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The vendace fish belongs to the Salmonidae family. Its average size is 45 cm and its weight is 1 kg. The oldest specimens observed were 10 years old. It breeds from October to December. The female lays 30,000 eggs per kg of weight. It is fished from March to December.
The vendace is a small, slender and streamlined fish that is very easy to confuse with a bleak, a small lavaret whitefish or a peled whitefish. Unlike the bleak, the vendace is a member of the Salmonidae family, which is why it has a fat fin. It differs from the lavaret and peled whitefish by its much longer lower jaw. In the lavaret whitefish, the upper jaw is longer and in the peled whitefish the jaws are of the same length. It is silvery on the sides, with a white belly and a brown-green, grey-blue or blue-green back.
The Vendace fish lifestyle
Its diet is composed of Plankton, insects and crustaceans. Older fish also eat surface insects and small fry.
It breeds from October to December, sometimes in shallow waters, sometimes at depths of up to 20 m, depending on the lake. Some lakes have populations that spawn in early spring in deep waters, while others spawn in fall in the same lake at shallow depths. The sale reaches sexual maturity at a very young age, usually two years, sometimes in the fall of its first year.
The Vendace fish habitat
Initially it was a fish from the great lakes of southeastern Finland but the sale was transferred for commercial exploitation throughout Finland, except in the far north of Lapland. This species does not tolerate brackish water well. Its presence at sea is limited to the eastern Gulf of Finland and the far north of the Gulf of Bothnia.
High-altitude lakes seem to be their favorite, but they are found in reservoir dams, gravel pits and fresh ponds, where they have often been introduced. Except during the breeding season, they live offshore in large mountain lakes from surface level to 20 m deep. Some species live closer to the bottom where they feed.
The Vendace fish angling
The most commonly used fishing technique on alpine lakes is undoubtedly the so-called canine fishing, this name comes from the cane used! On this rod, often specialized in whitefish fishing, a plumber is placed at the bottom of the line. It is a kind of machine gun (as for mackerel) except that on a plumber there are flies (leader which can have more than 10 flies, beware of the legislation in force) These flies or nymphs will have a different size and color depending on the fishing season!
