Vimba Bream, second attack

Last Thursday we drove to one river with my friend Jarno. Our target was suppose to be Vimba Bream (Vimba vimba). A mysterious fish from the family Cyprinidae. Every spring they run to the rivers for spawning and after that they vanish back to the sea. I actually caught one from the sea last August and that is the one and only Vimba Bream I have ever seen elsewhere outside of the rivers.

So, no Vimba at Thursday either. We caught some Roach each and Jarno caught a small Bream too. That means I have to go back there soon.

The name of the game was some small Roach every now and then.

At Sunday I was fishing at my home bay. Caught few Roach again and my first Bream of the year. Count is on 15 now.

Spring season opening, finally…

Last Sunday I had a couple of hours to spend by fishing. I decided to hit to the nearby river. I thought that maybe the Ide or even Vimba breams have started their spawning run to the river. They were not. I tried a bit over two hours and I didn’t have even one bite. So, it was time to change plans…..

Waiting for the bite......in vain.

 

I hopped to my car and drove to Ruissalo. It’s an island in front of the city of Turku. I knew that the place where I was heading to would be full of other fishermen. But still I took my risk to crowd between them.

When I got to the shore there was one man landing a nice Whitefish already. I casted my worm between the others (or actually way behind them thanks to my 12 feet feeder rod) and the waiting game was on.

Couple of other fishermen. I counted 22 rods on the short piece of the shore line.

 

Couple of other guys caught a fish before my rod tip gave signs of the bite. It was a nice Whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus). It weighed about half a kilo (or a bit over pound). After that I tried about one and half hour more, no more bites so it was time to leave back home. The Whitefish was my species number 14 for this year. Let’s see what I’m targeting next……Pike, Vimba bream, Flounder, you never know.

The European Whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus).