Lake Volgo is located in the Terek region and is part of the unified system of Upper Volga lakes. In addition to it, this system is formed by such lakes as Peno, Vselug and Sterzh. All of them appeared as a result of the construction of a controlled dam on the Volga in the Selizharovsky district. Lake Volgo is the largest in the Upper Volga lake system, its area is 61 square kilometers.
The depth of the reservoir is approximately 3-4 meters, but there are holes whose depth reaches 6 meters. The shallow depth ensures that the water warms up quickly; many tourists begin swimming already in May. Lake Volgo is surrounded sandy shores, on which beautiful pine forests stretch. The shores of the lake are low, indented by small bays, which, in turn, are overgrown with grass and algae. These bays provide food, and, accordingly, life various types fish, of which there are a huge number here. So, here you can find pike perch, pike, bream, ide, minnows, crucian carp, burbot, etc. In general, this great place for those who love fishing! If we compare the northern and southern shores, the southern ones are more elevated. In the west, two rivers flow into the Volga - Plotichenka and Zhukopa. The water level in the lake varies depending on the regime of the dam.
Photo: Lake Volgo (Tver region)
On the banks of the Volga there is a recreation center "Chaika". Here tourists will find everything they need for have a wonderful holiday– fresh air, clean water, silence, which is broken only by the singing of birds... For many years, “Chaika” has been a favorite vacation spot for many people throughout the year. There are always a lot of berries and mushrooms here. A large number of junipers grow here, which, as folk superstitions say, can be found only in ecologically clean places. Every year, about a thousand small pines are planted on the territory of Chaika.
About the Volgoverkhovye, Lake Volgo and the fishing there.
The Valdai Upland is not very high and not very large in size. Highest point it is 343 m above sea level. Numerous hills, lakes, swamps, a countless number of boulders scattered here everywhere - all these are traces of a giant glacier moving from northwest to southeast. Under the influence of the last glaciation (70-11 thousand years ago), several powerful moraine ridges were formed in this region - Valdai, Ostashkovskaya, Vyshnevolotskaya. Most of the lakes are located in the depressions between them. The western slope of the hill is steeper, the eastern slope is gentler. A characteristic feature of the landscape is long, elongated hills. There are also individual dome-shaped ones. The most famous peaks of the Valdai Upland are Mount Yuri and Andrey (343 m), Mount Kamennik (321 m), Mount Orekhovna (288 m). There are several hundred large and small lakes in Valdai. The Seliger region, located in the central part of the Valdai Upland, attracts tourists with its abundance of waters and forests. However, this is not only a lake region, but also a region of rivers. Here, on the watershed, the great rivers of the Russian Plain begin - the Volga, Dnieper, Western Dvina, and an innumerable number of their tributaries - small rivers and rivulets.
The average opening date of the lake is May 1. The earliest is April 14, and the latest is May 17 (for Seliger). The predominant winds are western and southwestern. The southwest wind, which usually brings warmth and precipitation, has local name- “mokrik”. In the summer months, the water in Seliger and the Upper Volga lakes warms up quite quickly. Already in June, the water temperature is usually about 20°, and in July - early August it reaches 25°. For summer holiday The most favorable period is considered to be from mid-May to mid-September. It is impossible to name the exact number of lakes in Valdai. There are several hundred of them - from large ones, tens of kilometers long, to small ones, only tens of meters long. The latter are often little known, lost in the wilderness. We will talk about the largest and most interesting lakes in this region, in particular, about the Vehnevolzhskoye Lake Volgo. 
Somewhat southwest of Lake Seliger, filling a huge furrow with clusters of boulders scattered here and there left by the Great Glacier, the necklace of the Upper Volga lakes bent at a right angle from north to east. Actually, this is the very beginning of our great Russian river - the Volga. There are four main lakes included in this cascade: Sterzh, Vselug, Peno and Volgo, not counting the many large and small reservoirs scattered around the area, connected to the named lakes by rivers and channels.
