Spring fishing of predatory fish on the Akhtuba river

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Akhtuba river, which is essentially the left arm of the Volga, originates from Volgograd and stretches almost parallel to the main channel of the Volga as much as 540 kilometers. Between the Volga and Akhtuba is the Volga floodplain, almost completely flooded by the waters of both rivers during the spring flood. After the decline of water in the entire area, the locals grow watermelons, onions, melons, tomatoes. And the water for watering the melon plantations, and vegetable plantations is taken from the Akhtuba. Water intake stations are located on the shore every 300-500 meters.
Akhtuba fishing in the Volgograd and Astrakhan regions, in fact, a second "home" reservoir. There are a lot of fish in this river, including species diversity. From peaceful fish interesting bream, carp, carp. The main predatory species in the catches of fishermen-catfish, pike, perch, zander and ASP.
Several times I had to fish as the concentration increased, and many Eriks , often connecting the Akhtuba and Volga rivers through the maze of duct. It was there that my partner and I had a very bright fishing for pike, when we caught more than 130 pieces of pike for two! It was early spring, early April. Pike at this time going in some places Akhtuba in large numbers to the beginning of lift water to go in floodplain lakes to spawn. We caught this time on jig baits. Sometimes for the sake of diversity set lures or baits, but the jig pike bite is much better.
If you find yourself in early spring at one of the fishing bases on the Akhtuba river, you should have a spinning with a test by weight of lures up to 28-42 grams, a coil of dimension 3000-4000 in the line of Shimano, cord #1,0-1,2 in the Japanese classification. The main lures in the early spring period will be silicone, foam and polyurethane foam jig lures. Weights of weights from 12 to 28 grams. Leashes of string or thick fluorocarbon when fishing pike required...

Just the other day, Alexander Demin from the Stalingrad Fishers team with his friend went to Akhtuba to try to look for predatory fish from the shore. They counted mainly on medium-sized perch. And what happened as a result, see the video report of Sasha Demin...

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