Catching bream on a feeder or donk

Habits of lake bream

Lakes with a muddy bottom are the most popular for bream. Moreover, regardless of their depth. In such lakes the population of this fish is evenly distributed.

In windy weather, waves rushing onto the shore wash away many larvae from the ground. The bream will not miss the opportunity to have a free lunch, and will certainly approach the shore.

Bream are actively searching for food all summer, including Indian fish. With the arrival of cold mornings, schools of this fish begin to look for places for the upcoming winter. As a rule, they use deep holes for this purpose.

The diet of bream includes:

• insect larvae;
• shellfish;
• worms;
• some types of leeches;
• molting crayfish;
• seaweed;
• young shoots of aquatic vegetation.

Breams are often characterized by the habits of a predator. They happily chase the fry. As a result, there is a possibility of catching it with a spinning rod. For the most part they turn purple, but classic bites also happen.

Bream has always been considered a cunning and cautious fish. Most often it can be found at the border of thickets of aquatic vegetation and open water. On deeper lakes, you should look for bream on the edges and holes. It usually rises to the coastline at night and closer to dawn.

This is general information. Only local fishermen - bream fishermen - can give a more accurate recipe. However, if you find yourself on an unfamiliar body of water, you can independently try to determine the “fishing spot” based on the following signs:

1. Along the chains of rising bubbles, this is a school of bream rummaging at the bottom in search of larvae of underwater insects.
2. By the unnatural shaking of the reed stalks, between which the fish scurry.
3. The capture of even a small bream indicates the presence of bream itself in this reservoir.

For this fish, finding food, even in pitch darkness, is not difficult. Usually very large specimens swim out to hunt at night. During the daytime, they are cautious and only make short runs. Therefore, night bream fishing can be very effective.

Bream biting intensity in summer

The intensity of bream biting during the period of open water in different sections of rivers, lakes, and reservoirs can be divided into several main time periods - spring, summer and autumn.

In the spring, bream are better caught in warm shallows. The intensity of the bite in the spring is due to the fact that bream (like any other fish) intensively fattens up before the upcoming spawning, feeding on high-calorie live food on floods of rivers and lakes.

The next period of time for catching bream is at the beginning of summer. About a week after spawning, the fish begin to really eat. At the beginning of summer, bream are better caught using live baits, although, often, even large bream does not refuse baits of plant origin.

The third period refers to the hottest time period of summer - the July heat - with the worst conditions for stable biting. This period of summer is characterized by weak activity not only of bream, but also of any other fish of the carp family and depends on the weather conditions and time of day. But almost every day of the day the fish spends its time in a long-term habitat in a river hole.

In addition, by the middle of the summer period of the year, many fish of the cyprinid family switch to feeding on young shoots of soft algae, problems with finding which are not observed in most reservoirs, which also affects the intensity of bream biting.

During the hottest period of summer, bream fishing becomes unproductive in the shallows, where the oxygen balance significantly deteriorates due to overheating of the water. Therefore, bream are forced to spend most of the daylight hours in cool, deep holes. It is clear that it is unnecessary to mention any intensity of bream biting in the area of ​​long-term habitat during the resting period of the fish.

The best time period of the day for catching bream in the shallows in July - early August corresponds to evening twilight - night - early dawn. For night fishing for bream in the summer, it is better to use moving baits. Although the fish will also smell odorous plant baits.

The fourth period of summer bream fishing corresponds to approximately mid-August. At this time, fish of different breeds begin to intensively prepare for the winter season. Closer to autumn, the bream bite becomes better on high-calorie bulk baits of animal origin.

In the autumn season, large bream with varying degrees of activity can be caught during the entire daylight hours, as a rule, in deep-water sections of the river.

Tackle for lake bream

Fishing for bream in still water has its own characteristics. It is known that you can catch it with a simple float, match or Bolognese fishing rod. But bottom and feeder gear are considered the most catchy. The fundamental differences between them are minimal. The main nuance is that the feeder is additionally equipped with a coil.

The feeder is a universal rod designed for using bottom fishing gear. The rod length is selected as follows:

• up to 3 meters – for shallow reservoirs;
• up to 3.5 meters - for deep water.

Please note the following points:

1. The rod tip comes in different hardnesses and is additionally equipped with a bite alarm.
2. A medium-sized spinning reel (3000), with an adjustable friction brake and a large spool.
3. The main line should not be very thick so as not to alert the bream. Tensile test – 4.5 kg. Experienced fishermen successfully replace it with a braided cord. It has zero memory (not subject to stretching), therefore the bite is felt several times better.
4. Leashes are used from fishing line 0.12 - 0.20 mm, length from 25 to 50 cm. The more intense the bite, the shorter the leash.
5. Feeders are round or cylindrical, weighing up to 50 g.
6. Hooks with extended shank No. 10 – 14.

