Fishing with a side nod: fishing techniques and making your own tackle

Sometimes, on a pond you can meet a fisherman with an unusual fishing rod that does not have a classic design. It does not have a float, but the rod has a side nod. The fisherman uses a summer jig as bait. The summer jig has been known for a long time, but only now is it becoming very popular, since the opportunity has arisen to purchase a light rod that you can swing without much effort all day long.
The jig can be thrown into any algae-free space and manipulated calmly. This effective bait has proven itself well on wild rivers, where fish need to be caught and for this you have to resort to various tricks.

Rod selection

When choosing a fishing rod, you should pay attention to its lightness and length. At the same time, you need to remember that it will not have a classic bite alarm (in the form of a float). Instead, bites will be transmitted to the nod (as in a winter fishing rod). But there are some nuances here, because the nod will be located at a considerable distance and its work is not so easy to see. To make it more noticeable, it is attached to the side of the rod. Thus, the main element of such a fishing rod is its tip, which must have a certain rigidity and strength. It must support its own weight and the weight of the nod along with the jig without bending. The nod is attached to the side of the tip using a special coupling. The design of the nod can be any, but the most important thing is that while watching it (and it will take a long time to watch) your eyes do not get tired, and at the same time, it is clearly visible against the background of the sky and water, as well as the surrounding vegetation. A good option is the dark green color of the nod itself with a bright designation at the end. It is perfectly visible and after long-term observation of it, your eyes do not get tired.

Fishing technique and tactics

Before fishing, it is important to think through a plan of action. You should start from the type of fish you are going to the pond to find. Here are several typical cases.

Features of crucian carp fishing

When the bite on the feeder or float in crucian carp reservoirs subsides, the only reliable way to catch fish is a summer jig. Sensitive tackle allows you to instantly respond to the slightest bite, and the movement of the jig in the water column activates even dormant crucian carp. There is an opinion that in cold weather fish respond better to vertical fishing than to horizontal movement of the bait.

The fisherman can choose 3 tactical fishing patterns.

The boat helps to find crucian carp on lakes with muddy bottoms, where it is not possible to get close to the wades. The watercraft also comes to the rescue in the case of a heavily overgrown coastal zone. The length of the fishing rod is chosen within 5-6 m.
You can fish small ponds from the shore without any problems. Here the depth is approximately the same, and the coastline is clean. But in this case, a long rod of 7-8 m is required.
It is most convenient to hunt for crucian carp in a wading suit. This equipment allows you to get close to a promising place, you can use fishing rods of 6-7 m.

It is important! Whatever option is adopted, you must behave quietly and carefully. Large fish sense the presence of a person and will keep their distance from him.

Patience becomes the fisherman's main weapon. Once you enter the water, you must remain motionless for 5-10 minutes. At this time, experienced crucian fishermen advise lowering the fishing rod onto the stand and smoking a cigarette. After 5 minutes, the first careful movements are made. For small things, fast vibrations with high amplitude are suitable. The fishing technique for respectable crucian carp is radically different. Most often, a slow rise of the bait from the bottom surface to a height of 5 cm works. At the top of the rise, a stop is made for 2-3 seconds, after which the upward movement continues. Having lowered the jig to the bottom, it is useful to move it, raising a cloud of turbidity. If the bites are cautious and unnoticeable, it is worth replacing lead jigs with tungsten ones.

Roach fishing

In autumn, schools of roach move to deep waters. Based on this, fishing from a boat or wading looks preferable. Roach’s favorite jigs are pellet, droplet, uralka, oatmeal, and ant. The optimal colors for fall are black and gray. The fish are not too afraid of the angler, so you can start fishing immediately after stopping in an interesting place. There are several effective techniques for fishing with a jig in the fall.

The simplest technique is to slowly evenly lift the equipment from the bottom to a height of 3-5 cm. The stop lasts 1-3 seconds, after which the jig drops to the bottom. After touching the ground, you should move the bait and lift it slightly.
It is not difficult to do this kind of wiring. First, a slow rise of a few centimeters is performed. Having reached the required height, the bait should be moved alternately in one direction and the other.
Horizontal movements are performed at the bottom. When the jig reaches the extreme point in one of the directions, a long pause is made, up to 10 s.

When fishing for roach, you can use bait. It is chosen to be dark in color with a low feed content. The mixture must be sifted; it is more convenient to lower portions of the prepared bait using a small cup.

How to catch rotan?

