Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at night

Winter

Winter fishing with an overnight stay is an extreme activity, not every fisherman dares to stay overnight in a tent in the middle of a frozen lake or river. Such an exciting, but no less subtle and not the safest business than winter night fishing, should be approached wisely so that the excitement of fishing does not turn into frostbitten limbs, intoxication in a tent and / or a bad mood.

Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at night
Winter overnight fishing is not a hobby for everyone

When to go ice fishing at night

It is worth remembering that the best weather for winter night fishing is light wind and no frost. Focusing on the wind, it is better to go out on the ice during the southern or western time, which will favorably affect the bite. Do not forget that the ice must be stable for several days, the established tent should not go under water by morning, from unexpectedly thawed and cracked ice. This can be avoided by going out for night fishing during the lightest frosts, or a slight warming that came after a long frost. Fish also have their own schedule – their activity is affected by everything from atmospheric pressure to water and air temperature, as well as the level of oxygen in the reservoir and its transparency. Remember the periods of biting for the place you have chosen – information can be obtained from avid fishermen, go for reconnaissance yourself, or find it on the Internet.

Safety first – equipment, gear

The golden rule of going fishing in the winter with an overnight stay: preparing equipment = the key to successful fishing and safety. No one has canceled the rules of behavior on ice, so you should learn and remember them, so you will save yourself from trouble. Remember the following tips:

  1. Take care of warm clothes . It is better to have it with a margin – additionally sheathe felt boots before putting on galoshes. Choose a jacket with a warming lining, while not embarrassing yourself, clothes should not only warm, but also be quickly removed if necessary. Avoid frostbite.
  2. Equip a first aid kit – brilliant green, iodine, bandages. Cuts from a knife, ice drill, fish teeth and fins, and “household”, accidental injuries have not been canceled.
  3. Choose a suitable tent and a reliable lantern .
    Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at night
    quality flashlight for winter night fishing is not a luxury, but a necessity
  4. Prepare a spare battery for the car , in case of an emergency.

It is highly advisable not to go ice fishing at night alone. A faithful friend will not only keep you company, but will also be able to get you out of trouble if you manage to get into the water, get poisoned by the carbon monoxide of the burner, or seriously injure yourself with equipment.

What we recommend to take for night winter fishing

The unique arctic thermos Antarctiva K46, which keeps boiling water for 7 days in frosts down to -55°c – see for yourself and buy at a discount:
You definitely need a high-quality and long-playing headband, like the Boruit version, with a waterproof case and three LEDs. Glow range – 500 m:
To make a fire, you need a simple, but at the same time reliable eternal match –
how it works .
Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at night
Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at nightFishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at night
Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at nightFishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at night

Night fishing equipment to bring

What you need to take with you to arrange a night life at home, and night winter fishing was comfortable and successful:

  1. Clothing – it has already been said above how important it is to choose the right clothes – at least one fisherman is unlikely to want to freeze, dressed lightly.
  2. Tent – for the duration of the night it turns into a safe house, a real fortress in the middle of an icy plain.
    Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at night
    The photo shows the arrangement of a comfortable tent during night fishing in winter
  3. Lanterns – lighting is an important aspect. In no case should you go into the blind, the lantern will illuminate the space during a dark night. Also, a lantern is needed to illuminate the tent, holes and equipment.
  4. Sleds – It is better to move on the ice on a sled, although some people prefer to drive onto the ice directly by car, sleds will be a much safer option in this matter. They are also convenient for transporting equipment and catch on ice.
  5. Ice ax . An essential tool both day and night when fishing in the winter. For night fishing, the ice screw must be carefully prepared at home – knives are sharpened, all nodes are lubricated, the connection points of the handle with the auger are checked.
  6. Food supply – soups in a thermos or a reliable daily RPI, if you plan to equip the tent with a heat source with a built-in stove, you can take food for cooking. During the night there will be periods of calm in the bite – which is not a reason to cook.
  7. Heating . The simplest option is a fire, which will not only serve as a source of heat, but also serve as a good “lamp”, as well as a field kitchen. But this method has several disadvantages. Firewood is needed for a fire – a question that cannot always be solved on the ice of a reservoir. And the second – a fire is suitable if fishing is carried out outside the tent. For tent heating, one of the heaters , which can be bought in specialized stores, is suitable.
    Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at night
    Lighting and heating are the basics of comfortable winter fishing at night

Spending the night in a fishing tent in winter – video report: https://youtu.be/TSXis72fEDA

How to spend the night in a tent in winter on the ice with comfort – we equip home life on winter fishing at night

You need to start collecting long before departure. If you plan to make winter fishing with an overnight stay a regular event, you should buy a tent. Read more about how to choose a tent for winter fishing: https://youtu.be/Id2qnjp5yXY As an example of a good quality tent for winter, there is a four-seater tent Professional.

Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at night
Quadruple Tent Cube Lotus Professional
Ceiling height 160 cm, plenty of space, warm air is retained well. In order for such a tent to turn into a real hut at night, you need to take the following with you: a warm bed (or
a folding bed ), a folding chair, a portable kitchen, a heater, a lantern, flooring, a warm sleeping bag that can be laid for additional warmth.
Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at nightCorrectly distribute the place in the tent, determine the place of rest, cooking, the location of gear and holes. Think about the choice and installation of lighting. Fans of ice fishing with an overnight stay are advised to take a camping lantern, instead of an outdated and uncomfortable smell, a kerosene lamp. The main mistake during the installation of the tent: the wrong position relative to the wind. Before you start the installation, you should make sure which side is blowing – the entrance to the “shelter” should be located on the opposite side to avoid blowing cold air. At least one ventilation valve must be open to prevent condensation from accumulating.
Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at night
It is important to properly position the tent [/ caption] Setting up at night requires skill – it’s good if there is a colleague who can help hold the lantern, or insert gimlets to fasten the tent. For lighting during installation, it is better to take a headlamp, so both hands will be free. In addition to the installation method with gimlets, you can try to gain a foothold with the help of holes. 4-6 holes are drilled, tied rods are lowered into them, fixed under the ice, the size of such a rod should exceed the size of the hole – so the tent will be securely fixed. Home life on fishing with an overnight stay in winter – arranging a tent and a fishing spot, nightly winter fishing for bream with comfort: https://youtu.be/opaIvmn1pV4

Transportation of equipment – choosing the right sled

Large and medium drag sleds will do, they should fit all the equipment. During parking they can be used as a table. The main selection criteria are lightness, good glide, a spacious trunk, and stability. Models preferred by experienced anglers: SAFARI, SVP-190 – polymer plastic, large-sized drags. PVC sledges “Ladoga”, “Muskrat”, belong to inflatable sledges, have fastening belts, are light, convenient for cargo transportation.
Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at night

We drill ice without problems

You can buy an ice ax of different types and different directions. Ice drills differ in drive (manual, gasoline, electric); the size of the working part; type of knife screw length and other parameters. There is no universal device – for each type of ice and the size of the intended production, a conscious choice is made. The viscosity of ice is taken into account, whether it is dry or wet, the thickness and strength of the surface, the required hole diameter and their expected number. Some winter roads take two drills with them for fishing – gasoline (or
electric ) and / or manual. Read more about electric drills in our
material on choosing an electric drill for winter fishing . [caption id="attachment_2221" align="aligncenter" width="1024"]
Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at nightAn electric ice drill is necessary if a large number of holes are expected, or if the ice is thick [/ caption] The highest quality ice axes of Finnish and Latvian production. Heinola and Rextor are not cheap, but proven ice drills, perfect assembly and sharpening of knives, modern materials of the auger and cutting part. With cut finances, it is worth choosing the budget model of TOHAP, despite the price, it will last a long time. Hole drilling in the dark is not a mandatory aspect of winter night fishing. It is better to arrive at the place before the sunset to determine the location of the tent and, accordingly, the holes. The tent is located so that the working area for the holes is just above the curb or other promising place, since moving around the pond at night, and even with a tent, is not a pleasant task.

Basics of field cooking on ice fishing

The appetite for winter fishing due to the energy consumption of the process is fattening up quickly. A well-thought-out diet guarantees a reserve of strength for extreme fishing. The list of products should contain a lot of protein and fat in order to fully replenish the energy supply. Water is another element without which it is impossible. Always take a thermos with hot liquid that will warm, quench your thirst, help with frostbite. The priority products for fishing are:

  1. Sausage – not everyone will do. In the cold, an unsuitable one can turn into a hardened piece, which most likely can only be thrown away. It is worth taking sausage with a high fat content, it is less prone to freezing.
  2. Lard is the most popular non-freezing product. It is not only high in calories, but also unpretentious in storage.
  3. Bread – simple bread can, like sausage, turn into stone, biscuits and bread in this regard are more versatile.
  4. Dried fruits and nuts – contain a lot of healthy carbohydrates, are easily digestible, suitable for a quick snack.

The tent can be equipped with a kitchen. If a fire is lit, or there is a heater with a built-in stove, you can heat food, cook fish soup from freshly caught fish, boil water, and dry wet clothes. [caption id="attachment_2123" align="aligncenter" width="512"]
Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at nightEconomic heating plus a burner for cooking and heating

Tactics and gear for night fishing for peaceful fish

At night, you can catch bream, roach, silver bream, less often crucian carp and carp.

Mormyshka fishing

Mormyshkas are used in two types – without nozzles (reelless) and with a nozzle. You can catch roach, bream, and silver bream at night in winter with revolvers and nozzle mormyshkas. The fishing technique is practically no different from fishing during the day (you can study in detail how to fish with a revolver using the
example of perch fishing .). The only thing that should be noted is that high-quality food comes to the fore in order to keep a flock of roach or bream with the help of a feeding table for as long as possible. Lure is desirable to use live – maggot, bloodworm – it is more noticeable at night.

Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at night
Bloodworms for bait [/ caption] Also, it will not be superfluous to use mormyshki with a light-accumulative spot that glow underwater at night, creating an additional point of attack. This is especially true when catching fish that feed in the daytime – roach, crucian carp, perch.

