month
What bites in May
🎣 Fish activity ranking
Bleak
5/5 · excellent biting
Sabrefish
5/5 · excellent biting
Northern pike
5/5 · excellent biting
White-eye bream
4/5 · good biting
Bigmouth buffalo
4/5 · good biting
Round goby
4/5 · good biting
Skygazer
4/5 · good biting
Chub
4/5 · good biting
White bream
4/5 · good biting
Common dace
4/5 · good biting
Asp
4/5 · good biting
Crucian carp
4/5 · good biting
Channel catfish
4/5 · good biting
Carp
4/5 · good biting
Mongolian redfin
4/5 · good biting
Rudd
4/5 · good biting
Lenok
4/5 · good biting
Bream
4/5 · good biting
Tench
4/5 · good biting
Perch
4/5 · good biting
Gudgeon
4/5 · good biting
Roach
4/5 · good biting
Common nase
4/5 · good biting
Rainbow trout
4/5 · good biting
European flounder
4/5 · good biting
Chinese sleeper
4/5 · good biting
Brown trout
4/5 · good biting
Vimba bream
4/5 · good biting
Wild carp
4/5 · good biting
Prussian carp
4/5 · good biting
Zope
4/5 · good biting
Wels catfish
4/5 · good biting
Sterlet
4/5 · good biting
Zander
4/5 · good biting
Siberian taimen
4/5 · good biting
Grayling
4/5 · good biting
Danube bleak
4/5 · good biting
Ide
4/5 · good biting
Atlantic salmon
3/5 · moderate biting
Red mullet
3/5 · moderate biting
Grass carp
3/5 · moderate biting
Volga zander
3/5 · moderate biting
Brown meagre
3/5 · moderate biting
Ruffe
3/5 · moderate biting
Northern snakehead
3/5 · moderate biting
Flathead grey mullet
3/5 · moderate biting
Sea trout
3/5 · moderate biting
Alaska pollock
3/5 · moderate biting
Nelma
3/5 · moderate biting
Pacific halibut
3/5 · moderate biting
So-iuy mullet
3/5 · moderate biting
European eel
3/5 · moderate biting
European seabass
3/5 · moderate biting
Horse mackerel
3/5 · moderate biting
Arabesque greenling
3/5 · moderate biting
Pacific herring
3/5 · moderate biting
Silver carp
3/5 · moderate biting
Atlantic cod
3/5 · moderate biting
Black carp
3/5 · moderate biting
Caspian roach
2/5 · poor biting
Muksun
2/5 · poor biting
Baikal omul
2/5 · poor biting
Peled
2/5 · poor biting
Common whitefish
2/5 · poor biting
Atlantic mackerel
2/5 · poor biting
Azov roach
2/5 · poor biting
Chinook salmon
2/5 · poor biting
Broad whitefish
2/5 · poor biting
Pink salmon
1/5 · very poor biting
European smelt
1/5 · very poor biting
Saffron cod
1/5 · very poor biting
Sockeye salmon
1/5 · very poor biting
Vendace
1/5 · very poor biting
🦌 Hunting: open seasons
Woodcock
5/5
Mallard
5/5
Greylag goose
5/5
Brown bear
4/5
Common wood pigeon
3/5
Grey wolf
1/5
Red fox
1/5
Ratings are for the temperate zone. Hunting seasons and spawning bans are set regionally.
Updated: 14.10.2026