Fishing for grayling

Grayling is a fish with excellent vision, allowing to see an insect at a distance of several meters. When you see the prey, the fish quickly rises to the surface, grabs it and returns to its original position. Therefore fishing for grayling is difficult, because to throw a fly in the place of a splash is meaningless.

Very great pleasure delivers observation of lake grayling during the mass flights of insects. Fish try to grab them on the fly, jumping out of the water. Sometimes their number can reach several tens or even hundreds.

During the summer floods, which are accompanied by turbidity of the water, fishing for grayling becomes passive, since its biting on the fly is weakening. At such times, fish can often be found in shallow coastal places where water is slightly defended. Here, fish can be caught in different natural lures of light shades. In the autumn time grayling can be caught during the daylight hours. With the approach of cold weather, the biting time is shortened.

In autumn great luck brings grayling to spinning. This fish reacts most to copper unpolished or brass rotating spoon-bait. Of great interest is catching on artificial insects. Here flies are used, representing an exact copy of fry or insects, as well as flies that have no analogs in nature.

Fishing for grayling will be successful, if you resort to a little trick. For example, as a bait, it is more expedient to use the signs of an insect or fry that are characteristic of a given period of time.

It is also used for catching dry flies, which differ in colorful plumage and keep on the surface of the water due to water repellent impregnation. Such fishing is done using fly fishing tackle or telescopic fishing rod. After the dry flies are thrown into the water, they slowly float on the water surface, and the fish can look at them quite well.

There is another way, without which the fishing for grayling does not do. This is the use of wet flies capable of simulating a variety of insect larvae, leeches, worms, beetles and water bugs. Also find use of streamers - baits that resemble fish fry. They are made on hooks with a long forearm. Plumage in such baits is long enough and during the wiring on the water plays and wobbles.

The most universal color of flies when fishing grayling near the surface of the water is the red color. With the onset of dusk, flies of white, pale pink and yellow are most often used. In clear and sunny weather, insects of dark brown and black tones are good, which are close in color to the winged ants that appear at this time . The best flies intended for catching grayling are flies made from cervical feathers of a red cock. Feathers of wood grouses, pheasants, grouse, partridges, wild ducks are also used.

The assembly thread is a thin nylon or silk. The most durable and durable flies are obtained if, in addition to the mounting thread, a small amount of water-resistant glue is used for sizing insect elements. The body of flies consists of threads from large feathers or wool. Simulation of the segmented abdomen of the insect is carried out by winding a thread of a different color along a spiral. The head of the fly is made of the final thread of the thread, and impregnated with a colorless nail varnish, which secures the construction of the insect.

Fishing on grayling in winter is carried out on stony shallows up to two meters deep. In winter, grayling does not stop feeding. However, when the spawning of trout begins, the grayling stops paying attention to the bait. Feeding for him is caviar trout.

When catching grayling in winter , small spoons and mormish are used. The spinner should be narrow, about fifty millimeters long, with one side silvery and the other red copper.

Without knowledge of all these subtleties, hunting for grayling will be in vain, and it will not bring a good catch.