The largest of this group is Lake Volgo. Area 183 sq. km, volume 0.52 cubic km, length 85 km, maximum width 6 km. One of the first large reservoirs created in Russia in the 19th century transport purposes. The uniqueness of this lake lies in its two-dimensionality (Small and Big Volgo) - this is the first thing. And secondly, the Volga itself flows from it behind the Beishlot dam located at the end of the lake, built back in 1843 during the construction of the Vyshnevolotsk system. Verkhnevolzhsky Beishlot is located 5 km below the original place where the Volga flows from Lake Volgo.
The dam was originally made of wood and stood on a stone foundation. With the help of this dam on the Volga, navigation conditions during low water periods were improved by allowing water reserves to pass through. Near the dam there is a stele reminding that Beishlot was blown up by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War in 1941, and then rebuilt in 1943 in concrete structures. The length of the dam is 46 meters, the average annual water flow is 29 cubic meters per second, the annual fluctuation in the level of the upper pool is up to 3.5 meters, the lower - about 0.1 m. The Upper Volga Beyshlot is under guard, access to it by car is prohibited. Photography and video shooting are also prohibited. 
In its current form, Beishlot raises the water level in the Upper Volga reservoir by 7 meters. The reservoir is shallow, so the water in it warms up quickly. The fish first goes into shallow water, and after spawning again goes into the depths of the lake, into wintering pits. The lake is considered a bream lake, but currently a variety of fish are successfully caught, especially pike perch and pike. Pike perch weighing 6-7 kilos is a fairly frequent guest in our cages, and pike weighing 8 kilos is also not uncommon. You can also see asp here (though rarely). In winter, if you know where, you can catch large burbot.
According to reliable sources, the Small Volgo is heavily snagged and filled with large bream and pike. The banks are impassable. Perhaps one of the most interesting and most beautiful places here is the so-called “pipe” - 
body of water connecting the two parts of Lake Volgo. The depths here have very sharp changes - from 2 to 8 meters. With a fairly wide and long mouth, a fairly fishy river flows into the right - Lemenka. In the recent past, the cape at the confluence was the end point of the fish, mushroom and berry harvesting expeditions of tourists from recreation centers located on the lake. The piles of the old bridge, canyon-like underwater cliffs, the shores overgrown with pure forest - everything is conducive to stopping and setting up a fishing camp, if, of course, there is free space.
Once you get into the main lake Volgo, you dissolve in the vast expanse of water - the end of the lake is about 20 km with a width of 3-5 km. More monotonous depths of 3-5 m begin, with individual huge snag holes of 8-9 m each. The shores are a continuous resort: pure pine, sand, in general - full compensation for the sovereign Baltic states.
In the last third of the lake there is the island of Bely Plav, very beautiful, overgrown with forest. A large sand spit runs away from it, on the slopes of which it is easy to find perches, around there are thickets of reeds, uruti, arrowhead, etc. Well, there is no need to say what kind of ichthyofauna is in the named ichthyoflora. On both sides of the island there are villages: Zavirye, which is considered a fishing village, and Bor Volgo. And Zavirye is considered a fishing zone because right behind the island there is a huge wintering pit with large pike perch, not even a pit, but some kind of pocket of fish and an echo sounder, if there is one, does not have time to count the fish. 
Fishermen coming to the Volgo for the first time find it difficult to navigate the choice of place and methods of fishing. Especially when every day counts. Having decades of fishing on this lake behind me, I’ll try to make a map of promising places in the lower lake, which is better known to me. I hope this will help readers plan fishing trips in the vast area of the lake. Whether you live in a tent on the shore or at a recreation center, the entire water area is at your disposal. Even just by rowing you can get to good places, but you'll have to row a lot.
