This lake with sparsely populated shores is the largest and one of the most picturesque in the Leningrad region. Its name comes from the Chud word somero and translates as "coarse sand". There are only a few small villages along the coastal zone of the natural reservoir. The article provides information about Lake Samro in the Leningrad Region: photo, description - and features of fishing on it.
Description
The lake is located near the settlement of the same name (former Pesye), on the territory of two districts: Luzhsky and Slantsevsky. Its length is about 9 kilometers in length and almost 7 kilometers in width. It has the shape of a rounded reservoir with a marshy coast. The water surface area is 40.4 square meters. km. The length of the coastline is a little over 25 kilometers. Its banks in some parts are overgrown with reeds and shrubs. Surrounding the lakes stretch amazinglybeautiful landscapes. Mixed forests grow here among multiple hills overgrown with a variety of vegetation.
Although the lake is flowing, the water is warm. It warms up quickly (starting from May), as the depths of Lake Samro are small, reaching an average of 150 centimeters. You can swim in it. The lake is fed by the waters of eight small streams (Lyubinka, etc.) and the Rudinka River, and the river of the same name flows out of it, belonging to the river basin. Meadows. Due to shallow water, Samro sometimes dries up in summer.
The following villages are located near the lake: Samro (former Pesye), Usadishche, Podlesye and Veletovo.
A Brief History
Surroundings of Lake Samro - the land of stone churches. There are a huge number of them in these places, and in varying degrees of preservation. Almost all villages are ancient.
Enemy warriors often ran into these regions, and the troops of Ivan the Terrible once passed through them to Livonia. In the 17th century, the Swedes held the Somersky volost behind them for quite a long time, and the troops of Great Peter went to Narva from Novgorod along the same path. The inhabitants of the volost in language and in everyday life were divided into 2 groups: the descendants of Slovenes (Novgorodians) and the people of indigenous origin - Chud. There is one village here - Penino, which turned 500 years old in 1998. There is an old chapel and a holy spring-well with very tasty water, as well as a huge, long abandoned temple. It is known that today work is underway to restore it.
Fishing
There are a lot of fish on Samro Lake. Tench and large crucian peck especially well. You can also catch rudd and pike. Fishing is good on the lake both in summer and in winter.
On the west coast, tench and large carp are perfectly caught. The weight of the fish can reach up to 2 kg. The best nozzle for crucian carp is a dung worm, and for tench - 2-3 worms in a bunch. After the spawning period, the local bream stays mainly in the western section of Samro Lake, and in the middle of summer it moves to deeper places on the eastern shore, where it is perfectly caught on fishing rods with a nozzle made of dough, maggots or a bunch of worms. Not very large rudd (up to 200 g) can be caught on a worm on the west coast. Pike mainly lives along the edge of a deep depression. In summer, this fish is in the grass, where you can catch it on floating wobblers and poppers. Large perch, weighing up to 1 kilogram, can also be caught in the lake. They prefer to stick to the sand and pebble bottom between the underwater boulders of the eastern shore of the lake.
In winter, a good bite in shallow water on the first ice. Later, you can catch pike and perch, which are kept in depths up to 5 meters. A good catch on the last ice can be at the mouth of the river. Rudinki at depths up to 1.5 meters.
Sufficiently fishy Lake Samro. Feedback from fishermen about him is the most positive.
How to get there?
Getting to this wonderful lake is quite easy. By private car, you can travel along the Tallinn or Kyiv highway.
Via pointis the village of Osmino, after which the path continues in a south-western direction along the road to Zaustezhye. Then, after about 16 kilometers, is the end point - the village of Samro. There is a dirt road up to the reservoir.
In conclusion
It should be noted that people living in the vicinity of Lake Samro are sometimes called Samryaks.
The nature of this area is great, but it used to be even better. According to the stories of local residents, unfortunately, there were much more fish in the lake in the old days than now. Perhaps the reason is the actions of poachers using nets, or unscrupulous underwater fishing enthusiasts who shoot fish during the spawning season.
