Fishing in the Khabarovsk Territory

The Amur is a large river not only in Russia, which flows through the territorial part of the Far East.
The river contains a wide variety of fish, which is why the river attracts the attention of many anglers. This is especially true for the Lower Amur, where there is more water in the river, which means there are more fish in this area. This article will tell you exactly what types of fish are found in this river, what gear the fish are caught with, and also what the typical fishing season is like here.

Amur River: description

The length of the reservoir is about 2 thousand 824 kilometers and it flows in East Asia, through the territory of the Far East. The river gets its name from the word "amar" or "damur", which means "big river". The Chinese called the Amur River "Heihe", which means "black river", and over time - "Heilongjiang", which means "black dragon river". If you believe the legend, then in the past, when a good black dragon lived in the river, he defeated the evil white dragon, which overturned the boats with fishermen.

After the victory, the black dragon settled forever in the river, within the Khingan cheeks, which are located on the border of the Amur and Jewish Autonomous Regions. In this regard, the Amur River is still called the “black dragon river”.

The Mongols call the Amur "Amur Khara-Muren", which means "black wide river". The Amur River flows through the territory of 3 countries, such as:

• Russia, more than 50% of its entire length.
• China, which corresponds to 44.2% of the entire length of the river.
• Mongolia, which accounts for only 1.8%.

The part of the river that is located in Russia is divided into the Siberian and Far Eastern parts. In this regard, the Amur is officially divided into the Upper Amur, which flows within Blagoveshchensk, the Middle Amur, located on the segment from Blagoveshchensk to Khabarovsk, as well as the Lower Amur, which is located below Khabarovsk.

Feeder fishing on the Amur River

What kind of fish is found on the Amur

There is simply a huge variety of fish species in the Amur River. which is not observed in other rivers of Russia. More than a hundred different species of fish are found here, 35 of which are of commercial interest.

In this regard, in the Amur River you can catch:

• Far Eastern brook lamprey and Pacific lamprey.
• Kaluga.
• Amur sturgeon and Pacific sturgeon.
• Siberian sterlet.
• Ketu.
• Pink salmon.
• Red sockeye salmon.
• Coho salmon.
• Simu.
• Kamchatka salmon.
• Malmu.
• Kunju.
• Common taimen.
• Lenka.
• Ussuri whitefish.
• Shiga-hadara.
• Amur grayling.
• Asian smelt.
• Noodle fish.
• Amur pike.
• Yazya.
• Far Eastern rudd.
• Black and white carp.
• Lake minnow.
• Golyan Chekanovsky.
• Chersky minnow and Lagovsky minnow.
• Chinese minnow.
• Amur flat-headed asp.
• Chinese Ophiocypris.
• Whiskered chub.
• Amur chebak.
• Minnows of various types.
• Vladislavia.
• Guber horse.
• A mottled horse.
• Amur black belly.
• Fine-scaled yellowfin.
• Black and white Amur bream.
• Mongolian Chanodichthys.
• An ordinary leprechaun.
• Mongolian redfin.
• Gorbushka.
• Bukleyu (Amur brisket).
• Wheat belly.
• Yellowcheek.
• Amur trigub.
• Gorchak.
• Common goldfish.
• Amur-Chinese carp.
• white silver carp.
• Bighead carp.
• Goltsa-usana.
• Eastern loach.
• Far Eastern lefua.
• Amur leptobation.
• Ordinary pinching.
• Soma Soldatova.
• Amur catfish.
• Killer whale.
• Chinese perch.
• Common pike perch.
• Common perch.
• Decorated butterfly.
• Rotana firebrand.
• Eleotris.
• Japanese and Amur goby.
• Southern flathead.
• Amur broadhead.
• Variegated Sculpin.
• Burbot.
• Far Eastern navaga.
• Snakehead.
• Three-spined stickleback.
• Star flounder.
• Striped Arctic flounder.
• Lobana.

Unfortunately, the Amur River does not have clean water, and the ecological situation wants to be better, which negatively affects many inhabitants of this huge reservoir. The river is polluted by enterprises producing industrial goods, which is due to the lack of proper treatment facilities, as well as frequent complex accidents at industrial enterprises in China.

Quite often, ulcers and various types of wounds can be found on the body of fish caught in the Amur River. As a rule, such caught fish should not be eaten. This is yet another evidence of how man is destroying the richest river. At the same time, he absolutely does not think about the future and lives practically one day at a time.

FISHING ON THE AMUR IN KHABAROVSK REGION

Basic fishing gear

As a rule, gear is selected depending on fishing conditions. In this case, weather conditions play an important role. Therefore, seasonal fishing on this river has some peculiarities. The fact is that there are a lot of migratory fish here that enter the river to spawn. These are mainly salmon, quite valuable fish species, which are considered the main object of fishing.

If fish is caught in the spring, then the following gear is used:

• Float rod.
• Bottom fishing rod.
• Spinning.

In summer and autumn, in addition to the gear indicated in the list, fly fishing gear shows good results in terms of catchability. It should be noted that this is the most difficult gear to use, which requires considerable handling skills from the fisherman.

