Many heard about this fisherman's tackle in childhood from Russian fairy tales. But not everyone fully understands what the word "seine" means. The meager idea that this is a fishing gear that provides for catching fish in significant numbers does not give an exhaustive answer. Let's try to figure out how it is used.
A bit of history
Fishing is an ancient craft of mankind. And the original fishing tools did not bring a big catch. As you know, the fish was beaten with a spear, a relative of modern pitchforks. A little later, rafts and boats appeared on the farm, which helped to facilitate difficult fishing. But when the network was invented, things went much better, people stopped starving.
With the advent of seine - a purse network - fish production has increased significantly. A huge net was thrown into the sea or river, and it dragged behind the fishing boat, capturing the fish that got in the way. When the net became full, it was pulled onto the deck and the “purse” was untied at the bottom, dumping all the fish for sorting and storage. Both small sailboats and more respectable ships used the seine.
You can also fish with a seine and not far from the coast.
Origin
The word "net" was inherited from the Proto-Slavic language of the prehistoric era, which is the progenitor of all Slavic languages of our time. It was spoken by the ancient tribes that lived on the territory between the rivers Dnieper, Vistula and Bug. As a consequence of a common history - in Czech, Ukrainian, Polish, "net" sounds almost the same, only with a difference in stress.
The modern meaning of the word "net" - surrounding from the outside, seizing without touching - is far from the original. The true authors of the word, naming the net, meant far from encirclement and capture, they kind of conveyed information to the fish so as not to frighten it - "we are not going to drive here." Given the way of thinking and beliefs of a person of that era, everything was quite logical and understandable.
According to dictionaries, a net is a means for catching fish, which is a net and a rope. It is used in large bodies of water: oceans, seas, lakes and rivers. The principle of working with a seine is simple: covering the accumulation of fish and pulling the net on board the vessel or the coastal zone. Seines come in different lengths, sizes, cell frequencies and, of course, differ in design.
How is the net arranged?
Fishing seine - a long net, the wall of which is represented by different heights. On the upper rope, this network is equipped with floats, and on the lower rope - weights. In the middle of the seine, a bag is sewn in, it is called "motnya", where all the captured fish are collected. The side walls of the network are called wings, warps (cables) are attached to them, with which the seine is pulled.
Unlike other fishing devices, the seine is a mobile tackle, when using which the catch remains intact, and therefore remains alive longer. Small mesh cells filter the water during excavations, and all the fish remains in the canvas.
Cast net fishing technique
The simple device of this type of net can be deceptive at first glance. It seems that I walked along the coast and full bags of catch are ready. But not everything is so simple. Sometimes you can be left with nothing, even if the fish walks under your feet.
Before fishing itself, the net must be checked on the shore for holes and damage so that all the work is not in vain. A close-knit team of several people takes part in the process of catching. One fisherman enters the water to the maximum depth, the second moves towards him to such a distance that the seine is a semicircle, and not tight. At the same time, they begin to move along the coast, trying to bring the seine as close to the bottom as possible. Another participant goes to meet them, splashing on the water and driving the fish onto the net. Then the first fisherman brings his edge to the shore along an arc of a circle, while the second one stands still. As soon as they are equal along the line, they begin to slowly move towards the shore. The seine must be pulled very carefully so that it does not break. Its ends should be as close to the bottom as possible so that the fish does not slip under the net. As soon as the seine is on the shore, you can collect fish.
Types of seine
There are four types of seine, which differ in the way of catching: fixed, bottom, loop, cast. And also the tackle is divided according to the place of application: river, sea, lake. The cast net has already been mentioned, let's consider other types.
The set seine is considered the most passive in use. All you need is just to install it, it does the rest. This type of seine is common and diverse. They mainly work in the sea coastal fishery of herring, salmon, Baltic herring and other fish species. The design of the fixed seine is very expensive and difficult to install.
The loop seine is mostly marine tackle, but in some cases it is also used on the lake. It is used far from land and then pulled aboard. Purse seines are distinguished by a particularly high performance. The principle of operation is that the detected one is swept over with a net wall.
The bottom seine is used for coastal sea or lake fishing on small boats. Due to its small design, it is closer to the cast net.
Synonyms for seine
As it turned out, the net is not alone in its definition and has related words that are close to it in meaning. Some dictionaries give up to 21 synonyms for the word "seine". zhak, harva, stavnik, klovnya, mutnik, dragger and others. A few words about frequently used ones.
A dragnet is a small seine designed for shallow water. Its design has two wings, drives and a motney, which can be tapered or wedge-shaped. The condition for effective fishing with a bullshit is as follows: a large concentration of fish with low mobility and a flat bottom of the reservoir.
