With the onset of short, cold autumn days, the bream bite subsides at dawn, but in calm weather it can continue until noon. Unlike the summer season, in the fall there may not be an evening bite, since the fatty bream feeds 2-4 hours a day. On small rivers, the optimal time for fishing is from seven in the morning to noon.
An important factor in successful bream fishing in the fall is right choice places. In autumn, it gathers in large flocks, mainly in the deep riverbed zone, constantly moving between the riverbed and the lower edge. Therefore, it is advisable to use match gear for fishing. The most successful place for fishing will be at the point where the channel widens, or at the point where it connects with the hole.
in autumn important role allocated to bait. Unlike summer, it should be rich in proteins. The amount of flavoring agents is minimal, although the use of thyme aroma has a beneficial effect on attracting bream to the fishing site. It is advisable to use bait from domestic manufacturers for winter fishing. You can independently prepare bait from crackers and sunflower cake, in a ratio of three to one, with the addition of dried and ground clay. It is mandatory to include animal components in bait: maggots or bloodworms. It will be enough to add a glass of both for 4 - 5 kilograms of bait. When fishing in moderate currents, a mixture of bran and crackers works well. In the case where the common trophy is the white bream, which eats up the bait and outstrips the large bream in the pursuit of the bait, you should use a mixture of maggots, chopped worms and millet porridge, with the addition of clay.
It happens that after feeding, no bite is observed for a long time. Based on this, you should feed several promising places at a distance of 50 -70 meters from each other. As a rule, bream bite actively at this time of year and, having reacted to bait, the bite will begin almost immediately. As soon as activity dies down, additional feeding must be done immediately.
Of the baits that bream especially favor at this time of year are bloodworms, which are placed in a bunch on a hook. Bream is less attracted to a sandwich made from maggots and bloodworms, although it works great as bait. Large specimens are taken for the worm, but very rarely.
Due to the fact that in autumn the bream becomes cautious and timid, the nature of the bite changes. After several successful bites, there is a lull. If in summer bream were often tempted by bait falling to the bottom, then in autumn - never. And here it is advisable to use a plug 12 - 16 meters long. Since the task comes down to holding the bait in place, rigs with a flat float are used. Now there are floats made according to the principle of the famous “ship”, where the slightest resistance is reduced to a minimum. They have high stability, even in the strongest currents. The equipment is extremely simple and represents the load in the form of a sliding olive lying on the bottom. In case of strong currents, additional grazing is placed so that the olive is 2–5 centimeters from the bottom. Therefore, it is very important to adjust the length of the leash.
One of the effective autumn ways fishing for bream on large rivers is to use onboard fishing rods, the equipment of which has a number of features. Fishing in the current requires the use of heavy jigs in the shape of a drop, weighing up to 10 grams. The bait should be made of lead and have a glossy black color. The bait is a bunch of bloodworms or maggots. The main condition is that the jig does not move along the bottom under the influence of the current and that the line is pulled vertically. In order to make the hook in time, a nod is used, the tip of which is soft and the rest is hard. The whip of the side fishing rod should be about a meter long. There are no requirements for the reel, since the fish is caught on a fishing line. The fishing technique is quite simple. The rod should always be in your hand, and as soon as the nod is straightened, you should hook. You can’t hesitate here, because as soon as the bream feels the heavy bait, it will immediately spit it out of its mouth.
In autumn, feeder fishing is popular. A special feature is the indispensable presence of replaceable tips designed for different currents and weights of feeders. On rivers with fast currents, monofilament 0.3 - 0.4 millimeters and hooks No. 5 - 6 are used. On strong currents, when the bait is washed out and the feeder is carried away by the current, it is better to use a heavy feeder. An indispensable attribute of feeder fishing is the presence. For catching bream, it is preferable to use a flat feeder, as it is conveniently located at the bottom. It is prepared in the same way as for other types of fishing.
Video about catching bream in autumn
In autumn, bream like to stay close to the river-bed dumps that inhabit zebra mussel colonies. Other food may also accumulate at the bottom, near the lower part of the edge. Bream often find bloodworms, crustaceans and other small animals in the silt deposits here. A flooded river bed usually has several ledges. Bream can stand on any of them, where there are favorable oxygen conditions and sufficient food supply; As it is eaten, the flock changes place. It happens that bream stay at a depth of 5–6 m, but more often they choose ledges at a depth of 7–10 m, where living conditions are more stable. Equipment for fishing in such conditions is selected depending on the speed of the current and the intensity of the bite. If the bite is bad, you need to use the thinnest possible equipment to record the delicate bites of the bream. Bream can also be found on the slopes of pits, where there are rocky ledges with plantations of the same zebra mussel. In addition, in favorable weather in the fall, bream often comes out to feed on tables that stand out from the surrounding depths. It’s good if there are grooves and ruts in such places – bream find food there.