When fishing in winter, as a rule, winter fishing rods are used, and quite often - of our own production.

Ban on fishing in the Amur region

• sturgeon fish - all year round ;
• partial and aquatic salmon fish during the period of their pre-spawning concentrations and on the migration routes of these fish species (with the exception of recreational and sport fishing with vouchers for the extraction (catch) of aquatic biological resources) - from April 20 to May 30 ;
• all types of fish: near vents, thawed areas and other places where oxygen-saturated waters emerge - from February 1 to April 20 ;
• in wintering fish pits - from October 20 to April 30 ;

Features of fishing in different seasons

Winter fishing

With the arrival of winter, anglers begin a completely different fishing experience. The Amur River is covered with ice mainly in November, and is freed from it around April-May. Here the fish bite regardless of weather conditions, so none of the fishermen will be left without a catch. On a sunny frosty day on a pond you can easily catch:

• Pike.
• Taimen.
• Lenka.
• Whitefish.
• Bream.

For this purpose, artificial baits or live bait are used, as well as classic winter fishing rods. In those places where the river is not covered with ice even in winter, grayling can be caught with a regular Bolognese fishing rod.

As a rule, winter fishing does not involve the use of any special gear or bait. Local fishermen use a regular wooden fishing rod, up to 0.5 meters long, equipped with a reel, fishing line and artificial bait. At the same time, they are made by hand.

The main task comes down to choosing an effective artificial bait. As a rule, local fishermen prefer homemade models.

Fishing on the Amur will not take place if you do not have the skills to use artificial bait.

The action of the bait can be of a different nature, but it boils down to ensuring that the spoon reaches the bottom and hits it, raising a cloud of turbidity, which always attracts fish.

The more experienced the fisherman, the more significant the catch may be, which may include trophy specimens. Whatever the catch, there is always whitefish in it.

Winter fishing on the Amur, cotton on new grabbers, there is fish!

Fishing in spring

In April-May, when the Amur River is already free of ice, the fishing season for predatory fish opens here. During this period it is really possible to catch:

• Carp.
• Crucian carp.
• Taimen.
• Lenka.
• Whitefish.

Crucian carp bite on ordinary float tackle, greedily grabbing any bait, hungry after winter. As a rule, fish are actively caught in the morning and throughout the daylight hours. In addition to crucian carp, you can catch bream, carp and burbot with a float rod if you try. But the most successful fishing in the spring turns out to be with bottom gear. In this case, bread, pieces of fish or worms are used as bait on the hook.

Catfish, killer whales and other fish are caught with a float rod, especially with pieces of fish or worms.

Armed with a spinning rod, in the spring you can catch taimen or catch lenok if you go to the mountain rivers flowing into the Amur.

In these rivers you can catch:

• Amur pike.
• Verkhoglyad.
• Horse.
• Burbot.
• Whitefish.

As a rule, fish are caught on rotating or oscillating spoons. Recently, baits made from both regular and edible silicone have been considered the most catchy. It should be noted that silicone baits have a wider range of models. Here you can find models that imitate not only fish, but also various animals and insects.

Fishing on the Amur in summer

In the summer, when the water warms up to the required temperature, the silver crucian carp that remained in the bays after spawning begins to actively peck on the float rod. It can be caught both with a worm and with pearl barley, and a kilogram carp will be caught on corn. Using bottom gear it is possible to catch catfish, killer whale, and also small pike.

Spinning fishing is most effective in cloudy weather. As autumn approaches, salmon come to the Amur, so fishing in the fall is the most anticipated period for fishermen.

Amur. Early summer

What do they catch in the Amur River in winter?

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Motley horse

This fish is a representative of the Chinese ichthyofauna, mainly distributed from the Amur River to Taiwan, and is also found in Japan.
And although the motley horse is classified as a low-value fish, nevertheless, winter horse fishing in the Amur
is quite exciting.

The horse has a slender body slightly flattened on the sides, covered with large silvery scales. The top of the scales is covered with small black spots, and the horse's fins are covered with the same spots. The fish has a lower mouth that opens with an inflection.

Although the horse is mainly a peaceful fish, in winter their predatory instincts awaken and they often eat fry and small fish. The concentration of this fish in the Amur is quite significant, but large individuals are not found too often. Typically, specimens weighing 0.3-0.5 kg predominate in catches. Large individuals can have a mass of about 2 kg and a length of up to 0.55 m. In order to catch a large horse, you need to travel a sufficiently large distance from populated areas.

Medium-sized fish of this species are caught in rocky or snagged holes 8-12 m deep. Large specimens should be looked for next to cut-off sand spits, on channel dumps and exits from channels.

To catch a horse, small whitefish spoons are used. The most effective way to catch a horse is with a tandem, consisting of 2 small lures on leashes made of fishing line or a rocker made of wire. When the spinner is swung upward with the fishing rod during the game, it’s as if the fry are scattering in different directions. Red strings are often tied to hooks to encourage prey to bite. This fish bites energetically and sharply, somewhat reminiscent of a lenok bite, and can be easily felt by hand. The horse is a schooling fish and if you find a horse camping, the catch is guaranteed to be rich.

