Varvarovskoye reservoir, Volgograd region, Russia.  Varvarovskoye reservoir, Volgograd region, Russia

Spring feeder, search for the key.
Greetings colleagues. So the time has come when I was able to really, with an overnight stay, break out to catch on the feeder. My dear wife Olenka started a short vacation, and we decided to go fishing together. Initially, they thought to get out into the floodplain forest, to one good pond, to catch tench and crucian carp there on a float, but since the flood began and, having arrived at the place in the evening, in the morning you could end up on the island, we decided not to risk it. We read fortunes on the maps, looked at the weather forecast, but it didn’t please us either, we decided to rush to the Varvarovskoye reservoir, not very far from home, and even in case of heavy rains, there is no problem to leave in a sedan. The preparations were short-lived, because the decision came spontaneously, and we always have everything ready. We took with us a small but reliable tent, two camp beds, sleeping bags, chairs and a camping gas stove. We arrived at the place, wised up with bait, poured in the remains of the attractant "crab-bloodworm" from Richworth, last year its addition led to very good results in the spring. The smell is very strong and unpleasant in my opinion. But what may seem disgusting to us, the fish is possible as a sweet treat. At six in the evening we made the first cast. Worm attachment, asymmetric loop, that's all. It was warm, we warmed the tea, we sit and admire. Birds sing, cuckoos cuckoo, frogs start their song, beauty and nothing more. It's just that there are no bites. Behind rumbled, we look, there is a good storm front. It's time to prepare for his meeting, quickly set up a tent and put everything else in readiness. It suddenly blew cold, we begin to warm up, as I wrote earlier, woolen socks are rarely superfluous, and this time, they added pleasant warmth to our uniforms. Your feet are warm and you don't get cold. So the first drops fell, timid and unhurried, that's all, the cloud goes around us in an incredible arc, this is not the first time I notice such an anomaly in this very place. Well, we're better off. True, after that, endless strings of huge clouds and smaller ones stretched out, the forecast from the Internet came true, the weather deteriorated and no fish were planned. We try to pace, recast rods more often, adding more and more bait to the zone, but in vain. The first bite, like a bolt from the blue, takes place at half past eleven at night, the result is a small bream. At least something, we sat for another hour and went to bed, tired, chilly and not pecking. I set the alarm for four in the morning. Climb. I threw the tackle, it was very cold, an unpleasant wind, warmed the tea, pleasant warmth and aroma returned the desire to defeat the stubborn fish. Then a peasant drives up, also wants to catch, asks permission to stand next to him. By the way, the fishing place is very small, it is a hole in the reeds, three meters wide, of course, casting can be done wider, like a fan. In crowded but not mad. He puts his three rods, I have two. He stuffed porridge, planted a maggot and into the water. In less than five minutes, the peasant had a bite, a decent bream, before he had time to unhook it, he had a second bite on his rod, I help him, I play it myself, it’s inconvenient for me to turn the reel with my right hand. Another bream, and larger. It's clear, Ivan, that's how he introduced himself, he's glad, he doesn't hide his euphoria. He also offers me to plant the maggot he brought. Why refuse, I replant one feeder. Its feeder equipment, in addition to the anti-twist tube, has an interesting feature: an oval sail cut out of a plastic bottle stands in front of the feeder, which allows the feeder to immediately float up. Interesting, but in appearance, everything is too cumbersome and, in my opinion, can scare away cautious fish, although so far, he is clearly in the lead. Ivan catches the third bream, my gear is silent, I start to think, either he has a porridge of another system, or he knows some magic words. Well, the tip of my rod twitched, I hooked the same bream, then another, and on a worm. So guess what she wants? The third bite, I feel a big one, I let go of the friction clutch, dragged it closer, a very large bream, does not give up. Then the man starts to pull me, took the landing net in his hands and they say drag it faster, now it will come down, I’m out of habit, I’m not in a hurry, but in the end, under his pressure, I give up, pulled the friction clutch, pulled harder and at the very landing net a sharp jerk and exit. Ivan is annoyed that I didn’t drag him faster, so I got off, I have my own opinion, I’m trying to calm down, I mentally swear to myself that I went on about and forced events. It's my fault anyway, you can't listen to anyone, especially since I have rich experience in big trophies. Anyway. After the fish is over, there are no bites and that's it. We are sad. I will add that the weather is completely unstable in the morning, it is cold, overcast, raindrops periodically break. My dear woke up, immediately begins to breed violent activity, change the nozzle, make sandwiches with corn and so on. And it's starting to bear fruit. Here again, a daring bite, the line was immediately dragged to the side. I guess this is a crucian and I was not mistaken, a good yellow one. We begin to change tactics, the nozzle is a worm, but having stuffed the feeder, we sprinkle another attractant on it and on the worm, casting it to another place, completely different, not where it was fed all the time, immediately a bite, another crucian. Then silence, we splash another smell, again a trophy in the landing net, after the next one, all the time different attractants. He doesn’t bite on the same one, even if you sit for an hour. But it’s worth splashing a new one, within 5 minutes a bite, since we have a lot of goodies. So, in the end, we defeated the underwater inhabitants and a fishing neighbor. He didn't have any more fish. Here is such a strange spring feeder, not at all the same as in summer. What does this fish want? How to stir it up? It seems that we succeeded, with difficulty, but more joyful emotions, from labor fishing. Well, it's time for us to go home, and Ivan stayed to win his victory ...