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In autumn, the water becomes clear and the fish see better, but at a depth of more than 5 m you can fish from a boat using short side rods in complete silence.
Finding yourself in an unfamiliar place in a body of water, you first need to find out the nature of the bottom. To do this, you can use a depth gauge, lowering it to the bottom across the channel every 2–3 m. To record significant differences in depth, moored foam buoys are used. In addition, by picking up the soil from the bottom with an anchor or grappling hook, you can study its composition. Remember that bream avoids heavily silted areas. It is better to look for it where the bottom is loamy, loamy-rocky.
The boat, even in the presence of slight wind and current, is placed on guy wires. If you have established for sure that the bream is standing along the edge, then the boat should be positioned with its side parallel to the edge from the side of great depths. But it happens that during the day the bream moves along the slope from bottom to top or vice versa - in this case, the boat should be oriented accordingly so as not to make noise when moving the anchor. As for rivers, they almost always catch bream there by placing the boat with its side facing the current - this makes it more convenient to place several gears. In addition, when there is no bite, it is always useful to fish 2-3 m to the left or right of the edge, which can be done by releasing the anchor rope.
Nodding tackle
When fishing for bream on side rods, nodding gear is more often used than float gear, although, in our opinion, both are convenient, however, the former are practically irreplaceable when fishing in fairly strong currents and in windy weather. Any winter fishing rod with a reel with a diameter of 50–60 mm is suitable as a fishing rod for onboard fishing. In this regard, TENO fishing rods with a key brake and an open reel are quite convenient. In order to be able to put on a nod, the tip of the whip along with the tulip is cut off or a special whip is purchased. Some anglers prefer longer whips, but care must be taken to ensure they do not weigh down the handle when installed on board.
Another equally convenient option is a special onboard fishing rod with a cork or synthetic handle, on which there are crimp rings for a wire-type reel. Typically, such fishing rods are equipped with one or two rings for passing line and a tulip; the latter must also be cut off in order to catch it with a nod.
The nod is one of the most important parts of a side rod. Often this part of the equipment is made of a metal plate. There are spring nods. Another option is compound nods. This is a spring plus a plate or elastic wire. A little-known design is two-part nods. In them, the spring goes into the plate, then the spring goes again and then the plate again. Such a nod always remains very sensitive when its length and the weight of the jig change. The length of the nod of a side fishing rod can vary from 10 to 50 mm. Usually there is a pattern: the faster the current, the shorter the nod.
On the reel it is necessary to have a supply of fishing line (0.15-0.2 mm in diameter) of at least 25–30 m, taking into account fishing at maximum depths (and bream sometimes stands in holes 12–17 m deep). This is also due to the fact that when fishing for large bream, sometimes it is necessary to stretch the fish for a while. The leash should have a diameter of 0.14-0.17 mm.
The rigging of a nodding fishing rod largely depends on both the strength of the current and the activity of the bream. If it is inactive and needs to be attracted by additional vibrations, it is better to use a medium-weight or heavy jig, depending on the depth and current. On the other hand, bream may be alarmed by the additional weight of the bait - then it is better to replace the jig with a hook and a sinker.
When choosing a combined equipment for fishing at medium depths and with almost complete absence of current, it is advisable to give preference to the equipment on which 2-3 pellets stand above a 15-centimeter leash with a hook. Moreover, the smallest pellet weighing 0.1–0.3 g is installed on a leash 5–7 cm from the hook - it lies on the bottom, and the nod is adjusted so that at the slightest touch to the nozzle it rises.
For fishing at great depths, especially when the bite is good and it is necessary to quickly deliver the bait to the bottom, an olive or a sinker with ears sliding along the main line is used as a weight - they are stopped with a tiny pellet. The length of the leash depends on the current and can vary from 5-10 cm (on deep lakes and reservoirs) to 30–50 cm (on rivers). In the current, a rig is often used when the leash is installed 5-10 cm above the end sinker. The weight of the end load and the length of the leash should be greater, the stronger the river current. On fast-flowing rivers like the Oka, leashes up to 70 cm long are sometimes used - then the bait moves more attractively from side to side. In this case, you need to use a triple swivel to attach the leash to avoid twisting the line.
