Осенняя рыбалка в горах Прибайкалья. За ленком по Турокче

Salmon like its closest relatives the salmon makes seasonal migrations Fish migrate upstream to spawn as the ice melts which begins in the first half of May By the end of August the fish begins to migrate to wintering grounds from small mountain streams and springs into larger rivers To the sections in their lower reaches where there are deep holes The peak of the autumn migration of the saker falcon occurs during the height of the leaf fall near Lake Baikal This is the best time to catch him with various fishing gear From this period until the ice forms the lenok feeds actively At this time it is well caught in riffles as well as in deep pools This strong and beautiful fish is sometimes called the river leopard due to its lightning-fast grip The grayling looks more like a young taimen Its body is elongated and covered with small scales The coloration is quite varied and depends on the feeding location Fishing for pike is an activity for inquisitive energetic and persistent people capable of genuine passion This fish either does not touch the soul or binds it forever Often not sparing either her car or her health the lynx searches for new habitats Fishing villages in the Trans-Baikal region are located in the most inaccessible places From the Barguzin village of Ina it took us the whole day to reach the upper reaches of Tuракчи Crossing her fast tributaries on the Uazik several times The hardest part was crossing the largest right tributary of Turakchi the Bagunda Vladimir crosses the river with his car using the old reliable method Diagonally downstream with an exit to the opposite bank via a safe shallow area The Turakcha River originates on the western slope of the Yakatag Range A rafting section on the river starts 20 kilometers from the source 50 kilometers from this place You can reach it only by driving on the old road during the low water level period on a four-wheel drive vehicle Built by geologists about 30 years ago In recent years the road has become heavily overgrown with aspen and birch The car has difficulty navigating the switchback turn The incline is steep even for a UAZ The engine is overheating quickly We stop to clear the radiator grille of leaves And after an hour we climb up to the ridge's flat summit Twenty years ago a severe fire raged in these areas destroying almost all the vegetation We descend along a narrow ravine to the ruins of Turakchi following a barely visible animal trail There is a lot of fallen trees in the forest The Stepantsov brothers come to fish in these waters almost every year It is becoming increasingly difficult to reach the upper reaches of the river The forest enterprise has closed the roads have been abandoned and are gradually eroding And the years are not what they used to be with a heavy backpack you can't go far They set up camp by the riverbank Winding streams of the Mountainous Transbaikal region are in most cases habitats for the lenok The width of them rarely exceeds 40 meters They are full of numerous rapids holes and deep pools and are very beautiful especially in their upper reaches There is a small eddy just upstream We decided to start with him the traditional autumn catch of pike by the local hunters Fishing by only known signs even before reaching this section of the river the fishermen knew for sure that there was plenty of fish here Therefore with calm confidence they began to raid the central part of the island Mikhail quickly mastered the new spinning rod and reels in his first pike The foreign tackle did not let us down The choice of Mepps spinners also proved successful They strike at the lure both at the beginning and the end of the cast when the bait is almost out of the water The shores of mountain rivers overgrown with rosehip willow and young growth of coniferous and deciduous trees They pose a serious obstacle to foot fishing Therefore local fishermen sometimes float downstream on inflatable boats or rafts Stopping at the favorite rocks and holes The beauty of the autumn rivers in the Baikal region remains in memory for a long time They impress the imagination with their unique combination at any time of year The colors of mountain forests rocky individuals rocks and ravines And a delicious fish soup prepared over a fire from a freshly caught lenok or taimen It will often appear in dreams after returning home Water salt onion potato fish - seems like nothing complicated But not everyone can cook a real hearty fish soup The secret of her preparation lies in the unique experience of taiga travels accumulated by the fisherman over many years But what is most memorable on mountain rivers is not the fish but the splashing in the rapids on the riffles where the river current flows It speeds through splashes and foam the moments of playing a large golden trout It seems like the fish is biting here We need to salt the fish It's biting you see in the sunshine But who will be such a nice Lenochka After a successful catch the fish usually makes one or several bubbles It makes a sharp turn several times trying to get rid of the hooks Usually the river leopard