Shore slow is becoming an increasingly popular way of fishing on the sea. And it is no great surprise, because if the fish are neither the fastest nor the most active, they can’t keep up with the classic jigs, designed for fast retrieves. In case slow jigging is thoroughly thought…
Lizards of the Adriatic. Aulopiformes.
Aulopiformes are the only order belonging to the Cyclosquamata superorder. The found remains suggest that Cyclosquamata appeared on the planet in the Late Cretaceous Period, which began more than a hundred million years ago, when a lot of dinosaurs occurred. Some modern representatives of Aulopiformes support their ancient origin both…
Argentiniformes.
Representatives of the Argentiniformes order are small pelagic sea fishes belonging to the Protacanthopterygii superorder. The Osmeriformes order, which included Argentiniformes until recently, as well as the Salmoniformes order and the Esociformes order belong to this superorder. Argentiniformes are found in all oceans and comprise six families, about 60 genera,…
Sprats, sardines, anchovies, shads. Clupeiformes of the Adriatic.
The Clupeiformes order is the only fish order comprising the Clupeomorpha superorder. Clupeiformes are the inhabitants of the sea and fresh water. These pelagic fish feed mainly on plankton. The order comprises 7 families and 405 species, many of which have commercial value. In the Adriatic Sea, there are 5…
Spasm Lures by Igor Lepojević.
A lot of European countries boast of their craftsmen producing handmade fishing lures. Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Russia, Finland. This list seems to be endless. However, Serbian craftsmen, whose handmade lures have been known all over the world for more than a decade, stand apart on this list. And these…
Vacation by the Adriatic Sea. Part IV.
In the third part of the article, adriaticnature dealt with the representatives of the Sparidae family (sea breams), which are quite often caught with a spinning, float and another tackle. However, an enormous number of fishes, which are rather easily caught, inhabit the coastal zone. Every single one, regardless of merit…
Salmonidae.
Many fishermen think that representatives of the Salmonidae family are the only fish that inhabit seas, lakes and rivers. They are sure that there is nothing more there, except for the ichthyofauna. Fish is salmon, that’s it. Some people can be touched, when they hear this approach, others ridicule or…
Lake Garda
The Garda or Lago di Garda (Italian name is lago di Garda, Benaco is used less often) is the largest lake in Italy. Its surface area is 375 sq. km. It is slightly smaller than the area of Lake Skadar (390 sq. km), which makes it the second largest lake…
Living dinosaurs. Acipenseridae.
Chondrostei, the subclass of Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes), has already existed on the planet since the Paleozoic Era, so its modern representatives can be considered living dinosaurs for sure. (Penny Postcard: Columbia River Sturgeon, ca.1910. columbiariverimages.com) Representatives of Chondrostei existing nowadays can be up to 4.2 meters long (and according to…
Kings of the Adriatic. Lampriformes.
These amazing fish stand out from other fish species for the way they look so strikingly that it seems they dived into the World ocean from another planet. Lampridiomorpha is a superorder of bony fishes inhabiting the sea water. It comprises only one order of Lampriformes. (A postage stamp Taiwan 2012…
Sasha Rakar and his Maguro.
adriaticnature does its best and tries hard to talk to the maximum number of well-known fishermen and interesting people who go crazy over the Sea, rivers, and lakes of nearby banks, and who have something to share with readers. Sasha Rakar is one of the most prominent fishermen of the…
Lanternfishes.
Scopelomorpha is the superorder of deep-sea bony fishes inhabiting seawater, comprising only one order, namely, Myctophiformes. The Myctophiformes order, in its turn, consists of 2 families, including the Myctophidae family, or lanternfishes. 16 representatives of this family are inhabitants of the Adriatic Sea. Species of the other family, Neoscopelidae, are…
Vacation by the Adriatic Sea. Part III.
When the great Soviet writer Viktor Astafyev was finishing writing his literary masterpiece in 1975 – the novella “Czar Fish” (Kingfish) – most likely he didn’t even assume that this was not the way the sturgeon was called on the Adriatic shores of Croatia and Montenegro. This was the name…
Meeting a kayak. Hristofor Pamyatnih.
Fishing from a kayak is a popular trend in the sea fishing and not only in it. A lot of fishermen have been considering this floating craft for a long time, but often they don’t fully understand its pros and cons. adriaticnature asked the excellent fisherman, who calls himself “just…
Dangerous inhabitants of the Adriatic Sea. Fish.
In addition to simple precautionary measures that shouldn’t be neglected in the process of fishing, namely: one shouldn’t catch fish in a thunderstorm or under a stormy sky, one should avoid fishing during a severe storm at sea, one should choose shoes thoughtfully, if you are going to fish on…
Wonders of the Adriatic depths. Stomiiformes.
Stenopterygii is a superorder of bony fishes inhabiting seawater. It comprises 2 orders, including Ateleopodiformes and Stomiiformes. Representatives of the latter inhabit the Adriatic Sea. (Picture by American natural scientist and fisherman Charles Frederick Holder, 1851–1915) Stomiiformes is an order of deep-sea pelagic fishes. They inhabit the depths up to 4,500 meters.…
Wild walkers of Aleksandar Keshanski
Aleksandar Keshanski was born in 1979 in Belgrade. His grandfather, with whom he took the first steps towards “fishing” back in 1985, cultivated love of fishing. He got into fishing with a spinning rod in 1993, and since that time he has virtually stopped experimenting with fishing using lures of…
Сatch the shot. Fishing photography with Dmitry Ivakhnov.
Almost every fisherman wants to capture their trophies for the history. And taking a photo is the best way to do this. Tough luck: some photos fascinate people, others get no feedback from the viewers at all. And the author, who planned to share joy with others, gets confused and…