Eels from Mária Canal

I’d been planning to go eel fishing on Lake Balaton for years when I met Zsolt Bakonyi at the fishing show last autumn. Zsolt drew my attention to the canals flowing into the lake. In the spring when the temperature of Lake Balaton reaches 8 Celsius, the eels gather into groups and start their migration…

The Common Bream

Abramis brama The bream’s body is laterally flattened. Younger specimens have lighter color (their scales are silver), whereas the older ones are yellowish and bronze. The bream prefers slower rivers, lakes, and backwaters. In Hungary, it can be found in the Danube, the Tisza River, and the Körös rivers. Large bream stock lives in Lake…