Catching yazya from a boat on spinning

Surely many people have seen the video “dream fish”, where a man satisfied with catching a yazya shouted about it on the whole river. I also have a storm of emotions, because just one fight with this strongest opponent gives great pleasure, and it is very difficult to outwit him. In my conditions of three large rivers and a couple of small rivers, in which the yazi enters only in spring and only in the presence of normal water level, his search is very difficult. Therefore, catching this beauty is very interesting. During the summer and fall period I catch yazya only from a boat. And when everything coincides: the right place, bait, and you have in your hands a tackle that is ready to fight with such a strong fish – you just get incredible pleasure. And here about all of the above I want to tell in this article.

Choosing a place

With this there are the greatest difficulties. It is necessary to understand what we want to catch yazya, gregarious or solitary. The gregarious yazi comes out to feed periodically in certain places with anomalies, such as rocky ridges, rolls, coquina or rubble bark on the shoal. Outputs often do not last very long, then the yazi goes to rest on the pit, from where it is not easy to catch him spinning. Single yazya, on the one hand, catch easier, because it is worth to calculate the place of his dislocation and you only need to correctly select and submit the bait. But given the fact that the number of this beautiful fish is not so great, the probability of missing such a place or not to get into the bait is also very large. Such places can be overhanging trees or bushes above the water, coastal muffle, when nearby around the shoal or backwash with a pronounced rebound jet.

Baits

The main baits on the yazya are small oscillators, spinners and wobblers. Swingers should be up to 3-3.5 centimeters long, which will imitate a small fry or bug. For example, SV Koketka, Forest Miu, Norstream Morgan.

Select the fluctuators under your conditions. If you have a strong current, it is worth choosing more runny options, if the current is weak, you can take and wide models. But those blades that “corkscrew” against the current, you can successfully conduct, throwing the bait upstream, and often it is such a feed provokes the yazya to attack. Blesna very slowly, faintly falling over from side to side in the current, heading towards the fish, and she sees an exhausted fry, which will not be able to escape from the predator.

The spinner is probably the simplest bait. In contrast to other baits, on it most often I fell on it bites of different sizes. Do not choose a troller with a petal larger than the second number. The most universal size of the petal, in my opinion, is one. Variants of wiring rotating blades is not very much: it is a uniform wiring with acceleration or deceleration and the failure of the game. Sometimes, especially near the boundary of the stream and back, you can pull a spinning rod with the recoil of the cord, so that it literally for a fraction of a second began to fall stone down, and again start wiring. As an example, I will cite the following models: Mepps Black Fury, Myran Akka, Pontoon21 Synchrony.

Wobblers

With wobblers not everything is not so simple. Probably even more difficult than with chub, because yaz is a fussy one. Sometimes it wants 25-millimeter minnows, and sometimes it doesn’t mind to try 45-millimeter lures. Crankbaits are my favorite lures, because they allow me to cover most of the requests. I spend most of my time on them, and all because these lures are very convenient to experiment with the working horizon, speed of wiring, size, color and pauses. In addition, you can pick up the horizon of wiring so that the wobbler occasionally hit the bottom. At this point rises a cloud of muti, and the yazi can simply not eat, but to drive away the fish, which is attempting to feed him. And sometimes on the contrary, when he feeds at the surface, you need wobblers SSR dip, which go as high as possible, sometimes even drawing “whiskers” on the water. In this period, most often spring, when the May beetle begins to fall into the water, it is appropriate to apply not only subsurface wobblers, but also the so-called “cockroaches”. This is also a plastic bait with artificial thin legs that create vibrations similar to the bug. It also lies on the surface and we, twitching the tip of the rod, trying to achieve the same behavior as the fallen bug. As an example, I will cite wobblers of different sizes and depths, which worked well for me on yazem: Tsuyoki fugaz 42 (version SR and SSR), Tsuribito Baby Crank 25 S-SR, Sakura Notobug in the size of 30 mm.

The tackle

In my opinion, the most important component is spinning. It should be selected in such a way that you have the opportunity to throw small baits, but at the same time calmly catch a large yazya. This fish is a very strong fighter, so the spinning rod should be powerful to restrain jerks and tire the fish. I believe that the ideal option will be a rod up to 12-14 grams. Spinning line depends on personal preferences, but I would not consider super-fast spinning rods. They work poorly when fishing, the place of the hook puncture is quickly broken, and the fish often comes off. For our conditions are well suited spinning, developed for salmon or trout fishing in rivers. They have a fast line, which allows you to work voluminous cranks on the current, but, at the same time, the middle part works perfectly on the lure, and the stem is included in the work on the largest fish. Examples of such rods: Zetrix Forra 752ML, Norstream Areal new 702L, Major Craft Finetail Stream New 692ML.

Conclusion

Catching yazya definitely requires more patience than catching the same perch or small pike. But the satisfaction of catching this beauty justifies the investment of your own efforts and time! I wish everyone to catch their trophy yazya, well and no tail, no scales!

Author: Bob Nudd is an expert fisherman with over 20 years experience and winner of many competitions.