France Bleu la Rochelle welcomes Bruno Garcia from the Charente-Maritime fishing federation to discuss the best times of the year this week.
Bruno Garcia:
Buds, smells of wet earth, levels slightly higher than the previous weeks, we can’t miss all these good times that await us on the edge of the water. So we take the fishing rod in hand and we join our streams.
You might have to be a little more specific! What are we going to track? What is the target?
We will first think about the present moment before planning for next week. Trout releases are still happening. On the Boutonne upstream from the commune of Le Vert to the confluence with the Brédoire, Saint Jean d’Angély at the leisure area of Antezant la Chapelle, on the Créssé branch in Bagnizeau, on the Coran, on the bodies of water in Saint Hippolyte, on the body of water in Béligon, on the body of water in Nuaillé d’Aunis, etc. You can have all the details by consulting the website of the Fishing Federation 17 on the internet.
So much for a first destination, what are the others?
Fishing for live bait to prepare for its pike opening on April 30. Attention roach and bream have started their breeding season. We can see in the roach well bristled scales and wedding buttons, small grayish white dots, small tubercles very rough to the touch. Excess testosterone. Under these conditions you will not be able to keep them alive. Orient yourself preferably on the bleak which is an excellent live regardless of the predator sought. Its reproduction will take place a little later in water whose temperature is between 15 and 16 degrees.
Aren’t there bleaks everywhere?
No it’s true they are not present everywhere. You have well-established populations on the Boutonne 2 nd category, on the Charente, on the Seugne, on the Curé. And to finish on the news, the fake shads have arrived on the Charente, if you do not yet have the right to search for them with a lure you can use an artificial fly which will also give you good results.
Are we teleporting to the near future now?
Yes very close! In the next week with the opening of the pike which will take place on April 30 everywhere in Charente-Maritime, the opening of the eel from May 01 on the south of the department and a few more trout releases.
Did you approach live fishing, one technique rather than another?
For many reasons I choose techniques which, like lure fishing, allow instant hooking, so in most cases, to bite the fish on the corner of the lips. For this reason, I have a preference for handled dead editing. The famous Drackovitch rig whose name will remain etched forever in the history of fishing since he is the inventor of this technique. It is simply a dead fish that you will launch and bring back giving it small impulses to imitate an injured fish. What will encourage the predator to seize this easy prey