The presence of a boat and an echo sounder can make a significant contribution to detecting places where bream are concentrated.

Commercial value

Fishing rules today provide for a more rational commercial use of the main population of bream, which is represented by a reduction in the prohibited pre-estuary space, an expansion of coastal fishing in the marine zone, and a limitation on the timing of the use of secrets and vents from the beginning of March until April 20.

Also in river zones, the deadlines for catching bream in the delta front are officially extended, starting from April 20 to May 20. The measures taken helped, in a sense, to increase the intensity of fishing activities and increase the volume of catches of river and semi-anadromous fish, including bream.

Baits and bait

An important stage in preparing for any fishing is to choose the right complementary foods. The shelves of fishing stores are decorated with various mixtures. But experienced fishermen prefer to cook them themselves. The characteristics of a particular body of water and the taste preferences of its underwater inhabitants are taken into account.

Bait for bream should have the following properties:

1. Fragrant smell. The bream should like it. Too harsh - most likely, it will scare him away.
2. Taste. There is an opinion that bream love sweets. Add sugar, or better yet honey.
3. Color. To prevent the color of the bait from alerting the bream, you need to supplement it with bottom soil.
4. Viscosity. Balls of food thrown into the water should not immediately crumble. When fishing on a lake, the viscosity should be medium.
5. Uniformity. It is important that all components are fine and well mixed.
6. Creation of turbidity. After casting the bait, a cloudy cloud forms in the water, showing the bream the path to the bait. Semolina and milk powder will do.

To attract the attention of bream, the following components of plant origin are used:

• cereals (semolina, pearl barley, millet, corn);
• sunflower seed cake;
• breadcrumbs;
• flavorings (vanillin, coriander, cloves, etc.)

The listed ingredients form the basis of any bait. To break up the lump of complementary food in stagnant lake water, bran is added to the composition.

For bait to give a good result it is necessary:

1. Grind the resulting mixture until smooth.
2. Be sure to add a binding element in the form of coastal soil.
3. To stir thoroughly.
4. Dilute with water in small portions to achieve a suitable consistency.
5. Be sure to add fragments of bait to the resulting mixture!
6. Shape the bait into balls the size of an orange, similar to how snowballs are made in winter.

For fishing in still lake water, the following recipe is suitable:

• millet porridge – 400 g;
• rye breadcrumbs – 300 g;
• roasted seed cake – 200 g;
• bran – 400 g;
• coriander, crushed – 2/5 tsp;
• clay from the bottom of the lake;
• bait elements.

In addition to successful bait, for effective fishing you need to choose the right bait. When fishing for bream, the following baits of plant origin are used:

1. Bread crumb.
2. Canned corn.
3. Pasta.
4. Potato pieces.
5. Steamed grains.
6. Pearl barley.

A simple recipe for making pearl barley for catching bream:

• 250 g of pearl barley are poured with 1.5 liters of water;
• Cook for 40 minutes, stirring;
• Remove from heat, add flavoring and add taste (salt, sugar);
• Let it brew for a few hours.

Animal baits are also widely used for catching bream:

1. Dung and earthworms.
2. Maggot.
3. Bloodworm.
4. Molting crayfish (special delicacy).
5. Mayfly.
6. Insect larvae.

Advice. It is wise to take several types of bait when possible when fishing. This will increase the chances of success.

Features of catching bream on the lake from the shore

The most promising places for catching bream in the lake are:

• deep holes and adjacent areas;
• upper edges of pits;
• boundaries of areas of aquatic vegetation and open water.

So the first thing you need to do is identify these places. But how to do this while on the shore? You need:

1. Use a boat and measure the depths.
2. Use a marker sliding float.
3. Tap the bottom with a sinker. To do this, tie a lead weighing 50 g onto the fishing line. Make test casts. The task is to determine the edge. Having found it, put a clip on the fishing line. It will serve as a casting range limiter.

The next stage is the process of feeding the fish. This is one of the most important points, so it needs to be done correctly:

• if the edge is not far from the shore, then you can make feeding balls and throw them by hand to the fishing point;
• if the treasured place is far away, use special feeders. They operate according to the following principle: after casting, upon reaching the bottom, a sharp hook is made, the feeder opens, and the bait falls out to the bottom.

It is very important to cast the feeder tackle exactly into the feeding area.

For convenience, you can remember it by some signs on the opposite bank. At first the scatter is large, however, after a few fishing trips the sniper accuracy comes.

All you have to do is experiment a little with the attachments and the process will begin! You don’t need to hook the bream immediately, but only after a few seconds. At the same time, remember the weakness of his lips.

An important assistant in catching bream is a landing net with a long handle. Bream is famous for its fighting qualities. You should let him take a breath of air and his agility will weaken sharply. Under such hypnosis, carefully bring it closer and take it with a net.

