Types of fish of the Leningrad region
Fishing has always been a favorite pastime of the male population Leningrad region. This is especially facilitated by the large number of various rivers, streams and lakes. Until now, many reservoirs are full of fish and fishermen have somewhere to roam. Moreover, the fish found in the local, numerous rivers and lakes of the Leningrad region willingly go for both sports and amateur tackle. In addition, most Gulf of Finland falls specifically on the Leningrad region. And the north of the region is literally strewn with clusters of numerous lakes. In addition to one of the largest and beautiful lakes throughout Europe of Ladoga, such large lakes like Otradnoye, Glubokoye, Komsomolskoye, Balakhanovskaya, Cheremenetskoye and some others.
As for rivers and streams suitable for fishing, there are about twenty-five thousand of them in the region. There are not many large rivers (Neva, Vuoksa, Svir, Volkhov, Luga, Narva, Plyussa), most of the river system is made up of small rivers, no more than 10 kilometers long.
In addition to natural reservoirs, there are six large artificial reservoirs in the region, which also supply fishermen with fish.
The total area of all reservoirs in the region is more than 12,000 sq.m.
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The reservoirs of the Leningrad region are home to about 60 different species of commercial fish, including such valuable species as salmon, whitefish, brown trout and smelt. All species of fish are divided into anadromous and semi-anadromous, which enter rivers and lakes, lake-river fish, which are constantly in local inland waters, and marine species.
Among the anadromous and semi-anadromous species one can distinguish Baltic sturgeon, salmon, whitefish, smelt, and river eel.
The indigenous inhabitants of rivers and lakes include: roach, tench, perch, chub, bream, pike perch, dace, burbot, grayling, crucian carp, catfish, asp, rudd, whitefish, bleak, raw fish, loach, silver bream, river trout and many others, only about 30 species.
Among sea fish, living in the Gulf of Finland, the most common species are cod, herring, sea pike, and eelpout.
In addition, valuable species of fish such as carp, trout, omul and nelma are bred in reservoirs for paid fishing.
Descriptions of reservoirs of the Leningrad region
Fishing reports in the Leningrad region
Types of fish of the Leningrad region
Perch is the most common fish in various reservoirs of the Leningrad region. IN summer period medium and small perch try not to leave deep pools, but in September and October they come to open spaces. Large specimens try not to leave their deep pools at all, appearing in open water only at short intervals, in the evening and in the morning. Perch spawns in late spring, in May. During open water, perch goes well on a regular float rod, with a simple nozzle, to get it out of deep pools they use bottom fishing rod or fished from a boat, in the so-called plumb line, without using a float. Fishing is considered the most productive in August, when perches organize a collective hunt for fry.
The habitat of pike perch is South coast Lake Ladoga, some northern lakes, and the Vuoksa River, which has a length of 156 kilometers. Pike perch spawn in late spring – early summer, and spawning for pike perch is quite long, about a month. Like perch, pike perch prefers deep holes and creeks. It is caught almost all summer, but the best period is considered to be the beginning of autumn. Fishing with live bait, which includes small fish: gudgeon, bleak, smelt, is considered effective. Also used are plumb lures, bottom fishing rods and line fishing.
Burbot is a nocturnal predator, and like all predatory fish, it is very voracious. Found in almost all rivers of the Leningrad region. Spawns in winter, in December-January. Fishing is usually divided into three periods: autumn, winter and spring. In autumn, the bite begins in September and continues until the end of October; it is caught with a bottom fishing rod. In winter, the burbot bite begins after spawning, and it even goes for spoons; in the spring it is caught immediately after the reservoir is free of ice. Since burbot is a predator, it is caught with a worm, meat, a frog, or a piece of fish.
Carp are mainly found in prepared reservoirs with a fishing fee. It is well caught both with a regular float rod and with a bottom one. Loves millet porridge, bread, soaked steamed peas. Unlike many, it is caught only in the summer months. The best bite is at dawn.
