Carp fishing in a pond
libre 11
In summer, all anglers are attracted to crucian carp fishing in the pond. It is a small and not deep pond located near the village, with beating keys at the bottom. Catch starts here when the weather is hot, usually in the first half of June.
Silver carp
Silver crucian carp are found in this pond. From the golden crucian carp it differs not only silver scales with a dark tint, but also other features: his body is not round, but more or less oblong, elongated, tail fin with a fairly deep median notch. It is a sedentary, clumsy and unpretentious fish.
It is caught in the morning or evening, when it walks along the shore, near the strip of aquatic plants. Each of us wielded a single rod. It has a rather long, light rod, a thin line, only a little longer than the rod, a small hook, a tiny pellet - sinker and a small sensitive float. Here is the whole unpretentious tackle
Baits for catching crucian carp
Baitfor catching crucian carp most often was bread, black or white, or rather bread crumbs. To keep it from getting stale, it was kept wrapped in paper. The stale crumbs were moistened with water before hooking. It should be noted that bread is hardly the most hygienic bait, because after it does not have to wash your fingers, as is often done after each planting worm or other bait for fish.
But not always it is possible and do it: it is difficult to reach the water when standing on an elevated bank. That's why our young fishermen preferred bread to other baits, even moths, which are abundant on the bottom of the pond and serve as natural food for fish. It happened that they used flavored crumbs of muffin buns as bait.
This provoked witticisms from the household:
"Soon our fishermen will be fishing for cake."
The bait on the hook was thrown into the pond so that it did not lie on the muddy bottom, but hung a few centimeters above it and was visible to the fish walking along the bottom. For this purpose it was necessary to set the float at the appropriate height.
At a bite the float shudders a few times and then moves aside. It was possible to hook both at shudders of the float and at its retreat to the side. The caught crucian carp were kept in a bucket with water.
To give an idea of our catches, we can cite such facts. Once in the middle of June, in the evening, we were fishing for crucian carp in the pond. During two hours, from 18 to 20 hours, Volodya caught 16 fish.
This was considered a good catch for us. Usually the catches were much more modest.
Often caught small crucian carp, up to 12 - 15 cm. long, counting the tail fin. What to do with such little things? We tried to use the smallest of them as livebait. But the predatory river fish, which took well on gudgeon, and some even on ruff, flatly refused to offer them crucian carp.
But soon we found another use for them. There are several small permanent ponds near the village in the river floodplain. They became more, after, extracting peat, left a few pits, which filled with water, and then at the shores grew different aquatic plants. In such ponds we let the carp we fished into them.
The children liked the activity itself and the word "stocking".
- But are there only small crucian carp in our pond?
- asked the children. One local fisherman told us that he caught in this pond and large crucian carp. But it is one thing to have someone else's experience, and another thing to have your own. Soon we had our own experience.
Once in the middle of July, in the early morning, we were fishing on the pond. Some of us were baited with a small hunchback fish, while others were baited with the larvae of a ruchekin.
The larvae of this insect, living in the various houses they move, we collected from the bottom and from underwater objects in the same pond. We pushed them out of the houses with a match, which had scraped edges along its entire length. It was inserted into the opening of the pouch, where the end of the abdomen with the hooks located on it. Perch were occasionally taken on the livebait, and crucian carp were taken on the larva of the brookcod.
It was the only crucian carp in our catch, but it was quite large: it weighed about 600 grams. At home it turned out that the crucian carp we caught had caviar. And this is in the middle of summer! For some reason it had delayed spawning. Maybe it was the influence of the cold water brought by the keys beating at the bottom of the pond? An old local fisherman told us about his observations:
Carp spawn when the lilacs are in bloom. Even as kids we saw carp rubbing in the Earl's Pond at that time. It happens at the end of May, or even in early June, depending on the spring. But crucian carp with eggs are caught on a fishing rod much later.
