Fish burbot refers to freshwater fish of the family Gadidae. A bit like catfish its elongated body. Has a variety of colors from black and dark brown to olive or marble.
Has a small head and teeth arranged in a single row. Chin has a moustache. Of the pair of fins on the back is very long, almost to the tail. The bottom fin is of medium length. Tail rounded or pointed. The chin and ventral fins are of a light color.
The average size of burbot 30 – 40 cm and weight from kilos to three. But there are particularly large amounts of burbot, more than a meter and weighing up to 30 pounds.
Habitat
Burbot are pretty common fish that can be caught in Europe and India, Central Asia, or America. Nalim loves the deep waters. Lives at a depth of not less than 10 meters or deeper. As fish lives only in clean water, so in a swampy area to look for him will not work. Loves to dwell in the upper reaches of rivers where the water is clean and cool. Burbot cold-water fish and their activity it is in the winter.
Feature burbot
Burbot is a night predator. By day it hides under stones, and at night go hunting. It is very voracious and if placed in a tank with other fish even their own species, through time, hungry, they will eat each other.
It spawns in November to March. In different water bodies and areas spawning takes place in different ways. During spawning they get in a tangle like a snake, and protect each other.
Activity he is beginning to show with the late fall when the water starts to cool off from the summer heat and come the first frost. Feeds on small fish, insect larvae, worms and molluscs. Sometimes eats carrion.
Fishing for burbot in winter is quite active. Caught the end of December and January, before spawning. In February, burbot out in shallow water with sandy or stony bottom and cease to feed. In early March he resumes biting. With the onset of summer when the water warms up, fish goes to the bottom and almost goes into hibernation.
Fishing for burbot in the winter the best in bad weather. The worse the weather the better the bite burbot. He loves the pressure changes, cold, wind and blizzards. That’s such an unusual fish.
Donka
Fishing for burbot in the winter on the ground has its own requirements. Take the size of the line equal to the depth of fishing, plus 3 meters. The diameter of the fishing line take not less than 0.4.
The sinker should be on the bottom, the weight should be appropriate. In running sinker should be heavy to avoid being carried away. Above the sinker establish a leash with a thin fishing line length of 20 – 25 cm. Use the hooks from 7 to 10.
As bait it is best to use small bait fish or cuts of meat. You can vary the bait on two hooks.
The bait is lowered to the bottom so that the fishing line slightly slack. Across the hole tied to a stick, which tied the line. A ground rod set in the evening and check in the morning.
In the frost holes freeze, and you have to clean them. Often, during this procedure, the damaged fishing line. To avoid this, you need to stick to tie fishing line is a piece of copper wire, to which to tie the fishing line.
Zherlitsa
Fishing for burbot during winter imitation fish is convenient and effective. This is a small tackle, which is a reel with the desired amount of fishing line. On the pond is established there are many different pastamusik that test this morning. In places where there was fish caught set imitation fish.
The thickness of the twine used is from 0.4. Ice imitation fish made of wood, foam or rubber tubes with a diameter 35 – 40 mm.
Fishing for burbot during winter imitation fish
More about fishing for burbot you can see from the video
Catching burbot on the Seine
Fishing for burbot at the sound of the night
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