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Shore fishing is more common than from a boat. Such a popular fish as bream is worthy of attention. After all, it is he who can become the most desired trophy when fishing for bream from the shore. But success largely depends on the right choice of gear.
Fishing for bream from the shore: affordable fishing methods
When fishing for bream from the shore, the following features should be considered:
- The bream quite selectively comes close to the shore, where it can be caught “short”, and not in all parts of the reservoir
- This fish can be found in clean areas, but prefers those where there is vegetation nearby.
- “Commodity” bream is almost not afraid of predators and has few natural enemies in the reservoir
- It has a flocking habitat and responds well to bait
- Long-term bait of bream does not bring such success as when catching crucian carp or carp, but is usually not practiced by anglers.
- Bream is a rather shy fish, and catching even a schooling bream is never tempo.
In this regard, I would especially like to highlight gear that uses casting nozzles at a distance of at least six to seven meters from the shore and is focused on fishing with bait. Almost ideal for catching bream from the shore feeder. A feeder placed on a bottom rod, or bait, thrown in advance from the shore to the place of fishing, allows you to effectively catch bream on the bottom. Float fishing for bream can also be successful, especially in early summer. Of course, with the use of bait and a careful choice of location. Occasionally there are cases of catching this fish on spinning or other gear, as a large bream sometimes tries to catch a fry if it succeeds.
Feeder
For the modern bream angler, this is the main way of fishing during the summer months. In June, the waters are free enough of grass to fish from almost anywhere on the shoreline. By August, aquatic vegetation, especially on stagnant reservoirs, makes itself felt. You have to carefully choose a place on the shore or clear the sector for casting, it is good to tap the bottom for the absence of large grass at the fishing point.
However, the summer decline in water, especially on the rivers, frees up new areas for fishing, suitable for fishing with a feeder. Floodplain areas are gradually exposed, and you can take places closer to the channel, areas with good depth, where large bream often hold. All this is accompanied by an increase in the density of bream in the water area due to its decrease, and this may provoke the myth that August is the month of the most active biting of bream. In fact, this is not entirely true, and in June it is more active. It’s just that in August there are more chances to catch him from the shore, and not from a boat.
Gear for fishing on the feeder should be chosen classic. An ordinary medium-action rod that allows you to cast feeders weighing from 60 to 120 grams, with a length of 3.3 to 4 meters. A reel suitable for feeder fishing, which allows you to pull the feeder out of the water without overloading, even with kilograms of coastal mud stuck to it. Braided line with a section of 0.12-0.16 mm, which has recently become the standard for feeder fishing, replacing the line.
Feeders should also be used classic feeder, large volume and traditional layout. The only thing that may seem unusual is a long leash with a hook. This is due to the way the bream takes the bait from the bottom, standing in a vertical position above it and then lifting and moving it to the side. So that he does not feel the weight of the feeder, the leash must have a length of 50 to 150 cm, usually seventy-one hundred.
Well, hooks that match the size of the fish and baits. For bream fishing, rather large nozzles are preferred, such as a large worm, dough, and corn. It is undesirable to use bloodworms, maggots and other feeder “classics”, as in the video of athletes, since in this case there is a high probability of biting small things, ruffs, roaches. They will take the bait before the bream, and he will not have time to approach it. Usually, hooks of 10-12 numbers are used, or about 5-7 according to the Soviet classification. Feeder mounts can be different, but you should use swivels, placing them in front of the feeder and leash so that they do not twist and are easier to change.
Feeder fishing tactics in June
It is very different from when they are caught – at the beginning or end of summer. At the beginning of summer the bream had just spawned. The larger one spawns later. Flocks of bream are usually collected according to the age principle. Having spawned, the flock rests for two weeks, then begins to actively feed, restoring strength. Spawning occurs in shallow water, overgrown with grass, at a depth of up to a meter. When spawning, the bream jumps out of the water, creating a characteristic splash. In the northern regions, where the nights in June and May are quite bright, spawning often occurs at night, by moonlight.
It is necessary to look for early bream near spawning grounds. Usually these are floodplain or partially flooded shores, shallow areas that are exposed towards the end of summer, small and medium-sized rivers flowing into large “bream” reservoirs. They can be very cool to fish both on the feeder and on the float fishing rod and other types of gear. The main thing is to find a good fishing point, not too overgrown with flooded vegetation.
Usually a clean section of the coast is chosen. Casting should be carried out at the same time to a place near which there is grass. It is clear that it is difficult to catch a feeder on the grass itself – neither the nozzle nor the bait can be seen from afar, and the tackle will cling to it. However, it must be present at least twenty meters away. The depth at the place of fishing should be at least one and a half meters, and it is better if it is from two to two and a half meters. The nature of the bottom is such that the bream can find food there. It is worth choosing areas with soft soil, it can be sandy, slightly silty, where numerous worms are found, which the bream will eat. If there is a shell at the bottom, that’s good. On it, the bait will be clearly visible, and the bream likes to stand on the shell.
