Common spruce (Leuciscus leuciscus) is a small freshwater fish that lives in Europe and beyond the Urals. In Siberia it is represented by the subspecies of the Siberian Dace, and in Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyz elec.
Fish Dace-a representative of the carp family
What looks like? Lives in clean flowing water, negalimas to a value of not more than 30 cm and mass 400 g semi-Mouth, elongated body, fins grayish and gray with yellow tint. Overall impression — just freshwater herring.
In the river is very beak, and its sparkling side can often be seen on the stream.
Habits and nutrition
Feeds mainly at the bottom, but is actively involved in all sorts of insect flight. Is behaving very smartly, often jumps out of the water at the shallows. Usually kept in flocks close to the rod, trying to be at a depth less than 1 m, to be able to control not only the water column and air space above the reservoir.
Spawning begins early, often barely get off the ice, in March. By the end of may it is usually completed in the entire population. Caviar is swept to the rocky bottom, sometimes on the bottom vegetation.
Yelets fishing time
In summer it is fly fishing on the float rod popular among Amateurs, as it requires skills and a well-oiled gear. Catch is usually in the wiring, hold the nozzle far — Elets very careful and not so easy to outsmart.
In winter, the capture of spruce occurs on the bottom pits, where he spent most of the winter is quite a passive way of life. Only in the spring, since February, when it will often thaw the biting Dace alive.
How and where to look?
Summer on the rod, from fast jets, where the boundary of pure water and washed over Sora. Usually the spruce tree can be found visually-its flocks play in the upper layers of water.
The tackle for Dace. Float rod for fishing spruce should be very sensitive. Most of his fish into a transaction with feeders.
Dishes. The taste of the spruce is beyond praise-its meat is tender and fatty. Used mainly in fresh form.