Tench prefers quiet, calm, deep pools, well warmed by the sun. Not found in Lake Ladoga. Not too picky about water quality, inactive, mostly standing at the very bottom. Tench is a fish that loves solitude, so it is rare to catch even several fish in one place. It overwinters, buried in silt, fishing begins with the onset of warm weather, spawns in the summer, in the month of June, and gives preference to its own reservoir. The best bait is considered to be a red worm, the best fishing time is morning before 8 o'clock.
Bream, one of the most common inhabitants of reservoirs in the Leningrad region, loves deep clay pits. Spawning on shallows covered with reeds and reeds, spawning lasts about a month, in late spring and early summer. The best time for catching bream is considered to be the period before spawning and early autumn. Well caught on float rods. Among the baits it prefers are worms, bread and dough. For bream, bait is required. At night it can also be caught using a bottom fishing rod.
Roach can be found in any body of water. It is the main river fish, in the spring it stays throughout almost the entire reservoir, in the summer it moves into small tributaries and small bays. They usually spawn in early May. The main tackle is a float rod; the best baits are for bloodworms, worms and bread. So the fish is standing quite deep, you need to make sure that the nozzle sinks almost to the very bottom.
Rudd prefers warm, still water in small bays and oxbow lakes or lakes with good aquatic vegetation. Lives at medium depths, rudd spawns in early summer, goes well for worms and bread. On lakes, it is good to fish where there are windows among the reeds.
The ide is a rather rare fish, found in deep lowland rivers and lakes with running water.
It is good to catch immediately after the ice melts, spawning in April and May. Best time biting, immediately after the end of spawning, in the summer in the morning hours before dawn, in the fall - in the late afternoon. Goes well both on a float and on a donk. You can fish with almost anything, from steamed peas to grasshoppers and dragonfly larvae, as long as you have good bait.
Although chub is considered only a river fish, it can also be caught in the Gulf of Finland. Spawn in May. Caught on float rod, also works well when fly fishing. Loves small insects, bread and cheese.
Dace is a small fish similar to a roach, found everywhere, prefers clean rivers with moderate currents. Spawns almost all spring from March until the end of May. Therefore, the best bite is in the summer, after spawning. It is well caught on a float rod with wiring and donks. It goes well on pieces of worm, and can be caught with fly fishing on any insect. In winter it is caught using bloodworms and maggots.
Cheese can still be found in the southern regions of the region, in the Svir and Volkhov rivers. Likes fast cold water. Spawns in May or June. In the spring, before spawning, it is well caught on a donk; in the summer, it is better to catch it with a wire or from a boat using a float rod.
It’s hard to imagine our water bodies without pike, the most famous and insatiable predator of rivers and lakes. In water bodies it prefers to stay near the shore in thickets of grass. Large pike prefer deep holes and pools. The first bite begins as soon as the ice in the reservoir breaks down, the second bite immediately after spawning, which for river pike takes place in April, and for lake pike in May, the third period of the best bite is September and October. On Lake Ladoga and in the Gulf of Finland, the best time is the first ten days of June, and autumn until the ice begins to form. Naturally, he prefers live bait as a small fish, but squints go very well with worms.
Som – big fish found mainly in the southern regions of the region, the northern border runs along the Vuokse River. Prefers deep pools, from which it emerges very rarely. Catfish are caught mainly at night, when it comes out to hunt. Caught on donkeys. Several worms, small fish, and crayfish are used as bait, but catfish are best suited to a frog.
Palia is a large fish of the salmon family found in Lakes Ladoga and Onega. Open only for recreational spinning fishing. Live bait is used as bait.
Golden (common) crucian carp prefers to live in overgrown reservoirs; it feels good in water of poor quality, where other fish simply cannot survive. Spawns in summer. It loves well-warmed water, so, unlike other species, it is great to catch on a hot day, rising to the very surface. It bites well on worms, bread, and cereals. Perfectly caught on a float rod.
Bleak is a small fish that lives in small schools close to the surface and lives everywhere in rivers and lakes. It is caught with a float rod; the best bait is flies, worms, and maggots. Spawning lasts from late spring to mid-summer.