Feeding is carried out in large volume. To catch bream well, you need to carefully choose a point and throw at least two or three kilograms of dry bait into the water. This will create a thick cloud of flavor and aroma that will attract the flock of bream and keep them from destroying all the bait in a couple of minutes. For fishing, they also use a large enough feeder to constantly renew the supply of food.
When fishing in strong currents, you should use more loaded feeders. It should be remembered that the shape of the feeder, and especially the bottom of the load, greatly affects its holding properties. On a sandy and clay bottom, a feeder with a block shows itself well, and with a flat bottom it is less effective. You should also use a thin line for fishing in the current and raise the rod strongly to an almost vertical position on the stands so that there is less of it in the water and less pressure on the current.
Stands, by the way, you need to have several. They are needed both in order to put the rod aside when unraveling the rig or changing the leash, and in order to make it convenient to put the rod in the right position by correctly pulling the line and bending the quiver tip. Bream is rarely fed with several points from one position, however, fishing with comfort, adjusting to the conditions of fishing and not wasting time, stands will help a lot. It is also worth devoting a lot of time to equipping a place for fishing. The angler will have to spend the whole day on it, and he should pass with joy, not with inconvenience.
When fishing, you need to pull the fish out quickly, without too much fuss. This will not scare away the flock for a long time. The leash therefore should not be too thin. Usually, bream bites occur at intervals of 5-10 minutes, if the flock has settled well on the spot. During this time, frightened other fish have time to calm down and return to eating food, and the angler must quickly pull out the bream and recast the tackle so that the flock can not be frightened by the fall of the feeder. You can knock out a flock, but instead of it, a new one usually manages to come up during this time, and fishing takes place with short pauses.
Fishing tactics in August
At this time, the fish move closer to the places of winter parking. Catching a bream in a small river at this time is rare. It is worth choosing a place near large rivers, estuaries in the lake area, rather deep pits and channels. In August, for some reason, the bream develops an addiction to a rocky bottom. Apparently, at this time he is already eating so much that he needs pebbles to rub against them and empty his intestines. He is still not indifferent to the shell.
It is worth choosing sites for fishing near the pit. The depth at the place of fishing should be at least two meters on the river. On the lake, the situation is somewhat different. There, the water is weakly mixed, and by July-August, a stratification of warm and cold water is formed – a thermocline. The bream prefers to stay in its upper and middle part, which is warmer. Therefore, on the lake it is worth paying attention to shallows with a depth of a meter and a half, which are quite calm and safe from the point of view of bream. However, usually such places are remote from the coast, and you have to make a long cast with a feeder.
Bream bites occur with greater frequency – usually it is possible to catch a fish in five minutes maximum if the flock approaches the point. But if the flock leaves, then usually the angler sits without a bite for a long time, half an hour or an hour. Do not despair, and at this time you can switch to catching another fish – roach, which stands in the same places as bream, but is more sedentary and less cautious.
At the end of summer, the bream prefers animal baits to vegetable ones, and sandwiches show themselves best – corn worm, pearl barley worm, pasta worm. The worm attracts the bream, and the large plant part does not allow the little things to pull it off the hook .. By the way, it should be planted closer to the tip, after the worm, and not vice versa, as is often done. In general, fishing in August is more interesting, because more interesting places become available from the shore due to the lowering of the water level and its departure from the bushes.
Fishing for bream in the summer
Not much different from feeder fishing if you use a donkey equipped with a feeder. In this case, you should use not a classic bottom “spring”, but a conventional feeder feeder, which is able to deliver food to the bottom, and not scatter it in the water column. Places for fishing are best to choose the same as for the feeder. The fishing tactics are the same.
It is very important when fishing on the bottom gear to observe at least an approximate accuracy of the casts. The use of a rubber shock absorber helps with this very well – it always delivers the hooks to the same place. They don’t catch her often. Before using such tackle, you need to study the bottom well and make sure that the hooks with the nozzle are neatly in the place where they intend to catch bream. To do this, they still use a boat, or they pass the place of fishing by swimming and on an air mattress. Fishing with a rubber band is often more successful than fishing for bream with a spinning rod, but the fishing distance will be shorter.
When fishing for donkey spinning, they usually do not use feeders due to the fact that the food will be scattered over a large area during fishing due to the low casting accuracy. However, if they use a range limit and an accurate cast to a landmark, as when fishing with a feeder, the feeder can also show itself well here. However, in this case, it is already more like a clean feeder, and it is more convenient to use it for such fishing. They are usually used on the river. They expose several bottom fishing rods along the shore, and cast them to such a distance as to throw them a little further than the coastal dump. Usually the bream walks along the edge along the stream, and when the flock approaches, there will be bites on one or the other bait in the direction of the flock.