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Passing under the bridge, along which the road laid along the canal passes from one bank to another, the ship goes to the Varvarov reservoir.

On the banks there are two buildings, under which retractable shutters of repair and barrier gates are hidden in niches. If necessary, they can close in the channel, separating the entire Volga slope from the watershed. This is useful in case of repair, when you need to temporarily drain an area.

Meanwhile, the canal bed is expanding, reaching up to 200 meters in places. Here the route many times crosses the former bed of the Chervlenaya steppe river. This channel was straightened, in some places dams were erected. In some places concrete spillways are visible.

After we have sailed along the route of the canal for more than 30 kilometers, the ship enters the Varvarovskoye reservoir, which feeds the entire Volga slope with water. From it begins the descent to the Don, to the Tsimlyansk Sea.

On the Volga slope, the path of water and ships is the same - through locks. On the Don slope, these paths are different in some areas: water flows away from the locks along supply channels and reservoirs.

From the Tsimlyansk Sea, a powerful pumping station delivers water upwards, behind the dam of the Karpovsky reservoir. From here, it goes through a special inlet channel, bypassing two locks, to the second pumping station. She pumps it even higher, to the Bereslav reservoir. Finally, the third pumping station raises water into the watershed Varvarovskoye reservoir, on which we are now sailing.

To our right is water. To the coast - one and a half to two kilometers. The huge dam of the Varvarovsky hydroelectric complex, which stretches in a straight line on the horizon, is getting closer.

The ship goes to the tenth lock. It stands at the beginning of a short section of the navigable canal connecting the Varvarovskoe reservoir with Bereslavskoe. Ahead on the left is the village of workers of the Varvarovsky hydroelectric complex with a young orchard. On the bank of the reservoir - a monument in honor of the heroes of the defense of Tsaritsyn. On the right, on the embankment near the gateway, there are bronze busts of the heroes of the Civil War - N. A. Rudnev, F. A. Artem (Sergeev), A. Ya. Parkhomenko.

On the wall of the left tower near the upper gate of the lock, the golden letters read:

"Here in August - September 1918, on the outskirts of Tsaritsyn, the heroic regiments of the Red Army smashed the interventionists and White Guards with selfless courage.

V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin highly appreciated the valor of the revolutionary troops of the Tsaritsyn Front.

On the commemorative plaque of the right tower is an excerpt from the telegram of V. I. Lenin and I. V. Stalin to the front commander K. E. Voroshilov with fraternal greetings to the troops of the Tsaritsyn Front.

Until now, the ship approached the locks from the downstream side and rose along with the water. Now we are approaching from the upstream side and we have to descend from the watershed into the canal, which has the same level as the Bereslav reservoir.

To the right of the lock, above the dam, a pumping station is visible.

The waters of the Varvarovskoye reservoir were used to feed the new irrigation system. A gravity channel with a length of almost 40 kilometers branches off from the highway. Through it, water goes to the fields of the Khrushchev and Krasny Partisan collective farms, irrigates the lands of the Volgo-Don state farm.