Although the loach is found throughout the Leningrad region, it is quite rare. Loves heavily overgrown areas of rivers and lakes. Spawning at the loach in the summer months, it is considered one of the most unpretentious fish, will survive where all other fish species die. Some varieties of loach are used by fishermen as bait when fishing for trout.
Gustera prefers to stay closer to the shore in small flocks. It is found in all major rivers of the Leningrad region, Ladoga and other lakes; it spawns in May and early summer. The best biting period is the week before spawning; after spawning, the biting is quite stable all summer long. The best time to fish is late in the evening, just before sunset.
The ruff is rarely more than twenty centimeters. Probably inhabits all water bodies in the region. It can be caught all year round using a bottom rod, a float rod and a plumb line.
Trout is a valuable migratory fish, found in the Gulf of Finland, Ladoga and some other lakes. Spawns between October and December. It can be caught with spinning rods, track and fly fishing.
Eel is a valuable commercial species. There is a lot of it in the Gulf of Finland. Included in large rivers, flowing into the bay. Spawn in the western part Atlantic Ocean, then the larvae travel with the current to the shores of Europe, to the North and Baltic seas. Fishing is good from the beginning of summer until late autumn, on a bottom fishing rod with a worm or live bait.
The asp is now a rare predator, it goes to spawn in early spring, the best biting period is immediately after spawning, lives near rocky rifts. The best time to catch is early in the morning when he comes out to hunt. It is well caught using a float rod, spinning rod, or fly fishing; small fish, such as bleak, and large insects are well suited as bait.
Grayling prefers northern rivers and reservoirs. Leaves to spawn in May. A very voracious predatory fish. If it is in a body of water, you will immediately notice it by its high jumps out of the water. It is caught exclusively during the daytime. Stays near the shore, with trees hanging over the water. Stays sedentary in small flocks. The best time to catch grayling is considered to be the period after the May spawning. It is caught by wire and fly fishing, and prefers worms and large insects from baits.
Video online. Fishing in the Leningrad region. A tributary of the Neva. Grayling. Part 1
Smelt is a commercial fish throughout Baltic Sea, including the Gulf of Finland, is found in large northern lakes. During spawning it enters rivers. Holds in large schools. Spawn in May. Well caught before spawning.
Whitefish are distinguished by a variety of different species and subspecies. There are river whitefish and those living in lakes. Sea whitefish are found in the Gulf of Finland and the Neva. In Lake Ladoga there is a species of whitefish called ludoga. White whitefish live in the Volkhov and its tributaries. Whitefish are schooling fish and love cool and clean water. Whitefish spawn late autumn. The best time to fish for it is March and April. In winter it’s great to fish with a jig.
River trout is every fisherman's dream. It is very cautious and timid, so it can be caught using a float rod mainly from the shore. The best time to catch it is spring, after the ice melts, and autumn before freeze-up. Insects, flies, and worms are used as bait. Large trout prefer small fish such as minnows or bleaks.
The Karelian Isthmus is one of the best places for fishing in the Leningrad region.
The best place for fishing in the Leningrad region are the lakes of the Karelian Isthmus, which divides the Finnish sea bay And Ladoga lake. There are more than 800 small lakes rich in fish. All lakes have different depths and have different bottom topography. The best lakes for fishing are Lake Pitkojärvi, Lake Prodolnoye, Lake Saucer, Lake Beloye, Lake Osinovskoye, Lake Maloe Shchuchye.
Reservoirs of the Leningrad region
Other bodies of water
Fishing on the lakes of the Karelian Isthmus of the Leningrad Region
Lake Kavgolovskoe.
Lake Krasnogvardeyskoye
Types of fish: perch, ruffe, pike, bream, pike perch, burbot, roach
Lake Nakhimovskoye
Types of fish: perch, roach, ide, pike, bream
Nakhimovskaya Recreation Center
Bases on the lake:
Lake Kirillovskoye
Types of fish: pike, perch, roach, crucian carp
Lake Big Longitudinal
Types of fish: perch, roach, pike, bream
Lake Glubokoe
Types of fish: perch, bream, ide, pike, roach, pike perch.
