Spinning tackle is a huge variety of lures and rigging options. New items, appearing, are gradually replacing the old grandfather methods of fishing. A good example of this is the beard rigging. With the advent of the modern bombarba, the old equipment has receded into the background a little. However, for anglers, the catchability of the beard is beyond doubt, which is why many spinningists still use it now.

Rig Features

The specificity of the structure of the gear is fully consistent with the name. It is based on several leashes with very small baits, which are most often made independently. The standard equipment of the beard includes three leashes. Standard fishing equipment that contains a lure or a wobbler, some anglers supplement with a beard. A leash with an additional small bait is located 20-30 cm above the spinner.

Today's manufacturers of spinners or wobblers often include either a beard or thread in the equipment of tees. Many anglers refit their lures this way.

Installation of equipment and the necessary tackle for fishing on a beard

The rig in question is made from decoratively disguised hooks. For manufacturing, a tee, double or single hook can be used. Each of the options has its pros and cons. The best choice in this case is the use of twins.

To decorate the beard, sheep or cat hair, bird feathers, beaver fur can be used. But most often, goat hair is used by anglers. A small bundle must be attached to the hook and wrapped with thread. After applying a small amount of waterproof glue to the winding place, you need to wrap the winding place with thread again. You can add elements of New Year's rain tinsel to the equipment.

Styrofoam can be used as the body of a small bait. This equipment option is most suitable for asp hunting. When catching perch, it is advisable to close the forearm of the double with a piece of cambric, and catching pike perch will be most successful if you use foam pieces.

For beard fishing, it is convenient to use a rod 2.7-3.3 meters long, equipped with a Neva-type inertial reel. This tackle allows you to make long casts of this equipment. As the basis of tackle, you can use a fishing line with a diameter of 0.4-0.6 mm, and for leashes - 0.25-0.35 mm. When instead of a load, it is convenient to use a piece of dense foam, inside of which lead is poured. With such equipment, baits are presented to fish in the surface layer of the reservoir.

The “Beard” rig is a fishing secret of a spinner, which makes it possible to catch predators in moments of their passivity.

Anglers this artificial bait ( beard) is also called shavley. Predators are caught on it: barbel, asp, and in the fall - ide. When I first saw this bait, I thought that fishing with it was a waste of time. However, some anglers fished with it very successfully, and it turned out to be easy to make shavlya, and I decided to try it.

At first, things did not go well, but soon the results exceeded expectations. Moreover, it turned out that this lure is universal, since it can be used when fishing not only with spinning, but even with a fly rod.

Making a beard

In the manufacture of beards, single, double and triple No. 7-12 are used - depending on the size of the fish that is supposed to be caught.

They must have a long forearm and are tied to, the length of which depends on the number of lures:

• if one beard is used, the length of the leash can reach half a meter;
• if they are caught with a spinning rod and at the end of the line they attach a load weighing up to 50 grams (depending on the strength of the current), then they put 3-4 leashes 15-20 centimeters long;
• when fishing with a fly rod, a leash of 50 centimeters and a load of 5-7 grams are used (the same length of the leash is also used when fishing on a track with a load of 100 to 200 grams).

How is a beard made? A bunch of white, gray, black, brown or dark gray wool is placed on the shank of the hook, near the spatula or ring, and tied tightly with white thread. Wool in this case masks the hook.

For catching perch and small pike perch, the shawl should have the following dimensions: diameter at the tie point - 0.3 centimeters, length - 2.5-3 centimeters, and hooks No. 7, 8, 5.

When hunting for large predators, the diameter of the brush at the place of the leash should be from 0.3 to 1 cm, and the length of the brush should be 6-6.5 cm.

Of course, leashes should be thinner than the main line.

It is better to use goat or mutton wool. I've used both, but I prefer the former. So that the wool does not spill out, it is necessary to impregnate the harness several times with BF-2 glue (or Moment).

