What is a boat?
This tackle is simple and complex at the same time. It consists of the boat itself, a fishing line with attached leashes with baits, and a reel on which this fishing line is wound.
There are several ways to construct a water kite. Let's look at one of them in more detail - a catamaran boat. This option is the most traditional for the Urals.
This option is preferable to others in that it is more stable and does not float on the water, as a result of which its use is also possible in standing water.
By its design, the boat consists of a sail and a hull, located at a distance of about 20 cm from each other. The fishing line is attached to the hull, and leashes with bait are attached to it.
To avoid such troubles as tangling of leashes, they are tied through special spacers made of suitable material. They are fixed on the fishing line with knots.
The leading line should have a diameter of 0.5 mm, while the leads should be knitted with a soft line with a diameter of approximately 0.10 mm.
Often the number of leashes with baits is 4-6 pieces, but other options are possible. The distance between the leads should be 70-100 cm. You can make the reel yourself by cutting it out of thick wood or plywood.
You can also use the lower leg of an old spinning rod. This will give the fisherman a slight advantage if fishing is carried out from a high bank and access to the water itself is difficult.
How to make a boat for catching grayling
What is a boat like? This is a simple structure of a hull and a sail, the distance between which is on average twenty centimeters. A fishing line with a cross-section of 0.5 mm is mounted to the main part, onto which several leads with a diameter of 0.1 mm are hung. How to prevent leashes from getting tangled? To do this, spacers are placed on the fishing line, fixed with knots on the fishing line. They prevent the leashes from moving higher or lower along the thread. The optimal number of leashes is from four to six pieces. There are more, but such options are rarely used. On average, the distance between them is from 70 cm to 1 meter.
Making a reel is perhaps the simplest procedure. It can be made from wood, a piece of plywood, or even the bottom of a broken spinning rod. When assembling the boat, do not forget that the weight of the metal sinker mounted on the hull should cause the structure to submerge approximately half in the water. The board used is usually one and a half centimeters thick and about forty long. In fact, the design itself is simple and its assembly does not cause any problems. All that needs to be done with maximum precision is to attach the fishing line to the body in such a way that you can control the movement of the body without it turning over.
Lures for grayling
When fishing with a boat, dry flies are mainly used, but you can try jigs, small spoons, and other small baits.
In other words, you can use any bait that in your opinion is most suitable for the object being fished. After all, with a boat you can catch not only grayling, but also many other fish: asp, chub, even perch are excellently caught with this tackle.
Many grayling fishermen prefer to use dry flies, the size and color of which imitate the insects on which the fish are currently feeding. For example, in summer they most often have a greenish tint, but closer to autumn they are brown or dark yellow.
Where and when to catch grayling
When fishing for grayling on a boat, it is recommended to fish in reservoirs with an open bank, because after all, this is a popular type of fishing. Therefore, the fisherman should have the opportunity to move freely along the shore.
It is recommended to start the fishing process at dawn and continue until the sun is high and the shadow from the fishing line stands out sharply on the water, because this scares the fish away. You can also fish in the evening, until sunset.
It’s very good if the day turns out to be cloudy, in which case you can fish almost all day.
Fishing for grayling on a boat begins around mid-June. At this time, insects begin to fall into the water. Grayling fishing continues for quite a long period, right up to the first snowfalls.
Fishing with float tackle
In Siberia, fishing for grayling using an ordinary float rod is very common. For this method of fishing for grayling, the angler must wear a special waterproof suit. As you know, grayling lives in cold, mountain rivers, and when fishing with a fishing rod you will have to stand waist-deep in water, and sometimes go deeper in order to find fish.
The technique of fishing with a float rod is quite simple. The fisherman, while in the water, stands above the riffle and slowly, after several casts of the gear in front of him, descends down the river.
One of the successful secrets for this kind of fishing is to create turbidity with the help of your feet at the bottom of the reservoir. Slowly moving his feet, the fisherman creates a rise of a muddy stream from the bottom of the reservoir, which quickly spreads downstream and thus arouses the curiosity of the grayling. Most likely, this is due to the fact that by raising the turbidity from the bottom, some grains of sand are found in the food supply of the fish, which increases the possibility of biting by 50%.
