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On fine autumn days, you don’t want to sit at home at all, and you are drawn to nature, to the forest or to the river. On the shore of the reservoir during such a period you can see quite a lot of people, fishing in October will bring trophies to both lovers of active fishing and lovers to relax in silence with a float.
What to catch in October?
In October, active fishing does not stop on small rivers and large reservoirs; a day can be successful both for a beginner and for an angler with great experience. The main thing is to choose the right equipment and know exactly where and what kind of fish to look for.
The month of October can be conditionally divided into two parts, while it will be difficult to call them equal, everything will depend on weather conditions:
- At the beginning of the month, the weather is usually good, mostly clear. The sun still has time to warm the air, but in the morning and in the evenings the coolness is already felt good. With such indicators, almost all peaceful fish are caught, but fishing is carried out in the daytime, night fishing is unlikely to bring any results. The capture of a predator is in full swing, spinningists are actively working to catch trophy pikes, perches, and do not forget about zander. Asp is already less active, getting it is more and more difficult.
- With the onset of morning frosts, the picture changes significantly. The predator continues to actively peck, but peaceful individuals begin to slowly move closer to the wintering pits and feed only at a considerable depth. There comes a time to catch burbot, but this fish is fished mainly at night, it is not possible to catch it during the day.
In order to catch a predator, especially a pike, to be successful, they choose not a sunny day, but a cloudy one. Light drizzle would be the perfect complement.
What to catch in October?
Depending on who you want to catch, tackle is also chosen. An important role will be played by the personal sympathies of the fisherman.
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Most often in October, fish are caught with spinning tackle. You can catch a diverse predator, which is just fattening up fat before wintering. Fishing is carried out in two subspecies:
- from the coastline;
- from the boat.
At the same time, boats are caught not only in casting, trolling sometimes brings very good results. In this way, mainly pike are caught, other predators are caught much less frequently.
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Crucian carp in October and carp in the fall most often peck at the feeder, catching by this method with a significant drop in temperature is the most effective. On the rivers, the feeder is thrown on roach, silver bream and, of course, bream. With this method, you can catch more distant places of the reservoir, where all the fish go when it gets cold.
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For some reason, most anglers remove float rods during this period, but in vain. With their help, you can catch good options, the main thing is to know the right places for this. To be with the catch when fishing with float gear, choose places where great depths begin immediately near the shore. On rivers, steep banks, whirlpools near dams will be ideal options. It is desirable to equip the fishing rod with a non-inertial reel and a float from two grams.
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The main feature will be that the vegetation during this period in the reservoirs practically fell, the water became more transparent, the fish are more careful about the proposed baits.
The tackle for the float should be made more delicate, and the hooks should be replaced with mormyshkas.
In addition, the time for fishing also plays an important role, a fisherman can sleep longer in October, there will be no bite at dawn for sure. The most successful time is considered to be from nine in the morning in sunny weather for a float and a feeder. Spinning and trolling will bring more trophies in cloudy weather at about the same time, sunny weather is unlikely to help catch a predator. You can collect gear even before sunset, a couple of hours before that, the inhabitants of rivers and lakes will lose all interest in the proposed baits.
Lure, bait, bait
In order not to be left without a catch, you should first prepare the right baits and baits, while you should understand that sweet summer baits in cold water will work exactly the opposite. It will be possible to lure the fish with feed with an “animal” smell; for this, attractants are used:
- anufe toto;
- anufe;
- ilo;
- apaau;
- halibut.
Adding dry blood to standard homemade bait has a good effect. The presence of crushed animal bait in the feed will help to lure civilians, especially luring worms and bloodworms in October.
Lures for spinning are used heavier, because fishing will be carried out at the very bottom at great depths. Light spinners and small silicone with a small load will not be able to produce the desired effect.
Where to go for the trophy?
October is not the end of autumn and not winter, so fish will be caught in all reservoirs of the middle zone, in Siberia, in Tatarstan. You can use the Internet to find out about fishing bases or go fishing as a savage, success awaits fishermen almost everywhere. With a catch, everyone who went fishing will return:
- in the Voronezh region;
- in the Irkutsk region;
- in Moscow and St. Petersburg;
- in the Leningrad region;
- in the Rostov region;
- in the Tver region;
- in the Chelyabinsk region;
- on the Black Sea and in Chuvashia;
- in the Yaroslavl region and Tula;
- in the Gulf of Finland.
At the same time, each reservoir will be rich in its own species of both peaceful and predatory fish species, and they will be caught on completely different baits.
What fish are caught in October?
Catching in October is the most successful predator, pike and perch respond well to the coolness of the water. But civilians in reservoirs are sometimes no less active.
