Many anglers consider that it is not difficult to catch pike perch, and the main task in catching it is to find a place for parking of this fish. And then you can catch any bait and pull the zander one by one ...
Especially brightly this delusion is shown in the autumn. I often had to witness and participate in a mass autumn insanity, when rumors spread through the bases that the pike perch began to peck, and up to hundreds of boats suddenly appeared on the water, hoping for a "freebie" fish. But as it were not so.)) With the catch, 4-5 boats returned. The rest remained "nesolono hlebavshi", which were really surprised. "How come?" "There's a pike perch, some caught." And we flew ... "
Of course, it happens so (although very rarely), when you find a pack of zander, you catch them without much difficulty as much as your conscience will allow. If this happens, then you are lucky - you are on the "distribution" when the pike perch is actively feeding, and the food competition inside the pack is such that the fish attack everything that resembles an edible object. But this happens very rarely. Much more often, after you have found the location with pike-perches with the help of the echosounder, you will have to show remarkable patience, all your skills and skills, as well as sort out your entire arsenal of baits, to get pike perch ... And tomorrow you will have to start everything at first))). Pike perch yesterday could perfectly peck at foam rubber with aggressive wiring bait, today he only responded to twisters with light weights and a long pause, and tomorrow he to like a deeply diving wobblers-minnow ...
I do not have a box with lures for zander. Simply because the variety of the arsenal of actual bait for catching this fish will not fit into any box)). If i want to catch the zander, then I take with me a 40-liter backpack with a variety of silicone baits and foam rubber fish, as well as 2-3 boxes with wobblers. And only from all this variety of baits it is possible to pick up 2-3 varieties, which today like the pike-perches. Maybe it will be a silicone cancer (a reliable copy with all the anatomical details), maybe a long worm with a twister tail. I never know this beforehand ...
An excellent film about the uneasy hunting for pike-perches at the Rybinsk Reservoir was shot by Alexander Volynkin. All the complexity of searching and catching fanged ..
By the way, for catching the same pike, I only need 1 box with jig baits and one box of wobblers))). But there are difficulties with pike. Difficult to find ...
