Summer fishing in Karelia
A short guide for fishermen who are going fishing in Karelia in the summer: gear, bait, fish behavior in accordance with a specific period of the summer season.
There is an opinion among fishermen that fishing in Karelia in summer - is to sit on the shore of a lake in the shade of trees and enjoy contemplating the beautiful landscapes. However, where will your relaxed state go as soon as the float indicates even the slightest movement. In order to get a successful fishing in Karelia, you need to first find out where, when and what is being caught. After all, fishing on a large lake is significantly different from fishing on a small river or forest lamb. The bite is also strongly influenced by weather conditions, wind strength and time of day. Karelian reservoirs so diverse that it is difficult to guess at first where small perch and roach will bite, where larger bream and perch will bite, and where pike or pike perch will bite. A large, promising body of water can give you a bucket of change, and a small forest lamb can be a great catch.
Summer season in Karelia fishermen open in June. They take with them the most popular gear - a spinning rod, a donka and a float rod, although exotic lovers also take fly fishing with them. At this time, the water is already slowly warming up, but unevenly - large deep reservoirs take longer, small ones - faster. Accordingly, in the former, spawning ends later and all underwater life activates more slowly.
Typically, the heating of water in small and large reservoirs varies from a week to two weeks. This feature can be used for successful pike fishing. That is, when the pike’s feeding on the lambs comes to an end, knowledgeable fishermen move to deep-sea lakes, where the predator’s feeding is just beginning.
Since roach loves warm water, it is located close to the shore in June, in the reeds, splashing in the upper layer of water. But bream is found in deeper places, especially loving holes from 2 to 3 meters. And if there is also a whirlpool swirling there, then, having found such a hole, the fisherman may well catch eight or ten pieces of beautiful bream. They are caught on a bottom with a feeder, while for roach it is better to take regular float tackle.
If you want to catch perch, then the first month of summer is not the most suitable for this. Mostly young animals walk in flocks near the shore, so to get a larger specimen, you will have to take a light spinning rod with a small spinner. By the way, grayling and small pike can also take it. Whereas from the shore, mixed with small perch, bream and roach will bite.
In the second month of summer, flowering begins in Karelian reservoirs - first near the shore, and after a couple of weeks at depth. But this does not affect the intensity of the bite; the fish will now simply stand and feed at other points. For example, ide and roach behave practically unchanged, only the time for catching them shifts to the night. And since the nights in Karelia are white, the evening bite smoothly flows into night fishing, and then into the morning dawn. It is best to go for bream early in the morning, at this time the bite is most active. During the day, the fish rests, which means there will be no catch, and only if you wait until the evening, you can get a bite, but it will be much less active than in the morning. In July, it is also time to catch the so-called “steam perch.” They look for it on rocky shallows (pools) far from the shore. They take different tackles - a regular fishing rod, a side rod, and a spinning rod. Along with the perch, there is a chance to take pike or pike perch, which are also not averse to chasing small things. At the same time, it’s a good idea to do trolling from a boat. In this way, not only pike and pike perch are caught, but also trout and salmon.
Fishing in August absorbed the characteristics of both previous months of summer. At the beginning of the month, predators are caught in the same way as in July: pike, large perch, and pike perch stay close to the shallows, although they may prefer other bait, so you need to change them more often to get to the catchable one. In the second ten days of August, perch moves to the coastal zone, so you should look for it in the reeds or on rocky coastal spits. There, along with perch, grayling and pike will be caught, both with a fishing rod and with a spinning rod.
In the second ten days of August, at about ten o’clock the sun already begins to set behind the treetops, since the Karelian white nights are ending by this time. Therefore, the behavior of many fish changes dramatically. Bream and roach are caught at dawn and at sunset; there is no bite at night. Perch stops being caught, but white fish begin to actively move.
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