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Location: YouTube.com/LyubakaVideo Instagram @LyubakaVideo | Hi, all I will try and reflect the happiness of a fellow Bulgarian friend of mine from my home city of Ruse, Bulgaria picturesquelly situated on the Majestic Danube River. His name is Pavel~(Paul would be tha catholic equivalent) and he is a part of the Sports Fishing Club "Old Otters" I am sponsoring back home, which makes me additionally proud ;). The story goes like this:
" :First Zanders spinning fishing:
Saturday the wifey was working, and my little daughter we sent to her Grampa's to help him take care of his bees... guess where I went ;).
First I decided to run to the Danube and get some River Shiners, since the cat had not had fresh fish for a while. Around 10:00 I showed up at the dyke of the Shipyard and lined up shoulder to shoulder with half of the city of Ruse, everyone casting at them whatever they could think of.
I prepared a 17ft noodle rod rigged with 2 tiny hooks tied on 0.0035" diameter (pretty close to fine human hair) and it was on!
Key to the presentation was the choice of tackle. The majority were not exactly sure what they were there for... I even heard a fellow angler (seeing the persistance in my catching technique) say: "I've got to put some of the "fine line" - 6# test thickness" (0.009") which, to be honest, is kind of thin when you are fishing The Danube... unless your targeted fish species is River Shiners;)!
I put up with the gusty wind until 14:00 which got my bucket pretty heavy!
Then I decided to go to Lipnik Lake(a reservoir 9 miles out of Ruse with unclear at the moment status - there is no one running it, since the local administration broke the contract with the former owner, who drained it in order to seine out all of the fish, just ahead of an upcoming speedboating tournament...)
The wind there wasn't any milder, so I gave that up after a few casts and went to pick up my daughter.
Around 18:00 on our way back with the little one, she wanted to learn how it's done, so I stopped at the lake to show her.
The kid catches on fast! Casts out and retrieves slow... All of a sudden she goes:
"Daddy, this thing got really hard to reel in.."
I looked her way and so something flash and shake in the deep! Well, unfortunately while only learning how to cast "we" never came to the "setting-of-the-hook" part :(...and, naturally the fish came off.
I grabbed the rod and started casting... Second cast - Fish On! Hmmmmmmm - Zander!...Well, unfortunately while only learning how to cast "we" never came to the "landing-the-fish" part - well, guess where the landing net was - sure nicely packed where it belongs in the trunk... of course the fish came off while I was trying to pull it to shore it shook the hooks off. I dashed for the vehicle fetched the net and installed it in my daughters hands and we were ready for the funniest videos, wherever I move - she moves at my heels with the landing net - proudly raised high and ready for whatever comes.
It took us 20mins to land our 2 Zander of the day and we made it home safe and sound.
Not too shabby for a beginner ;)...
As to baits used - we were casting wobblers of "Ugly Duckling"
The lure at the rightmost!"
Emotions are always unbreakably bringing generations together. As comments go angling is a great hobby/sport or just a pastime to let our children have and hand down to the generations to come.
Thank You.
Edited by Lyubaka 3/22/2004 1:55 PM
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Location: Niagara Falls New York | It`s great to get the kids out fishing and watching there eyes light up when they catch a fish. Those fish look very tasty kind of walleye,perch,emerald shiner mix. Good Luck when you get back out there hmmmm that won`t be long from now will it? | |
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Location: YouTube.com/LyubakaVideo Instagram @LyubakaVideo | 
Atta boy - proudly displaying a really nice catch out of Spains Riba Roja.
I have written about Zander Stizostedion Lucioperca before. I know there have been attempts to introduce the "Fish with the Canines" in US waters with mixed success. It tends to reach quite impressive size (over 50" and 40lbs) and probably would make for q very sporty species, but as I have previously stated, human interference and introduction of invasive species where they do not naturally belong has proven more harmful rather than rewarding. Fish On!
Edited by Lyubaka 3/22/2004 1:56 PM
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Location: Rhinelander | Does the Zander range across Europe? Parsons, Kavajecz and I were going to go to Russia fishing what I thought were Zander and huge Esox in about 1990, but the political situation there caused the trip to cancel. I wonder what Skeeter did with those special boats... | |
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Location: YouTube.com/LyubakaVideo Instagram @LyubakaVideo | sworrall - 3/24/2004 8:46 AM
Does the Zander range across Europe? Parsons, Kavajecz and I were going to go to Russia fishing what I thought were Zander and huge Esox in about 1990, but the political situation there caused the trip to cancel. I wonder what Skeeter did with those special boats...
Sure thing, Sworrall, and do they ever get big in the larger rivers in Russia especially Northerns - Esox Lucius are the same species there, arguably it is either Ireland or Russia that has them of the Largest Size depending on publicity 
They call Zander " SUDAK " and Perch " OKUN' " You should see some of the pictures of 10+ lb Perch they have in the fishing books. | |
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European Zander Fishing for a Newbee