Fishing is considered one of the most common and favorite activities of local men and women. Of course, residents of the Belgorod region are just a stone's throw away from the Seversky Donets River. And there you can have a great time with a fishing rod in your hands, or armed with a spinning rod.
I don’t know why, but the most catchy points of the river are located in the place where the reservoir borders or is close to the border with Ukraine. This is truly a great place for lovers of active fishing, or those who just want to relax on the shore of a beautiful reservoir.
What kind of fish is found in the Belgorod region
The proximity of the Belgorod region to the central part of Europe does not provide the opportunity to fish for exotic fish. Local reservoirs are inhabited only by fish species familiar to all residents of central Russia:
- crucian carp;
- Carp;
- Bream;
- Silver carp;
- Roach;
- Carp;
- Rudd;
- Roach;
- Guster;
- Catfish;
- Podleschik;
- Ruff;
- Gudgeon;
- Pike;
- Perch;
- Zander;
- Asp;
- Bersh.
But there are also quite a lot of familiar fish in the vicinity of Belgorod, sometimes you even manage to catch a trophy specimen that will be remembered for the rest of your life. The impressions from such fishing are difficult to convey in words; you just need to experience everything for yourself.
Seversky Donets River
It is this reservoir that is preferred by most fishing enthusiasts in the Belgorod region. Plus, it is considered the largest in the region from the west. Its size is most striking when approaching the territory of Ukraine, where the river becomes very wide with the fastest flow. Maybe that’s why there is a large concentration of fish here, so attractive to fishermen.
The following fish can be caught here:
- rudd;
- perch;
- roach;
- chub;
- silver carp;
- ide;
- bream;
- crucian carp;
- catfish;
- pike;
- zander.
An excellent bait for successful fishing will be bloodworms, worms and maggots.
Thanks to the abundant forest cover of the coast, ideal conditions are created for the appearance of snags, where pike perch loves to hide and live.
Map of fishing spots
All local and visiting fishermen know fishing on the Seversky Donets. Given the wide width of the reservoir, the current on it is quite weak and calm. Despite the great influence of fishermen and factories on the banks of the river, it still pleases fishermen with crucian carp, perch, pike, silver carp and roach. The most desired trophy of local fishermen remains the river giant - catfish.
Fishermen who go to the Seversky Donets use a variety of gear and fish both from the shore and from a boat. Spinning rods, float rods, bottom and feeder rods will always find use on the river. The main thing is that the fisherman likes it, and there will always be fish.
Bream and crucian carp are best caught with feeder gear.
In places where the bottom is quite hard and the current is quite strong, you can often find crucian carp, carp and bream. The fish here are quite large in size, so you need to take powerful gear and prepare it in advance.
There are quite a lot of fish in the river, so you can catch them even from the shore, and you don’t have to make any special efforts. True, the banks of the reservoir are overgrown and there are a lot of snags at the bottom, so you need to fish only in proven places. In places where there are a lot of snags on the bottom there are often predatory fish.
The Oskol River is considered the most beautiful body of water in the Belgorod region. Steep banks with natural beauty simply captivate the views of fishermen and tourists. Oskol is a tributary of the Seversky Donets, so the fish found there are the same.
On Oskol, asp often delights fishermen with its presence, but catching carp in these waters is considered very rare. Crucian carp bite very well until winter. But even from the ice, the fish also willingly tries the bait offered to it.
If you do manage to catch a carp, it will be quite large. Usually you come across individuals weighing about 7 kilograms.
Fans of fishing with live bait and spinning rods are often pleased with the presence of large pike and medium-sized perch. Having studied all the features of this reservoir and decided on a fishing spot, you will certainly rejoice at a large trophy and a successful catch.
Fishing on the Seversky Donets
Seversky Donets is a paradise for fishermen, home to 41 species of fish.
Large and medium-sized fish in the river include pike, pike perch, catfish and bream. But first of all, the Seversky Donets is rich in small species, such as roach, rudd and perch.
Fishing on this river is good because due to the difference in the width of the riverbed (from 30 to 200 m), you can practice various types of fishing here and test your fishing skills in practice.