resists until the end The Turaqche has deep pools or depressions no more than two kilometers apart Rocks with fast currents are found before each bend of the river New fish usually begin to be caught by fishermen from the edge of the current and the quiet water In such places the grayling prefers to feed on medium and large-sized insects carried by the current The diet of freshwater salmon is quite varied and allows for the use of various tackle and lures Regarding spinning lures all fishermen agree one thing They must be effective Opinions vary greatly in all other aspects Some are used to fishing only with homemade flies others with spinner flies or mice Some perfect their skills at night others during the day and others love the morning and evening dawns As shown by the experience of Lake Baikal fishermen the optimal tackle for small mountain streams is A lightweight telescopic fishing rod no longer than two meters with a test weight of 20-30 grams With such a tackle it is easy to move along the shore and make casts even through small gaps in the trees In the fall if the water is clear and the day is sunny the pike bites better on a dark matte lure with yellow-orange spots and a golden border And in twilight or murky water - shiny The flounder grows slowly This fish weighing almost 2 kilograms is about 7-8 years old Since there are many leeches in Irkovya-Turovchia Catch his closest competitor on the river Taimen Luck is very rare The 5-centimeter young salmon begins to eat the roe and the newly hatched fry of other species As he grows he becomes the fiercest predator of the Taimen's young especially in his spawning grounds Large taimen have not been in Turovche for 20 years In autumn the migrating grayling accumulates in feeding pools Where it can remain for a long time Fish come to such places both alone and in small groups Large larks often roll into wintering pits in pairs and last Fish have gathered in large numbers in this stretch of the river In the headwater area there were various sizes of lenki and ubiquitous haryus A rare cast goes without a bite Mostly young silver minnows are caught They are not very picky about food in the fall and immediately attack any bait Large graylings are caught using a lures made of flax This one got caught with the treble hook in its dorsal fin One feature of the distribution of the lenka along the river is the presence of a calm spot in the current This fish doesn't like to move its tail too much and prefers to feed while staying in one place It feeds at any time of day but is especially active in the morning until 10 a m and just before sunset Unlike taimen and lenok the lenok feeds on a more varied diet In the fall the main part of the diet consists of Invertebrates crustaceans small mollusks and other insects Large individuals hunt mice frogs and often lenok In the evening fishing became even more interesting Almost every cast was accompanied by a strike from a pike or a large lenok There was almost no snowfall Several fish were caught on the hook We process all the fish we caught during the day before it gets dark and prepare a stew for dinner The next stop was made at a shallow sandbar one kilometer downstream There were few fish on it The lark does not linger at every pit during autumn migration Sometimes until the arrival of a new group A fish that has been sliding all day can be waited for Autumn fish migration somehow inevitably makes one compare it to the autumn migration of birds which also having rested from the long journey rise on their wings and disappear into the blue distance We continue downstream in search of other fishy advantages You cast your lure into the sparkling current with excitement at the new spot And every moment you wait for the grip of a powerful predator Vladimir has already made his second successful catch on this spot This time a one -kilogram beauty was caught With a dark gray back Lankas with this coloration usually live near fast riffles and cold springs The migration distance of mature lenok on the Tuura River like other rivers in the Baikal region It is on average between 20 and 50 kilometers The river's tributary rises to the very top of the river including second- and third-order tributaries Ice is often found in high mountain glacial lakes A young moose does not go far from its birthplace and has a light gray color The lenok which inhabits deep river bends and taiga lakes is much larger His back is almost black and his belly is white On the reddish sides there are clearly defined spots and speckles A scale with a golden sheen The Stepantsovs call these larks Chechens Their weight can reach 4 kilograms The autumn golden forest shines in the September sun The turquoise river winds through the Ikat Mountains This river holds no secrets They once roamed these regions in groups At the beginning of the last century their already small tribes Smallpox swept through and the remaining ones gradually died off In a short time the fiery water sent almost all the indigenous people of the Barguzin taiga to the upper earth Breaking the original silence of the Ikat mountains Sometimes on the shores of Turkachi