the fisherman knows how to use flavorings. But this does not mean at all that you need to constantly carry a whole set of sprays with you when fishing. For each body of water, only a few aromas will be a priority. And if you manage to calculate them, the results will improve much.
And in general, catching bream is always a conscious experiment. Don’t be afraid to offer the fish something new, just do it wisely, based on your own observations. And don’t be afraid of the discomfort that will appear to you from time to time. Any discomfort is a step towards understanding the mechanisms of the process. And if you understand this, you will very soon have your own unique experience in catching this magnificent fish. Have fun fishing!
Baits and groundbait for bream
Bait and groundbait for bream
Of course, preparation for catching bream begins long before entering the river. Serious bream fishing is never complete without bait and bait. Without bait, such a cautious fish like bream can only be caught by accident.
There are many different “branded” bait mixtures on sale (Fishka, Sensas, Fishdream, etc.) Without disputing their reliability, we will still say that real “breamers” prepare bait mixtures themselves, and there is a reason for this. The main thing is to take into account local conditions and the usual type of food to which the fish are accustomed.
Our golden-sided gourmet has an unsurpassed sense of smell, and unusual smells, and even beyond all measure, are more likely to scare him away than to attract him. Therefore, you should not get too carried away by various Western “sensations” with “tutti-frutti” aromas, as well as flavors for “bite activation”.
To attach bream, almost exclusively plant food is used: porridge, cakes, bran, steamed cereal grains, although animal ingredients such as maggots, worms, and shellfish are also possible.
Well, with a twist, we start to “get smart” by preparing porridge. Millet and pearl barley porridge is an essential component of the bait. Take about 1 kg of wheat, put water in a large saucepan (5-8 liters) on the fire. When the water boils, add 1 teaspoon of salt, pour in the wheat, cover the pan with a lid and reduce the heat. We wait at least an hour, let the wheat steam.
At this time, soak 1 kg of peas (you can soak the peas in advance). To the swollen wheat add peas, a glass of sunflower cake or flax and hemp seeds twisted in a meat grinder. Cover the pan with a lid and cook for another twenty minutes. After this, the pan can be removed from the heat, wrapped in something warm and left for several hours.
Another recipe for bream bait:
- Boiled rice - 500 g; Sunflower cake - 300 g;
- Bran-300 g;
- Maggot - 3 matchboxes;
- Breadcrumbs - 100 g.
To all baits on the river, water is added (necessarily from a reservoir!), as well as clay and sand to the required consistency of the food ball. The resulting balls are thrown into the desired place three to four days before fishing. It is better to choose a place for bait above the area where fishing is planned, because the fish will go up the river, attracted by the “feeding trail” of the bait. The bait should not be thrown into calm waters; there it will only decompose without attracting fish.
Now about preparing the bait. The bait is thrown at the fishing spot immediately before fishing. It is clear that the purpose of bait is to attract fish, keep them in their favorite place, but in no case feed them. This problem is solved by preparing bait, which contains a lot of odorous, finely crushed components that “smoke” in the water, but when the fish approaches, there will be nothing for it to feed on.
Strongly boiled porridge, which is easily washed away with water, can serve as a good bait. And the solid components of the bait (cake, crackers, bran) must be ground in a coffee grinder literally into dust.
Here is one of many recipes for bait for bream:
- Breadcrumbs (rye) - 100 g;
- Millet cereal (boiled) - 50 g;
- Cumin (ground) - 1 teaspoon;
- Bran (wheat) - 100 g;
- Cake (sunflower, rapeseed - 100 g).
Of course, all this is taken to a reservoir, where it is mixed with water from the river, rolled into clay balls and tossed about 40 minutes before you start fishing.
Sugar, salt, and aromatic additives (in moderation!) are added to the bait. You can add animal components to the bait (in small quantities), especially those that you will fish with (maggots, chopped worms). During the fishing process, when the bite weakens, you can throw in complementary foods in small portions, but not in balls, but in handfuls.
Now let's talk about the most common attachments and baits for catching bream. Our “golden-sided” bream is a rather finicky gourmet, and it’s not so easy to please its tastes. Therefore, the “breamman” should have several types of baits in stock.
- Bread
is one of the most popular baits for bream, and not only crumpled black bread is used, but white bread. Flavorings are added to the bread - sunflower oil, honey, anise drops. Bread always attracts bream, especially in summer, but it doesn’t stay on the hook well and requires frequent recasting.
- Pearl barley
is properly cooked pearl barley porridge, or rather slightly undercooked, so that a hard grain remains in the middle. This porridge is cooked tightly wrapped in a nylon stocking (so that the grains do not burst), flavored with sugar, salt, sometimes honey, and rolled in fresh sunflower cake. 2-3 pearl barley grains are strung on a hook, sometimes a “sandwich” is made with maggots. Our gourmet cannot help but notice such a delicacy.
- Red dung worm and red forest worm.
