Fishing for pike on summer girders

Zherlitsa is a classic pike tackle, which has not lost its popularity in our time. Its main advantages over active spinning fishing or trolling are the use of a natural food object - fry - and the length of time the rig is in the same place, which does not cause suspicion in the predator and provides more confident bait grip even during low pike activity. In addition, this tackle is very easy to make and use yourself. In the hot season, you can catch on it not only pike - fishing with girders in summer also allows you to catch a large trophy perch, pike perch, ide, asp.

Since such tackles are not sold in the store, many anglers who want to master this method of fishing have to make them on their own - therefore, in this article, in addition to the device and fishing technique, we will consider how to easily and quickly make various summer pike trays with our own hands for non-winter fishing.

Features of fishing for pike on girders in summer

Fishing with homemade summer tackles, unlike other pike tackle, has its own characteristic features. These include:

• Passive fishing - installed girders do not require the presence and participation of the fisherman in attracting pike.
• Easy to manufacture and use - the device of the gutter in the summer does not require special skills and tools, the design, when fishing, provides self-hooking and reliable retention of the hooked fish.
• Lack of visually observable moment of bite - in most cases, the angler does not see the moment the pike grabs the bait.
• The possibility of long-term stay in one place - "charged" and securely fastened zerlitsa can be left in a promising place for a long time. Its strong attachment to a pole, tree or other stable object on the shore, as well as the use of thick fishing line, allows you not to fear that the tackle will be torn off or pulled under the water by a hooked pike.

What are summer vents and how to make them yourself

In the course of the development of its design, many different types of summer pike traps have appeared.

Depending on the features of the equipment and design, there are such types of summer vents as:

• Put it on.
• Hanging vents.
• Anchored girders.

Summer vents of these types have differences not only in equipment, but also in installation methods.. Let's take a closer look at each species with its varieties, installation and installation on a pond.

Postavushi

These gutters are designed for fishing on ponds with the flow... Depending on the design and method of attachment to the shore, there are such varieties as:

• Simple - the rigging of such a vent consists of 5-6 meters of fishing line with a cross section of 0.5-0.6 mm, at the end of which a sinker weighing 30-50 grams is attached. Above the sinkers with a step of 0.5 meters, two loops for leashes are made on the line. The length of the leashes is on average 40-45 cm, they are made from the same fishing line as the main equipment. Leashes are tied to the main line using the loop-to-loop method - for this, strong double loops are made at the ends of the leashes. Leashes are equipped with double or triple hooks. The resulting rig is wound on a reel or a plastic reel from under the line. When installed on hooks, small fish are baited, the required amount of fishing line is unwound, the baited rig is lowered into the water. The reel or reel is attached to a branch or bush hanging over the water using the remnants of the fishing line.

• With coil - is constructively the same winter zherlitsa. To make it, a spring with a flag made of bright red or light green fabric is screwed onto the self-tapping screws to the top of a long stick, a bracket with a coil is attached just below. The end of the stick is sharpened. The rigging is used the same as in the previous design, with the difference that the amount of the main line can be increased to 10-15 meters. They catch on this tackle in the following way - they bait the fry on the hooks, throw the rig into the water from the hand, according to the donkey principle; the gore is stuck with a sharp end into the soil of the shore; the reel is used to tension the line. A spring with a flag is wound inside the spool groove. When biting, the coil turns and the spring, when released, straightens, signaling to the angler about the capture of the predator.

• Floating - assembled from a large foam or cork float to a ring, in the body of which the main equipment with a sinker and two leads, as well as a cord for casting tackle, are attached. The baited post is thrown with a cord from the shore or brought in by boat. The cord is tied to a tree or a peg driven into the shore.

Video: pike for supplies or summer girders

Suspended

These are classic Sabaneevskie zherlitsa. Depending on the design, there are:

• Simple - 12-15 meters of monofilament fishing line with a section of 0.3-0.4 mm is wound on a cut wooden slingshot, a sliding "olive" sinker weighing from 5 to 15 grams is put on, fixed on both sides with silicone stoppers.A metal tungsten leash up to 30 cm long with a double or triple hook at the end is tied to the end of the main line. The girdle obtained in this way is attached with a nylon cord to a tree or a thick bush, or a stake driven into the shore. The fry is baited onto the hook and, after releasing the required amount of fishing line, they fix it in a split at the end of one of the branches of the slingshot.
• With shock absorber - the rigging of such a summer pike girdle is assembled in the same way as the previous one. The difference lies in the presence of a rubber shock absorber fixed parallel to the line in a ratio of 4: 1 (line: shock absorber), and the absence of a reel - all rigging is attached to the top of the pole. When biting, the shock absorber very well softens the jerks of the fish and contributes to better and more reliable self-chopping.