the guttural songs of the vanished taiga people echo They can be heard only on quiet September nights there where the Vensky shamans were buried One of the last Baikal Evenki from the Shamagir clan once told me "You are changing this world more and more " The more you do the more you make it unrecognizable it becomes foreign you stop understanding it you stop feeling it You stop loving him It is in this estrangement from nature that ultimately all your countless troubles arise The heroes of this film are certain that fishing is one of the few remaining threads that have survived Which still connects us to nature returns to us that long lost world Through fishing a person remembers the time whe And he himself is part of nature The Stepantsov brothers were always drawn to these regions and they are sure that it is this unconscious memory makes our hearts beat faster when on the taut string of the fishing line The hand suddenly feels the live weight of the fish Time flies quickly when fishing It was getting dark in the village but the day was still filled with sunlight The owner of Turakchi reluctantly parts with the warmth of summer These were once the sites of the famous horse trail The road connecting Barguzin Valley with Bount Tsipikan and Karolon Michael who worked as a miner at the Bonanza gold mines He had walked it many times in search of a happy fate At 65 he is still ready to embark on the most dangerous journey The day went well Each fisherman in his heart thanks the owner of these places And habitually cleaning the fish he makes plans for the next day The taiga stood quiet all night In the morning the first casts into the pit caught the previous evening's catch we made before dawn In the twilight Lenok sees the fisherman poorly and takes the lure almost from right under his feet Vladimir was right A few fish had rolled into the pit during the night In September the sun still shines warmly during the day Today the sky is clear not a single cloud So they stopped to process and salt the morning catch earlier than usual Local fishermen do not respect sport fishing with its "catch and release" principle For them fishing is natural and necessary only to feed their families Catch injure and then release the fish back into the river they say is not entirely ethical and even cruel In warm days the salting of lenki is done more strongly Fish are kept in special bags for several days before being brought home placing them in cold river water at night In the middle the tourist path adorned autumn forests descend to the water's edge They irresistibly allure with their unexplored paths and the scents of resins and dried herbs The Barguzin taiga covered in a transparent blue haze is frozen in a quiet slumber Soon the flying predators will fly to warm countries local fishermen will wear fur clothing And they will search for the Lankovs under the dark Turaqchi tomb bound by a meter-thick layer of ice and snow Every end has its beginning Knowing about spring nature does not grieve It is already preparing for the upcoming summer its most numerous offspring Fishing for lenok in northern Baikal during summer is little different from autumn The same blurry roads the same rivers and fishing gear But catching a river leopard is much more difficult in summer because the lynx behaves more cautiously As the heat sets in during the day the lures hide among the underwater rocks and other shelters They mainly go to feed at night and at dawn Additionally the fish spread out into numerous tributaries With cold spring water and moves closer to the riffles Therefore in the deep pools and holes in the middle of the river Lena remains little Choosing the right bait for summer fishing can also be challenging It is necessary to observe the insects that the trout is feeding on at this time and then carefully select the material for the artificial fly The local fishermen have up to 200 different types of flies in their arsenal and each one has its own unique feature Catching large lenki on a turakch in summer is also more difficult Because they are the first to migrate to inaccessible tributaries and to the very headwaters of the river The world surrounding the Barguzin fishermen is fantastically beautiful They are in love with their crystal-clear rivers sky mountains and taiga Vladimir says that a person will never be truly happy without a sense of love for their small hometown The life of the Stepantsyov brothers was filled with many large and small journeys Life among the mountains tested them time and again It was not by blood that the taiga united their kindred souls but by the essence of their hearts They have formed their own perspective on the usual course of events And they believe that one day people will come to their lands not to destroy what is there That they are used to loving and creating and renewing They have been waiting for me for a long time where I have never been Smoke will swirl around the tent The fire will rise above the river If only I could spend my whole life young to never desire rest What will come perhaps is not once Postures frost and anxious happiness In such a world we have