The section of Lake Volgo from Bely Plav Island to the village of Selishche is a stretch about 7 km long and up to 2.5 km wide. The relief is simple: the bottom gradually decreases from the banks and the greatest depth rarely exceeds 6.5 m. There is no channel as such here - it “ended” in front of the island. The fact is that before, before the construction of the Verkhnevolzhsky Beishlot in 1843, the first dam on the Volga, this part of the water area was a lake. Despite the monotony of the depths, a variety of fish are successfully caught on this lowest reach. Firstly, roach. It’s medium-sized, about the size of a palm, literally standing along the banks like a wall, and it’s not difficult to catch it with anything, even from the shore. This year (2010), despite the heat, they are holding very high level water, and any fish, including good bream, began to approach the banks, to the grass. A catchable place, for example, the mouth of the Studenets stream, which is to the right of the pier on the wild beach of the Chaika base (2). In July of this year, during the day, in the very heat, we managed to lift four bream weighing 1.5 kg in a row on a side nod. Well, by boat it’s enough to find it at the exit from any bay or river thickets of pondweed, and even better than knotweed(it has pink cone-like flowers above water), feed it, just not with lumps of porridge, but with some kind of loose powder, and then you will probably get 200-250 g of roach. Maybe someone more impressive will catch up.
There are also such places: at the mouth of the Bolshaya Dubyonka River, in the bay near the village of Bor Volgo, around the island, at the exit from the paddling pool (7) behind the village of Zavirye and in the river flowing into the lake in front of this village. Now about the predators. The pike perch is perhaps the most attractive of them all. There is a lot of it in Volgo, but this, of course, does not mean that it is available always and everywhere. If above the island its sites are more or less local, then on the lower reach, due to the more even depths, it is more difficult to find them. The lower reach is the most suitable place for circle makers. Where else can you find a run several kilometers long and with a relatively flat bottom?! And there are no problems with live bait roach. So you can race the mugs along the route from the island to Selishchi and back - depending on the wind direction. It is more likely to encounter pike perch and large pike in those parts of the lake where the depth, although not much, still exceeds the “pseudo-channel”. Such a site (3) is located on the right bank opposite the Chaika base, between a high sandy cliff and the village of Bor Volgo. An even larger area (4) is located behind the island. A little higher than the village of Bor Volgo (5) a manor's estate has been preserved. There is a decent depth almost right up to the shore. The pike perch stays there almost always. It’s not for nothing that this place has long been called “Barsky Kol” - in the old days they only fished there at the bar. In the places listed, by the way, I caught my largest pike perch and pike on the Volga. Tolsty Rog (6) is very interesting - it is an underwater spit located on the left bank a kilometer below the village of Zavirye. The current of the main Volga flows into it, which cannot but attract both pike perch and good perch there.
Those who are staying at the recreation centers "Chaika" and near the village of Bor Volgo or, with tents, in the surrounding area, will also be interested in the strait between the island of Bely Plav and the village of Zavirye, where the bedrock of the Volga passes and the entire lake ichthyofauna is found. In front of the island on the left is a spit leading to the village of Kazakovo, where there are perch and pike. The same spit, only with a sharper drop, is located on the right behind the island. Above the village of Zavirye there are two bays. The first, paddling pool (7), due to its shallow depth and intensive vegetation, is interesting at the beginning of summer and on the first ice. On the way out good fishing can always happen, especially in this hot summer.
A little higher, through a rocky cape, the Vyazovnya Bay (8) crashes into the forest - after the name of the Vyazovnya tributary. There are pebbles and depths here, so you can look for perch and catch bream, roach and ide on a float. In general, above the island the bottom topography is much more interesting, in places with a sharp change in depth, when, for example, a long three-meter “lunar” landscape ends with a good drop, almost into a 10-meter bed. So, almost opposite Vyazovenka, the high pine cape Gubinskoe Rylo wedges deep into the lake - it is here that such a deep “ditch” (9) runs through, where you can catch a predator well with a jig. Even more interesting places there is between the villages of Polki and Yasenskoye. Here, in addition to two large pits, there are many different mounds and ridges where you can really find any predator. 
The main search for pike perch is best done on a path equipped with 2 baits, on separate leashes, for example: a twister spinner, a twister - a heavy jig with a worm (7-10 pcs), a spinner-jig. There is no point in describing the details of such fishing further, because the classic follows - catch a pike perch, throw a buoy overboard and throw a spinning rod equipped with what it bites on. With the exception of some especially doomed days, the predator is in constant motion and it is difficult to find its parking place, so success lies in moving around the lake. At the end of July and in August, when moving, pay attention (if this happens) to the unusual behavior of seagulls. If you see a flock of seagulls circling over one place, then this is a “teapot”, the surest sign that a large perch is knocking small things into a heap and driving it to the surface. Don’t yawn here and throw a spinning rod at these, you know, half-kilogram (or more) perches, but you can try fishing on the “vertical”.
