Lake Pyaozero (Russian: ПÑозеро, Finnish: Pääjärvi) is a large freshwater lake in the Republic of Karelia, northwestern part of Russia. It is located at 66.0833333°N 30.9666667°E and has an area of 659 km². There are many islands on the lake with total area of 186 km². Among the rivers that flow into lake Pyaozero is the river Oulankajoki that begins in Finland, where one of its tributaries is the river Kitkanjoki that begins from lake Kitkajärvi in Finland. From south also the waters of Lake Topozero in the Republic of Karelia flow into the Lake Pyaozero.
Since 1948, passenger services were available – the lake went Listerbot Office for the transport development of small rivers and lakes. Since 1958, the White Sea-Onega Shipping Company opened a line-Sofporog Zasheyek motokatera MK-13, which was replaced in 1960 the ship “Salmon”. The line operated until the late 1980’s.
In Lake Pyaozero usual a lot of different fish: perch, pike, ide, bream, burbot, grayling, whitefish, trout, lake char …. But even you can not catch bass anywhere, fish to be found, and the sounder does not always help in the search. There was, for example, the case when the sounder, a fairly decent copies of ichthyofauna, but attempts to catch them on a spinning failed …. Later it turned out that we found a bream …
A big problem is the strong zakoryazhennost lake. And there are snags to a depth of 9 meters, due to the flooding of coastal filling Kum reservoir. But the forest cut down somewhere, and somewhere there …. So we had to carry out rescue operations often enough for our baits.
I would like to point out one feature that is characteristic not only for Pjaozero … Local pike prefer live bait, and proposed to her iron or crankbaits are usually ignored …
When fishing for grayling selection lures also rises in the first place. In this issue, despite the lack of experience in catching grayling, Alex Agat, went to all and the number of fish caught by weight ferret and single copies …. After going through more than a dozen spoons, he still found it was the one that most appropriately suited to the local ferret . Moreover, contrary to all the rules and expectations, grayling was caught … in snags.
No fish, we did not sit on the ear and zharevo enough. But the search for the fish as little-studied in any body of water that occupies most of the time available for fishing …
Unfortunately, attempts to catch a trout or Lake char were not successful, because this type of fishing involves a more in-depth knowledge of the reservoir and the promising points.