Geographical information
The length of the Black River is a little more than 8 km, its width reaches 20 m in the lower reaches. The depth of the river ranges from 1 meter to 3.
Before the start of large-scale urban development work in the Primorsky region in the 1980s, the Black River took its source from a vast swamp bordering Lake Dolgoye from the south. The basin of Lake Dolgoye, with an area of 5.7 km², was approximately half of the catchment area of the Black River. Its length in its natural state was approximately 6.5 km. Along this length, the Black River received numerous small watercourses and drainage ditches laid through marshy areas. The river basin was replete with springs and outlets of pressure groundwater.
Currently, the upper part of the Black River bed is either led into underground sewers or has become an element of underground drainage. In addition to the developed sites of several large stores, the Black River catchment has undergone (and continues to undergo) intensive construction work.
The development of the territory north of the Serafimovsky cemetery led to fundamental changes in the hydrographic network of this part of the Black River catchment, and until approximately 2009, several sections remained here in a quasi-natural state, including a fragment of the river bed adjacent to the territory of the O'Key hypermarket from the north. Currently, these sections of the Black River bed are filled up. The modern source is located at the intersection of Baikonurskaya Street and Bogatyrsky Avenue.
In its lower reaches, the Black River has retained the features formed by the second half of the 20th century and flows into the Bolshaya Nevka. The length of the preserved section of the Black River is about 4 km, that is, more than 60% of the total length of the river in its natural state. During low-water seasons, the river mouth section is backed up by the Bolshaya Nevka and at times turns into a narrow bay. The level regime of the Black River below the Chernorechensky Bridge (Torzhkovskaya Street) in the summer practically corresponds to the course of the levels of the Bolshaya Nevka.
The average long-term water level of the Black River in the lower reaches is 14 cm BS. The annual river flow rate at the mouth before 1988 was 100 l/s. The Black River has been assigned the second category of fishery water bodies.
In 2006, Roshydromet of the Russian Federation classified the river pollution class as 4A (5 maximum) with a tendency to stabilization. Main pollutants: BOD5 (O2), nitrite nitrogen, copper, manganese, zinc.
According to the State Water Register of Russia, the water management section of the Neva River, the river sub-basin of the Neva River and the rivers of the Lake Ladoga basin (without the Svir and Volkhov sub-basins, the Russian part of the basins) belong to the Baltic Basin District. Belongs to the river basin of the Neva River (including the river basins of Lake Onega and Lake Ladoga).
The river is characterized by intense siltation and an abundance of bottom sediments.
The finish of the vacation will be fishing outside Zelenogorsk
After Turkey, my soul asked to go to my native river to sip on pike and perch. The very next day after our arrival, we began preparing for our trip to Tom! Vitalka took a couple of days off and we decided to rush towards Zelenogorsk, try to make our way along the road towards Red Lake and go fishing.
On the last day before flying to Turkey on vacation, I successfully passed the exam for the right to operate motor boats! And with a clear conscience he went on vacation to the Mediterranean Sea. After arriving, the first thing I did was run to GIMS to get my license and go fishing with my boat kit. The Flagman 350 boat and the 9.8 SiaPro motor were purchased in the spring and had not yet been on the water. The spawning ban and closed navigation until May 25 prevented me from testing my kit. My kit is not subject to registration, and a license is not needed, but with a license it’s easier, and in our family there is another kit with an 18 horsepower engine, so the license is not at all superfluous.
We decided to go fishing on Thursday afternoon. It would have been possible in the morning, but my friend Vitalka also took his boat license in the morning! In the second hour he called and said that he had successfully passed all the exams and was going to take me and my belongings to the garage! There were a lot of things: a boat; motor; tackle. It’s good that we are traveling together on Vitalkina’s “BUKHANKA” - there is a lot of space, and consider it an apartment on wheels.
Things are collected and we hit the road. The road ahead is almost 100 km. Moreover, at an intersection with bad sections - at the very end of the road. The road flew by quickly, there was more than enough to talk about, especially since we had not seen each other for almost two weeks.