The coastal zones in the Svyatogorsk region enjoy prominent places of honor among fishermen. The fishing is excellent, the places are truly beautiful, the access is very convenient (nearby, a few kilometers away, is the Rostov-Kharkov-Donetsk highway).
Places that are very popular are usually busy, but the good thing about the river is that you can always find a section of the bank you like. You can always leave your car in a paid parking lot in a residential village.
In Svyatogorsk you can catch almost any type of fish that is found in the Seversky Donets. Individuals are sometimes so huge that when fishing from a bridge it is almost impossible to lift them.
The best time for fishing is summer; predator fishing is good in the fall; perch fishes very well in these places after the first frost. There are many places for “silent hunting” throughout the river - in Savinets it is possible to catch a chub.
Seversky Donets is also famous for its large abundance of pike . To catch a good pike, you have to study its habitat and habits. She does not like currents and lives in calm coastal zones, most often in bays.
Near Penka there is an opportunity to catch an asp . It can be detected during specific splashes of water, when it hunts fry and briskly chases schools of small fish. Therefore, fishermen always have a floating wobbler and spinners in their kit of essential gear.
Small pike are found near the right bank of the Donets , in the area of the bay with an island. This is a great place for new spinners. In the remaining coastal areas of the right bank, the bottom is more silty, but you can still find places where crucian carp, roach and small perch bite well.
The left bank also has a good bay near the camp site, but the fish there are gradually disappearing and soon there will be nothing to catch there. Roan Kut is the territory of poachers; when fishing, you can catch the net, break the gear, and end up in a conflict zone.
But beyond the Shchurovsky Bay there are good places for fishing, where trees grow close to the shore and many varieties of fish hide in their roots, which go deep into the rivers.
Professional indigenous fishermen often prefer fishing from a boat in the center of the river or in the coastal zone. This makes it easier to determine the behavior of the intended prey and change the throws in the desired direction. It is necessary to decide on the fishing technique, choose the right bait, bait and appropriate gear.
The predator needs to be lured by guiding along the shore, since the transverse direction is not included in its plans and can upset the fisherman.
When casting, it is recommended to direct the tackle upward, against the current to a depth of at least 2 m, slightly short of reaching the bottom.
The ideal bottom for spinning anglers is the area between the villages of Sidorovo and Tatyanovka. The chances of catching a great trophy in these places increase several times.
Free fishing spots in the Belgorod region
The Belgorod Reservoir has an extremely convenient location, which attracts fishing enthusiasts, just 5 minutes by car from Belgorod and you are already there. Winter fishing is especially interesting in this place. And in the summer there are more than enough fishermen at the reservoir. They catch silver bream, burbot, bream, roach, perch, pike and pike perch.
The Soldatskoe Reservoir attracts fishermen from nearby regions with valuable species of fish. The best fish in the reservoir are chub, perch and crucian carp. Very often you also come across carp. This reservoir is no less suitable for an excellent outdoor recreation, as the nature is very beautiful. Various recreation centers, sanatoriums and other institutions are also present on the shore of the reservoir.
Seversky Donets River
Stary Oskol Reservoir is a universal place for fishing. Here you can comfortably fish from a boat with a motor or oars, fish from the shore and even go underwater hunting. Among the most common fish, local anglers note perch, pike, bream, crucian carp, carp and roach.
Zapolnoye Pond delights fishermen with the presence of grass carp, large carp, rudd, perch, roach and silver carp. You can comfortably fish from the shore or from a boat. The gear used is familiar to everyone; there are no innovations in it.
Water system of the Belgorod region
Belgorodskaya is one of the regions that belongs to the low-water regions of the Russian Federation: territorial reservoirs occupy approximately 1% of the entire surface (this is about 600 rivers and streams).
The western half of the region differs from the eastern half in its greater density and the greater flow of rivers is located in the western half of the region. Territorial rivers originate from the basins of the Azov and Black Seas.
In general, the Belgorod region is significantly poor in water resources, but on the territory of Belgorod there is the Belgorod reservoir and the bed of the largest river in the region - the Seversky Donets.
The reservoirs of the region are rich in fauna, which opens up great prospects in the field of fishing.
Rivers
The largest body of water is the Don - its basin makes up 78% of the entire regional water surface.