Mutnik has medium-sized cells for catching small fish. Scraps of nets are tied to his lasso, which contribute to the cloudiness of the water, hence the name of this tackle. This is done in order to scare the fish and direct it in the right direction. Especially successful mutnik fishing is on lakes.
Volokush - this is the same nonsense, it is an ordinary net, but unlike it, it is not thrown from boats or ships. It is used only in places where people can pass. For this reason, the drag is applicable in small lakes and rivers.
Thus, the net is presented in its wide variety and various designs for one single purpose - to catch fish in large numbers.
A dragnet (also known by the local names “drag”, “drag”) is essentially a small seine, which differs from the classic seine only in length (from 6 to 30 meters, rarely longer) and in the method of application: the seine is a throwing tackle, it is swept out from a boat or boats, surrounding a certain part of the reservoir, after which the tackle is pulled onto the shore or onto the ice (during winter fishing). The nonsense is a clockwork tackle, they lead it into a reservoir and drag it onto a ford fish, without the help of boats. It is not easy to catch pike in large numbers with a bullshit. Firstly, they choose places for their camps that are extremely inconvenient for fishing: snags, thickets of underwater vegetation, trees that have fallen into the water, etc. - it’s simply not possible to carry nonsense there. Secondly, the pike is not a schooling fish, it keeps alone, and the places of pike ambushes are sometimes removed at considerable distances from each other. Thirdly, pikes quite deftly avoid nonsense - they do not rush about in a blind panic, hitting their wings and heading along them into a trap - on the contrary, they slowly sail away from the impending tackle, choosing a convenient moment: for example, when the lower selection of the nonsense catches on some underwater obstacle, stretch and rise above the bottom soil - the pike will immediately slip into the gap formed. Sometimes pikes simply jump over the upper line of the bullshit, but such “aerial acrobats” are still a minority, the rest of the pikes are looking for their chance in the depths. If the drag does not cover the entire width of the reservoir, pikes simply bypass the wings. For example, when fishing on wide and shallow floods of rivers, very rich in pike, the usual result is several kilograms of roach and perch and 2-3 randomly caught beeves. Therefore, the main condition for successful pike fishing with bullshit is the right choice of fishing spot. On large rivers and lakes, it is worth counting on pike in the catch only in narrow bays and backwaters, the width of which allows them to be covered with a log from coast to coast. carp and tench living there, in flood lakes (and even simply in large puddles) there are many large river fish that did not have time to slide into the channel when the level fell. Mostly pike. Only there, perhaps, the largest, trophy specimens of pikes fall into the delusion - they stay all year in deep pits, inaccessible to delusion, and only in the spring swim into the floodplain, in shallow water. But most of all pike is caught in small, slowly flowing streams, in which whirlpools alternate with shallow rifts. If on a river where fishing is carried out constantly, whirlpools are too rare, and from one fishing place to another you have to walk a couple of kilometers over rough terrain with heavy wet gear, then the so-called. “delusional tones” are specially equipped: in convenient places with a flat bottom, temporary dams are erected from flagstone, stakes and chopped turf, etc. These structures raise the water level by 0.5–1 m, and delay part of the water that has entered in the spring fish, and even local, residential fish, concentrate in the resulting backwaters and reach larger sizes in them. Naturally, equipped boats are cleared of snags and large stones, and a part of the coast is cut off near the dam, making it smooth and sloping with a slight slope - that is, convenient for pulling tackle. But visiting anglers on an unfamiliar river have to do without all these amenities, finding places that are convenient or unsuitable for fishing by trial and error. They use for river fishing along the whirlpools short ravings 7-10 meters long, less often 12-15 meters. It all depends on the size of the river where you decide to go fishing: the size of the tackle should be 1.5 times wider than the widest and 1.7 times higher than the deepest part of the reservoir (at least). Of course, if the length of the rod exceeds the width of the pool by 2 times, it will not hurt the fishing. But a long 30-meter drag on a narrow river is inconvenient. Before you go into the water with a rod in a pool suitable for fishing, you should decide how to most effectively carry the rod and, most importantly, where to pull it ashore. Ceteris paribus, it is better to carry the tackle against the current, although this requires a little more physical effort - the wings and the bobbin unfold more correctly, and the frightened fish most often tends downstream, rests on the wings, goes along them and gets into the bobbin. But quite often it is necessary to lead the drag downstream, for example, if fishing is carried out above the dam or sloping banks convenient for pulling out are available only in the lower part of the pool. If there is no dam in the area chosen for fishing, then you can significantly increase the catch by blocking the narrow exit from the whirlpool with a set net, a wing of an old log or a net with wings of sufficient length. It is not worth counting on shallow water to become an obstacle for fish, there have been cases when pikes, escaping from nonsense, went along the riffles with a depth of no more than 5–7 cm. where the depth is at least knee-deep). Pike very often stay not in the deep part of the whirlpool, but at the entrance or exit from it, disguising themselves in the grass and lying in wait for small things feeding in shallow water. Therefore, so that the predators do not leave the fished area at the moment when the log is only brought into the water, the following method is used: after the exit is blocked, one or two catchers pass into the narrow part of the river 10–15 m from the pool downstream, if the tackle goes against the current (or above the pool, if the log goes downstream) and they start a noisy surge, driving out the pike