Fishing in April. When and what is better to fish?

Fishing in April pleases with an active biting, characteristic for almost all fish. Fans are cleaning the winter gear and preparing for the open water. At the same time, it should be remembered that in some regions this month there is a spawning ban.

Features of the April fishing

In the middle of spring the water bodies begin to be gradually cleared of ice. It would seem that the time has come to take up the summer gear and go for a catch. However, fishing in April in some places is limited by law. With the warming, some fish begin to go on the ikromet. Therefore, in a number of regions there is a ban on fishing related to spawning. But there is a way out, nevertheless. Impatient lovers of spearfishing can catch, observing the rules in force in the area.

As a rule, during the ban it is possible to fish in April from the shore outside the spawning grounds to the float fishing rod, as well as to the donk with a certain number of hooks. Spinning almost everywhere this month is on the "black list".

How to catch

In some regions, fishing in April still passes from the ice. Experienced winters know how good a bite can be at this time. However, in the heat of excitement, do not forget about security. After all, the ice has already become friable, and therefore it conceals a host of dangers. Particularly careful to fish on those sections of water bodies where there is a current, rocky rapids with rifts, as well as in places next to fallen trees and thickets of reeds.

Some experienced lovers of spearfishing are advised in April to fish in half water or at a depth of half a meter. This is explained by the fact that the melting of snow causes a turbidity in the water with the particles of food, which fish selects. In addition, the movement of the schools is observed in places close to the mouths of rivers or streams. In such areas, fishing in April is more effective.

Very effective results during this period show fishing for float gear with shallow mormyshkoy, as well as a nodding summer fishing rod, which is simply indispensable in the coastal whirlpools where there is a current.

What prey can you catch

Fishing in April on the feeder can bring a good catch of the dace, the baster and the scoundrel. But a lot of catch at this time roach, which, when going into large flocks, very well react to the bait. As a nozzle, a bloodworm, a mallet or an odor is usually used. Catching roach in April is necessary on coastal shallow water or areas that border on reeds.

No less productive and fishing for perch. On the eve of spawning, this underwater inhabitant gathers in packs and begins to actively eat. In April the perch bites on such an attachment like a bloodworm.

Starting with the first numbers, you can go to ponds for pike. She is not whining at this time, apparently, the recent spawning is affecting, but you can still catch a couple or two. Well in the spring shows a bait tackle. The toothy pike groove improves only by the end of the month.

At the same time, the pikeperch also becomes more active. He fished well for all types of gear. Effective and fishing in April for crucian carp or carp. In this case, the only circumstance that can affect the biting of these species of underwater inhabitants is the weather. Experienced professionals are aware of this pattern: the warmer, the better they will peck carp with carp. The main gear for this type of catching are the feeder or the usual donka. A nozzle can be taken standard - corn, worms, maggots or even dough.

In Astrakhan

The opportunities that are opening for anglers in April in this region are truly limitless. It is difficult to find such an abundance of underwater mining all over Russia, as here. Fishing in Astrakhan in April is a real holiday. This will be confirmed by everyone who has ever been here. There are a lot of fish: carp and bream, vobla, rudd, etc. Active biting begins in the middle of March and lasts until the end of May. You can catch here and prefer a strong current of pike perch, and perch or pike in quiet channels. Fishing in Astrakhan in April will not disappoint even beginners: a trophy in the form of a five-kilogram pike perch is quite real at this time. And approximately from the end of the month to the middle of May, the Astrakhan famous Vobla is going to spawn there.

If we talk about catching carnivorous fish, then the catfish is best spent. And it's not just the banal greed of this underwater inhabitant, typical for a warm period, and especially April. Som swallows everything, and, in a row and indiscriminately. It should be caught, of course, at night. Small individuals - up to five kilograms - in Astrakhan can be caught from the shore, as well as on the Eric, while captured - in the pits.

What to catch

Like catfish, and other predators, it is better to catch on the bottom tackle. The rod is better to take a feeder with a test of a hundred grams and more. The coil is more suitable for inertia-free or multiplier. Lesku need to take a powerful - woven or monophilic with a breaking load of more than thirty kilograms. Catch better on a wobblers or vibroshort, but many fishermen in Astrakhan in April use a bunch of dung worms, fish cuts or frogs.

And at the very end of the month, about a week before the water enters the hollow, the catfish can be caught with a jig. In general, fishing in Astrakhan in April is particularly good. If you're lucky, you can catch a trophy specimen of a catfish weighing about fifty kilograms.

Fishing on the Volga

On the river, according to statistics, April can be called the most popular time for catching in its lower part. The probability of catching large specimens of catfish - up to seventy kilograms - increases in the first days of the month.

With the rise of water in the channels of the Lower Volga, a large number of registered white fish - bream, zinc, vobla, czechoni, bream or roach, appear. You can catch it from the shore, but large specimens come across, of course, at depth. With the warming of the water in the Volga in shallow water begins a bite of red rudd and yaz. In early April, you can easily come across a fattening flock of asp.

On the beluga

This fish is caught with a bottom tackle. The main food for the beluga, especially in April, is vobla. Her countless flocks in this period begin to go up the Volga. Fishing in April on beluga is conducted with donka. Its powerful rod should be equipped not only with a powerful coil, but also with a thick fishing line with a heavy sinker. They catch a beluga from boats or boats. The specimens are considered to be trophy, reaching up to four hundred kilograms.

You can catch beluga in some places of the Caspian Sea near the mouth of the Volga. Usually these are the places of feeding for this fish, and they are far enough from the shore. As a nozzle used vobla or herring, sometimes a small asp. There is an opinion that this huge inhabitant of the underwater world has poor eyesight, so the attachment of the tackle should shine. Bite on beluga begins with weak twitchings.

Then follows a short-term pull, but do not hack at this time. When the fish finally swallows the bait, a powerful jerk follows: it means - it's time to dare. The process of pulling out the beluga can last for hours, as this fish can drag a boat for a long time. To drag the prey, the fisherman needs to turn it upside down with the belly. Only in this position it calms down and ceases to resist.

It is necessary to know that fishing for the beluga in April and May is carried out under a special license. At the same time, the obligatory principle "catch-release" is valid, in another way it is prohibited to catch.

On the Don

This river in April, like most waterways in Russia, is quite active. In it you can catch on the most different types of gear. Especially happy with the abundant catch fishing on the Don in April near the Tsimlyansk reservoir.

There are about a hundred varieties of constantly inhabiting as well as rising underwater inhabitants. If you're lucky, on the Don in April you can catch catfish, burbot, carp. Going to spawning fish - this is a shemin, ram, herring. It was during this period, before spawning, that the maximum weight of pike perch is accumulated. On average, its weight reaches up to three kilograms, but sometimes trophy specimens are found - up to 7 kg.

In April they catch a float fishing rod on the Don. The fish at this time begins to climb to places where it will have to stay for the summer. In April, the bream on the river bites well on the earthworm. The most frequent spring catch of a fisher is a small fish - a goby. Although for her fishing the choice of tackle is not particularly important, but still mostly it is fished with donkeys, less often using a float fishing rod or sheer gliding.