Fishing stories

I promised not to go fishing, but for some reason, today i did! To no success again. Predators were silent, and even rudd was hard to catch today.

Hello my fellow fishermen. At last May 1 – season opener for boats and predatory fish. I was looking forward to this date, full of hopes and expectations as ever. In the end it was dissapointment and anger and i was shouting curses like “this bloody fishing”, “this bloody wind” and a lot of other Russian obscenities. And even promised not to go fishing this week at least, so tired i was today!

Today it was not the case, cold wind gusts throwing boat to the left and to the right can make anyone angry in a couple of hours! It took me 5 hours to quit.

Again, came to conclusion that rudd is worst possible live bait. It finds algae and runs to hide. All the baits today were sitting in any possible algae in 5 minutes time. You just can’t leave them for an hour. Stupid fish, i hate rudd, stupid fish, but it is beauty.

P.S. On friday i have a day off. I promised not to go fishing. What do you think? May be the pike of my life is going to be caught on friday?

washout (~0.5kg of rudds)

Received my Abu Garcia Orras spinning reel, ordered on eBay yesterday, and was full of expectations to test it real fishing conditions. At noon i was at the river, wasted some time to catch a live bait, and catched a small perch on macaroni, which was real fun, because perch just doesn’t eat macaroni.

At some time it became not interesting to float. Took my spinning rod with my new spinning reel and moved directly to the pond to watch pikes, hunting fish in the grass i didn’t have a chance to cast in. Next time will try fishing on rings, because the only other fisherman on the pond today (except me) managed to catch a 2.5kg pike on ring.

1 pike (released), 1 perch (400g, 28cm)

Always wanted to try angling on macaroni, heard a lot about it, but never tried. Now the time had finally come.

I was surprised, because fish really liked it more than an earthworm or a corn. Funny thing is that exactly on September 25 last year i was fishing in the same place with float rod. Could actually compare my results. Last year i caught only one big roach. Today there were three, weighing more than 200g.

Didn’t have much time for spinning today, but still managed to catch one perch on Megabass Dog-X walker (first perch on walker). Pike was still silent.

1 perch, 1 kg of roaches and rudds

At last me and Juran visited Kanieris lake for the second time this season. Start of course was full of hopes and expectations, as always. But reality always make some corrections to your plans.

We’ve had quite an early start and already at 7 Am we where in the boat on the lake. I had a series of strikes on my Megabass Dog-X but no result – fish was missing the lure all the time. After that we have had a couple of hours of no success and experienced heavy raining. Then when we seemed apathic something unpredictable happened and Juran got a strike and it was an almost 2kg pike, which gave us the fight for it’s life!

Float rod:
We tried our floats in one place i remember from previous times, when i was fishing with my dad. First what i have put on the hook was earthworm, but it was eaten by the small perch all the time. We had corn with us and we tried – it was a major difference in the size of the catched fish. Only above 150g rudd was able to eat that corn.

660g pike (released) 3kg of rudd.
Juran: 1.8kg pike, 600g pike (released), 3kg of rudd.