These two worms are very similar to each other, but the dung worm is more odorous. It bites equally well on both. Usually a ball of worms is attached; their tails, with their movement, lure fish from afar.
- Maggot
is a universal bait for both summer and spring-autumn; it attracts fish with its smell and movement. Very tenacious in water. It is strung onto the hook by the thick tip, literally by one skin, it requires very thin and sharp hooks, otherwise the maggot may “leak out”. For a white bream, you can string two or three maggots, for a large bream - six or seven.
- Bloodworms
are the larva of the twitching mosquito, the worms are ruby-red in color. To catch bream, large bloodworms are used, and even large bloodworms are best planted in a bunch, for which several bloodworms are tied with thread or nipple elastic. It is a natural food for bream, so the bite on bloodworms is reliable.
- Among the unusual baits, one can note cut pearl barley (toothless)
, the meat of which is cut into small cubes and slightly dried in the sun. There is information about catching bream using small pieces of lard. In the current, bream are caught using “foam” - flavored foam balls, colored yellow and orange.
You can catch bream on a goose (dragonfly larva), on a caddis fly, or on a small herbivorous leech. In any case, you need to experiment, consult with knowledgeable fishermen. In different places, the tastes of our gourmet bream may be different, sometimes completely unpredictable.
Moon phases
The moon also influences the behavior of bream. Some fishermen claim that the most active bite is observed during the full moon. This is most likely due to good lighting and ease of fishing.
Another part of the anglers say that bream bites quite poorly 2 days before the appearance of the full moon and for two days after. In the first 3 days of the new moon, the bite is also poor. It has been noticed that during the full moon, bream is better caught in deep places:
- in pits;
- on deep-sea dumps;
- at the riverbed edges.
During the new moon, fish usually feed in shallow water areas. Experienced anglers who purposefully fish for bream in the dark argue that the influence of the moon on the activity of freshwater fish is greatly overestimated.
Baits and lures
At different times of the year, bream bites on animal or plant baits. In winter, bloodworms will have no competition. A bunch of larvae attached to a jig can tempt large fish. In ice fishing, worms, maggots and dough are actively used.
In the spring before spawning, fish respond well to dung worms, crawlers, leeches, and May beetle larvae. After spawning, bream can be tempted with a bunch of dung worms, maggots, bivalve shells, butter and semolina dough.
Bream has a mouth-tube designed to take food from the bottom. The diet is based on mosquito larvae, freshwater crustaceans, and bloodworms. During the period of preparation for spawning, the fish eats eggs and young fish.
Sometimes fish bite well on young algae.
In summer and early autumn, successful fishing occurs with steamed peas, pearl barley, canned corn, and boilies. Bream also eat cereal seeds, which are washed into water bodies by rain. In late autumn, you can catch fish using animal baits: worms, maggots, bloodworms.
Features of complementary feeding
A special feature of bream is their love for tasty and plentiful food. In closed reservoirs, these fish tend to change their parking places. However, they never ignore feeding areas.
Bream is cunning and cautious, so it is fed in the chosen place for about a week, but not less than 5 days. In this case, the bait is laid at a depth of three meters. Bream avoids shallow water, and there is a high probability of smaller fish eating the bait here.
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So what does bream bite best on? The best bait is blizzard larvae, dung worms, maggots and blizzard larvae. In addition to the above, attachments made from dough with eggs, semolina porridge and peas (steamed) are also effective. It is recommended to use a No. 5 hook and give the dough stuck to it a pear shape.
Worms and maggots should be placed on the hook in a lump or in clusters. At the same time, it is unacceptable to leave even a small section of the hook open, since bream is sensitive to the smell of metal.
Two important conditions for successful bream fishing are a flexible rod and the location of the bait at the bottom of the reservoir. Flat bream bites like this: it stands upright and sucks in the bait simultaneously with the river water. The external sign of a bite is this: the float first lies on the water and then begins to sink.
Fishing methods
From the ice in winter
A rocker is a bottom tackle for catching bream from under the ice. It has two hooks that can be baited with different baits, for example, floating and sinking.
Fishing with a jig - several ways of winter fishing for bream with a jig at the end of the fishing line.
Winter float rod for ice fishing. Tackle: fishing rod, float, fishing line, lead pellets, leash, jig.
From shore in open water
Feeder fishing is carried out from the shore using spot feeding with a feeder feeder.
An elastic band is a coastal bottom, the design of which includes a large load (a brick, a stone, or less often a large lead sinker), a fishing line with leads and hooks, and a piece of elastic.
Float tackle is the most common and easiest method of catching bream. To rig the fishing rod you will need: fishing line, lead weights, a float with a sensitive tip and a hook with a long shank.
Donka is a non-progressive and unsportsmanlike method of fishing due to the lack of sensitive elements of the gear and the requirement for 100% attention of the fisherman. It is characterized by the rough structure of the equipment and the bite alarm in the form of a bell.
