How to catch the burbot in the winter - reveal all the secrets!

Burbot - the only freshwater fish from the "cod", inhabiting most rivers and lakes, which is very different from other freshwater fish in its way of life and its habits. Hence the question: "How to catch burbot?"

It changes its color quite often, usually in this fish the back looks olive-green in some brown spots with dark spots, and the belly may look yellow or gray.

In summer, burbot usually hibernates, climbing into its shelters, and closer to the autumn it becomes active again. Experienced fishermen know how to catch the burbot in winter, what gear to cook to stay with a notable catch. Burbot spawns from December to March. Sometimes in the mouth of a pike perch or pike, you can find a young burbot. Individuals can reach a size of up to 1.5 meters in length and weigh up to 30 kg. But to find such a large representative is very rare. Usually individuals from 1 to 3 kg and a length of not more than 50-80 cm are caught.

About how to catch the burbot in winter, we will talk below.

Beginning to catch burbot is necessary from the end of autumn, when the first frosts descend on the river or lake at night. And the colder and the ragged, the better the biting of burbot. Since burbot is an overnight predator, and it is active at night, and it is extremely rare to catch it in the daytime, it is necessary to start fishing and start it in the evening and finish it in the morning the next day. They catch this fish usually on benthos, which are baited by a livebrain.

It is caught burbling along with ruff, pike perch and pike. There is a sign where there is a biting ruff, burble somewhere nearby. But, of course, in most cases this sign is not met, although there is reason to believe it. Since the ruff is very fond of caviar, the burbot roe is no exception. Ruff usually is somewhere near the supposed habitat of burbot and is food for him.

Night fishing has its own characteristics. Feeding burbot on the shallows, the average depth is about three to six meters. And if you put jailers on it, then everything is quite simple: in the evening they put it, and in the morning the next day they checked it. If you are directly on the site of fishing far from populated areas and in inclement weather, then for fishing you will need light sources. You can use any: from a kerosene lamp to a large fire. Usually, fishermen kindle a fire, around which are placed fishing rods. More often fishing for burbot is collective, and several people can participate in it. Therefore, the number of fishing rods can reach from two to three dozen pieces, and the circle formed by fishing rods is of very impressive size. The bonfire lights the fishing rods, and the fishermen walk around in a circle and watch the bite, along the way, clearing the sludge in the holes.

Experienced fishermen know how to catch burbot in winter on different baits that can mimic the fry. In most cases, these are spoon-bait, mormyshki and mormoblesny, those baits that are usually used for catching pike and zander.

Burbot is a bottom fish and, accordingly, it can be caught, either from the bottom or in close proximity to it.

When catching this fish monotonously knocking the mormish on the bottom, on the noise from the blows, the bait drawn in this way, swims to the bait. Bite on the game is felt strong blow.

Burbot usually takes the bait into a throat, and often you have to work hard to get it out of the mouth. The captured specimen strongly resists, especially when he is dragged to the edge of the ice, and he can see the light in the hole. Experienced fishermen try to darken the hole, covering it with a hat, or something suitable.

To pull out the burbot must be confident, trying not to let him crochet at the entrance to the hole. If this happened, and it happens very often, then the fish should be pulled out, trying to straighten, and then take a hug, or try to grab it by the gills. Caught burbot must hit his head on the ice. Only a few anglers can boast that they know how to catch burbot in the winter, and that they caught it while ice fishing.

Finally, I will say that in winter it is necessary to look for nalimi parking lots. All known places were discovered in the winter, when burbot catching was conducted on the jails. In winter, on the ice, you can try your luck in different places at the same time. If the burbot pecked, then in this place you can catch in the spring, in the autumn. And even on windy, cold, rainy nights in the summer.