Stary Oskol Reservoir - a place for fisherman
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Stary Oskol Reservoir . The Stary Oskol reservoir is located on the border of the Belgorod and Kursk regions. It was formed in 1976 at the confluence of the rivers Stuzhenek, Oskol, Apochka, Bystrik, Borovka, by building a dam and flooding a huge area along with vegetable gardens, hayfields and houses. The volume of this reservoir on the Oskol River is 95 million cubic meters.
Currently, the reservoir is used for the production of marketable fish, irrigation of agricultural crops, supply of water to industrial enterprises, and are places of cultural and sports recreation for the population. The main sources of surface water pollution are housing and communal services enterprises, the total amount of wastewater of which is 80%.
The Stary Oskol Reservoir is a favorite place for amateur fishing for many city residents. Fishing on the Starooskol Reservoir is good at almost any time of the year. They fish exclusively here and many do not recognize other bodies of water, especially paid ones. You can fish from the shore, but it’s better, of course, by boat, passing along the old and snagged bed of the Oskol River. The main depth is 3-4 meters, it follows the old river bed, in some places it reaches up to 6-7 meters. Near the dam there is a large hole 13-15 meters deep, where they mainly catch pike perch. There is a very large snag about 250m long. and a width of 100-130m. Of course, all the fish are there.
According to the rules, fishing within 500 meters of the dam is prohibited. Knowing the catch spots, holes, snags on the riverbed, you can have a good fishing and relaxation here.
The main fish of this reservoir are roach and bleak, and also perch, pike, pike perch, carp, crucian carp, bream, and ruffe live here.
Stary Oskol Reservoir is very popular among winter fishing enthusiasts. Predators caught: pike perch, decent perch and whitefish: roach, bream, silver bream.
Below the dam there is a lake, which is called the Spillway, since it is here that Oskol waters flow through a small canal behind the water dam. There are a lot of crucian carp, perch and pike perch in the lake, and in addition, there is a place to hide from the wind, since the lake is located in a forest area and in a lowland, and you can fish from a boat or from the shore. At the confluence of this channel into the reservoir there is an interesting sandy spit, on which pike perch stand in the summer (in the fall it moves to deeper parts of the reservoir). Its dimensions are small, but it is caught regularly. In autumn, perch is caught in abundance on the dumps of the spit. This can be explained by the fact that until the freeze-up, large quantities of bleak remain near the stream. She stands on the surface, and the perch is under her, at the bottom.
If fishing will be done from a boat, it is important to position it correctly. The results of several fishing trips have repeatedly convinced us that it is best to stand on the spit itself, in the middle or closer to its end, where a small depression begins, or under the reeds on the opposite bank. Under the opposite bank, this stream bifurcates, and two streams go in different directions: one towards the dam, the other towards the river, and the advantage of this arrangement of the boat is that you can fish not only the left and right streams, playing with bait against the current, but also a small pit near the opposite bank. Despite the fact that perch bites often occur in the left stream, the right one also sometimes pleases with the capture of beautiful “stripers”. Here you can always find zander in summer or perch in late autumn.
The fishing tactics are simple: we cast 10-15 m further than the drop and lead the bait with a classic step with small throws. Bites are usually angry and confident and occur both on the fall of the bait and from the bottom. The weights required in this place are not heavy - only 7 g, and the size of the bait is at your discretion. With such a weight, there is a wonderful pause during the retrieve. As for the size, perch can be tempted by baits even 12 cm long. But this is when fishing with a jig. Wobblers also provide a good bite.
The Stary Oskol reservoir has excellent access to the water. On the banks of the reservoir there are various recreation centers, sanatoriums, dispensaries, a fishing camp, a fisherman’s house and a hunter’s house.
Free fishing in the Belgorod region
The Belgorod region cannot boast of a wealth of water resources - the total area of reservoirs occupies only 1% of the territory. Despite this, there are plenty of interesting places for fishing in the region, because this is where the rivers belonging to the Dnieper and Don basins flow. There are four reservoirs, floodplain and oxbow lakes and many ponds.
