Grayling is a fish with excellent vision, allowing you to see the insect at a distance of several meters. At the sight of prey, the fish rises rapidly to the surface, captures it and returns back to its original position. Therefore, fishing for grayling is difficult, because throwing a fly at the burst site is pointless.
It is a great pleasure to observe lake grayling during mass flights of insects. Fish try to capture them on the fly, while jumping out of the water. Sometimes their number can reach several tens or even hundreds.
During summer floods, which are accompanied by turbidity of the water, grayling fishing becomes passive in nature, as its bite on the fly is weakened. At such moments, fish can most often be found in shallow coastal areas, where the water settles a little. Here you can catch fish on different natural lures of light colors. In autumn, grayling can be caught during daylight hours. With the approach of cold weather, biting time is reduced.
In autumn, grayling spinning brings great luck. This fish is most responsive to unpolished copper or brass spinners. Of great interest is fishing on artificial insects. It uses flies representing an exact copy of fry or insects, as well as flies that have no analogues in nature.
Fishing for grayling will be successful if you resort to a little trick. For example, as a bait, it is more advisable to use signs of an insect or fry, which are characteristic of a given period of time.
Dry fly fishing is also used, characterized by colorful plumage and held on the surface of the water due to water-repellent impregnation. Such fishing is carried out using fly fishing gear or telescopic fishing rods. After the dry flies are thrown into the water, they slowly swim through the water surface, and the fish can see them well enough.
There is another way without which grayling fishing is not complete. This is the use of wet flies that can mimic a variety of larvae of insects, leeches, worms, beetles and water bugs. Streamers - baits that resemble fish fry - find their application. They are made on hooks with a long forearm. The plumage in such baits is quite long and plays and sways in the process of posting through water.
The most universal color of flies when catching grayling near the surface of the water is considered to be red. With the onset of dusk, flies of white, pale pink and yellow are most often used. In clear and sunny weather, insects of dark brown and black tones are good, which are close in color to the winged ants appearing at that time . The best flies intended for catching grayling are flies made from the neck feathers of a red cock. Feathers of grouse, pheasants, hazel grouse, partridge, wild ducks are also used.
The mounting thread is thin nylon or silk. The most durable and durable flies are obtained if, in addition to the assembly thread, a small amount of waterproof glue is used for gluing insect elements. The body of the flies consists of threads from large feathers or wool. Imitation of an articulated abdomen of an insect is carried out by winding in a spiral thread of a different color. The fly’s head is made from the mounting thread of the latter, and is impregnated with a colorless nail polish, which holds the structure of the insect together.
Grayling fishing in winter is carried out on rocky shallows up to two meters deep. In winter, grayling does not stop feeding. However, when trout spawning begins, grayling ceases to pay attention to bait. The food for him is trout caviar.
When catching grayling in winter , small baubles and mormyshka are used. The spinner should be narrow, about fifty millimeters long, with one side silvery and the other made of red copper.
Without knowledge of all these subtleties, hunting for grayling will be in vain, and it will not bring a good catch.