Lake Vishnevskoye
Types of fish: perch, pike, roach, ruff
Lake Lembolovskoye
Types of fish: perch, ide, roach, pike, bream, pike perch
Bases on the lake:
Lake Pitkojärvi
Types of fish: bleak, ruff, pike.
Lake Beloe (Maloye Shchuchye)
Types of fish: Perch
Lake Osinovskoye
Types of fish: pike, perch
Lake Marchenkovo
Types of fish: roach, perch.
Lake Kharlampovskoe
Types of fish: roach, perch.
Lake Ulovnoe
Types of fish: crucian carp, bream, bleak, ruffe, perch, pike.
Lake Torikovskoe
Types of fish: roach, tench, perch, pike.
Lake Sukhodolskoye
Types of fish: roach, perch, trout, ide, bream, whitefish, grayling, dace, pike perch, salmon, bleak, pike.
Bases on the lake:
Lake Sudakovskoye
Types of fish: pike perch, roach, perch, tench, ide, bleak, bream, silver bream, burbot.
Lake Stepanyanskoe
Types of fish: roach, crucian carp, perch, pike.
Lake Stavok
Types of fish: roach, pike, perch.
Lake Semiostrovie
Types of fish: rudd, roach, perch, burbot, bream, bleak, tench, silver bream, pike.
Lake Svetloe
Types of fish: whitefish, carp, roach, perch, pike.
Lake Rakovoe Bolshoye
Types of fish: roach, burbot, perch, crucian carp, rudd, pike.
Lake Razdolinskoye
Types of fish: rudd, roach, perch, bleak, burbot, crucian carp, bream.
Lake Pravdinskoye
Types of fish: roach, pike perch, burbot, pike.
Bases on the lake:
Lake Poperechnoe
Types of fish: crucian carp.
Lake Polyanskoye
Types of fish: bream, roach, perch, silver bream, pike.
Lake Poludennye
Types of fish: roach, burbot, perch, bream, pike.
Lake Pokrovskoye
Types of fish: rudd, roach, perch, bleak, silver bream, tench, bream, burbot, pike.
Lake Nizhneye Podosinovskoye
Types of fish: rudd, roach, perch, silver bream, tench, burbot, pike.
Types of fish: roach, perch, burbot, pike.
Lake Podgryadovskoe
Types of fish: rudd, roach, perch, tench, pike.
Paid fishing in the Leningrad region
Nowadays, for those who like to sit behind a fishing rod, relax their souls in nature, the most the best option, this is fishing for a small monetary contribution on paid reservoirs. And that's why. Many, especially small rivers, lakes and other open bodies of water now present a rather sad sight; the banks are in heaps of waste and garbage, the bottom of many rivers is simply a garbage dump, and the water is polluted or poisoned with harmful products and waste from various industries. Fish, if it has been preserved and adapted to life in such conditions, is absolutely unsuitable for consumption.
And on those rivers and lakes where more or less normal conditions for the existence of fish have still been preserved, poachers are in full swing, catching natural remains with nets, drowning fish with explosives or killing them with electric fishing rods.
Therefore, it is better to pay a little, but still get pleasure from fishing.
Fishing bases in the Leningrad region:
Mikhailovskaya – Recreation center on the shore of Lake Vuoksa, from 3000 rubles/day.
The Pikhtovoye recreation center is located in Vyborg on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, from 4,500 rubles/day.
Hotel "Dubki" is located in the ecological zone of the village of Dubki, a 20-minute drive from the port of Ust-Luga on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, price from 2500 rubles/day
Lake Shore – cottage complex located in Priozerskoye on the shore of Lake Vuoksa.
Under the cover of Ladoga there is a recreation center 150 km away. from St. Petersburg on the shores of Lake Ladoga.
