Such tackle as a feeder is becoming more and more popular among fishermen today, and this is understandable: it is both catchy and simple. Even any novice fisherman can cope with it. Its great advantage also lies in the fact that the feeder is a relatively inexpensive, but high-quality tackle, and this is an important factor for many today.
You can catch almost any fish with a feeder, including such as: catfish, burbot, chub, as well as the ubiquitous bream. The last prey, although sometimes not desirable, along with small brushes, but it bites on all baits. With a feeder, you can count on success not only in the daytime, but also at night, and this is the strength of this tackle.
If you decide to just relax in the company of friends, and at the same time go fishing a little, choosing a feeder as the main fishing gear, you did the right thing, since with a feeder you can catch both near the shore and at a considerable distance from it. At the same time, without being afraid even of stumpy thickets, since you can catch them behind them.
Experienced fishermen know that fish tend to be more careful close to the shore than away from it, where it is deeper, and therefore the fish probably thinks that they can relax, because they do not expect a catch. But the feeder, allowing you to make long casts, finds it there, and it is well caught on such tackle even at long distances from the coastline.
Going on a night fishing, it is better to choose a good place for fishing, of course, having a bottom topography map. But you can also, having arrived in advance, try to study the state of the bottom of the reservoir in the daytime in order to visually verify the correct choice of the future place for fishing.
Although fishing in the summer at night is often more pleasant than during the day during the exhausting heat, there is one drawback: it is difficult to find fishing spots in the dark. Therefore, it is necessary to make all the necessary preparations before dark, for example, by determining the place, preparing baits, calculating the casting distance, so that when darkness comes, you will be “fully armed”.
When choosing a place, it is worth looking for turns and narrowings of the river, small bays, since in these places the chances of successful fishing are higher. Fishing at night is more comfortable also because at this time the number of bites of many small annoying fish that annoyed you during the day is significantly reduced. But the probability of a big catch increases.
Catching a chub
The chub is a large freshwater fish of the genus dace. It can, under good living conditions, grow to a length of 80 centimeters and gain weight up to eight kilograms. But most often anglers fish out two or three kilogram individuals. In some regions of our country, the chub is also called smut, maple or chub. A feature of this fish is that it is most often found in small rivers with a weak current, while it often stays close to the surface of the water.
At night, this fish actively searches for food, carefully examining all sandbanks and pits. Therefore, you need to catch the chub in the same place. But the catfish also prefers these same places, which is why it is often found in the same place as the chub, being, as it were, its companion.
If your goal when fishing on a feeder is a large kilogram chub, then choose a bait that is large enough, for example, in the form of a whole crayfish. Usually, the bite of a chub is quite easy to determine, so it can be caught even with the use of an anti-twist. In order to catch this fish, you do not need very sensitive gear, and the leash overlapping the anti-twist is an unlikely occurrence.
It is recommended to use a leash about 50 cm long and a powerful hook. And the most important thing you need to know when fishing for chub is that you need to maintain the maximum possible silence, especially if you use a feeder for fishing near the shore, in shallow water.
When going fishing, it’s better to know in advance who you will be catching in order to prepare the bait specifically for this fish and set up a feeder. Well, if some other fish comes across, then most likely it will not disappoint you.
On the video you can see fishing on a night feeder:
Catching catfish
Catfish is the largest scaleless predator that lives in freshwater rivers and reservoirs. Catfish have a large head, long tail and whiskers. The length of an adult fish can reach five meters, and weight – 400 kilograms. But anglers most often fish out specimens that do not exceed twenty kilograms.
When planning to catch catfish at night, you need to start collecting its delicacies in the form of meat culinary waste in advance, adding chicken giblets, pieces of fish, and leftover bread to them. These products will need to fill the feeder for starter feeding. Summer complementary foods should be two-thirds animal feed and one-third plant ingredients.
In autumn, catfish can only be lured with animal feed. And in this case, maggots and worms will be the best bait. The catfish does not peck at the feeder immediately, but only after half an hour, at least, which it takes to find the bait. Bites can be different: sometimes the tip will swing a little, and sometimes there can be a strong jerk. If you feel that your bait has been grabbed, you need to hook quickly and sharply.
Catching a catfish is no easy task. Even small-sized catfish always resist fiercely. What if you get a large specimen? Therefore, you should always keep a small hook next to you so as not to look for it at night in the dark. Before you pull out a pecked catfish, you will first have to tire it well. And this process, as a rule, is not fast, and not passive, so it will not pull you to sleep.
Catching burbot and bream
Burbot is the only purely freshwater fish that belongs to the cod-like order. The length of his body can reach 120 centimeters, but in different water bodies it can have a different meaning. The largest specimens of this fish (weighing up to 18 kilograms) were caught in the Lena River.
Gustera belongs to the carp family. It has a length of up to 35 centimeters and a mass of up to 1,3 kilograms, but specimens caught by most fishermen, as a rule, do not exceed 200 grams.
In areas where the nature of the bottom cover changes, for example, it becomes rocky from sandy or, for example, from clayey to sandy, you can find burbot at night. It also occurs in holes. In the same places, the white bream usually keeps at night, and most often it prefers the rocky bottom. But if the bottom is covered with a layer of thick silt, then you will not find burbot here.
When casting with a feeder when catching burbot, you need to constantly change their length in the range of 20 … 70 m. But if you catch a bream, then it is not necessary to follow such tactics. Both burbot and silver bream are caught at night without the use of complementary foods: no complementary foods will attract them at this time.
The nozzle can be dung worms or small fish, for example, brushes, which, although with thorns, are a delicacy for burbot.
On the video catching burbot at night:
Burbot fishing. Burbot at night. Our fishing!
If you want to catch white bream, then keep in mind that this fish does not bite continuously throughout the day. She usually feeds for no more than two hours. So don’t delay casting the feeder because the flock might finish feeding and leave. Gustera is often found on a rocky bottom, while it begins to lose caution during feeding, and even a thick fishing line can be used when catching it. If you manage to get on a flock of white bream, then in a couple of hours of the night you can catch a lot of this fish.