Fishing for archaic snacks can be used along with other bottom gear. The bream bites on them. But tackle such as a simple fishing line with a load and a hook is less effective than a donk with a spinning rod or a donk with an elastic band. Its use can be justified by one reason: the angler does not have the opportunity to bring full-fledged fishing rods for fishing and is content with snacks, which are placed in large quantities in a simple shoulder bag. Often this is done when the snack is an auxiliary tackle, or when they are caught at a picnic, throwing tackle and sitting on the mat for food. Or when a few simple snacks are set for the night, in the hope that the bream will come up and take the bait, and at this time they will not be stolen because of their stealth.
Bream on a float rod
A float for catching bream is rarely used on purpose. It is often caught when catching other fish, or when catching common fish, but pure breamfish do not use it much. Better than other gear, it is suitable for fishing on the river. For lake fishing, you usually have to choose specific places where you can fish from rocks, cliffs and other places that allow you to get to a good depth near the shore. There will be many more such places on the river. For bream, a match rod is well suited, which allows you to throw the float over a long distance and reach the bream place. But it is only effective in stagnant water or on a pond.
For fishing, you should look at a small river, where the channel is twenty to thirty meters from the shore. Usually you can pick up a place on them both in June and August to get close to the bream. Use only long rods, from five to six meters. However, at the same time, you should take expensive ones that weigh less. In the current, both fishing with fly rods and fishing with a Bolognese rod with rings and a reel are practiced. With the latter, you can cast tackle a little further with a reel, but the casting distance is incomparable with match fishing and is usually small.
The Cralusso Bolo and Surf float will greatly expand the possibilities of the angler. Invented in Hungary, these floats allow you to fish fully with Bolognese tackle at a great distance from the shore. They behave like a sail in the current, allowing you to carry the nozzle far and without being nailed to the coastal zone. The Bolo gives less power and is more suited to intermittent hauling, while the Surf is designed to slowly “feel” every centimeter of bottom. Skillfully managing the rod and reel, the angler is able to filigree with their help to feed the nozzle to the right place. You could even say that bream fishing without these floats is almost a waste of time.
For fishing, both plant and animal baits should be used. Make good use of sandwiches. On an overgrown bottom, a float rod is more effective than a donkey, as it will allow you to hold the nozzle just above the grass or so that it does not go deep into its thickness, lying on its carpet in the bottom layer. The nozzle should ALWAYS go ahead of the float. This will result in less chance of hooking on the grass and more like the natural behavior of prey in the water.
Bait when fishing for bream on a float is required. It is advisable to perform it some time before catching, so that you can catch bream and not frighten him with the noise of falling bait balls. In float fishing, soil is actively used. In this case, the volume of bait should be much larger than when fishing on a feeder – sometimes you have to throw up to the bucket for starting feed, and if the bite is missing – throw another half.
Match fishing for bream
It is impossible to get around such a not too well-known method as match fishing for bream. It is practiced only in places where the current is weak or non-existent. Usually these are bays of rivers, places near natural spits, capes, fenders, places with whirlpools and reverse flow, areas behind grass thickets that dampen the force of the flow. You can catch especially well at the beginning of summer, casting to places inaccessible to a regular float.
For fishing, they use a classic match rod 3.9-4.2 meters long and a waggler float, rigidly fixed to the fishing line. As bait, large enough and quickly sinking nozzles are used so that they have time to dive and not get to small fish. The shepherd is also placed quite heavy, but at a distance of about 30-40 cm from the hook. Of great importance is also the fine tuning of the gear in depth. It is very important that the nozzle lay motionless on the bottom, and the shepherd hung above it. Sufficiently long leashes are used.
Catching bream and playing take place in the same order as on the feeder. But the feeling of catching fish on thin match tackle is much sharper. And the tackle itself, according to the author, is much more athletic.
Other ways to fish from the shore
- Summer mormyshka. The method of fishing is used more often for catching mixed fish. During the summer months, it can be used for wading in windows of aquatic vegetation, as well as combining jig with a sliding float, playing along with it and attracting bream. In many places, mormyshka brings better results than fishing for bream with ordinary float tackle. In July and August, the method is used less frequently, since the bream moves further from the coast, and the mormyshka, as a less long-range tackle, is no longer so effective.
- Float fishing in the windows. It is used similarly to the summer jig, but at the same time the tackle is more long-range and allows you to cast a little further. Usually they cast without using a reel to ensure maximum casting accuracy and not to catch. For the same reason, they use a fly rod with a fairly thick fishing line. It has less weight and is lighter in hand than a rod with rings and a reel, and a thick line will allow you not only to pull the fish, but also to pull the hook out of the grass. Groundbait is rarely used both when fishing with a jigsaw with a rod, and when fishing in windows with a float, and the angler usually looks for fish near places where the bream has recently spawned.