Rotan is considered one of the most picky fish. This small predator has a large mouth, which, combined with greed, allows the fisherman not to stand on ceremony. Even a fishing line 0.20 mm thick does not frighten this voracious fish. The easiest way to seduce rotan is with animal bait, such as a worm, a bunch of bloodworms or a whitebait. You can fish from the shore, boat or wade.

As for the wiring, you will have to experiment. Active fish bite on fast movements with a large amplitude. A passive fish is unbalanced by small tremors in a certain layer of water. A slow rise of the jig from the bottom is successful.

Recommendation! Even in a small body of water, rotan occupies certain areas. Therefore, you need to immediately find the fish, and then engage in targeted fishing.

Chasing the Perch

Perch gives the angler wide scope for imagination and experimentation. This fish is found in small ponds, oxbow lakes, lakes and reservoirs. Depending on the size of the reservoir and the terrain, one of the appropriate tactics is selected. In most cases, you can fish well from the shore or by wading. When fishing, you can use different jigs, spinners, tandems with silicone, etc. There are several promising fishing patterns.

When using attachment jigs, a smooth technique is used with a slow rise and fall. It is useful to fidget with the bait at the bottom.
In quiet river bays, striped robbers hunt at mid-water, picking up living organisms falling into the water along with leaves. The wiring looks like dipping a jig to the half-water level. Burdock moth larvae, ant eggs, and bloodworms are attached to the hook.
In areas with a clean bottom, imitation of the nymph's behavior brings success. To do this, the jig with bait sinks to the bottom and slowly moves along the ground, first in one direction, then in the other.

The side nod provides the angler with a real opportunity to have a pleasant rest on the pond in the fall. You just need to properly equip the fishing rod and choose the appropriate wiring.

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Fishing with a rod with a side nod

For fishing in the summer using a side nod, rods that are 4-5 meters long and have a rigid action are best suited. It is also possible to use longer rods, but they require strong hands. As a rule, this is a telescopic fishing rod that does not have rings, but has minimal weight. Weight plays a decisive role, since you will have to walk around with this rod all day long, playing with a jig. To make the rod light, a small but simple inertial reel with fishing line with a diameter of no more than 0.25 mm is mounted on it.

Before preparing for fishing, the rod is laid out, and the fishing line is wrapped around the blank and passed through the ring on the nod, after which a jig is attached to the end of the fishing line. If fishing is for a predator, then a balancer or a vertical spoon can be tied to the end of the fishing line.

When using a fishing rod with a side nod, you can fish in several ways:

fall-rise : the jig falls freely to the very bottom, after which it is returned to the starting point in steps of 10-15 cm. And again the jig is given the opportunity to fall, and again in steps to the beginning. This can be repeated many times.
playing at the very bottom : the jig falls to the bottom, after which it is raised to a height of 10-15 cm and played with it, giving small impulses. The game continues for 1-2 minutes, after which the jig is lowered to the bottom.
finger play : everything is done in the same way as in the previous case, but the jig is played by tapping the butt of the rod with a finger.
tension : used when there is current. In this case, the jig sinks to the bottom, and then, using the tension of the fishing line, it is slowly raised closer to the surface of the water.
jerks _ The jig is fixed in the water column, and then with a sharp movement, the jig rises to a height of about 40 cm, after which everything is repeated again.
movement along the bottom : lowering the jig to the bottom, give it forward movements using a nod. In this case, the jig should not come off the bottom.
calm position : the jig is stopped at the desired depth and wait for bites.
dragging : lowering the jig to the bottom and giving it forward movement with the help of a fishing rod. As a result of such actions, the bait moves along the bottom.

While fishing, you should try out all the existing methods of fishing with a side nod. One of them will certainly give a positive result. Fish are unpredictable and can strike in different ways on different days.

Fishing tactics

Fishing with a jig (side nod). Blind equipment. Without nozzle.

The game of the bait is similar to the game in winter, and it is better to move the jig with the flow, as the fish have less suspicion. All insects, once on the water, move with the current, so the fish will react more naturally to such movement.

Nozzles

You can play with the bait in vain or hook a maggot, worm, bloodworm, etc. on the hook. Fish will not necessarily be caught with a classic bait, but also with a bunch of colored threads, multi-colored beads, seed beads, etc. The main thing is to turn on your imagination, and the fish will check how effective this imagination is.

Nod for spinning

Spinning anglers quite often install side nods on their tackle, especially if the spinning rod is used as bottom tackle. They are installed on the top of the rod blank and allow you to more effectively transmit bite moments.