How to catch lake bream?

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Many fishermen have long noticed that in many respects the behavior of fish living in reservoirs depends on the season and food supply. The strength of the current, the size of the fish itself and its concentration, as well as fishing pressure.

For example, the behavior of lake and river trout differs greatly, just as the behavior of carp, carp, and perch differs. The behavior of fish such as bream also differs. Even in a reservoir, bream fishing has significant differences than bream fishing in lakes

. This is especially true in small lakes.

This topic is quite relevant, since for many fishermen, catching large bream in a small closed reservoir is not an easy task. Often, some anglers are completely unaware that large bream lives in the lake where they are used to fishing. Lake bream differs in its behavior from both river bream and bream living in the reservoir. It does not “smack” in the grass, and it is almost impossible to spy on its spawning during the spawning period. Lake bream is a very cautious fish, but if you show determination and perseverance, then this fish can not only be discovered, but also successfully caught.

You can spot lake bream at dawn, especially in the evening, when fishing takes place at the edge of the grass or at the edge of the reeds. In such places it is quite possible to catch a small bream. If a bream is caught, it means that bream definitely lives in this reservoir.

Successful fishing for bream in the lake

mainly depends on the choice of location. Typically, the depth in small lakes rarely exceeds 4-6 m. Most often, depths of about 2 or slightly more meters are found. And only in the pits the depth can be 4-6 meters. It is in such reservoirs that large lake bream most often live and breed.

As a rule, it is in such reservoirs that excellent conditions for spawning are created and a good food supply is available. Basically, the food supply for bream consists of the larvae of various aquatic insects, crustaceans, worms and, of course, bloodworms. Basically, bream looks for its food in thickets of aquatic vegetation and the more there is, the more extensive the bream’s food supply. Another plus of the lake is that, unlike reservoirs, as a rule, there is no regulated water level in lakes and most eggs in shallow water, as a rule, survive.

But if the lake is overgrown with grass throughout its entire water area, as is often the case in crucian carp lakes, then the bream has practically no place to winter. In a reservoir with such conditions, bream simply will not be able to find a wintering place where it can breathe normally. Typically, aquatic plants grow to a depth of no more than 2 meters, and bloodworms, as a rule, can live at a depth of about 5 meters. Therefore, only lakes with a minimum depth of 4 meters are suitable for bream to live.

The most promising places for catching bream in lakes

, as well as other white fish, can be conditionally divided into several sections. First of all, these are coastal areas with a gently sloping bottom from the very shore. If such a bottom is not clayey, then such an area can be completely overgrown. Such areas are favored by crucian carp, roach and tench. Bream, as a rule, only enter such places to spawn. For example, in mid-June, while fishing for tench or crucian carp in such places, you can usually catch a couple of bream using the same gear.

Also typical habitats for bream in the lake are depths with adjacent areas. As a rule, pits are found in areas of the geometric channel; they can also be near the shore, but quite rarely. The most promising for fishing are the upper edge of the pits. However, fishing in such places is quite difficult, since for this you need to be good at using a match or Bolognese fishing rod and accurately be able to bait the desired fishing point, as well as know the exact time of the bream’s exit to the baited place.

As for boats, attempts to use them do not give good results. Large bream are very sensitive to the presence of foreign objects in the water, so all attempts to fish from a boat or into a wade do not bring success.

Fishing for bream in the lake

very promising for irrigation. These places are located between the pit and the plant area. Bream appears here only at certain times of the day. In such areas there are almost always bloodworms, which attract bream to feed. In those places where there are most bloodworms, there is the highest probability of bream appearing. It is most practical to fish during irrigation with a pickerel and a match rod. However, it is best to use match tackle in such places. Fishing with pickerel requires more effort. And it may well not bring the desired result.

Picker gear usually means a rod with guides. Such a rod should be sufficient to cast a rig along with bait weighing 60 grams. The main feature of this rod is its soft tip. The set usually includes 2-4 interchangeable tips of different hardness, but the same length.

Some anglers mistakenly believe that the cause of many failures is an incorrectly selected tip for rigidity. However, in fact, the reason that the fisherman does not see bites, as a rule, is the rod itself, made of cheap materials, incorrectly signals the bite, spreading from the tip throughout the rod. While a rod made of carbon fiber, as a rule, only the tip of the alarm bends.

When fishing at a distance from the shore, either with a picker or with a match rod, it is very important not only to find the point where the bream feeds, but also to get there as accurately as possible, and most importantly, to learn to place bait in such places with maximum accuracy.

It is in lakes that there is an excellent opportunity to feed the desired place from a boat and at the same time, put a buoy on the bait.
Fishing for bream in lakes
, of course, has many other nuances, but everything comes with experience

Published: March 20, 2015

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