First fishing session for this year

 On 5th Octomber had the first fishing session of this year. Went fishing at a late hour, past 3 PM and the first fish was caught a common bleak at ~5 PM; I've snagged it by mistake while trying to apply the twitch fishing method.

The weather was cloudy, but not too cold. Caught 3-4 perch at the stop and go/slow retrieving style.

On 6th Octomber caugh 2 perch.. one of them was the smallest so far.

Today, on 8 Octomber caught 14 small perch and 1 clam. The weather was cloudy, fished from 2 PM to ~7PM. It rained from time to time. The water was a bit muddy. The fish were grouped around a cover in the water as they've attacked mostly in the same place. Almost all fish were caught in the same area, but at different time as I've took a ~1-2 hour break from that place. They prefered the Relax grub.. in that colour, I've coudn't catch them at something else. I'll have to insist on that place as it'll help me improve my casting skills and familiarize myself with the fishing tackle. 

The fish and the clam were released as soon as posible.

The tackle that I've used was the same as in the previous fishing sessions when I've fished for perch. I should improve my casting skills and retrieve & play the lures slowly. Maybe I should also try the drop shot style as I've heard that some anglers caught more fish - perch and there were also bigger ones.

First fishing day of the new season (2020)

Planed to start  this fishing season by catching some chub before trying to catch some perch, but... it wasn't meant to be.

I've fished under a dam, where the water was shallow and pretty clear. The fish could ve seen catching flies and, in the margings, the small ones were busy rushing around.

Tried different lures, had few attacks, but no fish was caught.  I think that that was caused by the fact that the rod was too rigid (Xesta S69s) and by me using a braid line.

As I've conpleted my fishing tackle with  new lures, I can say that, today, I've liked two new acquisitions: 

1. Duo Ryuki Spearhead 50 - it's a great lure and, even though I've used it in shallow water, full of small stones I've didn't snag it (I've buyed an used one and I didn't put the treble i the middle, fishing only with the one on the tail). Unfortunatelly,  the fishh didn't offer any proper feedback. 

2. Some second hand hand mads lures, of which I'm satisfied (tried only the slim model)- I've took photos only of another model, a, hm, plumpier one and of two crankbaits(?).

After I've spent around 1 hour trying to catch some chub, I've gone to try to catch oerch, in the dam lake (around 11-12 am).  Had little success as the underwater weeds grew faster than I've expected- forgot to take that into consideration, or else I would  take adifferent fishing aproach or try a different place; in a way, I half expected for some ,,canals" to be made in vegetation by coarse fishing anglers. 

At some point, saw  roach and striped fish swimming around, after some chased my jig, I've indentified them to be a shoal of small petch. It's a surprise as, even though it was a partially cloudy day, with few drops falling from time to time, the weather was getting hoter and hoter.

Tried different places and had two catches around a water structure- from what I've saw, the fish, in that area, weren't agresive, nor did they like big lures.

Saw few dead fish, one of them in the shallow water - a crucian carp; the zone was frequented by shoals of small fish and.. tgat could be a reason as for why I've could  spot the perch shoal so near to the margins.

At some point.. saw a green leach coming to the bank, at first ,I've thought that it was something natural, a suicidal (kinda) action of it, but after I've throwed it farther in the water, it hid in the grass. I think  that it was surprised by the water fluctuations.

Winter chub at lures

Today went fishing for 2-3 ours in the afternoon. The bad thing is that I've missed the best time for fishing in winter with lures, when it's sunny outside.

After few rainy days, the weather ,,calmed" and it got warmer.

Initially, the plan was to test the perch, but it was getting dark and  coudn't reach a new fishing spot  and so I've decided to try the  chub. Tried few chub lures (small sizes), had few posible attacks and, in the end, caught 2 at different lures. The first one was  caught on a surface lure while the  second one was caught at a middle to surface lure. The attacks came  on a slow retrieve  with small stops...cclose  to an area where calm water was meeting fast water.

 Looks like you can catch chub on lures in winter. Maybe I should insist more and try to catch chub, but there are few spots where they may eating... but I think that search for the  perh

Chasing the perch

The last fishing sessions were intended for perch. Unfortunatelly, on 1st november a law became appliable - you can't fish up/down any brigde for at least 500 meters. It's an interesting part of the  law as it brings into question few ideas like.. the fact that the brigde can be associated with a structere which is needed by fish to reproduce, but also to face the cold weather. Unfortunatelly, there are few things that are unclear, like the reasons as for why that part of the law was legiferated.. and the fact that in the dam/reservoir in which I fish are at least 2 bridges.. so.. almost all of it is, currently, unfishable.

After this fishing sesion: http://anotherangler.blogspot.com/2019/10/breaking-ice.html - had another two who had fish, there were more, but witouth fish.

The first good fishing sesion for perch began with this snagged fish - it's an invasive species (from what I know) here, so I've gave it to another angler to use it as fish bait - it doesn't get bigger and I'm not sure if it's detrimental to other fish. Perch seems to eat it from time to time.

Seeing that there were no good attacks, I've changed the place and decided to fish with a Relax grub of 4 centimeters, the one from the image. The result appeared soon after that.

That day caught enough perch to be ,,hooked" by this fish species. As here you can keep fish to eat, I've kept some who were smaller than that one and bigger than 12 cm (the legal limit).

Today went fishing at around 8 am and didn't have much succes except few perch who were all released.

As I've coudn't fish where I've wanted to - initially I've planned to find a perch spot to be able to understand their attacking patterns, but, in the end, had to try to fish for pike with spoons as there were no places available to fish due to the 'bridge rule'.

In the grass, at some point of time, found this snake. At first, I've though that it was a dried snake as it didn't move when I've photographed it. At the end of the photographing sesion, I've tried to confirm if it was alive or not and tried to touch it with a stick - it was alive and it remained alive as I've didn't touch it, nor did I annoy it more than that.

 I also have some photographs with a toad that I really like how they've ended, but I'll have to download them from my phone.

Next weekend I plan to fish for perch with soft lures in a small river, the river in which I often fish for chub with lures when the time and weathers allow - that happens, most often, in the summer season. Maybe I'll also try to fish in a lake(?) where I've saw big perch being caught at sunfish on the bottom few years ago. Someone also told me that there's a lake, close to that one who has pike, perch and catfish. Maybe I'll give a try..

Tight lines!