As for a fishing rod with a jig, it is not used as actively in this type of fishing as, say, when searching for schools of bream during the freeze-up period. Usually the jig hangs close to the ground, so that the hook with the nozzle barely touches it. From time to time, a jig is lightly tapped on the bottom to raise a cloud of turbidity, or they imitate a living organism fidgeting on the ground. All movements of the bait must be done with great care so as not to spook the wary bream.
Regarding the color of the jig, you should proceed from the rule: the greater the depth or the muddier the water, the lighter the jig should be. However, bream does not like very shiny jigs. For example, on the Ivankovo Reservoir and on the Upper Volga, fishermen often use large jigs covered with a copper or brass shell when fishing at decent depths. They are made in the shape of a drop, oatmeal, button, pear and have hooks No. 4, 5–7. We more often use gray and black lead or tungsten jigs with hooks No. 4–6. Whenever possible, we try to take jigs of smaller dimensions so that they do not alarm the bream. Therefore, sometimes to increase the weight of the equipment it is necessary to use a tandem of jigs.
And one more thing. Usually bream is caught on two, three or even more fishing rods. For the convenience of positioning short fishing rods, oars are used, which are placed on the seats along the side. Special side fishing rods can be placed with the butt on the bottom of the boat, with the whip resting on the side. When biting, hook the bait with a fishing rod, and when you feel the fish resisting, you immediately select the fishing line with your hands and take the fish into the landing net.
Float side tackle
It is used exclusively for fishing in calm water and looks like this: a rod no more than 1.5 m long with a weight test from 2 to 15 g, equipped with guide rings; an inertia-free reel with a small-diameter spool (its large gear ratio ensures mobility when fishing). A small multiplier is also good for this type of fishing.
In autumn, the water becomes very clear, so the equipment should be less noticeable. At the same time, the bream still shows active resistance when fishing. The main line is taken with a diameter of 0.16-0.18 mm, and it must be of very good quality; the leash should have a diameter of 0.11-0.12 mm. If the fishing line is thinner, this may lead to breakage of the gear. In late autumn the temperature is low and the guide rings may freeze, so they should be waxed first. It is better to take a small hook, with a normal shank and a straight bend, No. 4, 5–6. The float is sliding, with a slightly thickened body, designed for a load of 2–4 g. For a large wave, you can take an elliptical float with a long keel. The “extended drop” is best used at extremely great depths with a heavy load for fishing from the bottom. The float is attached to the fishing line using a carabiner. This makes it easy to replace one type with another, depending on the wind strength, current speed and other fishing conditions.
To connect the main line and the leash, it is advisable to use a snap hook and a swivel. The float is surrounded so that only part of the antenna rises above the water. It is known that bream, having a wide body, is located at an angle to the bait and, drawing the latter in with its lips, lifts it up along with the sinker balancing the float. In this case, the antenna will rise above the water, tilting slightly to the side (with a good bite, the entire float rests on the water). In calm weather, the main sinkers are raised higher, and during a strong wave they are moved along with an additional sinker to the junction of the leash and the main fishing line. In general, the lower part of the equipment looks the same as on a combined nodding fishing rod. In some cases, a float is used in combination with a jig.
Now a few words about such an important part of the equipment as the locking unit. It can be made from a piece of monofilament fishing line, which is tied with a step knot on the main fishing line and tightened, moistened with water. You can use other stopper options, such as rubber ones. Various types stoppers are supplied to the retail chain. The stop knot is installed depending on the depth at the fishing site. Below it, a sliding bead is hung on the fishing line to lock the float carabiner. When pulling the rig out of the water, the float slides to its lower part and rests against the upper sinker. After casting, the float first lies on the surface of the water and straightens as soon as the locking unit goes slightly under the water. When the bait sinks to the bottom, the float antenna will rise above the water.
When biting, you must not allow the force of the fish to be transferred to the whip of the rod. The hook should be sharp and follow before the fish pulls on the line passing through the tip. When fishing, the tip of the rod should be positioned as close to the water as possible. In the same way, try to bring the fish to the landing net. With frequent bites, the line between the tip and the float must be kept taut. This will prevent the line from sailing and make hooking more efficient and faster. In windy weather, it is better to use a sinking line.
