Tackles for catfish

At least once in life to measure the strength with a trophy specimen of a catfish, every fisherman dreams, who wants to check out his tackle and get a good dose of adrenaline. After all, this fish is one of the largest representatives of the underwater world.

Catch a small catfish almost everywhere, where there is no very strong water flow. Small specimens of this fish are found in pits, in shallow water and even on a considerably flat place. As for the large ones, they should be sought at great depths, where there are debris of old tree trunks, buckwheels or crumbling steep banks.

Catfish is a very strong fish, and given its possible size, which can reach up to 120 kilograms on the Lower Volga, after the bite the fight will be quite difficult. Proceeding from this and the gear for catching catfish should be serious.

First of all, this refers to the rod, which, when bottom fishing, should be metallic or fiberglass reinforced with rings and a two-hundred-meter test, have a length of up to three and a half meters.

The presence of a test in the catfish catch is explained by the fact that usually the current in many pits can drag even 120 grams of cargo, which in just ten to twenty minutes are somewhere under the driftwood, where they can no longer be extracted. That's why the snap must be clearly fixed on the bottom.

On the rod is best to install the inertial coil, so that with the help of powerful traction and a regulated clutch you can confidently fight even with large catfish.

Tackles for catching catfish should be completed with forged single hooks, large twins or tees. You can choose a sliding sinker, attach a swivel to it, and a little more secure the leash. Bait for such gear for catfish catching is cutting from fish - asp, rudd, litter, as well as frogs, giblets, worms and bear.

A place for fishing should be chosen directly from the pit, the crook or the shallows. The main hours of fishing are morning, evening and night, in a word, when the catfish feeds heavily.

Tackles for catching catfish from the shore are installed vertically, on a special stand, in order to minimize the effect of the current on the line as much as possible. And in order for the catfish not to drag the fishing gear for fishing, it is necessary to loosen the friction brake.

In addition to bottom fishing gear for catching, Catfish can also be caught on spinning, using such oscillating spoon-baits as large jigs with vibrotails or twisters, about 20 centimeters in length, and plastic baits with an internal load.

One of the most interesting is fishing from a floating boat - "floating".

Tackles for catching catfish in this case - this one-handed spinning rod and coil with a large drum. Sometimes a winter type of tackle is used, which has a cork or reed handle, which is convenient for throwing it into the water during a strong breakthrough of the "barbel", and then it is easy to catch.

Another type of tackle for catching catfish is fishing on the kvok, which was popular in the recent past, then it was pushed back into the background, but today this method again successfully spreads.

By itself, the kvok is a tool made from certain types of wood, which, when struck, can create such vibrations of sound that attract catfish. Its main criterion is the purity and sonority of sound in a collision with water.

This original catch has not changed over the years, and today the fisherman has exactly the same fork in his hands as his grandfather. You just need to correctly change the amplitude of the impact on the water and the angle of entry.

Many avid lovers of hunting for underwater "barbel", catching a small specimen, simply release it back in the hope of catching a large specimen, the struggle with which delivers a truly inexplicable pleasure, not to mention the pride of the captured trophy.