Рыба амур

The fish Cupid or Ctenopharyngodonidellaотносится to the family Cyprinidae. On the other, it is called a grass carp as it clears the water by macrophytes. The birthplace of the Amur river in East Asia.
Appearance

The Cupid fish is a big fish in length about metre and weighing several tens of kilograms. The body of the fish Amur, has an elongated, slightly flattened on the sides. An interesting feature of the Amur river is his fins, they are painted in different colors. The head is small in relation to the large but graceful body. The head is not high with a perfectly aligned mouth. Fish Cupid is back with a greenish tint, and the abdomen with the gold. Amur fish has large scales are painted in gold on the sides and with a dark rim around the edges of all the scales.

Cover the gills with radial stripes, stamens the gills with rare and short.

Meat fish crisp delicious, nutritious and fat.

Large specimens of Amur reach 120 cm and weight up to 30 kg. the Growth of the Amur river is 10 cm per year.
Habitat

The fish lives the Amur, the rivers of Eastern Asia. It is artificially inscribed into waters of America, Europe and Asia to purify these water bodies from various algae.
Food

Feeds the fish the Amur with vegetation, but being a minnow in his diet consists of microorganisms. When the Cupid one year, it goes into the vegetation, while the fish itself reaches 3 inches. Feeds the fish the Amur is mainly soft and young vegetation, but can eat and plants that fall into the water from land.

Besides cleansing reservoirs of Amur fish reduces the population of mosquitoes, not allowing them to multiply.
Reproduction of Cupid

Sexual maturity fish Amur reaches depending on the temperature of the pond in which he lives. However, puberty depends on the power of Cupid, the deficiency of food it is delayed and decreases its fertility. Under normal conditions, the Amur lays up to one million eggs. Spawning at Cupid’s can be a lump sum and a La carte.

In temperature from 26 to 29 Cupid spawn. This happens most often in may and June.

Vimet calf occurs in the water column. Most often spawning occurs in large river with large speed. On the spawning of the Amur river is only in flowing water with a temperature over 26 degrees. Eggs develop in the slope. Young once absorbed the yolk SAC contains about the coastal zone. In the fall the larvae go into hibernation. It hibernates in the pits.
The biggest fish

Were recorded the following instances:

In 1997, caught the instance with a length of 1 meter and a weight of 40 pounds;

In Kazakhstan, at the ili river in 2003 were caught in the Amur weighing 26 kg;

On the river Syr Darya in may 2004 caught carp weighing 18 kg;

The national record of the former GDR – fish weighing 15.4 kg.
Fishing for Amour

The fishing season on the Amur opens in may and lasts until approximately October. The presence of thickets attracts the fish. In search of food Cupid rises to the surface. In this position the fish can be seen the top fin and tail a bit.

Well-chosen bait will attract the fish to the surface. To keep fish will help a large amount of food. On the bottom you can put a little more “Hercules” and in the same field pellets and large corn.

Gets a little knotted cucumbers or aloe leaves (without spines) with the addition of aromatic oils.

Good to catch Cupid feeder tackle in the spring. Float rod can be fished in the summer. As bait on the float you can put on corn.
Video catch a Cupid

Fishing requires perseverance and patience, the Amur fish are quite fussy, so the fishing should be more assiduously. It is worth noting that the Amur fish mainly for professionals. In the Zavidovo you can try your luck in catching this beautiful large fish, and to hunt the fish you can have professional support and will go fishing on powerful professional equipment.