Side donka
This gear is special because it includes an open or closed type(the latter is used for maggots or other live food). Models of bottom feeders have been discussed more than once in the fishing literature. Typically, the rig uses two short leashes with hooks, which can be installed parallel to each other or one above the other. The rod here is longer than on other onboard rigs. It can reach 2 m. Most anglers determine a bite by the vibration of the flexible whip. Our version of the side bottom differs in that the tip ends with a nod made from a metal ruler. The length of its working part is 10–15 cm with a width at the tip of 4 mm, and at the base – 7–8 mm. At the end of the nod, when cutting the ruler on both sides, “mustaches” are left for bending them into a ring that will serve as a tulip. The connection of the “whiskers” must be careful so that the fishing line does not break through the gap. The nod plate is fixed with a rubber tube, which is put on the tip of the rod, after first removing the tulip. After installing the nod, if the top ring of the rod is not close enough to the tip, the tulip can be placed in place and secured with a thread wrap, which is lubricated with appropriate glue. This nod is quite elastic, but it clearly shows bream bites when fishing in the current.
Bait for autumn bream
Often, for autumn bream fishing, they use summer plant bait, say, based on Unikorm or Teamfighter, but be sure to include a sufficient amount of live components, for example maggots or bloodworms. Bream loves it when the bait contains balls of pure maggots or bloodworms. They are made using a special adhesive composition such as “Sticky joke”. It gives additional weight to the larvae.
Dense, wet lumps of the mixture the size of a tennis ball are thrown into the water in bulk or placed in a fine-mesh bag, which is lowered to the bottom, tied to the side or buoy; a regular one can be used as a buoy plastic bottle(Fig. 1).
(Fig. 1) Catching bream in the fall using onboard gear with a feeder
Earthworms and earthworms are often used as bait, mixing them chopped with soil. Balls are formed from this mixture and thrown into the fishing spot.
Balls of bait can be scattered along the slope so that they linger in the depressions on it, but for this you need to know the bottom topography well. In a strong current, large balls are first thrown, after which they periodically continue to feed in small portions, trying to create a cloud of natural turbidity around the feeding area. It is also important to ensure that the bait does not immediately settle to the bottom.
And one more important note. The slope can have a fairly large angle of inclination, for example 30–40 degrees or more, so the bait should be thrown in front of the float no closer than 1–1.5 m, then it will roll directly to the location of the nozzle.
Bait is fed periodically, approximately once every half hour.
In the current, they fish almost exclusively with a mesh feeder, which is lowered somewhat behind the fishing rods, for example, from the opposite side of the boat - then the washed-off food will be carried out onto the hooks.
Bream fishing time in autumn
In autumn, bream can bite throughout the day. However, it is still more active in the morning from dawn to 11 a.m. and in the evening from 4 p.m. until dark. Large bream often take well at night from 23:00 to 1:00. When fishing in the dark, you need to have a fairly powerful flashlight with you.
Bait for autumn bream
A universal autumn bait for bream are worms. The most catchy fish is considered to be the red dung beetle, which emits a specific smell, and, moreover, wriggling on the hook, it creates vibrations that are attractive to fish. A subleaf can also serve as a good bait. This worm has an attractive reddish-crimson hue, but, unlike the dung beetle, it does not have such a strong odor and hangs faster on the hook. But subfoliates are often found under old rotten leaves right on the banks of reservoirs.
When baiting one worm or several, you should remember that bream loves a voluminous bait. The most attractive thing for him will be a bunch of small dung beetles or underleaves, which are pierced in turn through the middle of the body in two places. You can put 5-6 worms on one hook. But this method is good when there is no small thing that breaks off the ends of the worms. If fishing is interfered with by silver bream, small white bream or other fish, then you need to attach the worms with a tight accordion, hiding the hook tip in the tip of the worm. Sometimes, in order to raise the nozzle above the bottom, especially the silty one, the worm is inflated with air (this is done using a syringe); You can also attach a piece of cork or inconspicuously colored foam plastic to the leash just above the hook.
On days when bream becomes especially picky, a bloodworm brush can be an indispensable bait. They are placed in groups of 5–8 on hooks made of thin wire.
Worms and bloodworms are good to use in combination with maggots, which makes the bait more noticeable and very tempting for large individuals.