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The historical center of Petrozavodsk is crossed parallel to each other by two small, but sometimes very stormy rivers - Lososinka and Neglinka. Originating far outside the city, on the “sloping” landscape of the capital of Karelia, it seems to pick up speed and rapidly carry its waters down - into the huge reservoir of Lake Onega.
PHOTO 1. Lososinka is the river on which the Petrovsky Cannon Factory was built in 1703, and the Aleksandrovsky Cannon Factory in 1774. If there had once been salmon in it, then with the beginning of the industrial history of these places it could no longer be there. In the picture you see the Lososinka riverbed in the area of the former Aleksandrovsky cannon factory.
PHOTO 2. Real Karelian taiga. In the very center of Petrozavodsk. 
PHOTO 3. Rock garden on the territory of the so-called. Yamka Park. This place is a kind of monument to the spontaneous willfulness of Lososinka of old times. In the rainy summer of the distant 1800, a spontaneous flood broke through the dam of the Aleksandrovsky plant, after which all the wooden buildings along the river were swept away by water and carried out by a powerful stream directly into Lake Onega. The industrial accident was eliminated without delay, but the landscape at the site of the most powerful water impact was partially changed. This is how a large ravine appeared, which was later transformed into a park area. 
PHOTO 4. Salmon in the area of the so-called. French Pond. Three hundred years ago there was a pond here in front of the Petrovsky plant dam, and at the beginning of the 20th century. there was a city power station. 
PHOTO 4. Since 2015, a giant slingshot has been towering menacingly over French Pond. This street installation by a certain Igor Monakhov is called “Fun”. 
PHOTO 5. View of Lososinka from the Sovetsky Bridge (Pravdy Street). 
PHOTO 6. And this is the Neglinka River. The name evokes associations with Moscow. The etymology of the Moscow Neglinka goes back to the word denoting a swampy place (where there is no clay). It is quite possible that the same interpretation applies to its Karelian namesake. However, it is possible that the ancient Finno-Ugric name was simply reinterpreted by people from central Russia. It is known, for example, that back in the 18th century. for some reason the river was called Nigina.
PHOTO 7. In the area of the park “50th anniversary of the pioneer organization” (here I, as a pioneer in the mornings - an example to all the guys, went jogging) the river bed is “dressed” with stone, or rather, with concrete. 
PHOTO 8. Above Neglinka - surrounded by a birch grove - there is a monument associated with the memory of the so-called. "the first Chechen war". 
PHOTO 9. "To the sons of Karelia who died in Chechnya." The monument was erected in 1997. According to official statistics, before the conclusion of the Khasavyurt Agreement, 32 soldiers native to the Republic of Karelia died in Chechnya. The monument, authored by sculptor Ch.M. Shukwani carries hidden symbolism. For example, a white stone block represents a peaceful life, black stone pillars - death, a bell - an appeal to descendants. 
PHOTO 10. Peaceful life on Neglinka... 
The river is very winding. The general direction of Lososinka is northeast. The source of the river is in Lake Lososinskoye in the Prionezhsky district, 4 km west of the village of Lososinnoye. The Lososinka River flows into Petrozavodsk Bay southwest coast Lake Onega, in the urban district - the city of Petrozavodsk.
Historical reference.
In pre-Petrine and Peter the Great times, the river was called “Lososinnitsa”.
Until the 19th century, part of the river from its source to its confluence with the Mashezerka River was called the “Lososinskaya River”, the rest, as at present, was called the “Lososinka”.
On August 9, 1703, at the mouth on the bank of Lososinka, by decree of Emperor Peter the Great (the Great), the Shuisky (Petrovsky) arms factory was founded, from the creation of which the history of the city of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the Republic of Karelia, dates back.
In 1910, the first hydroelectric power station was built at the mouth of Lososinka, powered by the energy of falling water.
Settlements.
In the Prionezhsky district:
- Lososinnoye village - located 4 km west of the source of the river.
