IN EMIRATES THE TROLLING SEASON BEGAN, THE MOST EXPECTED TIME FOR FANS OF FISHING. HOW ALREADY TOLD IN ONE OF THE NUMBERS OF OUR MAGAZINE, TROLLING IN THE EMIRATES IS AN UNFORGETTABLE ADVENTURE, LIKE FOR FISHERS OF FISHING, SO FOR MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES. YES AND FAMILIAR TO PEOPLE, TROLLING FISHING WILL DELIVER AN UNFORGETTABLE FEELING. OPEN SEA, AZARTA, SPLASHES IN FACE AT FULL SPEED OF THE BOAT, WHICH SEA JOURNEY MAY BE BETTER?
SIMPLY FISHING AND SIMPLY SEA JOURNEY - IT'S FOR BEGINNERS. FOR PROFESSIONALS IN TROLLING THE MAIN THING IS FISHING. The process itself. BECAUSE TROLLING IS NOT ANY FISHING, TROLLING IS A SEA FISHING HUNT.
When you have to look for her, hunt for her and fight for the caught prey both with fish and the sea itself. Fight, winning every next meter of fishing line, crashing into the hard surface of special gloves.
This is exactly the hunt. But, unlike land hunting, you are fighting for prey with your own hands. By the power of your own muscles. Hour after hour, fishing large fish from the depths of the sea.
So, below I will provide information for those who take trolling more seriously than ordinary fishing. All materials used in this article were provided by Oleg Melnikov, one of the most experienced fishermen in the United Arab Emirates. These are the materials of his future book on trolling, to which Oleg devotes all his free time in the Emirates. The book will be published shortly.
What is trolling? Trolling is fishing in motion on a specially equipped boat. For fishing trolling, special equipment is needed: trolling spinning rods, inertia trolling reels, fishing lines and cables, wobblers and baits, as well as artriggers, dipriggers, deepeners, special locks and much more. To get out to trolling fishing you need a little skill. As a rule, after the first outing to the sea, a person who has no idea about sea trolling acquires it. But theory never hurts.
First rule for people familiar with spinning but not familiar with trolling. The trolling reel is not designed for casting, it is used to unwind fishing line with tackle and wind it back into a neat roll for repetition. There are many types of trolling coils, up to self-winding with electronic drive. We will talk about elementary semi-professional coils and how to work with them. The main problem when starting a fishing line is the so-called "beard": fishermen know how long it takes to unravel a well-tangled fishing line. Sometimes, passing a large school of fish on a boat, you need to react quickly, that is, to fish out the caught fish, and release gear again. By correctly launching the fishing line, you avoid tangling. When starting, you need to control the fishing line on the reel with your thumb, this is the first option.
There is a second option. The second option is to correctly adjust the friction clutch so that the fishing line or cable unwinds gradually and does not slip into the loop. The friction clutch helps to control the tension of the fishing line and when winding. After the rig has been fully installed, the friction clutch cannot be tightened strongly, since the fish can break when hit. At the moment of movement, the fish caught on the hook, and usually on trolling the fish is not small, creates resistance at the moment of impact. Having launched the fishing line to a certain length, we adjust the friction clutch to unwind the fishing line with a small resistance. The sound of a rattle, which is located on any trolling coil, will notify us of a strike. Having slightly tightened the friction roller, we begin to rewind, and in no case do we tighten the friction clutch tightly. The survival of a large copy of the royal mackerel sometimes lasts 20-40 minutes, or even more. Therefore, you need to let the fish get tired in order to take it aboard the vessel as easily as possible. During the fishing of large fish, the muscles of the arms, legs and back become very tired. There are devices to facilitate this process, such as trolling belts, vests and chairs. if there are any on board, you must use them. The specialist on board will always help you customize them and show you how to use them.
Trolling spinning, as a rule, is equipped with a system of rollers, and not rings, as in conventional spinning. the location of the trolling reel on such a spinning rod from above, under the right hand. the left hand while winding holds the upper part of the forearm. The movement when reeling and rearing fish should be smooth, without jerking, so as not to tear out the tackle from the place of adhesion to the fish. This is the basic, most simple information that a beginner will need seriously interested in trolling.
Further. if you have the gear and a prepared boat, it remains to find out what kind of fish can be expected on trolling in the Emirates.
The main and most desirable trolling fish in the Emirates is the king mackerel, which is called King Fish ("fish-king"). In addition to it, trolling can get barracuda, tuna, grass carp, cobia and quin-fish ("queen fish"). But, nevertheless, the king mackerel is the best gift for the fisherman on trolling.