standing under the banks and moving to the place where the log lies on the bank, unwound and neatly laid out in advance. Having reached the tackle, the fishermen quickly drag one wing of the rod into the water, blocking the river from shore to shore, and all the fish in the fishing zone are trapped. Then the motnya and the second wing are lowered into the water, and the actual fishing begins. The wings of the delirium are carried as close to the shore as possible, ideally the nags should move close to it. At the same time, the catchers drive out (usually with their feet) the fish from all places where it can hide - from under the banks washed from below, from the roots of coastal bushes and trees sticking into the water, etc. The lower ends of the nags should literally furrow the bottom. Catchers pulling nags should move as evenly as possible, so that one does not greatly outstrip the other. If more than two people are involved in fishing, then it is useful for the third fisherman to walk a little behind the bait - and in case of a hook, he untangles the bait from the underwater obstacle. With a properly equipped rod (especially with a chain instead of the central part of the weight line), you can even uproot snags from the muddy bottom, but the lower line rises above the bottom surface, and the fish leaves. Sometimes, in the process of catching, fish, mostly small ones, get entangled in the wing of the delirium, like in a gill net. You should not be distracted in order to get them - chasing a roach or a bee-eater, you can miss large pikes: very often they do not rush about in blind panic, but slowly retreat in front of the impending nonsense, waiting for the fishermen to make some mistake that allows them to escape. But if something especially large splashed in the mot, it makes sense to come up, raise the lower selection in the central part and pick up the prey, not paying attention to the trifle leaving the nonsense at that moment. There is no need to delay - if a pike or burbot has grown to trophy size in places where they are often caught with a bullshit, it means that they have already encountered this tackle more than once and have learned to elude it well. Having brought the nags to a dam or a net barrier, anglers redouble their attention: the concentration of fish between the wings at this moment is maximum, and any inaccuracy or negligence in actions will significantly reduce the catch. One of the catchers goes to the other bank, which is more gentle and convenient for pulling out, while pressing the nag as tightly as possible against the dam or net barrier. Having put the nags on the shore 1.5–2 m from one another, they stir up the water in a shallow area surrounded by a net, while trying to drive more fish into the motna with a strong splash. Then they quickly pull the tackle to the shore - small ravings right behind the nags, holding them vertically and retreating from the water's edge, large ones - sorting through the rebounds with their hands. It is more difficult to pull out the nonsense without missing the fish if all the banks are steep and there is no convenient flat place (in places of constant fishing, such places are prepared in advance, cutting off the turf and earth with shovels: steep banks are compared, bumps and mounds are torn off). If you climb an unprepared shore with a sheer ledge at least half a meter high and pull the rod there, then you will only catch a fish that has found itself in a mot and entangled with its gills in its wings. It is more effective to stay below, under the shore, and in the water, in shallow water, to go through the two ends of the lower line, only occasionally pulling up the upper one. At the same time, the selected wings are folded into the water near the shore, and the fish is gradually pushed back into the bobbin. When the wings are selected, the upper selection of the remaining part of the log is folded from the bottom and the slammed tackle is pulled out to the shore. It does not interfere at the very beginning of fishing, before the surge, to stir up the water properly so that the turbidity goes downstream and the fish does not see the impending gear. But in summer there is almost no current in the whirlpools, and this method is inapplicable - and the first pass (drowning) with a haul usually gives a minimum catch, and most of the prey falls into the whirlpool during the second and third sinking, when the water already becomes quite turbid. Separately, it must be said about catching pike with a “chicken”. This tackle is a bastard without wings, or rather, a bastard from a bastard, attached to two nags; sometimes there are even no floats and sinkers, and the net in the working position is held exclusively by the upper and lower cords stretched by the catchers. The width of the tackle from nag to nag is 3–4 m, and sometimes even less. "Chicken" is used to catch pike in the barrels of small streams, for which even a short haul is great - in the summer you can only find squinting there, but at the end of spring, in May, pike of a decent size come across, lingering after their spring trip to the upper reaches. In summer, it makes sense to hunt for pike with “chicken” in vast thickets of kugi, reeds and similar vegetation, interspersed with bays, channels, backwaters. The usual nonsense in such places is inconvenient - the solid coast is too far away, there is nowhere to pull out tackle. It is not necessary to pull the "chicken" ashore - it is enough to raise the nags horizontally above the water and get the catch from the tackle. Most often they catch it at night: after passing (if possible carefully and silently) several tens of steps along the bottom of the reservoir, the “chicken” is brought close to the reed wall and raised. Day fishing is also possible, but then the participation of a third fisherman is necessary. The fact is that it has been noticed: at night, the pike, standing at the very edge of the thickets, leaves the noise and other anxiety for clear water - and gets entangled in the mot. In the daytime, on the contrary, the predator sees the tackle approaching it and retreats into the wilds of aquatic vegetation. The task of the third fisherman is to create as much noise and splash as possible, drive out, “trample” the pikes from their green shelter. In principle, this fishing differs little from the basting or trampling basket fishing described below, but the “chicken” is more effective due to its larger size.
