In
the beginning of May I returned to our fishing cottage to do some
fishing over the weekend. The weekend started off really well: I
caught a nice pike with the very first cast right from the shoreline
of our cottage.
Pike catched 5th of May 2015 |
The waters close to our cottage are only max 2,5 metres deep. This means that the waters warm up quite fast in spring, which attracts small fish to do their spawning there, which in its turn attracts bigger carnivorous fish to turn up and eat the small fish. The best period to catch pike close to our cottage is roughly between the 1st and 25th of June.
Pike catched 22nd of June 2015 |
May
was hot in 2014. In the end of the month the water surface
temperature was already over 20 degrees Celsius, which was good for
catching fish like roach by angling.
Angling in Cottage Jokiniemi 24th of May 2014 |
So, in the end of May we angled for roach, bream and rudd. The catch was good especially in the evenings, right before dusk. We released the fish we were not going to eat, but still kept plenty of rudd and bream, which we smoked and in addition to this we cooked up a tasty fish soup.
Angling in Cottage Jokiniemi 24th of May 2014 |