IN cold water bream are no longer as active as in summer, and do not look around as vigilantly. The use of aromatic additives increases the catchability of the bait. Worms or a bunch of bloodworms attached to a hook can be dipped into a special solution, which is sold in fishing stores - this enhances the smell of the bait. Twitching and lightly dragging the tackle intermittently gives the bait a more “live” and attractive appearance, which arouses the interest of lazy, inactive bream.
A. G. Goryainov, A. I. Antonov
"Large latest encyclopedia of fishing"
Bream is one of those fish that is always a desirable trophy. They fish for it in spring, summer and, of course, autumn. It certainly attracts attention with its size. Mostly trophies up to 45 cm are caught, but sometimes giants are caught. Fishing for bream in September is a real pleasure. This month it is still quite warm and the fish are biting regularly. These are the last weeks of the year when you can treat yourself to the lively twitching of the floats and the ringing of feeder bells.
Bream habitats in autumn
Bream is a bottom fish. It stays at depth, in backwaters with a calm current, near pits. It prefers muddy bottoms. Traditional habitats for bream are large rivers and large lakes. You need to look for it in certain areas. For example, it is never found in places where the bottom is covered with mud.
Bream at the end of August and in the first ten days of September begins to migrate to wintering pits. They must undoubtedly be large and located at a depth of at least five meters. Therefore, it is often difficult to catch bream in September without a watercraft. Sometimes you can’t reach the places where bream are found from the shore. But by boat you can get to the boundaries of the pits. Bream are often caught using a ring. This is an interesting method that does not require any special skills. Here a definite plus is the opportunity to feed the fish well, which means keeping it near the hooks with bait. This kind of bream fishing in September from a boat gives the best trophies.
Fish bite largely depends on the vagaries of nature. Very good lively bites are observed on sunny, windless days. Bream regularly takes bait in the morning and evening. The situation changes with changing weather. On cloudy days with small gusts of wind, it is better to catch bream during the day, but only in areas of the reservoir where there are no large waves.
Groundbait mixture
Catching bream in September is not possible without good bait. Its use is mandatory. Bream is an active fish. He loves to constantly move around the pond in search of food. At the same time, he diligently avoids places that are not typical for him. The easiest way to collect bream around a hook with bait is to provide good bait. At the same time, it must be repeated at certain intervals if fishing is carried out on feeder fishing. There is no need for this.
Bait recipes for bream
Fishing for bream in September requires a large amount of complementary food. Best option- This is pea porridge with the addition of semolina or millet for viscosity. You can also mix an animal component into it - pieces of worms or bloodworms. There is a wide variety of bait mixture recipes. Experienced fishermen prefer to cook them at home. This recipe for complementary feeding for the autumn period is very popular: bran, ground coriander, small maggots and clay to give the necessary consistency.
Another very interesting option: breadcrumbs, cake, ground rice and lard. This is a very specific but effective recipe. The lard should be fresh and not salted. It is cut into small pieces and mixed with other ingredients. For most fish, flavoring should be added to the complementary food in September and October. But bream, unlike many fish, does not like strong odors. They scare him away. It will not suit such bait.
Bream bait in September
In autumn, bream practically stops responding to plant bait. Only in the first ten days of September can it still be caught on peas and bread. But the situation is changing very quickly. Catching bream in mid-September, and even more so in October, is no longer possible without worms and maggots. They catch it with bloodworms and even with small fry. At the same time, it is difficult to name the best animal bait. In each body of water, fish prefer different invertebrates. So you need to experiment. Bream responds very well to combined baits, for example a worm with bloodworms.
Fish react well, especially at the end of September, to crawling and a bunch of dung red worms. For bream, not only their swarms are attractive, but also the specific smell coming from them.
Tackle for bream in September
Autumn is a great time to fish with a variety of gear. It is also possible to catch bream at night in September. At this time of day, heavier individuals are more often encountered. They fish successfully on the lake. Usually they choose a rod of about 5 meters. The main thing here, of course, is that the tackle is durable. The fisherman must make long casts and send the baited hook to the depths.
Fishing for bream in September on a feeder
On rivers, bream is most often caught with a rod. It is very convenient because it allows you to make long casts and at the same time feed the fish. For fishing, a rod up to 2.5 - 3 meters long will be sufficient. The fishing line is taken with a diameter of 0.28 - 0.3 mm. Perhaps someone will think that such a forest is too rough. But here it is worth remembering that bream lives on rivers with a pronounced current. Therefore, this diameter is quite justified. Leashes are placed 30 - 40 cm long. They are made from fishing line with a diameter of 0.2 mm. Leashes can be colored, such as brown or green. Hooks No. 8-9 are crocheted onto their ends.