King Mackerel (Scomberamorus) belongs to the mackerel family, a perciform order. This family also includes species such as mackerel, bonito, wahu, spotted tuna, striped tuna, mackerel tuna and some other fish species. Their general similarity in appearance is obvious, with slight deviations. The body is elongated, spindle-shaped, slightly compressed laterally. The tail stalk is thin with two small leathery keels on each side. Top and bottom on it 4-9 additional fins. There are two dorsal fins. There are additional fins behind the second dorsal and anal fins. The body is covered with small scales. Some individuals have a naked body behind. In front of the scales are enlarged and forms the so-called corset or shell. The pectoral fins are high. Royal mackerel has a well-developed subcutaneous vascular system associated with the vascular plexuses in the lateral muscles. Apparently, this system is some kind of device for thermoregulation, since the royal mackerel with intense movement, the body temperature can be 9 degrees higher than the ambient temperature. The subcutaneous system of blood vessels provides oxygen to those muscles that perform the largest amount of work. Royal mackerel has porous bone tissue. This species is characterized by a significant reduction in the scaly cover developed in the chest corset and near the lateral line. Being a predator, king mackerel feeds mainly on small fish that live on the surface near the coast. The Persian Gulf is a favorable area for spawning of royal mackerel. She is not viviparous. The caviar of this fish is light orange in color. The amount of caviar in a female depends on age. Gulf spawning period January - February. At this time, the largest specimens enter the bay. The record fish caught in the Persian Gulf was 2 meters 35 centimeters in size and weighs 85 kg.
A merciless predator with strong jaws is not a cannibal, unlike barracuda, whose attack speed reaches 80km / h. Barracuda attacks only moving targets. she is not interested in a stopped object. Barracuda teenagers aged 1 to 2 years, keep in separate flocks and beat prey from the surface, as if cutting water or jumping out to the surface either horizontally or now by writing out a candle. These candles sometimes reach a height of 10 m.
There is an approximate gradation of royal mackerel by age: approximately 30 cm in height is one year of life. The muscle mass of this fish is 70% of the weight. The oblong abdominal cavity does not have a large volume. As a rule, the stomach of the caught fish is constantly full of fresh fry. This indicates a good work of the stomach and the rapid growth of fish. In the Arab world, the small royal mackerel is called the "Hubbat", and the large "Chenat." if you call the big fish "kennat", you won’t be mistaken either, since the last name sounds mainly on the west coast of the UAE from the Indian Ocean. Large specimens are found much less frequently; they are kept from the main pack at a distance of 100-150 m in groups of up to 5 individuals. Watching the young shoots hunting, old hunters do not let the fish escape from the circle. They immediately catch up with prey, suppress it and swallow it. The upper and lower jaw of the fish is equipped with one row of small sawtooth teeth. Also at the beginning and at the end of the jaw there are fangs, which gives the fish a particularly aggressive look. The convex structure of large eyes allows her to see her prey at an angle of 360 degrees. The attack of the royal mackerel is unexpected and lightning fast.
The meat of this fish is white. By the end of the month, when a fish spawns, it gains fat, and the color of the meat turns dark white. From the end of September to the middle of May, the king mackerel does not leave the Persian Gulf. And only in May, when the temperature of air and water begins to rise, it goes to the Omani depths and further into the Indian Ocean. The most favorable months for catching king mackerel in the Persian Gulf: mid-October - end of January. January is the peak of the season.
King mackerel is a predator that, chasing its prey, first muffles it and then swallows it. Therefore, 70% of the caught fish comes not caught by the mouth, but by the gill cheek, belly or back.
If the vital organs are not damaged during the hooking of a fish, its fishing is complicated. As a rule, the king mackerel hunts either from the surface of the water, or “from the water”, and very rarely from the depths. the arrangement of wobblers is distributed depending on the depths of the fishing area. Depths of setting the wobbler are from 1.5 to 10 meters to the surface, depending on the number of spinnings placed.
A few words about the fishing line. fishing line on a trolling reel is periodically checked. Coming to the king mackerel in the Persian Gulf, we must not forget about the barracuda, which is abundant in its waters. Often, the barracuda, chasing tackle, misses and scratches the fishing line, damaging it. In order for the fish not to tear off the wobbler at the time of impact, put a metal leash from 0.5 to 1.0 meters. The leash can withstand loads of up to 200 kg, while remaining intact. When trolling king mackerel, they use fishing line from 0.8 to 1.0 mm per large fish. if on a new roll of fishing line it is written that the permissible load is 60 kg, then this is quite enough to remove a copy weighing up to 100 or more kilograms from the water. There were times when we took fish weighing 59 kg, on a fishing line 0.6 mm, with a load of up to 39 kg.