In Gorodskoe administrative district:
- the city of Petrozavodsk - located at the mouth of the river. It is the capital of Karelia. Petrozavodsk includes the following microdistricts: Vygoinavolok, Baraniy Bereg, Drevlyanka, Golikovka, Zheleznodorozhny (Fifth Settlement), Zimnik, Zareka, Ivanovo Islands, Klyuchevaya, Kukkovka, Oktyabrsky, Onezhsky, Okunya Tonya, Pervomaisky, Sands, Perevalka, Poultry Farm, Rybka, Tomitsy, Radio Plant, Sainavolok, Northern Industrial Zone, Solomennoye, Silicate Plant, Sulazhgora, the village of the Teplichny State Farm, the village of the Sulazhgorsky Brick Factory, Center and Southern Industrial Zone. The largest microdistricts are Kukkovka (50 thousand inhabitants) and Drevlyanka (60 thousand inhabitants).
Routes (access roads).
At the mouth of the river there are highways: M-18 "St. Petersburg - Petrozavodsk - Murmansk - Borisoglebsky", R-19 "Petrozavodsk - Kurgino", A-133 "Petrozavodsk - Suoyarvi". And also at the mouth of the river in the city of Petrozavodsk there is a railway junction: “Murmansk - St. Petersburg” and a railway line “Suoyarvi - Lodeynoye Pole”.
Main tributaries.
Lososinka has many small nameless tributaries and one larger tributary, the Mashozerka River (Mashezerka). The length of the river is 7 km. The drainage area is 100 km². It is located 17 km along the right bank of the Lososinka River.
Relief and soils.
The relief of the territory was formed under the influence of a glacier that retreated approximately 12 thousand years ago. The relief of the Prionezhsky region is predominantly hilly and ridged. The height of the source of the Lososinka River is 186 meters above sea level. The height at the mouth is 35 meters.
A large amount of moisture in the soil with relatively little evaporation contributes to waterlogging. The soil cover is dominated by podzolic type soils, as well as gley-podzolic and podzolic-bog soils. Such soils are formed on rocks poor in foundations, different in mechanical composition and origin: lacustrine and fluvioglacial sands, moraine sand and sandy loam deposits. There are also soddy-podzolic soils, which are widespread in the southern regions.
Vegetation.
The vegetation is represented by lingonberry pine and blueberry spruce; This fauna composition is typical for the South Karelian taiga zone; clean pine coastal forests are also characteristic. There are fewer deciduous forests than coniferous forests; they are mainly represented by birch forests.
Hydrological regime.
The length of the Lososinka River is 25 km. The drainage basin area is 302 km². The river is fed by a mixed type, due to melting snow and falling rainwater. Salmonka is also fed by numerous tributary streams. Freeze-up on the river begins in November-December, ice drift and high water in April-May.
Ichthyofauna.
The type of fish that lives in Lososinka is pike. Previously, the river was a salmon river. When the river was in its natural clean state, Atlantic salmon and lake trout rose to spawn in its waters. Currently, there is a possibility of restoring a full salmon population in the river. But for this it is necessary to clean the river of anthropogenic debris, loosen the soil and fill it, build fish passages and plant hatchery juveniles until stable natural reproduction is established.
Water quality.
Current state The Lososinka River is causing concern among bioecologists. Within the city of Petrozavodsk, the water and river banks are heavily polluted. As a result of the deplorable state of water quality, a mutation occurs in various microorganisms and fish inhabiting Salmon.
Tourism and rest.
At the mouth of the Lososinka River there is a recreation park, a city beach, the Yunost stadium, and the Spartak stadium.
reference Information.
Length: 25 km.
Basin area: 302 km².
Swimming pool: Baltic Sea, Lake Ilmen.
River basin: Neva, Svir.
Source: Lake Lososinskoye.
Location: 4 km west of the village of Lososinnoye, Prionezhsky district, Republic of Karelia, Russia.
Coordinates: 61°40′58.04″ N. latitude, 34°12′18.2″ e. d.
Mouth: Petrozavodsk Bay on the southwestern coast of Lake Onega.
Location: near the urban district - the city of Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia.
Coordinates: 61°47′12.5″ N. latitude, 34°23′37.96″ e. d.
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