How to fish with a side nod

It all depends on the choice of equipment, and, in fact, on the place where you fish. Any body of water where the water is standing or the current is very weak is suitable. You will have to constantly move, because the goal is to search for active schools of fish. There is always competition for food within the flock. Therefore, if you find a fish, it will bite until they notice something wrong and decide that they need to change their location. We don't stop there. The fish must be found again. Sometimes bait works. But if it quickly falls to the bottom, it will be of no use. And there is no point in tying yourself to this place. The school of fish will still go to another place.

Think about where you will fish from. Ideal options are dams, piers, and walkways. You can put your waders on something warm and go fishing in early spring. The entire area along the coast is our target area. This is where fish most often end up after the ice melts. It’s easiest to fish this way in windy weather. Then you can get closer to potential prey much easier. Practice has shown that blind equipment causes a lot of inconvenience. Especially if you need to lose the line while fishing. If the fish does not get tired, then it is quite possible that the line will break and the fish will go to depth. You always need the opportunity to drop the line.

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How to secure a side nod

A very simple fastening is made from a piece of rubber in which 2 parallel holes are made. The rod tip goes into one hole, and the nod is inserted into the second. The rubber mount is more suitable for nods that are made not of metal, but of a material such as plastic. The fact is that metal nods quickly disable such a mount.

As an option, we can offer a fastening structure made of a nail, 5010 cm long (possibly made of wire). To make the nail more suitable for this design, the head is bitten off and then bent at an angle of 30-90 degrees, somewhere in the middle. After this, the metal blank is wrapped with thread, coated with glue and left until completely dry. Then, the dried structure is applied to the tip of the rod and wrapped with electrical tape. A nod is attached to the free end of the workpiece in the same way (using electrical tape).

DIY side nod

Making a summer side nod

How to quickly make a side nod to a summer fishing rod. My fishing.

To make a side nod, you should immediately decide on the material. Many experts recommend using the following materials for this:

strips from plastic bottles, which are cut with ordinary scissors.
springs from a clock mechanism.
made of metal packaging strips that are used to secure cargo.
from a construction tape.
from a broken fishing rod or spinning rod.

It’s easy and affordable to use a plastic (at least liter) bottle that has a smooth side surface. In addition to the bottle, you need to have scissors, a needle file, a paper clip and regular thread. The body of the nod is cut out from the side surface of the bottle, and it has the following dimensions: length 20-30cm, width of one of the bases 0.7-1cm, and width of the other end (top) 0.3-0.5cm. All cut lines must be smoothed and a needle file can be used for this.

The side nod is the most effective rig for catching crucian carp in the summer

Today I want to tell you not about how to catch crucian carp with a float rod, but about catching this cautious fish with a side nod. In the summer heat, such gear is practically irreplaceable. After all, in summer crucian carp is not active and does not show much interest in conventional baits; usually in summer it is not so easy to achieve a good and active bite of crucian carp. The situation is the opposite with a side nod; crucian carp respond well to this tackle, including large ones.

We all know that on hot summer days all fish show little activity.

, do not eat often, do not show much appetite, especially if the water is well heated.
In summer, on a clear sunny day, crucian carp, trying to hide from the scorching rays, are in the shade of aquatic vegetation. These are the most suitable conditions for a side nod.
Since fishing takes place by weight, you need a rod that is not heavy and at the same time long.

, 5-7 meters long. You can use a rod for fly fishing, the missing reel and guide rings will lighten the rod well. You need a blank with a fast action, or an intermediate option, so you can effectively control the tip of the rod.

The nod can be purchased in the form of a spring extending to the side with a bright ball at the end. You can also use a nod for winter fishing if it has an attachment for a side nod. But often fishermen make nods themselves.

We choose a thin fishing line with a thickness of no more than 0.17 mm, and a leash of 0.12-0.15 mm. The thickness of the fishing line is of great importance, because in summer crucian carp are sluggish and much more careful than in spring. And if there are no large crucian carp in the reservoir, then you can choose thinner equipment.

Jig and bait.

You need to choose a jig based on fishing conditions. Typically, experienced fishermen choose either a medium-sized “shot” or “ovinka”. The emphasis should be on the bait, and not on how to play the jig. Only if the crucian carp bites sluggishly, you can try to stir it up by playing with a jig. But the main role should still be given to the bait. In the summer heat, you can choose maggots or bloodworms, but the best option would be various larvae from the crucian carp’s habitat; you can take them from the leaves of a water lily or reed stems.