The use of artificial gear, such as a wobbler, is most common among Persian Gulf fishermen involved in sports trolling. Many companies producing fishing equipment present their products on the fishing market in the United Arab Emirates. Effective wobblers in the Persian Gulf and for catching king mackerel are Storm 15 with a depth of 3 to 6 meters. Shades and colors, weight and depths of wobblers are selected depending on the time of year, daylight hours, water color (before the storm / after the storm). When exhibiting gear, you should not forget about the trajectory of their movement. Long gear, as a rule, is launched closer to the surface of the water. Nearby deepen. The gears installed in this way do not interfere with each other and are not confused when maneuvering.
The color scheme of wobblers can be different. According to experience, depending on the time of year and daylight hours, I put wobblers of one color scale on 3 long lines, and a brighter one on the last (short). So, for example, the far three are dark green or dark blue, and the latter is red-white or yellow-orange. In January, which is at the peak of the fishing season, the color scheme for royal mackerel does not play a greater role, but in October, March and April, you need to try to choose the right color. They say that fish do not distinguish colors in water, but each color in water gives its own glare, so the reaction of the fish is definitely unpredictable.
Depending on the time of year and water temperature, the feeding period of the king mackerel per day may vary. if today it is caught from morning to evening, then in a week it can feed for an hour or a half a day. Weather at sea also plays a large role in the nutrition of fish. In the pre-storm period, small fish accumulate in huge schools and move further from the coast, which is a good and easy prey for the king mackerel. A large number of seagulls, circling and falling into the water, fill their stomachs with fry. Flocks of royal mackerel fly on the fry, stunning it in much larger quantities than eating it. Mackerel cuts water, the tracks scatter in different directions, like motor boats catching a wave. Water is boiling. Incredible candles are written out by a fish so that they flop down into the water from above, where the little fish teem and stun him. The time before the storm is the best for trolling. the fish feels the approach of the elements and eats up as much as possible, it grabs everything that moves. The storm has passed. rarely after a storm there is good fishing, it takes time. Visibility in water is deteriorating sharply due to the large amount of sand. The waves do not subside immediately after the storm, and the water remains muddy for a long time. But there is no bite not only because of the muddy water, the fish need to recover from the storm for two to three days. After that, the mackerel again wakes up the appetite and everything repeats again.
Along with artificial baits, king mackerel is caught on freshly caught medium-sized fish. As a bait they use mainly garfish or as it is also called "fish-needle". This is a tidbit for royal mackerel. Sargan can be found in the coastal zone. It lives near the surface of the sea, feeds on small crustaceans and very small fish. The garfish can be large, there are specimens up to one and a half meters long, but fish no more than 30 cm are needed to bait king mackerel. The strong jaw of the garment allows you to keep it on the hook for a long time. The garment meat is light blue, very tender and soft, so it must be attached to the tackle very carefully so as not to damage the anal fin. In the form of tackle, a metal leash 79 cm long with two hooks number 9 or 10 is used. Sometimes the fish is tied with a thread.
When choosing a fishing area, you need to look closely at the surface of the water. One of the main indicators is the seagull. It is a seagull, not a cormorant. It happens that these birds cooperate, but the main indicator for the fisherman is a seagull. The seagull loves to profit from a darma, and when the royal mackerel drives the fry, the seagull only collects beaten fry from the surface of the water. if the group of gulls is insignificant and they dive, then there is very little large fish in this fishing area, or not at all.
So, we found several clusters of gulls, it looks like white islands on the water. How to choose the direction of fishing? Of course, ideal when you see gulls and fish teeming on the surface. In this case, at low speed, without catching the wave, set the gear parallel to the fish stream and move 30-50 m from the pack. You cannot crash into a school of fish; the sound of a motor will scare them away. And what is very important, larger individuals of the royal mackerel walk at a distance of about 100 m from the main flock, they will become the object of your hunt. Sometimes a swell resembling a light rain is visible on the water. This is a flock of fry. In this case, we are also slowly moving with exposed gear along the pack. Mackerel may not be right away, but we continue to move around the flock of fry, waiting for a bite.if you have not met a flock of seagulls, nor a school of fish and fry, then there is a third option. In the sea there are places of a large accumulation of fish. This is usually an underwater reef ridge, rocks, sunken ships and other secluded places. the location of such places every instructor knows. Here we must act on the basis of weather conditions, take into account the direction of the wind and sea current.
There is much, much more to write about trolling. But there will be little magazine for this. it’s better not to write about fishing and not to sit on a bench with a magazine, but to go to sea and catch your fish! Your fish is now cutting the waters of the Indian Ocean, you only need to pack up and go to sea!
Call Oleg and he will be your guide in the Persian Gulf.
Contact phone: 050-7492158 (Oleg Melnikov)