But it’s very easy to find a place to park a person - it’s dry all around, sand and the same pine, and in some places there’s a birch and a fir tree. To the left along the stream there is a stone pier, built unknown when. On the opposite bank, at the mouth of the confluence of the Bolshaya Dubyonka River, there is an extensive shoal with snags, bushes, thickets and, of course, fish. The fish here is supplemented with ide, which is not as abundant as bream, but it also responds to bait and fish up to 3 kg are often caught. Further, further down the lake, there will be more of it, and I’ll stop there, but on my own behalf I’ll add that the fish in the lake is very clean, lively, and sometimes very large - pike perch up to 10-12 kg, pike up to 9-10 kg. At the very end of the lake, like its crown, is the large village of Selishche, from which the real Volga actually begins, but up to Beishlot it, although with a current, is of some lake type. Here, along the banks of the Volga, the forest is sparse, with wide meadows, the river has depth differences, which are indicated by the buoys of local fishermen. By the way, under the bridge near Selishchi you can catch ide in the wire with the crumb of black bread and roach with greens. So, sailing down the lake, we get to Beyshlot, and like everywhere else right behind the dam there are very beautiful and fishing places, especially in the rapids behind Beyshlot all the fish are caught, including asp, perch, and occasionally grayling. There is a forest all around, there are not many people, but there are plenty of mushrooms and berries, and right next to the dam there is some kind of Mecca of boletus mushrooms, so you won’t understand what else, moss or mushrooms, and on old pillboxes (from the time of the war) you can look for boletus mushrooms. At this point, based on the volume of material, the descriptive part of the journey can be completed, because from Beishlot “one’s own, different distance” begins. 
What are the good things about the places described? Yes, because, basically, they are passable for people with a car, and at the same time there are a lot of untouched places. Surprisingly, in these places, unlike Seliger, you will not meet scoundrels with electric fishing rods. Apparently, this is explained, unfortunately, not by the consciousness of people, but by the inaccessibility of using this rubbish in large water areas. They also stopped trawling lakes, which disrupted the ecosystem. It (that is, an amphibious trawl) in the village of Khvoshnino, on Vseluga, was even set on fire a couple of times by indignant local fishermen, who, in the old fashioned way, quite actively use fixed nets, often under licenses. The main bait for all types of fish is a worm, and, given the difficulty of catching it in places remote from settlements, you can do without frills, any will do. If you plan not to “cling” to the base on the mainland, it is better to take it with you and store it in moss. The bait is also without bells and whistles, what you have is good enough. The tackle is really any, however, I personally noticed (A. Guskov - approx.) that recently pike perch prefers a golden-colored twister and a jig with a worm at a time when the sun clings to the trees at sunset, and a yellow “shaker” during the day . And, given the smooth, clean bottom, mugs will be indispensable, fortunately the live bait roach stands like a wall along the banks. If you want to catch perch or pike, it is better to do it at depths of 1-3 m, although pike at such depths are rarely larger than a kilogram, but since the shores are quite indented by extensive snags with a depth of 1.5-2 meters, then this is where You can indulge a spinning player with a small unloaded spinner or a floating wobbler-compound. This is in the summer, and in the winter there is mainly lure fishing. Due to problems with bloodworms local residents Catching “white” fish using dough is actively practiced. I deliberately did not dwell in great detail on float fishing only because catching bream in the lake generally does not present any problems, the main thing is to have a worm, bait and ropes for anchors, and the boat must be spread out, because otherwise, during a wave, it will “walk” on the anchor “ends,” which has a negative effect on the shy bream at such a generally shallow depth. 
Although I don’t want to, I’ll have to drop a drop of tar in the epilogue. "Hungry" guests of the lake sometimes behave like rude hosts. This applies to both “savages” and individual vacationers from the bases. They sin with nets, well, no less than the local residents. It’s easier with the latter: the fishery supervision knows them inside out, most of their habits and secret “appearances”, and there are fewer of them over time. But other visitors, having achieved “freedom,” often consider themselves free from any moral and ethical standards. And, tearing off a 300-gram zander from a 20-centimeter Super Shad Rap, they claim that it was useless to release it. It's all sad!..