In second place (22%) is the Dnieper . The network of rivers in total is about 5 thousand km.
The longest of the rivers are: Vorskla, Oskol, Tikhaya Sosna and Seversky Donets.
Other rivers are much shorter: Seim, Potudan, Aidar, Chernaya Kalitva, Psel have a length of more than 25 km across the regional territory; 70 rivers – up to 25 km; the remaining part is less than 10 km.
In the Belgorod region there are 480 rivers and streams more than three kilometers long. Large rivers have clear, strong channels and gentle valleys with asymmetrically located slopes.
Small rivers are characterized by gently sloping banks, poorly developed channels and slow flows. This is due to physical and geographical conditions, which is typical for areas with southern slopes.
Summer-autumn low water runs from the end of April to the first days of May. The lowest levels occur from August to September.
The low water period is periodically disrupted by rain floods, which are often observed from June to August. Their height is about 1.5 m.
In June, the water in the rivers gradually warms up to a temperature of 20-25°C and lasts for about 2 months. Freezing of reservoirs occurs in early December.
The ice cover, which averages 0.5 m thick, lasts about 110 days. The opening of rivers occurs in the last ten days of March when the water level rises. Ice drift in spring lasts from 2 to 5 days.
Lakes
Lakes on the territory of the Belgorod region are located in peculiar lowlands and pits, at the junctions of large ravines, in places of backwaters and bays.
These are a kind of depressions on the surface of the earth that fill with water during floods and become shallow during the summer.
In the areas of Oskol, Seversky Donets, Vorskla, Tikhaya Sosna, there are several hundred large and small floodplain lakes - oxbow lakes. In the floodplain of the Oskol River north of Novy Oskol there is the longest lake, Dolgoe, the expanse of which reaches 1700 m.
Fishing in the Belgorod region has become widespread in floodplain lakes, ponds and oxbow lakes, where mainly crucian carp are found. State fisheries are breeding golden crucian carp. Sometimes tench are found in ponds.
In addition, fish such as roach, chub, perch, silver bream, ruffe, and rudd are found in large quantities in the reservoirs of the region.
Fishing is complicated by the fact that in recent years the region's fish resources have decreased significantly due to poaching, pollution and shallowing of most water bodies, which is an urgent problem for the entire region, which forced the region's leadership to take urgent measures to protect water bodies and develop fish farming.
Reservoirs
To regulate territorial surface water flow, artificial reservoirs were erected in the Belgorod region: Belgorodskoye, Soldatskoye, Morkvinskoye, Starooskolskoye, Korochanskoye, Uraevskoye. The largest of them are Korochanskoye, Belgorodskoye, Uraevskoye and Starooskolskoye.
Of particular importance in the region is the Belgorod reservoir, located on the Seversky Donets River. It was built in 1985 to provide uninterrupted water supply to the Belgorod industrial hub and improve the quality of river water.
The reservoir has a volume of 76 million m³. The hydrochemical indicators of the water in the reservoir belong to quality class 3 (moderately polluted). Recently, the quality of water composition has noticeably improved.
Ponds
The Belgorod region has many regional ponds: Belgorod ponds, Gubkin ponds, Stary Oskol ponds and other reservoirs in the region.
At the ponds you can get qualified advice and tips on fishing in local waters. Belgorod Ponds are happy to welcome guests at any time of the year.
Below is a list of paid and free ponds:
- White Well - Paid Pond. The cost of fishing is 400 rubles. day, 4 tackles.
- Velikomikhailovka - Paid pond. The cost of fishing is 200 rubles, fishing from a boat is allowed 350 rubles.
- Vladimirovka – Regular, free pond
- City decorative pond - Decorative, urban, planned pond. The cost of fishing is 150 rubles. in 3 hours.
- Znamenka - Toll Pond. The cost of fishing is 350 rubles. in 12 hours.
- Kamyshenka (snag) - Paid pond. Cost of fishing: per night 150 rubles, per day 200 rubles.
- Novoselovka - Paid pond. The cost of fishing is 250 rubles. Opportunity to catch carp from 400 to 1500 g or quite large crucian carp.
- Oskolec – Free pond, has a large number of predators.