Fishing with float tackle – bream, roach

You can catch peaceful fish on the usual float tackle. Most often comes across bream and bream, roach, crucian carp (not everywhere). The basics are the same as during the day, but there are nuances. So, in order to successfully catch roach in winter at night
on a float tackle , you need to take into account that the roach does not peck all night, but in the pre-morning time and with brief flashes in the middle of the night. Also at night, roach actively moves throughout the horizon, so the role of feeding is important. It is necessary to feed the hole with a column from the very surface to the bottom and install several floats in a different working horizon – from the bottom, 40-80 centimeters from the bottom and halfway. This is enough to break through the entire horizon.
Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at nightIn winter, roach prefers depths up to 3-5 meters. This must be taken into account when setting up a tent, if night fishing is planned specifically for horned. It stands in the area of ​​​​a slow current, if fishing is on the river, near tubercles and depressions.
Fishing for bream at night in winter is a promising activity. The bream pecks especially actively on large reservoirs – reservoirs, large and medium-sized rivers and their bays. When fishing with a float rod, the use of bait is important. This is the only way to lure worthy specimens from a sufficient distance, if the fishing point was not guessed accurately. You need to feed with mormysh, worm, bloodworm. They can also be used as bait. The bream is well caught on daily equipment – a yoke, a harvester, a skating rink.
Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at nightThe fish responds well to smooth, small fluctuations – when fishing with a mormyshka, it is worth planting a bloodworm, maggot, or a sandwich from a combination of these larvae – this will definitely attract the attention of a bream or a scavenger. Winter fishing at night for bream: https://youtu.be/vclObzQ_h7k

Winter fishing at night for a predator

You can catch not only peaceful fish, but also predatory ones – pike perch, burbot, a little worse than pike and perch.

Fishing at night in winter on live bait

On live bait in winter at night, you can catch nocturnal predators – pike perch, burbot, less often pike and perch on vents, postavushki. As live bait, carp, roach, rudd are used. There are many varieties of zherlits, both purchased and home-made. All work according to the same principle – when biting, the fishing line is released and the flag “lights up”. The basis of successful fishing on zherlitsy is the choice of a place for installation. These are edges, wintering pits (fishing on wintering grounds is not allowed everywhere!) dumps into the depths, flooded snags and trees, bends in the coast, depth differences, coastal thickets of reeds and other vegetation. [caption id="attachment_2360" align="aligncenter" width="1280"]
Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at nightThe flag of the vents on the ice [/ caption] The main idea is to find such a point for setting up a tent, so that being in it, you can catch peaceful fish, and at this time vents were set up at a short distance. For example, in a semicircle along the edge or on a dump in the pit, there are vents, and on the “table”, which is located at the exit from the pit, it is good to set up a tent and catch night bream on a mormyshka, float and other equipment – skating, harvester and others. [caption id="attachment_2351" align="aligncenter" width="660"]
Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at nightThe lights of the flags of zherlits are burning on the street, and breams are pecking in a warm tent – romance, buzz and excitement

How to catch a pike in winter at night from ice to live bait : https://youtu.be/TgCOBR8ur4g

Night fishing for zander in winter

Pike perch in winter lives at the same points as in summer. On the deepest reservoirs – pits, channel brows, rocky bottom, in the rubble of snag. But! An important nuance. At night, the pike perch goes to smaller places, where it hunts for small whites. These are the exits from the pits – a flat plateau with a more or less stable depth, where the same bream, roach, rudd, small and medium perch stand. It is good to work with light-accumulative spinners, balancers, large mormyshkas.

Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at night
Balancers with fluo effect
Pike perch can be caught by running fishing. But do not forget about safety and comfort – you should have a headlamp and a regular flashlight, an ice drill, a walkie-talkie, a pick, a suit with reflective elements. https://youtu.be/ed_aHpdYd9Q

burbot fishing

Burbot is a predatory fish that hunts and stays awake at night. That is why in winter, especially at night, burbot fishing is a common activity for winter fishermen. The main method of fishing is the use of vents and donoks with live and dead fish. Like many other predators, burbot can be found in deep holes and ruts, in snag deposits, as well as in points behind and in front of it. It is over such places that gear is placed. Small carp, roach, okushki are suitable as live bait. The most important task is to find a parking spot for burbot. It is already easier to seduce him into a bite. Especially if you use something foul-smelling as a bait. For example, rotten fish. Of the fools, spinners, balancers, and stalks are used.
Fishing in winter with an overnight stay: home life in a tent, catching roach, pike perch, burbot at nightCatching burbot in winter is especially promising at night [/ caption]

How to catch perch in winter at night

The perch bites badly at night, but until midnight and early in the morning you can successfully catch perch on mormyshkas, revolvers, spinners and balancers. The technique of fishing practically does not differ from the day one. One has only to use fluorescent winter baits – spinners, balancers and jigs. As well as actively playing lures in a higher priority than passive ones. What
you need to know about perch fishing in winter . Perch fishing for:

Winter fishing at night with home comfort – how to survive on ice in cold weather: https://youtu.be/-8s2WsKBi74 Winter fishing at night is a great way to enjoy nature, get new, previously unseen sensations from it. And with the right approach, stay with a catch and a good mood.

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