It remains to be warned that in the summer, from time to time, a black-orange cloud appears out of nowhere, which floats over the lenses of the lakes and is accompanied by such a wind that it will not seem a little. Therefore, - I saw a cloud of incomprehensible color and a sharp swell in the water - hurry home, unless, of course, you want to save money on a “powerful rider” simulator and compete with waves a meter high.
In the Selizharovsky, Ostashkovsky and Penovsky districts of the Tver region, on the Valdai Upland. The largest in the system of Upper Volga lakes, which also includes lakes Sterzh, Vselug and Peno. In 1843, it was regulated by the Verkhnevolzhsky and, together with the lakes, became part of the Verkhnevolzhsky reservoir.
The water's edge is located at an altitude of 204 m above sea level. Square water mirror, according to the State Water Register, - 61 km 2. Lake Volgo consists of two lakes - Small and Big Volgo, or Volgo-I and Volgo-II, connected by a channel near the villages of Bolshoye and Maloe Lokhovo. The lakes are located in two slightly curving arcs, elongated in a general direction from west to east. The distance between the westernmost point of the lake. Volgo-I and the extreme eastern point of the lake. Volgo-II is about 31 km, while the length of the lake. Volgo-I – 19 km, lake. Volgo-II - 21 km, the width of the lakes is up to 3.8 km, the average depth is 3 m, the maximum is 9 m. Volgo is the 2nd lake in the Tver region (after Seliger) and the 197th lake in Russia in terms of water surface area.
Lake Volgo is of post-glacial origin and belongs to the category of so-called hollow lakes, the basins of which were formed when the earth's surface was plowed up by glacier tongues and subsequently, when the glacier melted, were filled with water. It is surrounded by typical moraine landscapes of the Valdai Upland.
As a result of the construction of the Upper Volga beishlot and the regulation of the lake. Volgo has significantly changed its borders. So, the length of the lake. Volgo-II before regulation was 7 km with a width of up to 2 km. Now Volgo-II stretches from the village of Volga (Tukhachevo) in the west to the village of Selishche in the east, a distance of 21 km.
The shores of the lake are predominantly sandy and covered with pine forests. Southern Shores elevated, in some places there are limestone outcrops. Springs often emerge from under the limestone, the temperature of which is about 6°C throughout the year. The northern shores are low-lying, cut through by shallow bays overgrown with grass and algae, and often flooded during floods. In the northern part of the lake. Volgo-II there are two fairly large bays, and in the center rises the forested island of Bely Plav. The bottom of both lakes is sandy and pebble, and muddy in places.
The lake is fed by snow and rain, with a noticeable proportion of groundwater. The maximum level is observed after the beginning of the spring flood. The water level can fluctuate significantly depending on the beishlot regime.
The lake belongs to the mesotrophic reservoirs of the bream-pike-perch type. Higher aquatic vegetation is represented on the lake by thickets of reeds, uruti, arrowhead, sedge, buckwheat amphibian, elodea, comb pondweed, hornwort, duckweed, yellow egg capsule, filamentous algae and other species. The overgrowth of aquatic vegetation is up to 3% of the water area.
The lake is home to pike perch, bream, pike, ide, perch, asp, chub, roach, ruffe, rudd, silver bream, gudgeon, bleak, crucian carp, burbot, grayling, tench, verkhovka; vendace is found sporadically. Spawning of pike, roach and perch is possible on floods in the spring. Small bays, as well as heavily snarled places in Volga-I, serve as a good food supply for fish. The hydrochemical regime of the lake is satisfactory, there are no mortality phenomena. Fish productivity – up to 90 kg/ha.
Lake Volgo is a nesting and migration site for many birds, incl. waterfowl. Of birds rare species A black stork nests on the lake.