Beard fishing is very similar to spinning fishing. Casting is done in the same way, but the load must necessarily lie on the bottom. Shavlyu at the bottom, and halfway, and on top, they lead slowly and with stops, without lifting the load from the bottom. When the bait stops, it floats up and gives the same impression as a fry playing.

When fishing with a fly rod, the beard is drawn sharply and quickly in the upper layer of water, and when fishing with a track, it is the same as when fishing with a spinning rod.

Fishing for asp has its own characteristics. This predator is distinguished by cunning habits, and a successful catch depends on the knowledge and skill of the fisherman. Equipment plays an important role. Experienced anglers advise fishing with a spinning or match rod. The best bait for fly fishing is a beard on an asp. The predator will definitely be interested in the "live" bait, if it is correctly selected and used.

A beard or streamer is a fishing tackle used in fly fishing. With its appearance, it imitates a live fish, mouse, tadpole or frog. All those living creatures that predatory fish love to feast on.

Nozzle structure:

• hook with a long shank;
• body;
• tail;
• wings.

The beard can be made independently or purchased ready-made. For knitting this type of nozzle, natural or synthetic fibers are used. It can be rabbit fur, goat or other animal hair, poultry or stork feathers, artificial fibers.

Photo 1. Homemade streamer beard.

In water, all these materials hold volume well, fluctuate like living organisms. But each of them has its own characteristics:

1. Fur and wool when casting are characterized by poor windage, but their movements under water are the most natural.
2. Feathers in water move smoothly, their trajectory is uniform. . Feather beards are suitable for fast flowing waters.
3. Synthetic materials in water are not as voluminous as natural ones. Their significant disadvantage is that they do not work well with a fast flow.

For the manufacture of the body of the beard, ordinary foam is most often used. A shiny “rain”, silver foil and other “lures” are sometimes added to the tail. The color of the beard is selected depending on the season and the variety of fish. The best streamer colors for catching asp are:

• black;
• white;
• grey.

The length should be from 50 to 80 millimeters. Asp can also be caught on a beard made of red material. He responds better to solid tones.

Equipment

For catching asp on a beard, spinning is used. It should be of normal hardness, with a length of 2.5 to 3 meters. You will also need the following items:

• coil, necessarily inertial;
• main line (0.6) and leader line (0.35-0.40);
• strong black hooks, triple or single;
• sinker weighing about 32 grams, spherical shape.

The beard is crocheted. It is necessary to knit firmly so that the hairs cannot be pulled out. Mount the streamer with a white cambric or a foam float. If spinning or oscillating spinners are equipped with a beard, then the wool is used twice as short.

To mount the equipment, a piece of fishing line of 1 meter is required. Swivels are prepared at its ends. One end is equipped with a regular swivel, and the other with a clasp. A spinner or castmaster is attached to a swivel with a clasp.

The first streamer is attached to a 5-7 cm leash 25-30 cm from the swivel with a clasp. The second streamer is a little higher, at the same distance and on the same leash. The main line is attached to the swivel without a fastener. When fishing with spinning, in order to increase sensitivity, you can use not a monofilament fishing line, but a cord.

Photo 2. Approximate scheme of equipment.

fishing technique

When choosing a fishing spot, you should use your own hearing. Where there are slaps on the water, asp is definitely found. You can find a place. It is better to choose the south side. In the upper layers of water, fish hunt from spring to winter. It is difficult to say exactly what tactics of baiting should be used, in this case there is nothing better than personal experience.

When catching asp, camouflage plays an important role. In fishing, this is a decisive factor, as the asp is a very cautious fish. He perfectly sees the fisherman in clear water and does not bite on the bait. You can not make noise, talk loudly, stand on the water's edge in full growth.

Photo 3. Catchable beards on asp.

With any fly fishing there are certain technical rules, without which fishing may not work. Initially, you need to properly grab the rod. Very comfortable grip with the position of the thumb on top of the handle. To use the index finger in this position, you need to choose a light bit. The cord is fixed with the left hand.