Fishing for bream in September on a feeder is unpredictable. This is a very exciting activity. Strong fish can provide adequate resistance when fished. Therefore, a fisherman should always have a landing net at hand.
Fishing for bream in the fall is different from catching bream in the summer, because the autumn weather makes itself felt. Behavior autumn bream changes, he develops new preferences in food and choice of parking places. Catching bream in the fall becomes a little more difficult than in the summer, because it becomes more cautious.
Often, before taking the bait, the fisherman’s nerves are tested for a long time by tugging on the line, but never quite catching the bait. If you have patience and learn to get the most out of your fall fishing, you can have some pretty successful bream fishing at this wonderful time of year. Let's look at the main nuances of autumn bream fishing.
Where to look for bream in autumn
Where to look for bream in the fall is quite an interesting question. If earlier, in the summer, it was possible to attract bream to the fishing point by abundantly feeding this place, now things are a little different. The fact is that bream rarely leaves the pits in the fall. As soon as the water gets colder, bream tend to occupy a good hole, often joining together in large schools. And even after pouring a mountain of bait 10 meters from such a place where bream accumulates, it is not always possible to lure it out of there and force it to bite.
In the autumn, in order for bream fishing to be successful, it is worth finding a suitable place on the reservoir, namely holes and edges in which bream are concentrated. If such a place is found, then bites are guaranteed. Feed such a place, find suitable bait and you can calmly, one by one, take bream and bream out of the water.
You don't need a lot of bait. If you have found a bream’s parking place, then it will not leave you, unless, of course, it strives for this and behaves calmly and quietly on the shore. In the fall, the purpose of bait is not to attract or feed the bream, but to whet its appetite. When a bream smells the aroma of a bait mixture nearby, it will naturally want to eat, and the only food nearby will most likely be your bait.
You should not look for bream in shallow water in the fall at any time of day. You need to find a depression or hole and try to put the bait at the exit from it. This is where bream likes to hang around in search of food. It should be remembered that fishing for bream in the fall means fishing for bream in cold water. And this should immediately prompt certain thoughts about the fish’s activity and food preferences - activity is underestimated, and animal food is a priority.
If you find the deepest place in a reservoir, then there is a high probability that bream is concentrated in this place. Make several casts to this place, give time for the bait to work. If no bites occur within an hour, you should do something, otherwise you can wait the whole day to no avail. Try moving to another promising place in the pond. The tactics for catching bream in the fall is to search for it.
Very good method searching for bream in a reservoir - the feeder or donka is cast to the maximum possible distance from the shore; for this it is better to use a large, heavy feeder. Then, every 5 minutes the gear is pulled up to the shore by 5-10 meters. If there are no bites within the first 5 minutes, you should pull the feeder closer a couple of meters and so on. Thus, you can easily calculate at what distance from the shore the bream is concentrated. When they start, you should mark the section of fishing line in front of the reel with a marker so that you know the next time you cast, at what distance from the shore the bites occurred.
What to use to catch bream in autumn
Choice good place for catching bream in the fall - this is only half the battle. In order to get a bream to bite, you need to know what to offer it as bait so that it cannot resist the temptation and swim past. Here you should know that almost any fish in the fall prefers animal bait, and with every day that winter approaches, catching bream with plant bait becomes more and more difficult, or even impossible.
The best baits for catching bream in the fall are:
A sandwich of any two of the listed baits works very well. Often, a worm + maggot sandwich becomes an effective bait. Don’t be afraid to experiment with bait; if you choose it correctly, the likelihood of a bite will increase significantly. The main thing is not to skimp on bait, put several worms and maggots on the hook at a time, then larger specimens will be caught more often.
The closer winter gets, the less appetite you can observe in bream. Therefore, you should attach less and less bait to the hook when catching bream every day that winter approaches. If at the beginning of autumn it was perfectly possible to catch with a bunch of 3-4 worms, then towards the end it is not recommended to hook more than two worms on a hook. You can add another maggot to these two worms and it will be an ideal dish for bream.
Plant baits in the fall, as I already said, practically do not work and their use is unlikely to be successful.
