A jigging without borders

The author: O.Vjunnik

If you sometime were in a puppet theatre saw dolls - puppets which the puppeteer by means of thin, invisible threads operates. About the same occurs and at catching on Irish jigs, only a thread (scaffold) at the fisher one, and he should try to recover a slice of soft plastic. And to recover so that at fish there was no the slightest doubts in that that, before it an object of a food.

Soft plastic baits.

Baits from soft plastic have appeared for the first time in the American market of fishing tackles in the sixties, then have quickly won popularity in the Western Europe and the last 5 - 6 years accustom our fishers. We still should test on fishing not one ten plastic imitations of small fishes, hearts, amphibious, the crustacea, insects as this list constantly extends.

Active or passive.

B to the fishing literature often there is a division of plastic baits into two groups - active and passive. Active name the baits having own game at uniform conducting, passive - not having games.

Such division not so is pleasant To me. Jig conducting - action difficult also can include to five phases: bait lifting, uniform conducting, free having floated or free falling, drawing on a bottom, vertical movements of a bait. It is possible to diversify any of these phases in addition with movement of a tip of a fishing-rod so game of any, so-called passive bait can be made overactive. If and to divide baits, on activity of their work in this or that phase the jigging of conducting.

For example, ви6рохвосты and twisters actively work in all phases, an imitations of the crustacea, oktopuses, octopuses though do not wag at uniform conducting, but so effectively move with the numerous finitenesses at free falling what to name their passive language does not turn. Well, a movements of a plastic frog at twitching by a tip of a fishing-rod from original movements in general are difficult for distinguishing. It seems to me, that there are no passive baits, there is a passive conducting a bait by fishers.

The vibrating-tails and twisters.

These are two most widespread kinds of plastic baits, and to begin development a jigging it is necessary from them. From all variety of models ви6рохвостов and twisters for reservoirs without a current or with a weak current the baits made of the softest plastic approach.

I have stopped the choice on firm Mann's baits. Thanks to the design, vibrating-tail Predator-3 made of very soft plastic is capable to stir even a passive predator. Do not concede in quality and large twisters of this firm (the photo see). The wide colour scale allows to adapt to any conditions on a reservoir and to any mood of a predator. These two baits will approach all: and catching experience on Irish jigs is a beginner, and that, y whom already.

Buying baits of irregularly, different sizes and different manufacturers, you only complicate to yourselves a bait choice on a reservoir. To begin with quite enough these two baits, on them you will fish is guaranteed, a here colour variants should be not less than five. The total of baits in your box should be not less than twenty pieces - on four pieces of five colours.

Baits should be equipped Irish jigs - heads which weight Depends on prospective depth of catching. For example, the set of Irish jigs-heads in weight 5, will approach 7, 9 and 11 for catching on depths from 1,5 to 7 m in the absence of a current and to 5 m at a weak current. The set of Irish jigs-heads in weight 7, 9,11 and 14 gramme will allow to catch on depths from 3 to 10 m at a weak current, a c a set of Irish jigs-heads in weight 11, 14, 18 and 21 gramme can be caught on depths from 5 to 15 m at a weak and average Current. B any case the Quantity of weight categories of heads should be not less than four, it will allow to achieve good work of a bait on different depths.

 

A colour Choice. Whether so it is important?

On these two baits all predators are well caught: the pike, a pike perch, a perch and a catfish, but most of all to me is pleasant to catch a pike perch. The pike perch differs special fastidiousness in relation to colour of a bait. Even during the periods of the greatest activity when it can be caught on a bait of any colour, it all the same is better reacts to any one colour.

Be on different reservoirs, I tried to establish a certain law in selection of colour of a bait, but have soon thrown this employment and each time I select colour of a bait by practical consideration directly on a reservoir. And still some general recommendations about selection of colour of a bait are. First of all, two obvious factors should be considered: a transparency of water and light exposure of a reservoir.

The American ichthyologists, studying features of sight of a pike perch, have found out, that the pike perch distinguishes 13 colour shades, but is better sees orange and yellow colours (fig. see). It at all does not mean, that the pike perch will always prefer baits of these colours, however in muddy water when visual contact of a predator c a victim is complicated, it is really well caught on baits of is bright-lemon colour.

If Water transparent, a day Solar good results give baits, brown and dark green colours, and cloudy days - silvery and bright green baits.

The Big influence on tastes of a pike perch is rendered by a prevailing forage reserve. If at present a basis of a food of a predator bull-calves it will be caught on dark baits, an if make a fry of "white" fish on light, but it can be found out only by practical consideration. For this reason baits of six colours have constantly registered in my box.

Each fisher catching a pike perch on plastic baits, has priorities in a choice of a kind and colour of a bait. There is an interesting psychological Phenomenon - Bepa In the Bait. She can play with you a malicious joke, after all the pike perch of anything knows about your belief. The fisher can rinse hours per water the favourite vibrating-tail, on which some more days Back it was perfectly caught, and not to achieve result, but it is necessary to replace colour of a bait and a biting start to follow one another in "dead" before a place. Experiment also you will see more safely, that the pike perch is caught not only on that, in what you trusted.

THE FISHER-UKRAINA `
№6.2001