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Unique vertical fishing lures are considered the only lure for winter jigging. Their design makes them easy to use. What are the distinctive features and advantages of winter lures? What makes them suitable for fishing at any time of year? What are their characteristics?
What does a winter spoon look like?
Most often, any bait is made in the form of live bait, insects, rodents, leeches, frogs, etc. However, it is not at all necessary for a spinner to have a perfect resemblance to living representatives of nature.
There are simple, hand-crafted fishing tackle made from pieces of metal, tin, copper, or lead. These are commonly called "balda" (unclear objects). Because their design bears no resemblance to living organisms, winter lures are proof of this.
Experienced anglers have a wide selection of vertical fishing lures in their arsenal, shaped like bullets, nails, and petals. And hungry predators, especially in winter, eagerly attack a moving target.
Types of baits for vertical fishing.
The lures used in winter have different shapes:
A nail is a passive lure for vertical jigging of predatory fish. It's used in extreme cold or in deep waters thick with algae, where such a lure is clearly indispensable.
The leaf is a popular type of winter lure that allows fishing in waters of varying depths.
Beetle – this lure allows you to catch fairly large predators. Perch and pike are most often caught with this lure.
A bullet lure is primarily used to catch predators from a boat or motorboat. This type of lure has many names, including "corn," "balda," and "pear." In bodies of water teeming with predators, this tackle is indispensable.
In addition to the winter lures mentioned above, there are many other different lures and spinners. Some of these include balancers or glow-in-the-dark spinners, which have recently become very popular.
Unique features of these species include their multicolored hues, which can attract predators even in pitch darkness. Winter fishing lures often vary in weight and length, but this isn't considered particularly important. After all, any hungry predator—perch, pike, grayling, and whitefish—bites indiscriminately in winter.
Advantages of fishing with a vertical spoon.
The special feature of this bait is:
1. It allows you to fish in places where the bottom of the reservoir is strewn with snags or overgrown with algae.
2. Helps to catch large predators in any season, regardless of spring, autumn, winter, summer.
3. A vertical spoon easily copes with any depth. Therefore, its use is in high demand and popular.
4. Such baits are equally useful for ice fishing in winter, as well as for jigging in summer from a boat or steep banks.
These are far from all the advantages of vertical lures. You can learn more about the benefits of winter lures by taking trophy fishing tours on the Putorana Plateau.