- Popov Verkh - Paid pond. The cost is determined on the spot.
- Stepanovka, Gorshechensky district - Toll pond. The cost of fishing is 500 rubles. in half a day, 2 gears. There is a predator and silver carp.
- The “Gontarevo” tract, Smorodino village, Grayvoronsky district - Paid pond, area 2 hectares. Fish species: grass carp, carp, silver carp, weight 1-1.5 kg. Fishing time is not limited, there are no restrictions on catching fish, payment upon catching fish is 100 rubles. per kg.
- Putodan - Toll pond. The cost of fishing is 100 rubles. Crucian carp, carp and perch are caught.
- Rogovoe – Free pond. Regular fishing.
- Ryndino – Free pond, catching crucian carp.
- Serebryanka - Paid pond. Cost of fishing: from 6 to 13 – 200 rubles. for tackle, from 13 to 21 another 200 rubles.
- Sosnovka-Somovka – Free pond.
- Dry Olshanka - Paid pond. Cost of fishing: from the shore 300 rubles. for 8 hours, 3 rods, from a boat 500 rubles.
- Ukolovo – Large paid pond. The cost is determined on the spot. There are a large number of fish species: pike perch, carp, carp, grass carp, silver carp, perch, roach, bleak and tench.
- Uspenka - Paid pond. The cost of fishing is 250 rubles. per day, from the shore. You are allowed to catch 5 kg of fish. From a boat 350 rubles, the same restrictions on fishing.
- Khutor Dmitrievsky, Voronezh region - Toll pond. Cost of fishing: Morning dawn – 350 rubles.
- Evening dawn – 350 rubles.
- Night – 700 rub.
- One day – 1000 rub.
- Predator – 100 rub.
- Boat rental – 150 rub. hour.
- Own boat – 500 rub. No time limit.
- Fishing: no more than 5 hooks per person.
Daylight hours 350 rub. no more than 7 kg.
Upon presentation of your ID:
- WWII participants - free,
- Disabled people of group III – 300 rubles.
- Disabled people of group II – 200 rubles.
- Disabled people of group I – 100 rubles.
Additional services:
- Gazebo (weekday/weekend) – 300/400 rub.
- Barbecue – 100 rub.
- Bundle of firewood – 100 rubles.
Variety of fish
In the reservoirs of the region there are quite a lot of different fish: pike perch, pike, bream, rudd, silver carp, roach and others. But still, Belogorye is a low-water area. For good fishing you can go to the following rivers:
- Quiet Pine,
- Oskol,
- Seversky Donets.
These rivers have reservoirs and ponds teeming with fish. And if luck smiles on the fisherman, then he will be able to catch a trophy fish. The reservoirs of the Belgorod region are most suitable for successful fishing.
Since the area is located in close proximity to Central Europe, one cannot hope for an unusual catch. Quite familiar species of fish are found here. In large reservoirs of the Belgorod region you can catch carp, which is not so often found in the middle zone of the country.
Fishing will bring a rich catch of ruffe, bream, pike perch, perch, pike, silver carp, asp, silver bream, etc. Pike fishing in the Belgorod region will be especially successful, since there is more than enough of this fish here.
Mirror carp is also grown in the region. With such a variety of prey, every fishing enthusiast is sure to catch his own trophy specimen.
Also, the reservoirs and rivers of the region abound in such types of fish as:
- chub,
- zander,
- som,
- burbot,
- roach.
On rivers with a small quiet current and muddy areas, tench and bream are found. Many men like to spend their free time fishing.
Paid places
There are many paid fishing ponds in Belogorye. There are also quite a lot of people on the paid ponds, among whom there are not only vacationers, but also fishermen. These places are well equipped for recreation and fishing.
Shagarovsky Pond
On the shore of this reservoir a recreation center “Russian Village” was built. This is one of the most popular paid ponds in the region. Fishing in this place is a pleasure. No one leaves here without a catch.
New fish are regularly introduced into the reservoir. There are especially a lot of crucian carp here. Bridges and gazebos have been built for fishermen and vacationers. You can fish from the shore and from a boat.
Fishing on a paid pond in the Belgorod region will be unforgettable for both professionals and beginners in this matter.