I suggest watching a short video about the further path to the parking lot. At the end, a more than extreme path awaited us. On the way, we even managed to dent the Uzik’s wings a little. LET'S LOOK!!!
We arrived at six o'clock and began setting up the camp, preparing food and collecting gear and a boat. We decided to go fishing the next day in the morning. The evening was a great success! Signature pea soup with smoked meats, a bottle of homemade cranberry liqueur and conversations until dark around the fire. The only annoying thing was the RAZING number of mosquitoes - damn them! Repellents and spirals did not help at all; near our place there were two lakes and a hefty “Kolashnoe swamp”. The soup was impossible to eat due to the fact that mosquitoes were constantly swooping into the plates. By installing a mosquito coil in the UAZ, we killed more than one hundred blood-sucking mosquitoes.
I wake up at 4:00, dawn is breaking outside! With difficulty getting up, I begin to get ready to go fishing. I lower the boat, put on the motor, and put away the necessary fishing gear. He started the engine, let it roar, and drove upstream. There is a lot of water in Tom, so there are no problems with movement yet, I calmly pass through the riffles and go upstream.
My kit is Flagman 350 and Sia Pro 9.8 engine.
License to operate a motor boat.
After walking about 5-6 km. I reached the confluence of the stream from Red Lake into Tom, where I decided to start my fishing. Having stabbed, I begin to methodically fish a promising place with a fan. The emphasis was on wobblers, and only then I switched to a retractable leash. Not a single bite! I change place - the same thing, I decide to go even higher. Along the way I admire the beauty of our river! The motor quite briskly carries my boat upstream. But even there I never earned a single bite. 3 hours of fishing had already passed and I was really hungry, I decided to return to camp to have a snack.
The confluence of the stream flowing from Lake Krasnoye.
After a snack, I fall back into the boat and set off downstream. There is still a lot of water in the Tom, so promising places on the river are hard to read. The water has flooded the nearby bushes and the pike is probably holding on in the net.
While rafting downstream, I scan the shoreline to no avail. I find my favorite quiet spot behind the islands and drop anchor.
The raft flooded along the banks is one of the best shelters in high water, it’s a pity that it’s practically impossible to get fish from there.
On the left is my favorite bay in Zelenogorsk.
At first I relied on light wobblers and only then began to assemble a microjig rod. Having tied a fluorocarbon leash to the braid (with a counter knot), I installed a collapsible Cheburashka of 1.5 g. Having put a Fat Booty 1.6″ 40mm Ike worm on an open hook, I began to make the first casts to the border of the current and calm water. Already on the first retrieve I felt KNOCK-KNOCK - short, clear strikes on bites made it clear that I couldn’t delay hooking. I make a hook and at the other end someone resists, but rather weakly. Imagine my surprise when I pulled the troublemaker out of the water. This is Ruff!!! I've never had anything like this before!!!
The percentage of postings sold was approximately 1/2; from time to time, a small perch was pecked along with the ruff. There was no goal of bringing the fish home, so regardless of size, all the fish were released into their native depths. There were clouds and even small clouds running across the sky, but there was still a lot of sun and I even managed to sunbathe. Thank God, there were no midges or mosquitoes on the water.
Cool cloud!!! Looks like a dog.
Silicone “Leech” from Ukrainian craftsmen.
The ruff and perch were biting regularly for four hours. There was time to test different silicones and just enjoy the process.
Also silicone from Ukraine. Yura sent me several models to try out - they have very interesting models.
I’ll tell you a little about the tactics of catching ruff. During the fishing, one peculiarity was noticed: the ruffe pecked at a large separation from the bottom, or when moving into the water column. If the bait was carried out in the bottom layer, then most often the object of fishing was perch. Sometimes, on purpose, I did not let the bait fall to the very bottom and began to perform micro-oscillations with the rod, trying to make the bait play in one place. The perch bit on almost the same fishing line only in the bottom layer. In general, microjig fishing in river conditions turned out to be very interesting. Not only have I never caught a ruff on the MJ, but I also periodically began to come across Sorozhki, which also couldn’t help but make me happy. The fishing was already a success, we should have gone straight here in the morning - we wasted so much time in vain looking for fish.