Along the shore of the lake Volgo-I includes the settlements of Peno, Pokrovskoye, Vyselok Ilyinskoye, Studenets, Zaneprechye, Nikishki, Gorodishche, Maloe Lokhovo, Kobenevo, Bolshoye Lokhovo, Maloe Ilyinskoye, Bolshoye Ilyinskoye, Krechetovo. Along the shore of the lake Volgo-II - Yasenskoye, Novoalkesandrovskoye, Polki, Shadyki, Volchya Gora, Zavirye, Lanino, Khotoshino, Beishlot, Selishche, Bor Volgo, Zaruchevye, Kazakovo, Kolobovo, Pashutino, Devichye, Volga. On the lake Volgo-II hostel camp "Chaika" is located.
The reservoir is shallow, so the water in it warms up quickly. The fish first goes into shallow water, and after spawning again goes into the depths of the lake, into wintering pits. The lake is considered a bream lake, but currently a variety of fish are successfully caught, especially pike perch and pike. Pike perch weighing 6-7 kilos is a fairly frequent visitor to our cages, and pike weighing 8 kilos is also not uncommon. You can also see asp here (though rarely). In winter, if you know where, you can catch large burbot.
According to reliable sources, the Small Volgo is heavily snagged and filled with large bream and pike. The banks are impassable. Perhaps one of the most interesting and beautiful places here is the so-called “pipe” - a body of water connecting the two parts of Lake Volgo. The depths here have very sharp changes - from 2 to 8 meters. With a fairly wide and long mouth, a fairly fishy river, the Lemenka, flows into the right. In the recent past, the cape at the confluence was the end point of the fish, mushroom and berry harvesting expeditions of tourists from recreation centers located on the lake. The piles of the old bridge, canyon-like underwater cliffs, the shores overgrown with pure forest - everything is conducive to stopping and setting up a fishing camp, if, of course, there is free space.
Once you get into the main lake Volgo, you dissolve in the vast expanse of water - the end of the lake is about 20 km with a width of 3-5 km. More monotonous depths of 3-5 m begin, with individual huge snag holes of 8-9 m each. The shores are a continuous resort: pure pine, sand, in general - full compensation for the sovereign Baltic states.
In the last third of the lake there is the island of Bely Plav, very beautiful, overgrown with forest. A large sand spit runs away from it, on the slopes of which it is easy to find perches, around there are thickets of reeds, uruti, arrowhead, etc. Well, there is no need to say what kind of ichthyofauna is in the named ichthyoflora. On both sides of the island there are villages: Zavirye, which is considered a fishing village, and Bor Volgo. And Zavirye is considered a fishing zone because right behind the island there is a huge wintering pit with large pike perch, not even a pit, but some kind of pocket of fish and an echo sounder, if there is one, does not have time to count the fish.
Fishermen coming to the Volgo for the first time find it difficult to navigate the choice of place and methods of fishing. Especially when every day counts. Having decades of fishing on this lake behind me, I’ll try to make a map of promising places in the lower lake, which is better known to me. I hope this will help readers plan fishing trips in the vast area of the lake. Whether you live in a tent on the shore or at a recreation center, the entire water area is at your disposal. Even just by rowing you can get to good places, but you will have to row a lot.
The section of Lake Volgo from Bely Plav Island to the village of Selishche is a stretch about 7 km long and up to 2.5 km wide. The relief is simple: the bottom gradually decreases from the shores and the greatest depth rarely exceeds 6.5 m. There is no channel as such here - it “ended” in front of the island. The fact is that before, before the construction of the Verkhnevolzhsky Beishlot in 1843, the first dam on the Volga, this part of the water area was a lake. Despite the monotony of the depths, a variety of fish are successfully caught on this lowest reach. Firstly, roach. It’s medium-sized, about the size of a palm, literally standing along the banks like a wall, and it’s not difficult to catch it with anything, even from the shore. This year (2010), despite the heat, the water level is kept very high, and any fish, including good bream, began to approach the banks, near the grass. , for example, the mouth of the Studenets stream, which is to the right of the pier on the wild beach of the Chaika base (2). In July of this year, during the day, in the very heat, we managed to lift four bream weighing 1.5 kg in a row on a side nod. Well, on a boat, it’s enough to find thickets of pondweed at the exit from any bay or river, or even better, knotweed (it has emergent pink cone-shaped flowers), feed it, not with lumps of porridge, but with some kind of loose powder, and then the roach will probably gather along 200-250 g. Maybe someone more impressive will catch up.
