Byvainis
An 8.6- ha lake near Vaišnoriškės village. It is in the same glacial trough which extends to the south-east of Utenykštis lake and there is also Balteliai lake. The name comes from a personal name Byvainis. The length 0.57 km, average width 0.09 km, coastline 1.6 km. The lakelet is hard to access to from the bank. The most successful fishing happens only on the first ice. What bites? Well, basses and little basses.
A fisherman‘s advice:
„Again and again I have made sure what capricious basses of small lakes are! I know that there are lots of them, but there is something they don‘t like and don‘t bite, whatever you try. The water is often unclear, colored by peat, so it seems that under the water metallic lurewill be seen better than spoon-baits. But no, only the ones made of copper and unclean pay off. It‘s better that they are small, ball-shaped as depths are small here and you don‘t have to wait for several seconds till they reach the bottom. By the way, you don‘t need to reach the bottom if you manage to push it under the island floating nearby. Perhaps basses are waiting for something to have as a snack. And what is interesting is that they don‘t swim in big groups as in Drūkšiai. Only there you can catch about half a hundred of them from one ice hole without getting up from your seat. Here, in Byvainis, two, three of them and the ice hole is empty. Go to the next one, 10 meters away. If fish don‘t want to bite, then hard working hands and fast legs pay off. The more ice holes you drill and the more circles around the lake you run, the better. I guess that when there is no bite, basses bite only when you annoy them and manage to lower metallic lurejust under their nose. I‘ve tried to throw several mosquito larvae into an ice hole, but with no use, don‘t react, just waste of money. But if you catch the one weighing half a kilo, it pays off all the trouble. I don‘t like giving advice how to fish for basses, come and try how hard the first ice on Byvainis is and you will not be disappointed.“
