Fishing for crucian carp with a jig in summer

Fishing for crucian carp with a jig in the summer is almost unknown to many fishermen or is known only by rumors. Especially if fishermen have adapted to catching this sleepy and lazy fish in their proven and dear to their hearts ponds. And what is the point of these delights if crucian carp takes well from the shore on long and light float rods. And if a long cast is required, then the fisherman has at his disposal a Bolognese rod, a match tackle, a picker.

Crucian carp also takes on forest rivers, often right in the channel and on the current of this very river, which, it would seem, is completely uncharacteristic for this wide and clumsy fish. Something obviously changes in its physiology when it gets into conditions that are not typical for it.

In the backwaters of the Volga, crucian carp live that are very little reminiscent of their lazy pond relatives. These slender silver fish risk going out even to the Volga stream, where they are occasionally caught on bottom fishing rods together with bream, ide and roach. So where can you use a summer tackle with a jig?

There are many forest lakes, densely overgrown throughout the lake surface with yellow-eyed water lilies, hornwort, pondweed, reeds, duckweed. It seems that no fishing is possible on such reservoirs completely covered with grass, since there is nowhere to cast a fishing rod. A regular float tackle is rather clumsy among water lilies: either the float will fall on a water lily leaf, or the line will get stuck under the vegetation, or the hook will catch the grass. And it is worse when the hook gets stuck in the stem of the water lily. It can only be worse if it also gets caught on the root of the water lily. Consider that you have lost a good hook.