month
What bites in December
🎣 Fish activity ranking
European smelt
5/5 · excellent biting
Saffron cod
5/5 · excellent biting
Burbot
5/5 · excellent biting
Ruffe
4/5 · good biting
Alaska pollock
4/5 · good biting
Muksun
4/5 · good biting
Perch
4/5 · good biting
Baikal omul
4/5 · good biting
Peled
4/5 · good biting
Rainbow trout
4/5 · good biting
Vendace
4/5 · good biting
Common whitefish
4/5 · good biting
Atlantic cod
4/5 · good biting
Broad whitefish
4/5 · good biting
Volga zander
3/5 · moderate biting
Caspian roach
3/5 · moderate biting
Roach
3/5 · moderate biting
Chinese sleeper
3/5 · moderate biting
Brown trout
3/5 · moderate biting
Zander
3/5 · moderate biting
Azov roach
3/5 · moderate biting
Grayling
3/5 · moderate biting
Northern pike
3/5 · moderate biting
White-eye bream
2/5 · poor biting
Common dace
2/5 · poor biting
Sea trout
2/5 · poor biting
Bream
2/5 · poor biting
Nelma
2/5 · poor biting
European flounder
2/5 · poor biting
Zope
2/5 · poor biting
Pacific herring
2/5 · poor biting
Ide
2/5 · poor biting
Atlantic salmon
1/5 · very poor biting
White bream
1/5 · very poor biting
Lenok
1/5 · very poor biting
Pacific halibut
1/5 · very poor biting
European seabass
1/5 · very poor biting
Siberian taimen
1/5 · very poor biting
Arabesque greenling
1/5 · very poor biting
🦌 Hunting: open seasons
American mink
5/5
Red squirrel
5/5
Eurasian beaver
5/5
Grey wolf
5/5
Raccoon dog
5/5
Mountain hare
5/5
European hare
5/5
Wild boar
5/5
Pine marten
5/5
Red fox
5/5
Muskrat
5/5
Sable
5/5
Common pheasant
5/5
Capercaillie
4/5
Mallard
4/5
Hazel grouse
4/5
Grey partridge
4/5
Greylag goose
4/5
Black grouse
4/5
Red deer
3/5
Brown bear
3/5
Roe deer
3/5
Fallow deer
3/5
Moose
3/5
Sika deer
3/5
Siberian roe deer
3/5
Ratings are for the temperate zone. Hunting seasons and spawning bans are set regionally.
Updated: 14.10.2026