There are also such places: at the mouth of the Bolshaya Dubyonka River, in the bay near the village of Bor Volgo, around the island, at the exit from the paddling pool (7) behind the village of Zavirye and in the river flowing into the lake in front of this village. Now about the predators. The pike perch is perhaps the most attractive of them all. There is a lot of it in Volgo, but this, of course, does not mean that it is available always and everywhere. If above the island its sites are more or less local, then on the lower reach, due to the more even depths, it is more difficult to find them. The lower reach is the most suitable place for circle makers. Where else can you find a run several kilometers long and with a relatively flat bottom?! And there are no problems with live bait roach. So you can race the mugs along the route from the island to Selishchi and back, depending on the wind direction. It is more likely to encounter pike perch and large pike in those parts of the lake where the depth, although not much, still exceeds the “pseudo-channel”. (3) located on the right bank opposite the Chaika base, between a high sandy cliff and the village of Bor Volgo. An even larger area (4) is located behind the island. A little higher than the village of Bor Volgo (5) a manor's estate has been preserved. There is a decent depth almost right up to the shore. The pike perch stays there almost always. It’s not for nothing that this place has long been called “Barsky Kol” - in the old days they only fished there at the bar. In the places listed, by the way, I caught my largest pike perch and pike on the Volga. Tolsty Rog (6) is very interesting - it is an underwater spit located on the left bank a kilometer below the village of Zavirye. The current of the main Volga flows into it, which cannot but attract both pike perch and good perch there.
Those who are staying at the recreation centers "Chaika" and near the village of Bor Volgo or, with tents, in the surrounding area, will also be interested in the strait between the island of Bely Plav and the village of Zavirye, where the bedrock of the Volga passes and the entire lake ichthyofauna is found. In front of the island on the left is a spit leading to the village of Kazakovo, where there are perch and pike. The same spit, only with a sharper drop, is located on the right behind the island. Above the village of Zavirye there are two bays. The first, paddling pool (7), due to its shallow depth and intensive vegetation, is interesting at the beginning of summer and on the first ice. At the exit from it, good fishing can always happen, especially in the current hot summer.
A little higher, through a rocky cape, the Vyazovnya Bay (8) crashes into the forest - after the name of the Vyazovnya tributary. There are pebbles and depths here, so you can look for perch and catch bream, roach and ide on a float. In general, above the island the bottom topography is much more interesting, in places with a sharp change in depth, when, for example, a long three-meter “lunar” landscape ends with a good drop, almost into a 10-meter bed. So, almost opposite Vyazovenka, the high pine cape Gubinskoye Rylo wedges deep into the lake - it is here that such a deep “ditch” (9) runs through, where you can catch a predator well with a jig. There are even more interesting places between the villages of Polki and Yasenskoye. Here, in addition to two large pits, there are many different mounds and ridges where you can really find any predator.
The main search for pike perch is best done on a path equipped with 2 baits, on separate leashes, for example: a spinner-twister, a twister - a heavy jig with a worm (7-10 pcs), a spinner-jig. There is no point in describing the details of such fishing further, because the classic follows - catch a pike perch, throw a buoy overboard and throw a spinning rod equipped with what it bites on. With the exception of some especially doomed days, the predator is in constant motion and it is difficult to find its parking place, so success lies in moving around the lake. At the end of July and in August, when moving, pay attention (if this happens) to the unusual behavior of seagulls. If you see a flock of seagulls circling over one place, then this is a “teapot”, the surest sign that a large perch is knocking small things into a heap and driving it to the surface. Don’t yawn here and throw a spinning rod at these, you know, half-kilogram (or more) perches, but you can try fishing on the “vertical”.