Casting features:

• When swinging the spinning line, the fly line must not go down.
• For acceleration, pulling is used, applying the movement of the hand in which the cord is located.
• Using the "double pull" you can throw the fly at a distance of up to 20 meters.
• If there are obstacles nearby, then "ring casting" is suitable. This is a backswing in which the loop moves along the surface of the water. This method is not suitable for long casts.

When fishing on the river, the cast is made a few meters further, against the current. The stream will pick up the bait and bring it to the area of ​​​​probable bite. Big fish like to chase fast moving baits. But they can change their hunting tactics.

Lake predators that live in reservoirs are distinguished by their hunting tactics. They prefer to wait for the prey in the depths of the channel. This is where small baits come in handy. It is worth noting that it is more difficult to catch asp in calm waters.

The fish makes exits at specific time intervals, moves according to an invisible pattern. Outputs are repeated periodically. It is important for the angler to calculate the gap and cast the bait at the moment after the fish hit. Asp can get used to the bait. After 20-30 casts, it must be changed or take a break.

At different times of the year, asp behaves differently. The choice of location also depends on the season:

1. In autumn and winter, it is better to choose shallow lakes and shallow channels. These can be depressions, shallow estuaries or river banks.
2. In summer, large ponds will be a suitable place. It is better to fish in thickets, on rifts, edges, near stones.

In autumn, the fish are less active and move to quieter places. Lures at this time are chosen more weighty than in summer. The trick is carried out at medium depth or along the bottom. This is due to a change in asp hunting tactics. He starts attacking in deeper layers.

In winter, it is very difficult to find asp. But during this period weighty specimens are caught. Lucky fishermen who know the art of deep and slow wiring.

In spring, it is better to catch a predator in the morning. During the spawning period, asp bleaks are difficult to find during the day, although in other seasons they are active during this period of time. But it is in the mornings that he is especially hungry and the probability of a good catch is higher.

In summer, especially from the end of June to mid-August, night fishing can also be successful. Many fishermen advise fishing before a sharp change in weather conditions, from good weather to bad. For example, before a thunderstorm, when the pressure of the atmosphere jumps and the air is filled with heat and moisture.

The time of day also plays an important role. The activity of the fish during the day varies:

1. By 8-9 in the morning the fish are activated.
2. After 13-14 hours the activity drops.
3. After 16-17 hours it stops pecking.

Advice! It is always worth remembering that asp is unpredictable, and its activity can change without fitting into any framework.

In places with a bald coastline, a predator can go hunting in the evenings before sunset, when the wind subsides. At this time, insects appear above the water, which are caught by small fish. Asp attacks at the moments of accumulation of these fish. Where there are many hanging trees above the water, the fish are active throughout the day.

Despite its caution, the asp is a very curious fish. It reacts to splashes and impacts on the water. This can attract him by making several blows similar to those issued by the predator itself. Most likely, he will immediately sail to the place of the surge, find out what is happening there.

The classic of the beard is a cambric carved from hard foam, a tee with imposed goat hair and a leash with a weight, 1.5-2 meters long. Udilish steel rod and Nevka coil with steel 0.16 0.22 mm. In the days of the scoop, it was almost impossible to get other gear. But the engineering thought of our guys during the stagnation worked perfectly, from fishing lures to guitars and amplifiers with speakers for rock music lovers. :) Nothing was impossible if you wanted to do it yourself!

Where can I get material for making a beard? I inherited foam as a present from experienced fishermen. In general, you can look for it in flea markets. The main thing is that the foam should be moderately dense, but not too hard: the soft one will lose its shape during manufacture and the hard one will crumble.

Wool is best to take goat color can be different, but the classic is black. In Kyiv, I buy it in the form of leather patches, on a bird (Kurenevka).

The tee for the barb should not be too rough and heavy, heavy for the fabricated cambric. I'm using VMC #1, old numbered. Fishing line ordinary Chernihiv, 0.4 - 0.6.

There are two options for mounting the beard. The first one seems to be more convenient for casting from the shore: the load is placed on a metal outlet, to which we knit a leash from fishing line or flure, a meter and a half long. I caught my first zander on such a montage, and even pikes came across.

