A small freshwater fish of the carp family: Every fisherman wants to know ...

real Russian fishing - it is art.Experts can tell what time of year, some fish will bite better, what better bait to use and much more.Everyone has their secrets and preferences.In many regions of the bait to hook the carp is considered a great success.And experienced fisherman knows that this fish is safe to go when the bloom wild rose, but the biting would be the best if the hook to plant corn, potatoes or small earthworm.But everyone knows what a large number of fishes includes carp family?Let's look at some of them.

Carp

So, the first freshwater fish of the carp family in our list, you guessed it - carp.Carp is a domesticated form of the carp.Because these fishes together well, very similar.But some of the differences between them are still there.So, the more powerful carp body, but much smaller scales.At the edge of the scales - black border.But it is, perhaps, and all.Otherwise these fish do not differ from each other.Love undercooked potatoes, cake, bread crumb, bloodworm, underwater grass.Carp are very greedy, it is called the "water pig," and he lives up to fifty years.Average weight - about ten kilograms, but there are individuals and forty kilograms.They prefer these fish quiet backwaters, ponds, standing room.An active lifestyle are the summer, but in winter they hibernate.Winter carp in the pits, burrowing into the mud.

Karas

Karas - a small freshwater fish of the carp family.Probably no one fisherman that fish confuse with any other.In carp small oval body with shiny scales.Dorsal fin long, brown in color.It prefers this fish stand a good warm water.Since carp has low levels of oxygen in the water, you can live quite comfortably and in wetlands.It feeds mainly on vegetation, plankton.It reaches sexual maturity at the age of four years.Caviar postpones algae.

Asp

Next river fish of the carp family - asp.He has a long elongated body and a large mouth.The upper jaw is a recess and the lower lobe.The body is dark gray or silver color.The upper and lower fin and gray, which is located on the edge of the black border.The side fins are reddish-brown.Sexually mature-age fish reaches the fifth year of life.By the time it comes to the weight of half a kilogram.Spawning occurs in April and May.Asp is a predator.It prefers lowland rivers, which holds alone.It was only during Jora these fish are grouped together and arrange a real hunt for a bevy of small fish.During these fish Jora arrange such a noise that he heard from the shore.These predators rapidly fly into the school of fish and begin to turn off her powerful tail strokes.And the rapid manner to hunt asp called horse.This fish is a favorite subject of sport fishing, both in Europe and in our country.

Chub

This is most often a small freshwater fish of the carp family in length up to 80 cm, and weighs up to 8 kg.The body of a fish cylindrical shape, covered with large scales.The head of a powerful, slightly flattened.Chub can be called a real handsome.Back in his dark green color, and the sides are covered with silvery scales with a golden shimmer.The side and bottom fins are bright orange, and the dorsal fin and tail are dark blue.Chub prefers fast flowing rivers with cool water.It feeds by surface insects, small crustaceans, small fish and frogs.This fish spawns in April-May, sometimes in June.The eggs are bright orange, very small.Habitat is very wide: from Spain to Siberia.

White bream

This small freshwater fish of the carp family is very similar to the young bream.She is also strongly flattened body covered with silvery scales.To distinguish this fish from each other only in the teeth.Bream on each side of five teeth, and at seven bream, moreover, they are arranged in two rows.The length of the body in this fish reaches 40 cm, and weight usually is not more than 200 g eats mud, small crustaceans and mollusks.Yet it should be noted that the representative of carp living in flocks and prefers a quiet, warm water.Long lives in one place.It lives in all the rivers and lakes of Russia.It spawns rather late - in late May.

sabrefish

And this small freshwater fish of the carp family and looks like herring or saber.The body is elongated, back almost straight, and very protuberant belly.The back is covered with a grayish-brown scales and sides almost white.This fish lives in the Black, Azov, Caspian and Aral seas, and in the lower reaches of the Syr Darya River, but sometimes found in other large rivers.Sabrefish loves space, living in the deepest places.Very quickly it swims and often jumps out of the water.It feeds on insects and small fish.She lives about ten years.By the year reaches half of its growth.Fetus begins with the age of two.