But it’s very easy to find a place to park a person - it’s dry all around, sand and the same pine, and in some places there’s a birch and a fir tree. To the left along the stream there is a stone pier, built unknown when. On the opposite bank, at the mouth of the confluence of the Bolshaya Dubyonka River, there is an extensive shoal with snags, bushes, thickets and, of course, fish. The fish here is supplemented with ide, which is not as abundant as bream, but it also responds to bait and fish up to 3 kg are often caught. Further, further down the lake, there will be more of it, and I’ll stop there, but on my own behalf I’ll add that the fish in the lake is very clean, alive and sometimes very large - pike perch up to 10-12 kg, pike up to 9-10 kg. At the very end of the lake, like its crown, is the large village of Selishche, from which the real Volga actually begins, but up to Beishlot it, although with a current, is of some lake type. Here, along the banks of the Volga, the forest is sparse, with wide meadows, the river has depth differences, which are indicated by the buoys of local fishermen. By the way, under the bridge near Selishchi you can catch ide in the wire with the crumb of black bread and roach with greens. So, sailing down the lake, we get to Beyshlot, and like everywhere else right behind the dam there are very beautiful and fishing places, especially in the rapids behind Beyshlot all the fish are caught, including asp, perch, and occasionally grayling. There is a forest all around, there are not many people, but there are plenty of mushrooms and berries, and right next to the dam there is some kind of Mecca of boletus mushrooms, so you won’t understand what else, moss or mushrooms, and on old pillboxes (from the time of the war) you can look for boletus mushrooms. At this point, based on the volume of material, the descriptive part of the journey can be completed, because from Beishlot “one’s own, different distance” begins.
What are the good things about the places described? Yes, because, basically, they are passable for people with a car, and at the same time there are a lot of untouched places. Surprisingly, in these places, unlike Seliger, you will not meet scoundrels with electric fishing rods. Apparently, this is explained, unfortunately, not by the consciousness of people, but by the inaccessibility of using this rubbish in large water areas. They also stopped trawling lakes, which disrupted the ecosystem. It (that is, an amphibious trawl) in the village of Khvoshnino, on Vseluga, was even set on fire a couple of times by indignant local fishermen, who, in the old fashioned way, quite actively use fixed nets, often under licenses. The main bait for all types of fish is a worm, and given the difficulty of catching it in places remote from populated areas, you can do without any frills; any will do. If you plan not to “cling” to the base on the mainland, it is better to take it with you and store it in moss. The bait is also without bells and whistles, what you have is good enough. The gear is really any, however, I personally noticed (A. Guskov - approx.) that recently pike perch prefers a golden-colored twister and a jig with a worm at a time when the sun clings to the trees at sunset, and a yellow “shaker” during the day . And, given the smooth, clean bottom, mugs will be indispensable, fortunately the live bait roach stands like a wall along the banks. If you want to catch perch or pike, it is better to do it at depths of 1-3 m, although pike at such depths are rarely larger than a kilogram, but since the shores are quite indented by extensive snags with a depth of 1.5-2 meters, then this is where You can indulge a spinning player with a small unloaded spinner or a floating wobbler-compound. This is in the summer, and in the winter there is mainly lure fishing. Due to problems with bloodworms, local residents actively practice catching “white” fish with dough. I deliberately did not dwell in great detail on float fishing only because catching bream in the lake generally does not present any problems, the main thing is to have a worm, bait and ropes for anchors, and the boat must be spread out, because otherwise, during a wave, it will “walk” on the anchor “ends,” which has a negative effect on the shy bream at such a generally shallow depth.
Although I don’t want to, I’ll have to drop a drop of tar in the epilogue. "Hungry" guests of the lake sometimes behave like rude hosts. This applies to both “savages” and individual vacationers from the bases. They sin with nets, well, no less than the local residents. It’s easier with the latter: the fishery supervision knows them inside out, most of their habits and secret “appearances”, and there are fewer of them over time. But other visitors, having achieved “freedom,” often consider themselves free from any moral and ethical standards. And, tearing off a 300-gram zander from a 20-centimeter Super Shad Rap, they claim that it was useless to release it. It's all sad!..
It remains to be warned that in the summer, from time to time, a black-orange cloud appears out of nowhere, which floats over the lenses of the lakes and is accompanied by such a wind that it will not seem a little. Therefore, - I saw a cloud of incomprehensible color and a sharp swell in the water - hurry home, unless, of course, you want to save money on a “powerful rider” simulator and compete with waves a meter high.
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