Today, interest in fishing is returning more and more, not only as a trade. In this regard, the need for fishing nets, one of the essential attributes of this occupation, is also increasing.
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The purpose of the seine nets is to cover a certain area of the reservoir along with the fish located there and, reducing the swept area to a minimum, drain the fish.
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Set nets from the group of traps are the most common. Their principle of automatic fishing and the ability to keep the fish alive attracts a lot of attention from specialists.
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The dragnet has the same parts as the cast net. The usual dimensions of the log are 10-25 m in length and 1-1.8 m in height.
The main and main difference between a seine and a bullshit is in the methods of fishing and in size.
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A large mesh net is a necessary tool when catching large fish. It is manufactured on modern equipment and can beat with different cell diameters, ranging from 30 to 200 mm.
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The lifting net is a rectangle of light net, which is lowered to the bottom and after a while is raised, capturing the fish that is above the net at that moment.
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Fine-mesh seine - a type of seine for catching small fish. It can have various modifications: (bottom, side, side). A popular type of permanently installed seine is the fixed seine.
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Some products are prohibited for use in recreational and sport fishing in Russia. Produced for research institutes, fish farms and for regions of the Russian Federation where the use of this type of product is allowed.
To the great happiness of anglers in our time, the choice of fishing tackle is simply replete with variety and amazes with an assortment of all kinds of options.
This is no longer the time when improvised materials and inventions of avid anglers were used as equipment for fish farming. The tradition of buying fishing tackle in bulk has become especially relevant, because real fishermen know how expensive it can be to purchase equipment separately.
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As you know, in order to catch fish in large numbers in a relatively short period of time, it is worth using a fishing net.
The fishing net is a large a net used to catch fish in various reservoirs. Seines fishing allow you to fish in large quantities in marine and oceanic fisheries.
This tackle is a large net cloth with ropes, the principle of which is based on delaying the fish that is in motion, and directing it to a special device or pulling the net with the catch from the water.
Fishing nets have been known to mankind for decades. Their primitive predecessors were used in ancient times, since it was they who helped the fisherman return home with a solid catch.
Currently, there are several of the most common types of gear such as a fishing net.
Among them it is worth highlighting:
- a seine net;
- loose;
- bottom;
- fixed seine.
Seine fish seine - the oldest species of a number of seines.
It is used for coastal fishing. This fishing tackle is thrown into the water from a boat that moves along the reservoir, and then pulled towards the shore with a catch. Such a net is perfect for river or lake fishing, you can also fish with it in the winter.
If you need nets for sea fishing, then you should buy a net.
This type of fishing gear allows you to fish far from the shore by pulling the prey on board the vessel. With this device, you can catch whole schools of fish, which you can never do with a regular spinning rod.
Bottom nets allow you to fish both on lakes and in the open sea.
They are used for bottom fishing. This type of seine fishing can be carried out both from a small vessel and from the coastal zone. Its principle is very similar to the principle of fishing with a cast net, only the first, unlike the second, covers the bottom of the reservoir.
There are also stationary fixed nets.
They are usually used for industrial purposes, for catching salmon, trout, capelin, herring and the like. A fixed seine is used where fishing with other fishing gear is not possible. But this type also has its drawbacks: high cost, large size, installation complexity and the risk of damage in bad weather conditions.
If you are counting on a big catch or want to fish on a professional level, then do not forget to buy a fishing net. Remember, this tackle is an indispensable assistant for every avid fisherman.