Nano-minnow from Crazy Fish.
After fishing almost until lunchtime, I went to camp.
Vitalka, loitering along the shore, didn’t catch anything and therefore was waiting for me to go with me in the evening to a quiet place, where I had a great catch. Upon arrival, after sipping some soup, we decided to test the Vitalkin motor on my boat. His miracle of Soviet motor engineering “Veterok 8l. With." didn’t want to work at all, he’s been rehearsing it for a year now, not without success, of course. Vitalka’s hands grow from where they should, so it’s only a matter of time. We install the engine and start it half a turn!!! Even I can’t start like that when it’s cold, but here it’s Veterok. With the new carburetor the engine started running like clockwork. While we were installing the engine it started to rain. The warm summer rain was a delight after the hot morning. We hid things that might get wet and continued testing on the water.
While Vitalka was boating, I decided to check out a nook with a snag that was not far from the camp. On the second cast, I felt the perch at the other end of the line shaking its head in the hope of freeing itself. Well, no, probably the biggest one today. Although the trophy is not great, it is dear to the fisherman’s heart. After making a couple more casts, I got another smaller striper.
In the evening the bite was much worse, but we were not left without a catch. Vitalka fished with spinners from the shore, and I ironed my calm with a microjig.
The next morning, without hesitation, we immediately went to the old points. Everything was repeated like a carbon copy - perch and ruff were pecked at the point just like yesterday. Vitalka wandered along the shore, looking at promising places with a turntable. Then, having caught nothing, he called me to his place to change the location and together break through a couple of interesting points.
Having picked up Vitalka, we changed the fishing point. Along the shore and the flooded Ivnik there was a small area of water with a small current and simply an incredible amount of fry. We anchored and started fishing. And then it flooded - dace (my first dace on a spinning rod), sorozhka, perch and all of a large size. It’s a shame the bite didn’t last long and we had to look further for fish.
Elchik.
Track.
Vitalka took a good okushka for mikruhu.
Having found an interesting area, we decided to fish for a couple more hours and head to camp at 10 o’clock. The bite started almost immediately and the perch here was larger than in other places.
Vitalka's dog Chacey was tired of our fishing, she whined and asked to go to camp. Let him get used to our trips.
Christmas tree on a turntable.
At 11 o'clock we sailed and started packing. Having calmly collected everything, we said “goodbye” to our place on the Tom River just above Zelenogorsk and set off on the difficult journey home.
The path home was indeed not easy; in one of the bad places we still planted our Loaf, even despite the installed chains. Okay, what can you do, unwind the cables, winches, take out the High Jack jack and chainsaw. We begin an operation to rescue the UAZ from captivity in the swamp. The UAZ rested not only on the bridges, but also partially on the body, so even with a 5-ton hand winch we could not move it. Having lifted both sides of the BOLIVAR in turn, we placed sawed-off logs under the wheels, and only after that did it go - slowly, but it went.
That's all our adventures! I consider this fishing an excellent FINISH for my summer vacation! See you all again, soon there will be a report on fishing in the treasured places on the Tom in the area of the Azhendarovo-Bungaraps channel.
Bridges and crossings
There are ten bridges across the Black River, six have names. The complete list of bridges looks like this: a reinforced concrete automobile-pedestrian bridge at the source of the river, on Bogatyrsky Prospekt, a pedestrian metal bridge in the alignment of Aerodromnaya Street, a pedestrian metal bridge near the corner of Polevaya Sabirovskaya and Zausadebnaya streets, a railway bridge near the exit to the river on Academician Shimansky Street ( actually two bridges - an old bridge with dismantled railway tracks and a new bridge along the main route of the Sestroretskaya railway line), Karelsky Bridge (a new bridge built in 2010-2011, put into operation in 2011), Kolomyazhsky Bridge (replaced by the Kolomyazhsky overpass), Lanskoy Bridge, Chernorechensky Bridge, pedestrian Stroganovsky Bridge, Golovinsky Bridge.
