Skin Diving with Korsar

             Having heard about "fat" fishing in delta of Volga, we take underwater equipment with guns, and it is sent to Astrakhan, and therefrom on base "Kochka" where for us already wait. We take away a boat " Korsar R600" which has successfully finished test tests as a patrol boat in local waters. And waters already a boat at a mooring, and we at supper listen to stories of fishermen about nice fishing.
- We together have hardly dragged this sazan in a boat, one of us had to jump in water and to drag it.
-  And we struggled with a pike ten minutes, the huge knave, a teeth, as at a shark. 
-  And a catfish, slippery, as the snake. I have seized it by the bottom jaw, so it still long could not calm down, - fishermen tell.
 In the morning, after a breakfast, we are loaded in boat R600.
- With motors more than 30 h.p. in flood it is impossible, - the huntsman tells.
- Anything, in a place we shall understand, where flood and where is not present. Show us a place, where the transparency of water will allow us to hunt under water, - we ask the huntsman.
After a while the boat with hunters in quantity 7 person and the huntsman is onboard born on the river, seen off by sights wild birds; herons, pelicans, eagles and other game. In flood we have some times stopped to dump the grass reeled up on screws - a stop, the helmsman includes a reverser, then full forward. In forty minutes we are on a place, depth of meter the one and a half is no more, the bottom is visible. A transparency is 3-4 meter. An anchor cord we cling for canes as the anchor does not hold – everywhere it is silt and a grass. Hunters dress suits of a three (diving suits thickness of 3 mm), hang a cargo, put on masks with tubes, take guns with hooks, and disperse to thrickets of a cane in the form of islands.
In warm water in a diving suit firstly it is so warm, that it is necessary to unbutton sometimes it to be cooled, but without it in canes it is impossible. Under water, as in an aquarium; both flora and fauna. Thick flavovirent stalks of a cane remind bamboo thrickets, brightly green seaweed beautifully coil, rising from a bottom. Longest of them form "umbrellas" and "hoods", through which light couldn’t get. Ooze and a floating grass, jamming in these places, forms dense floating green weight. In such places large catfishes sit in an ambush, they are the fans of the frogs and fine game. Cautiously, to not frighten a fish, you bypass around of thrickets of a cane, then slowly you make the way "are inside caustic", smoothly working with fins or making a start from stalks of a reed. Flights fine fish follow beside, seeing in you reliable protection against larger predators. Dive under "umbrella", you rake a grass for a respiratory tube and fade. After a while eyes get used to darkness, and see at the bottom a trace from the run away catfish - the trampled down silt and the risen dregs from a bottom. From darkness everything is well visible, that occurs in the shined thrickets; on a bottom the cancer of the average sizes, here flight of large sazans slowly creeps floats, breaking and eating, ground stalks of a reed, hardly above the large pike has fallen asleep, with the slightly opened mouth, ready to bark at the underwater hunter. All event reminds a shooting gallery where a prize can become a large fish.
 You remove a gun from a safety lock, aim at, a shot! Small feedback, and an arrow from a pneumatic gun penetrating thickness of water, punches through a pike, it begins toss on thrickets, not understanding what the metter, confusing a cord from an arrow for a cane. In some minutes a trophy already spited on a hook, the gun is again charged also hunting proceeds. Some times become stupid sazans take off from contrastly shined thrickets directly on the hunter. In such cases either you shoot past or you have not time to shoot at all.

 Well, here a place for a good ambush; a dense reed closed from above a floating grass, and behind it the thinned out shined thrickets in which - the flight rudds has passed noticeably some movement from light in a shadow. And here a little large sazans send graze on the sun. You aim, having extended a hand, a shot, and one of the fish begins to toss, lifting dregs with a bottom. There is a trophy. A sazan on on tke hook, a gun in fighting position, hunting proceeds.
 Approaching to huge "hood" from ooze and a grass, I feel on myself a steadfast sight, has stopped, has looked narrowly - from darkness the huge eye looks at me the size about an ashtray. I shall not tell, that terribly, simply it began wanted to me to make a small break in hunting; to smoke and eat a water-melon.
On a boat already have returned some person with trophies: large catfishes, sazans and pikes. From the thrust knife, the ripe water-melon has cracked and has broken in two. A boat wide, and in it all command has conveniently settled down almost. Boards of a boat inflatable, therefore it is very convenient to go down and rise from water.
- Hey guys! Somebody! Here! - shouts from next were distributed "are caustic". We have quickly got motors, and it is direct on a boat have driven in a thricket of a cane. One of hunters, having crushed under itself a cane, practically laid atop of it, strong holding a gun. And it is valid a fish it has appeared is not weak, it could stretch the adult man on thrickets some meters. It was a sazan in weight more than 20 kg. But the champion of our fishing became other hunter - it has shot a catfish in weight of 58 kg and length more than 2 meters.
 Within a week we went on boat R600 to different places, looking for a transparency of water suitable for skin diving, passing in day about 100 km daily, not including everynight drivings of skiers. And all this on one refueling as in Astrakhan by us it has been filled in in underdesk tanks of a boat of 600 litres of fuel. An excellent thing a good seaworthy boat. In our case it " Korsar R600 ", its weight with motors about 500 kg, has shipped on the trailer to the automobile machine, has hooked for the car, and has gone where you will wish. With such boat, both fishing, and rest with the good company in pleasure. Join!