Today a video of Vladimir Putin fishing in Southern Siberia was published. President's press secretary told about his break the day before. Dmitry Peskov shared that the pike hunt lasted 2 hours, but ended successfully. Putin was hunting in an underwater mask, which had a mini camera. And this moment can be viewed in every detail. On top of that, there were shots from the hard-to-reach taiga, and even drone footage. Dmitry Kaystro examined everything carefully.
This underwater duel lasted two hours. The dodgy pike, rapidly changing course, tried to hide in the familiar waters. Wow. Score. A fine sturgeon. Very cunning, cautious. Cautious enough. The freshwater predator couldn't escape in the end. -I now shot it twice. -A healthy passenger. Couldn't' bring it down in one shot. A breathtaking spearfishing took place in the hard-to-reach taiga of Southern Siberia, on an incredibly beautiful mountain lake. The President will have to spend a lot of time in a relatively cold water. Underwater hunting requires a lot of patience and endurance.
Preparing for the dive, Vladimir Putin carefully checks his equipment. There are no trifles here. For the underwater hunt, the head of state used a wetsuit, an underwater gun, a breathing tube and a mask on which a mini camera was installed. -And how do you turn camera on? -The big button. Thoughtful fishing, like politics, is entirely based on a thoughtful strategy. And, like politics, it is also the art of the possible.
The task is to return with the main lake trophy, the king-pike. Before starting the search, Putin carefully collects all information about the place of the hunt. Look there, pike keeps in the deep areas along the edge of the seaweed. There, yes? The President decides to begin the search for a predator near the shore, where the largest pike hides in the depths of safety. Let's try near the shore there. Incredible in its beauty shots. In the crystal clear water, where all the finest details of the color of the scales are visible.
The fearless fish, frozen, as if in weightlessness, meditatively move their fins, surrounding the President. You can clearly see how at some point, losing sight of the pike, Putin uses the tactics of underwater hunters, he completely freezes underwater. Head of state's wetsuit imitates the color of scales. Calmed fish surrounds the President. At this moment, the lurking pike loses control and floats into the line of fire. The video footage shows how Putin returns to the raft with a trophy by all the rules of underwater fishing, holding a gun in one hand, and in another a caught pike.
In this primeval part of the world, the President tried all kinds of fishing. From the wild shore at the rumbling stream, standing to the waist in water, Putin spins the wheel with his left hand, just like professional fishermen who did it for many years. And from the boat on the calm surface of the lake, where fat perch with bright red fins bites well. Fish big and small, come here. Here! Oh, you snake! Perch! After swallowing the bait, the mighty perch, fat from Siberian waters, resisted as much as they could, holding on to water with all their fins, but ultimately gave in. Come here. A fine one!
On the fishing trip the President was accompanied by the heads of Khakassia, Tuva, and the minister Defence Sergei Shoigu. Sergey Kuzhugetovich! Yes I see. Well, how else. And after such vivid fishing came dizzying crossings along mountain rivers, canals and rapids on motor boats and rafts. I saw you putting it somewhere... Even in this bag I think. There should be a bottle of cognac in this bag! There is one. I'm sorry. In the shallows, the Piranha glider was used, which was run by the President. Putin crossed on foot the green spurs of untouched taiga.
Under the crowns of pines, at the foot of which grow wild berries, under the arches of basalt caves, reminiscent of the geological record of the planet, near the shore of an emerald river that carried its millennias old waters past the waterfall rushing in the distance. Another trip by land was made by the President on an ATV. In a column, that, having overcome the rain-washed road, went deep into the very heart of a fairytale taiga. And again the water, which is here everywhere. In the lake, even on a hot day the temperature does not exceed 17 degrees, but this didn't stop the President from swimming.
It's not the first time the President had vacationed in these parts. In 2007, he fished in Tuva with the Prince of Monaco, Albert II, and in July 2013 he spent the weekend at Lake Tokpak-Khol. Then the President caught a pike of over 21 kg, which he reeled-in for more than three minutes. And although this time the weight record of the fish could not be beaten, but because of its spectacularity and emotional appeal, the current fishing trip turned out to be unsurpassed. This is a good fishing trip.