Ussuri whitefish

In the waters of the Amur there are 3 types of whitefish: Ussuri whitefish or Amur whitefish and whitefish-hadary. In the summer, both species prefer to stay in the mountain tributaries of the Amur River, and with the arrival of autumn they slide down into the mother river.

Winter fishing for Amur whitefish

Its popularity is comparable only to pike fishing. This fish has an aesthetic appearance and very tasty meat and is rightly very popular among fishermen. In the warm season, whitefish mainly feed on insect larvae and the insects themselves, especially winged ones. But in winter, its diet consists of almost one fry and small fish. Behavior takes on features typical of a predator.

Whitefish are caught mainly by trolling, and the fishing technique is adjusted to its feeding style. Before grabbing the prey, the whitefish presses it to the bottom with its chest and only after that swallows it. Taking into account this peculiarity of catching prey, local fishermen came up with horizontal spoons specifically for catching this fish, which became known as “whitefish”.

The fishing technique is as follows: the lure is first placed on the bottom, and then vigorous strokes are made with the tip of the fishing rod at intervals of 1-1.5 seconds. Playing a spinner near the bottom provokes the fish to attack. The whitefish presses the spoon with its chest and at this moment the hook is made. Next, the whitefish caught on the hook is fished out, without allowing any slack in the stretched fishing line.

If on the first pass the whitefish presses the spoon to the bottom, but the hooking fails, this fish tries again and this happens until the whitefish is caught. The tenacity of this fish evokes involuntary respect. However, it happens that the whitefish immediately grabs the spoon in its mouth, but this does not happen so often.

Despite the inherent greed of the whitefish, sometimes it begins to be capricious and does not respond to the spinner, and completely switches to natural food. In such cases, just above the spoon, an additional leash is installed at the end, to which a hook is attached. Sliced ​​fresh fish is placed on it.

Winter fishing for whitefish in the Amur

can be used with other gear. This is a setup of 2 spinners. One of them is mounted on the main fishing line, and the other higher, using a leash 35-40 cm long. In this case, the additional spoon, when suspended, should be 1 cm above the main spoon. Often such tackle is very effective.

Whitefish are caught in the same places where pike are caught, primarily in places such as sand spits and high clayey sand formations descending in steps into the water. Holes need to be drilled taking into account certain features, primarily the topography of the coastline, depth, bottom topography and current strength.

Taking into account the fact that whitefish, as a rule, leads a schooling lifestyle, catches of this fish can be very significant.

Taimen

Perhaps whitefish is the most desired trophy for most Amur fishermen and winter fishing for taimen in the Amur

enjoys enormous popularity. People travel thousands of kilometers to catch taimen. They go for weeks to the taiga to taiga and mountain rivers.

For example, to catch taimen in the summer, fishermen from Khabarovsk need to travel at least 200 km. But in winter, for many fishermen, it is enough to walk a few hundred steps from home to the Amur ice, where the coveted fishing of the owner of the Siberian rivers awaits them.

Often taimen are caught along the way while fishing for whitefish or pike. It’s good if fishing is done with pike gear, which is capable of withstanding a fairly large taimen, but when fishing with whitefish gear, the maximum that it can withstand is catching taimen weighing up to 6 kg.

However, very few fishermen are currently engaged in targeted fishing for taimen. You can often sit on the ice all day and not even see a bite. The times of taimen hunters (as taimen hunters were called) have already sunk into oblivion. And 20 years ago there was a whole caste of such fishermen. These people even took vacations in winter, which is suitable for the most active taimen fishing. People sat at the holes day and night to catch their dream fish.

Sometimes taimen catches were quite substantial. Sometimes in a week I came across 1-2 copies, but what kind! Weighing 30-35 kilos!

Lenok

Winter lenok fishing in the Amur

, also gives anglers great pleasure. Both in the Amur itself and in its mountain-taiga tributaries there are two species of lenka: sharp-snouted and blunt-snouted. The first species remains for the winter mainly in the lower reaches of those taiga rivers where it lives in the summer, and the blunt-nosed one migrates to the riverbed part of the Amur for the winter.

In the catches of Amur fishermen, this fish has never been distinguished by large numbers. This trophy is very valuable for any Amur fisherman. Once hooked, lenok behaves much more actively under the ice than all other fish with the exception of taimen, which is much more powerful than lenok.

As for lenok, even an individual weighing 1.5-32 kg is very difficult to get into the hole. What about specimens weighing 4-6 kg?

In winter, lenka can be found in a variety of places; it can get hooked both during whitefish fishing and while fishing for pike. You can meet him on the rifts and on the stretches, in the same place as in the summer. Even in stagnant, silted bays you can encounter this salmon predator.

In addition to lenok, burbot, pike, chebak and some other fish are excellently caught in the Amur in winter.

Happy fishing!

Published: 02/16/2017

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