Szavanna horgásztó

Szavanna is the water this channel has fished most — eleven session videos were shot here, and together they build up a picture of the lake.

The lake works with numbered swims up to 44, though some of them no longer exist. The most sought-after pegs sit around the small bay: 13 and 14 are inside the bay itself, while 6–7 and 19–20 are effectively its two entrances. Both are favourites; 19–20 is popular enough that it could only be inherited — if it frees up, take it.

How productive 6–7 can be shows in one summer session there: twenty fish, at a slightly higher average weight. On the far side, the water by swim 25 runs deeper than ten metres, and swim 20 has a tree right on the bank. Carrying on along the dam, past the fish warden's house, you reach swims 38–39.

Stock: carp and grass carp. The videos feature carp over twenty kilos, and swim 13 has produced specimen grass carp on a bomb feeder rig.

Tactically the recurring lesson is fishing close in, which really works between late spring and early autumn. The bay entrances — 6–7 and 19–20 — are natural corridors: if fish arrive from there, bait and rigs placed near the bank intercept the movement. In several videos the baited area was only a few metres out, not at long range.

Bait is boilie and pellet, with a dedicated grass carp boilie for amur. A 24 mm boilie comes up as a way of screening out smaller fish. One recurring nuisance here is ducks: with a shallow, close-in presentation they dive down and clear up the feed and sometimes the hookbaits as well. That is one of the reasons the channel avoids feeding seeds on this lake.