The bottom of the pond… What could possibly be hidden under the surface of the water in a river, lake, pond bottom, why in a certain point, and not somewhere else is most often the biting? For whatever reasons the fish chooses its path, which sometimes follows so that you can compare notes?
And, in General, what it is, the bottom? And sometimes it is with aquatic vegetation, and without her, rocky, or muddy, sandy, gravelly, clay. The bottom is cluttered, or sheltered a colony of barnacles. The bottom is smooth, sometimes with several peaks or drop offs in depth.
But, this need to find at the bottom that is guaranteed to meet fish there? And how to find it?
What can tell the bottom of the reservoir
It is always necessary to look for differences from the background of the bottom. For example, covered the bottom with a carpet of filamentous algae. But there is among the General monotony of bald spots. Single or bundles other forms of algae. Or boulders. That’s all, and worth a look.
Or on the flat as a table, the bottom strip was separated, washed by currents and eventually, the Packed. Such a tumour, slightly rising above the smooth surface of the bottom. This place is also worth a look for the angler. Or among the smooth sandy loam was allocated a plot of gravelly-clay loam stratified. And it is worth to take note.
Fish drawn to the differences at the bottom, it is guided in its motion. And, of course, is to look for pits and holes in them over demolished that can serve as food. If not the fish directly, then, definitely, other aquatic organisms, which, in turn, the same fish will happily eat!
Explores the bottom with a marker
But then the question arises: how and what to do if you are not diving and not to try mask to examine the bottom? Explores the bottom with a marker. And this is done at the stage of pulling the snap at the bottom using the rod. Of course, this is not a guarantee of accuracy, as by visual inspection through the glass mask.
Although, even confused colony of shell with a scattering of gravel, but noting this place as a special feature of the bottom, placing there the snap and prokormil explored the place, angler very seriously increases your chances of a plentiful catch. This is determined by how the “sound in hand” marker rod, when they dragged the bottom of the snap. So when the snap is moving on the sandy surface, feeling in the hand, like the fisherman by the hand holds for the medium-sized sheet sandpaper.
Smooth the clay it will feel like something soft and slippery. Il – as something silently viscous. Just submerged in the silt load of the snap marker on what hits and gets bogged down in the mud. Krasivosti felt a soft prodding, gravel on a much more “sonorous”. Almost the same “sounds” a colony of barnacles. Just butting these less uniform. Large rocks – some “ringing” crap.
The passage of tooling through algae felt torn sinker stems like hands torn rotted tissue. The feelings were sharper, and the marker is equipped with a non-stretchable cord. And the best rod to choose, that is, a marker.