I like the second option better, here the load is the last link in the row of spinning fishing line bait load. I make a branch for knitting a beard using the Dropper loop knot, pulling out the loop as long as possible so that there is a margin for knitting a tee, and after that the branch would remain at least 15 - 20 cm.

How I make a beard, look at the video. Briefly, in a nutshell, it looks like this:
We cut out a blank of the appropriate size from hard foam. In the center, along the entire length with an awl, we pierce a hole for the fishing line. After that, using sandpaper, simply give the desired shape. Cambric is ready.

The spinner itself - the beard requires goat hair for its manufacture. It is used for tying a tee and acts as a balancer during wiring. We knit wool, after wetting it in water, it is easier to keep the bundles on the tee. The finished bundle should be no thicker than a wet match, and there should not be hairs sticking out to the sides - we just pull them out.

We attach the finished three-piece with wool to the branch of the fishing line, put a ready-made foam plastic cambric on it, and our new-old tackle is ready!

The beard mount is something like this:
A piece of fishing line, somewhere six, we tie a load (droplet), from the load half a meter higher we make a small loop, leave the fishing line somewhere 20 cm and tie a carbine. We attach a beard with a leash no more than 15 cm to these loops, less is also not desirable. Wiring it is necessary to carry out so that the load does not stupidly drag along the bottom, but touches it, but the wiring should not be fast, so the load must be selected according to the current and depth. (WITH), Dima Schulz.

Of course, in our time of abundance of fishing goods, it seems like it’s not kamilfo to use with the Nevka, and most amateurs fish perfectly with a beard and a carbon rod, with an ordinary inertial-free line and a cord. But still, steel has advantages, even in the fact that during wiring you can feel movement along the bottom through your fingers, holding yourself between them. Well, not only in this

How does the beard behave and what kind of wiring is used? There is room for imagination here, and only Sudak can limit it. As experienced warthogs say, it is not tackle, not bait, that works, but the hands and brains of a fisherman.
But still, let's imagine the movement of the beard along the bottom with jerky, almost jig, wiring. The distance of the bait to the bottom depends on the speed of the wiring, that is, on the frequency with which the load touches the bottom. It is better to fish with steel because it has the least resistance in the water (even 0.16 steel resists less than 0.10 line). almost perfectly round in cross section, rigid, which does not allow losing contact with the load: a straight line is created, as it were, between the tip of the rod and the load. Even the best cord is far from ideal in terms of the circumference of the section, and it is quite soft, and will be blown out anyway.
A rod for fishing with a beard is also better under steel, i.e. it is an aluminum (or whatever they call it) rod. Whatever hard carbon you choose, glass is still softer than metal. The tossing of the load with a rod should be short, hard, the step of the load is minimal, but frequent, - about a turn of the coil (nevka) tossing with a rod. After 2-3 meters of wiring, the beard moves 30-50 cm from the bottom; accordingly, when posting, it moves in the horizon, floating up from the level of movement no more than 20 cm, as if pulsing, thanks to the tee in its tail. At the moment of a pause, the front of the beard, as it were, rises up and floats 2-3 cm, plus, at the moment of the pause, the hair of the beard itself fluffs up, which creates the illusion of a chaotic movement of a wounded food object, which incites the zander to attack.

I like the meditative wiring more, that is, I don’t do tosses like with a jig. Dzhigits next to me manage to make 3 4 casts during my posting of the beard. And I'm still meditating or getting pike perch! Wiring slow coil turns and long pauses. As a rule, pike perch bites during pauses, especially if before stopping the weight overcame underwater terrain or grass, exposing the beard to make appropriate chaotic movements.

In general, I will not consider the aerodynamic and floating-physical properties of the beard here, especially since this is the subject of long-standing unceasing disputes among lovers of this bait. I just wanted to show you how I do it. And how to meditate on the River is up to you. I will add: especially in the buzz late at night, in complete darkness, on a deserted shore where Sudak hunts ..

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