Large reservoirs abound with roach, chub, perch, bream, and rudd. Although less common, carp, catfish, pike perch, and burbot are found. And most of all on the territory of the Belgorod region are crucian carp, including golden crucian carp, which is bred here at the state level.
Fishing in Belgorod and its surroundings is a fairly popular activity, but recently there has been a negative trend in this area. Reservoirs are emptying due to the large influx of people wanting to fish, as well as due to pollution and shallowing.
Here are the TOP 5 best places where you can fish for free in the Belgorod region:
1. River Oskol
Description, what kind of fish is found, how to get there:
Oskol flows along the entire territory of the Belgorod region, so finding a suitable place for fishing will not be difficult. The reservoir attracts not only with good catches of a variety of fish, but also with the beauty of nature; the banks of the river have a very picturesque view of forests.
There are many steep places on Oskol, in this case it is better to fish with a half-bottom or a long fishing rod in a plumb line. The most fish can be caught from a boat in deep areas where there is virtually no silt.
In Oskol you can catch: catfish, bream, perch, carp, pike, chub.
GPS coordinates: 51.20499, 37.86868
Seversky Donets River
Description, what kind of fish is found, how to get there:
The most successful place for fishing is the section of the river that approaches the border with Ukraine, since this is where the river has its greatest width and moderate current.
In the Seversky Donets you can catch: roach, rudd, crucian carp, pike perch, ide, silver carp.
From the beginning of May, roach and crucian carp bite well, April is the best time for pike and pike perch, but in the summer heat, catfish are excellently caught using live bait. Large predatory individuals can be caught from a boat and in places with strong currents. The banks of the river are strewn with forests, so there are many places covered with snags, in which there are a lot of pike perch and pike.
GPS coordinates: 50.35243, 36.80906
Quiet Pine River
Description, what kind of fish is found, how to get there:
Quiet Sosna, which is the right tributary of the Don, was included in the Guinness Book of Records in 1924. In the reservoir, fishermen caught a beluga weighing 1227 kg, its belly was filled with black caviar weighing 245 kg. The river is shallow, but is legitimately one of the best fishing spots in the area. Here you can find bream, perch, roach, rudd, and ruff. The road to the river will be a bypass along Korocha, Velikomikhailovka, Novy Oskol to the Krasnogvardeisky district, the village of Malobykovo.
GPS coordinates: 50.54107, 38.10234
Belgorod Reservoir
Description, what kind of fish is found, how to get there:
Excellent fishing in Belgorod - on the reservoir named after this city. It is very popular among the local population, since it is only about five minutes away. We can say that the Belgorod reservoir is located almost within the city limits. In addition, the reservoir is extremely rich in fish, and there are many “hunters” with fishing rods here at any time of the day or year.
During the day, fishing in Belgorod on the reservoir can delight you with white bream, perch and roach, and at night - with large bream, which is especially abundant in the area of the village of Ivanovka. There are also pike and pike perch, which are caught using a zherlitsa. For pike perch, it’s better to go to the Arcadia camp site. From its territory to the Pulyaevsky Bay itself there are a large number of representatives of this valuable species of fish.
Open water fishing begins in April. It is during this period that the shallow water warms up, and roach, bream and silver bream come out to feed.
Carp and large bream appear already by the beginning of summer, but as for the latter, they hunt it (as well as pike perch) mainly in winter. In general, winter fishing in Belgorod is more productive than at any other time of the year. It attracts not only local residents, but also avid fishermen from other regions and even neighboring countries.
GPS coordinates: 50.45008, 36.71691
Korochanskoye Reservoir
Description, what kind of fish is found, how to get there:
The largest and most fish-rich reservoir in the region, located an hour’s drive from Belgorod. Here they catch roach, carp, grass carp, pike perch and silver carp, and broad-legged crayfish. Carp and pike are occasionally seen. Fishing is done directly from the shore and on boats. Here they fish in all possible ways, but spinning and bottom fishing are the most effective. Popular baits are fry, worms, bloodworms.
GPS coordinates: 50.84853, 37.22411
Do you know any other good places for fishing in the Belgorod region - write in the comments