The best time to catch autumn bream
At the beginning of autumn, bream is still active around the clock, but with the approach of cold weather it already stores enough fat and its feeding time is reduced. During the day, he can devote no more than 4 hours to feeding, the rest of the time he may not pay attention to the bait at all. The best time to catch bream in the fall is dawn. Starting to bite at sunrise, bream can continue eating until lunch, after which it loses activity.
On some reservoirs it is quite active even in the evening. Having found a bream site in one of the deepest parts of the reservoir, you need to put the bait directly on the bottom. In autumn, bream does not respond well to drifting baits or baits that are suspended above the bottom.
What gear to choose for catching bream in the fall
The success of fishing can also depend on the choice of gear for autumn bream fishing. And in the fall, a feeder or donka has an undoubted advantage. Autumn fishing for bream on a feeder or donk will be more successful, because these tackles allow you to cast long distances, just in time for the holes in which the bream is kept at this time of year. In addition, next to the bait there will always be a feeder with aromatic filling and pieces of delicious bait, the same as on the hook.
Catching bream with a float rod in the autumn is also done, but it is only relevant in cases where fishing is done from a boat or if a drop to depth or a hole is located not far from the shore. But in any case, when fishing from the shore, the rod float rod must be long and at least 7 meters in length.
The boat allows you to swim as close as possible to holes and edges - potential bream sites, feed the place and cast it exactly to the planned place. Therefore, there are certain advantages here. To catch bream from a boat on a float, there is no need for a long rod, because the bream is at the closest possible distance.
As the water gets colder, bream gradually stop leaving deep places in the current and concentrate in holes, but not yet in the riverbed. The behavior of the bream becomes cautious and quite finicky, and in order to stay with the catch, you need to remember some features of catching bream in the fall.
How to feed bream in the fall
Fishing for bream in the fall will be successful, if you understand that now the bream comes out to feed at very specific points, from which no bait or bait can move it, so if the place is chosen incorrectly, then feed, don’t feed, but it won’t do any good. Since the bream concentrates without the help of the angler, much less bait may be needed for bream now than in the summer. It is no longer possible to feed by area. Feeding bream over an area only works if there is no current, very high concentration and activity of the fish, and only in the first few minutes of fishing and is used only to activate the fish at the beginning of fishing. Now it is absolutely necessary to feed exactly the same point in order to create competition between fish individuals. It is not difficult to feed exactly at the fishing point if you have a certain skill, and it is important that the balls of bait for catching bream in the fall are the same, then feeding will be much easier. To make life easier for fishermen, a special device has even been created for making standard balls, which is similar to a children's sand mold.
Supplementary feeding when fishing for bream in the fall
Since bream is not very active and relatively cautious, the greatest problems arise with additional feeding during fishing. Bombing, which is often the sin of athletes, leads to the fact that only small things remain on the bait. In order for bream fishing to be successful in the fall, it is necessary not to scare the bream; it is best to use a special plastic cup, which is attached to the end of a powerful plug whale. A ball of bait is placed in the cup, the plug is pulled out, the cup is turned over, and the bait silently falls exactly to the fishing point. The main thing with this type of feeding is not to rush, since during a break in fishing you often have to methodically, over the course of ten minutes, send ball after ball of bait to the bottom. Size of bait balls for catching bream in autumn can be as small as a table tennis ball or even smaller.
Another reason why during autumn bream fishing you cannot feed too much, lies not in the fear of overfeeding the bream. It is almost impossible to overfeed a fish to the point where it stops being interested in the bait on the hook. Of course, provided that the bait is chosen correctly. Once again I want to emphasize that large number bait can ruin fishing, if only because the total concentration of tasty and odorous substances at the fishing point can exceed the level when they lure the fish, and reach the concentration when they begin to scare them away. I personally got caught doing this every time in the fall.
Bait for catching bream in autumn
As bait for catching bream in the fall It is best to use regular feed bloodworms with the addition of maggots and chopped worms. It’s very good if there is a little crushed zebra mussel in the bait for bream. To bind bloodworms, it is optimal to use super soil or ground clay with the addition of earth. If any standard magazine is used bait for catching bream in autumn, then, in my opinion, it is better to choose bait containing coriander or fennel, as well as strawberries and thyme. It is now better to use bloodworms, worms and pearl barley as bait for bream. There are overlays with maggots. In those reservoirs where bream were caught well with maggots or with maggots and bloodworms in the summer, fishing for bream in the fall may not work, because the bream will refuse to take it at all, and this must be kept in mind. Although it also happens the other way around, that is, the colder the water becomes, the better and the larger the bream takes maggots, but pure, that is, grown on a high-quality substrate. Strange as it may seem to many, there are cases when catching bream in the fall was quite good using such summer baits as bread and dough.
