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February and March are the most difficult months for fishing in the middle lane of Russia. It doesn't matter if you catch ice or open water on non-freezing rivers. All fish, including predatory, at this time is very passive, and to tempt her to bite is extremely difficult. Only in rare periods of swelling there is some revival of underwater inhabitants...
Lures in this part of winter when catching pike, pike perch and perch are used basically  "passive ", not having own active oscillations. These are foam fishes (more often small sizes 5-7 sm) and foam-polyurethane compound baits ( "Mandula " or "Tapki ").

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[(с)](http://pike-spin.ru/mandula-na-shhuku-otlichiya-i-skhodstva/)

The sinkers shall be as light as possible, providing long-term pause of the jig baits in the phase of falling to the bottom.

During the thaw on the Moscow-river, there are days of fine biting  "white predators"-Zhereha and Golavl. There are their bites and jig baits, but more often still works classics in the form of various pilkers. Animation of Pilkers in winter is made mainly in the bottom layer. A smooth winding is in slow tempo with periodic pauses or discharges. Sometimes a more active animation of baits  can begin to work. 

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Recently a strong thaw came to the Moscow region for almost a week. And the famous Fisher Denis Virov decided together with his friends to arrange a multi-day fishing marathon in different places on the lower Moscow River. In his video report, in addition to the various predatory fishes living in the Moskva River, Denis tells about lures, tackles and various methods of animation for successful fishing in the end of winter...

https://youtu.be/qFTivaFuZNI

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