Open11ng

According to tradition, the first day of the new year, we spent on fish. The opening of the new season , came out very well :) Good score for a short winter day.

 

Great opening for me- cold water 2lber 

Bites were really good today

 All the canals and some parts of river were covered with ice for almost two weeks. Water temperature declined. This should have an impact on fish metabolism. But we had really good bites today. Surprise. One of the next perch caught by us, solved this mystery.

One of perch spat out something like this

Perchs were feed on lampreys!
Lampreys (sometimes also called lamprey eels) are jawless fish, whose adults are characterized by a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth.

The mystery revealed

Lampreys live mostly in coastal and fresh waters, although some species, (e.g. Geotria australis, Petromyzon marinus, Entosphenus tridentatus) travel significant distances in the open ocean, as evidenced by their lack of reproductive isolation between populations. They are found in most temperate regions except those in Africa. Their larvae have a low tolerance for high water temperatures, which may explain why they are not distributed in the tropics.

Another fat spikey- lamprey imitation coneseur

Adults physically resemble eels, in that they have no scales, and can range anywhere from 13 to 100 centimetres (5 to 40 inches) long.* source- Wikipedia

GMO baby perch