Composition and consistency of bait for catching bream in autumn must always be of very high quality. We have to remember that adding each additional component, usually a flavoring, can lead to a negative result, so the summer principle of adding everything that is at hand does not work - it is very easy to spoil the bait for bream.
Bream fishing in autumn complicated by the fact that the behavior of the bream during its exit to the bank edge and the same bream, but which has rolled down to the riverbed, differ. And this difference lies not only in the fact that near the shore, bream is better caught with bloodworms, and near the riverbed, bream is better caught with a worm, but also that bream near the shore and on the riverbed react differently to different baits:
- Near the shore, bream can be tied, indeed tied, to the fishing point exclusively with animal components of bait, despite the fact that plant components also attract its attention.
- Closer to the riverbed in autumn bream fishing, the most effective baits are those with the maximum content of plant components, for example, millet porridge, but with the obligatory addition of chopped worms or ground zebra mussels.
It should be noted that this also largely depends on the strength of the current, since in a very strong current the bloodworms and maggots are washed out of the bait very quickly, and it makes sense to switch to the same millet porridge when fishing near the shore edge.
Tactics for catching bream in the fall - gear and bite
The bream biting pattern in the fall has also changed. He began to take carefully and in approaches, that is, after two or three bites there is a break. If in the summer bream in the current are often tempted by free-falling, floating or dragging bait along the bottom, then in the fall - almost never or very rarely and small ones.
Because in autumn the best places for catching bream are the upper reaches of the pit, then when catching large bream it is best if the bait simply lies motionless on the bottom. To achieve this, you need a plug and often the longest one, that is, 14-16 meters. You can, of course, also use a half-bottom, constructed from a fly rod, but, as a rule, this is completely inconvenient and ineffective, since it is almost impossible to accurately and for a long time place the bait on the groundbait.
Because fishing for bream in autumn comes down to simply holding the equipment in place; equipment with flat floats becomes optimal. (People often ask how you can fish with flat floats using a fly rod? Traditional flat floats are not suitable for this purpose at all. However, now flat floats have appeared, designed according to the principle of the famous boat - so they can help those who do not have a plug.) The drag of a traditional flat float is reduced to a minimum, which ensures very high stability of the rig even in the strongest currents. Moreover, the stronger the current, the more effective equipment with flat floats is. In addition to the main keel, a traditional float has an additional wire support, which is designed to prevent the fishing line from tangling behind the base of the keel. The antenna can be like a regular float, but it is better to use flat and wide antennas. Since the float is always parallel to the shore, the flat antenna is always very clearly visible. Remote float console. through which the fishing line passes, can be in two versions. In the first and outdated version, there is a pass ring at the end of the console. The ring is moved with the help of a console from the body of the float so that by bending the console it is possible to adjust the angle between the application of forces from the side of the rod and from the side of the sinker, that is, to adjust the vertical position of the float in the water depending on the current and depth. Now the ring on the console is being replaced with a clasp. The fastener is formed by bending the tip of the console. A hard cambric up to three centimeters long is placed on the curved part. By moving the cambric in one direction or another, the position of the float in the water is adjusted. For today the best floats for catching bream in autumn I consider Cralusso floats, made of durable polypropylene foam and having a specially designed profile.
Equipment for catching bream in autumn represents enough simple design, in which the entire load is reduced to a sliding olive lying on the bottom. And the olive lies at the bottom precisely at the beginning of the hole, directly on the lower transverse shore edge. If the current is very strong, then in order to reduce the bending of the arc of the fishing line between the float and the weight, a heavy (0.5 g) feeder is placed below the olive, which necessarily lies at the bottom. In this case, the descent is measured so that the olive is literally one to five centimeters above the bottom. It is very important to adjust, or rather, select the length of the leash. In almost all cases, a leash (a fishing line between the hook and the hook) of at least half a meter in length is preferable, and only if the current is uneven, does it make sense to reduce its length. However, this general recommendation, and if you feel that there is a fish, but is not biting, then you need to experiment, changing both the descent and the length of the leash.