Bream in October
Before the formation of ice, bream can be caught perfectly on the feeder with bait and animal bait. In the summer, one could not even wait for the feeder to fall to the bottom, the bream simply snatched the baited hook from the water column. In October, you should not expect such sharp bites, the fish will wait until the feeder and the bait completely sink to the bottom, carefully examine it, and if nothing alerts it, it can try the proposed delicacy. It is unlikely that it will be possible to attract the attention of a bream with a maggot in October, even if on warm summer days it was exactly what he pecked at. Cool water dictates its own conditions, now it is better to offer a bream a bloodworm or a worm, but vegetable baits will not work at all.
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Fishing for silver bream in October is done in sunny calm weather. During this period, individuals have already gathered in flocks and come close to the wintering pits, it will be important for the angler to find such a place. Fishing is carried out at a depth of 4-6 m, while after catching the first individual, it is worth immediately casting to the same place. If you are lucky to find a place for the flock, then the catch will be just great. It is necessary to lure, as a lure, the angler independently makes balls with crushed bait and soil from the reservoir, which should be cast quite often.
As a bait, a dung worm, maggot, insect larvae are chosen, bloodworms should also be catchy. Fishing is carried out in the morning and throughout the daylight hours, in the late afternoon the bite usually becomes weaker.
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It becomes problematic to catch crucian carp in October, however, experienced anglers say that it is a pleasure to catch it during this period. Fishing is carried out at sufficiently large depths from 3 to 5 m using both feeder and float rigs. Bloodworm and dung worm will work best as bait, maggot will not cause proper appetite in individuals of this species. Do not forget about complementary foods, in October barley will become a real delicacy for crucian carp. But here it is important not to overdo it with the quantity, because during this period, food for individuals is needed several times less. It is best to fish from a boat, but the coastline sometimes pleases with a catch.
Roach
Catching roach in October promises to be successful if the fisherman knows some secrets. A decrease in water temperature provokes individuals of this species to gather in flocks and send them closer to the wintering pits, it is very important to know where they are. Experienced fishermen recommend finding a place where a stream or a small river flows into the mainstream, it is at this junction that autumn fat roach usually stands. It is necessary to catch it on a worm, a worm with a maggot, a bloodworm. A good bait option would be corn, peas, barley. Complementary feeding is mandatory, otherwise you can stay, you can stay without anything at all.
With a predator, the situation is completely different, it is very active, although it is at the bottom. Fishing is carried out with different types of lures, in the arsenal there should be vibrations, and a wobbler, and silicone with a heavy load.
Catching pike in October
Catching a trophy specimen of a toothy inhabitant of a reservoir is possible not only for an experienced angler with experience, a beginner will be able to succeed in this too. The main secret for successful fishing will be the use of large and heavy lures and their stepped wiring. Pike responds well to large oscillating baubles, wobblers, vibrotails and twisters. An excellent bait option for catching large pike is live bait, it is used in casting, trolling and when catching on circles.
Fishing is necessarily carried out with the use of leashes, while fluorocarbon is postponed until spring, in the autumn the pike is less cautious, but more aggressive. Therefore, steel and tungsten are used.
An effective method is trolling, for this a watercraft with a motor is used. Trolling involves pulling the selected bait at a low speed of the boat. Efficiency is usually higher than when casting.
The capture of pike lasts all daylight hours, the predator is especially active in cloudy weather and with light rain.
Perch
Perch is also active during this period, however, it is not caught on turntables that are familiar in the summer. Light baits will not be able to reach the desired depth and interest the predator. In October, the perch actively reacts to baits with stepped wiring, according to experienced fishermen, the most suitable are:
- tetete;
- i'a foam;
- silicone twisters;
- small but heavy wobblers.
An excellent option is also a pilker, an elongated lure with cut ends.
Catching zander
Pike perch in October is already gathering in flocks for wintering and goes to the depths. It is necessary to look for this predator in pits with a hawk, near structures with whirlpools. The best way to catch is spinning, and from the baits you should pay attention to:
- pa'u fe'ai;
- jig tackle with silicone;
- I wobbled.
Silicone tails and twisters are the most popular among fishermen, they are relatively cheap and, in case of a hook, it is not so expensive to part with them. Most often, pike perch is interested in vibrotails, sometimes it likes foam rubber with an acid color.
Burbot in October
You can bring out such an unusual trophy not only with a fishing rod; Mugs or vents have taken root most among anglers because of their versatility. During the day, you can hunt for pike on live bait, and at night, lowering the fish to the bottom, lure burbot.
A feature of this type of predator when catching on circles is that it simply sucks the hook and does not swim away when serifing. In this way, when checking the equipment in the morning, this predator can be identified. Burbot does not react to other types of baits, they are not interesting to him.
You can catch burbot only when the water has cooled down; in the summer heat, he will not even show his nose from his shelter.
Fishing in October, especially in its first half, is still quite active and varied. Toward the end of the month, the activity of some fish species drops, and at the same time, the number of fishermen decreases. Just before the freeze-up, only the most persistent spinningists remain on the reservoirs, the rest are looking forward to the first ice.