The bait for this type of fishing can be different: an earthworm, a grasshopper or artificial bait that imitates insects. It would be correct to use baits with a small load, since fishing with float tackle will occur from the bottom, unlike fishing with a boat and gossip.
Happy Cooling!
Technique for catching grayling on a boat
When fishing in a strong current, the boat is launched from the shore, not far from a riffle, where the current is quite strong. Gradually unwinding the fishing line from the reel, the boat is released in the direction of the expected location of the fish.
Moving along the shore, by pulling the fishing line, the fisherman directs the boat with the current, lowers it down, loosening the tension of the fishing line, or simply holds the boat in a promising area.
Evenly going downstream, with the help of light twitching of the reel, you can imitate the fluttering of an insect, which will serve as an additional incentive for the fish to bite.
You can also lightly tap the main line with a stick. At the same time, vibration will be transmitted to the bait, circles from it will scatter across the water, which will significantly increase the chance of attracting fish.
Another method is to slightly deepen the fly, carried out by lowering the reel to the water itself, or simulating the takeoff of insects when lifting them up.
The most preferable is the uniform movement of the boat with the current. In this case, the bait will move in front of the angler, so the sound of footsteps and shadows will not scare the fish.
Gossip catching
When catching gossip, you can’t sit in one place. You have to move along the shore during all fishing. Unlike a boat, 4 to 6 flies are placed on the gossip and such flies are cast along the surface of the water.
If boat fishing occurs with the help of a long main line, on which leashes with flies are tied at a distance of 50-70 cm, then on the gossip there is a small main line (170 -190 cm), on which short leashes 7-9 cm long are tied at a short distance and the flies are attached.
Grayling is caught using a spinner using a spinning rod and a spinning reel. A long cast is made, a short reel in with a reel and free floating of the gear with the current in search of fish.
This method of catching grayling, of course, has its pros and cons. The advantage is that such gear is more mobile and is capable of fishing any place on the river, which is much more difficult to do with the same boat, since it requires a lot of space on the reservoir.
There is only one downside to this type of gear - the variety of flies is limited. Using more than six flies is not recommended. And also when casting a gossip, even despite the short leashes, they manage to overlap with the main line.
How to catch grayling in weak currents and in still water?
When using this method, the boat is launched from the shore below the place where fishing is supposed to be done, and, moving along the shore, the cord gradually unwinds.
The ship moves away to the required distance. It should be understood that in this case it will be impossible to stand still, because... the line will definitely sag, and the boat will bring you to the shore.
Fishing for grayling in this way requires almost continuous movement along the shore:
Small grayling (up to 15 cm) often attacks the bait “in flight”. You can often see how he misses when jumping out of the water;
A large one, on the contrary, grabs the bait right from the water, swallowing it deeply, so that it is quite possible to miss the moment of the bite, learning about it only after the fishing line suddenly tightens.
In this case, you need to make a sharp cut using a reel to the side or up, and then begin the pulling process. This should be done slowly, trying to raise the fish's head above the surface.
This does not always work out, because... The boat is a rather inertial tackle, and part of the energy is transferred to the boat itself. The connection with the fish is not as tight as, for example, when fishing with a spinning rod.
When pulling out fish, you need to pay attention to the correct placement of the fishing line on the shore in order to avoid its subsequent entanglement.
It is recommended to catch grayling on riffles, in fairly powerful jets of water that are formed due to unevenness of the bottom or a slight narrowing of the banks at the boundary between standing water and current.
If a bite occurs, it is recommended to remember this place in order to return here after 20-30 minutes. If it was successful, most likely there is another grayling not far from this place, but if the bite was unsuccessful, it can be repeated.
Grayling, a rather cautious fish, even a shadow falling from a fishing line on the water can scare it away. When choosing a fishing location, this point should be taken into account.