Video: installing a summer vent from the shore

Anchored

This zherlitsa is a circle with a snap from the post. They make a similar tackle (zerlitsa) for pike with their own hands as follows:

1. A circle with a diameter of 12-13 cm and a thickness of 2.5-3 cm is cut out from the selected floating material with a jigsaw.
2. A hole is made in the center of the circle and a stick is inserted into it with a cutout at the top.
3. A groove is cut along the rim of the mug.
4. A snap is wound into the groove.
5. The top of the mug is covered with red waterproof paint and the bottom is white.
6. Slits are made along the rim of the mug on two opposite sides for attaching the fishing line.

When installing such a girdle, the required amount of line is rewound slightly larger than the depth at the point of fishing, the amount of fishing line, it is alternately attached in the slots on the rim of the circle, in the slot at the end of the antenna tip.

When biting, the pike pulls the rig and the circle turns over when the antenna lever is applied, notifying the angler about the bite.

Video: do-it-yourself summer zherlitsa for pike

Where and when to catch pike in the summer on zherlitsy

In order to catch a toothy predator with these tackles, it is not enough to know how to assemble them correctly - you also need to be able to choose the most suitable place, time and weather for installing the girder.

Fishing for pike on girders in summer from the shore and from a boat is most efficient in places such as:

• Small backwaters and bays with a sharp drop in depth and a small reverse current.
• The border of clear water and thickets of reeds, reeds.
• Windows in thickets of water lilies and other aquatic vegetation.
• Driftwood and flooded bushes.
• Trees hanging over the water.
• Mouths of rivers and streams flowing into a pond or lake.
• Places where there are underwater hillocks and submerged trees at the bottom.
• Outcrops, headlands and islets of aquatic vegetation, behind which there is less current.
• Sandy spits adjacent to steep dumps in depth.

Video: pike fishing with summer girders in reed thickets

During the summer, due to the intense heat, the activity of the pike is not as high as in the spring and autumn. In the context of the day, two peaks of pike activity are observed in summer:

• Early morning - with the rising of the sun and until the onset of the heat of the day.
• Late evening - from the moment when the sun sets low enough for the heat to subside until the onset of evening twilight.

At night, pike practically does not feed - unlike catfish, bream and pike perch, this fish leads daytime lifestyle.

Pike activity also depends on weather conditions... Pressure, wind, air temperature, precipitation affect the appetite of a predator:

• So,cold snap and bad weather make pike motionless and lethargic - she practically does not hunt and stands in one place, not patrolling her site.
• In the afternoon in hot, windless pike days also inactive - she hides in the shade of trees and bushes hanging over the water, stands under the leaves of water lilies, in thickets of reeds and other coastal vegetation. Particularly large pikes prefer to stay away from the shore in pits and pools with flooded snags.
• After hot days burst of activity pike observed in warm cloudy days with light rains.

Video: pike to the zherlitsa in summer

How to catch pike with summer girders: technique and tactics of fishing

The process of catching pike with various types of summer girders consists of finding a place, casting the baited tackle, checking it periodically, and playing the hooked pike. Now let's take a closer look at each of these stages:

• Search for a place - walking along the coast, we notice 3-4 promising places with a distance of at least 10-15 meters between them. This is necessary in order not to spend a lot of time both for setting up the gear and for checking them.
• Casting gear - the baited tackle is tied to a pole, tree or a peg driven into the shore and carefully thrown into the water. For fishing on a small river or pond, 3-4 girders are quite enough - this number is quite enough to catch 3-4 pikes with normal activity of the predator. A large number of galls are not only illegal, but also inconvenient.
• Periodic tackle check - if the tackle is abandoned during the day, then it is better to check it in the late afternoon. The tackle installed in the evening can be left overnight and checked in the morning.
• Rescue - as a rule, when fishing with summer girders, pike itself is hooked by the fisherman, all that remains is to pull it to the shore. Taking into account the fact that the rig uses a fairly thick and strong line, large hooks and a metal leash, you can play out the hooked fish quite confidently and quickly. When playing, it is better to wear gloves so as not to cut your hands when jerking the fish with a fishing line.

If it feels like a large fish on the hook, then it should be pulled out gently, gently pulling it to the shore, handing over a small amount of line when jerking, and again performing smooth stretches.

Video: summer pike fishing

When fishing for pike on girders, it is very important to observe the size of fish permissible for catch, releasing all small pikes that have not reached a length of 40 cm.It is also necessary to always remove installed girders - forgotten tackle with a hooked pike leads to the fact that it suffocates and slowly rots, becoming a source infections.

In general, this tackle, despite its not sportiness, according to the spinningists, is very catchy and interesting and, having figured out how to correctly make a summer zerlitsa for pike and how to catch it, you can always be without buying expensive spinning reels and lures with a decent catch.

Video: do-it-yourself summer zherlitsa for pike