The Klyazma is the third largest river after the Oka and the Moscow rivers in Moscow Region. Its total length is 647 kilometres (402.03 miles), which is longer than the Moscow River. It begins on the south slope of the Klin-Dmitrov Ridge and flows through Moscow Region for 200 kilometres (124.27 miles). As the upper part of the Klyazma is restrained by water storages, its middle part and the downriver are slow and shallow.
Klyazma Reservoir is the closest water storage to Moscow. It covers an area of 1,524 ha (3,765.89 ac) with 9 kilometres (5.59 miles) of length and 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) of width. Its maximum depth is 18 metres (59.06 ft), while average depth is between 4 and 5 metres (13.1 and 16.4 ft). The bottom of the storage is sandy and clayish. During winter season the water level is decreased for 1.5–2 metres (4.92–5.56 ft). Ice cover thickness is up to 1 metre (3.28 ft).
The most important element of the reservoir engineering is 1 kilometre-long (0.62 miles) and 18 metre-high (59.06 ft) dam. Discharge of water in the river-bed is used not only for electricity production, but also for the industrial pump station located on the southern bank of the water storage near the dam. As a result of Pirogovskaya Dam construction, the Klyazma Valley had been flooded between Yakovlevo and Pirogovo villages.
The Reservoir consists of two parts, separated by a constriction near the village of Chiverevo. The western part is actually Klyazma Reservoir itself, where the main route of Moscow-Volga Channel passes. The eastern part is so called "Pirogovsky Branch". There are different ways to access the banks of Klyazma Reservoir. The most adventurous and romantic one is the water route. However, currently Klyazma is not navigable almost on all of its length, while in the distant past it was a deep river surrounded with dense forests. In the 9th century, it was the main water route from the Baltic to the Volga and further to Persia. In the 11th and 12th centuries, the Klyazma River was the uniting pivot of Vladimir-Suzdal principality formation and important for the development of the entire north-eastern Russia.
In the pond there are plenty of fishes such as bream, pike, zander, silver bream, roach, bass, ruff, burbot, sheatfish, carp, ide, crucian, rudd, bleak, eel, rasorfish, volga perch.
Fishermen are particularly attracted by the coves of the storage, especially by those located beside stations Khlebnikovo and Vodniki of Savyolovskaya railway, as there they can enjoy fishing of perch, bream and roach all year around.
In summer Klyazma Reservoir is a great place for fishing with poppers zander and perch, sometimes pike. It is easy to rove burbot in early spring or late summer.
The cove beside Troitskoye village is rich in perch, zander and bream. The best places for fishing are beside Chiverevo village, where two old flooded bridges, snags and varied depth guarantee successful fishing.
Starting from the end of winter till the beginning of summer fishing is really a pleasure here. Upper the bridge through the River Klyazma perch, roach, small bream and ruff are easy to fish. The water storage itself, along the bank of the river beside the highway bridge, is full of perch and zander.
The deep pit under the high-voltage wires in the Reservoir is an excellent place to spoon walleye, large perch and pike. Plenty of perch is fished in front of Semkino and Sorokino villages as well as in the Alexander Bay and in the backwaters near the village of Sorokino.
If you need white fish it is better to go to Sorokino village either in winter or in summer. In the Troitsky Bay it is possible to ice-fish burbot in winter. And in the river-bed you can fish walleye with popper in autumn.
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