Widdle

Vines - rod freshwater fish detachment carp Normal length - 15-18 cm, some species reach 30-35 cm. Vines have elongated body, covered with small, but visible scales. Mouth flanked by 10-12 antennae, which are the main bodies of the sense of touch, the tail fin rounded-off. Spike hidden deep under the skin and is not functioning. In males, in contrast to the females of the second ray fin lengthened and thickened, on the sides of the body at the dorsal fin is thickening, formed by adipose tissue. Widdle quite prolific, caviar of a mosque in the period from April to July on the aquatic vegetation. The number of eggs, which will sweep one female, comes sometimes up to 15 thousand. Some fishermen claim that large vines, as well as acne, may in the morning creep, from one water body to another.

Pike

Among the freshwater fish pike is one of the most voracious predators. Attacks on fish even larger than his own. It is found in most of the natural water bodies of the Northern hemisphere.

The body is elongated, slightly compressed from the sides - the pike are not confused with any other fish. Head of wedge-shaped, the jaws of a huge, almost to the Gill covers, and all lined with sharp teeth. River pike differs from lake more elongated body. Painting of the spotted and striped, the back is dark, the belly is bright; color changes depending on habitat. So, pike, who lives in the pits, under the snags, always darker than the one that hunts near sandy beaches.

Pike - single fish, stays near the aquatic vegetation and prefers rivers with decreased flow, bays, channels, shallow lake. Quickly growing. Already by the end of the third year of life has a length of about 40 cm and weight up to 1 kg. In in large rivers and large lakes are not rare cases of catching fishermen meter pike weighing more than 16 kg.

The best period of the bite. The first Jordania begins after the break-up of ice on the pond, the second - in a week since the end of the spawning season. At this time, fills the stomach to the refusal, and then for several days without food choices. The third Jordania comes in the autumn - in September - October, when the pike accumulate fat before hibernation.

Favorite bait. Zywiec (roach, gudgeon, Karasik), small pike peck on the worm. In the spring and summer willingly takes a cancer, in the ponds and overgrown lakes - frog. Among the artificial lures preference should be give to the ropes with a dead fish, sometimes well caught and trolling.

Means of Amateur fishing. Rod to the bait, circles, spinning, track.

The bite. Actively takes the bait all the hours of daylight. Better just enough sacrifice on the sunset. By noon nibble weakens, and in the evening again amplified. In the excitement of the pond and feed during the day. In the summer of fishing improves on cloudy days, when small cold weather, when the heat decreases. In the autumn willing to take the bait from the middle of the day, when he begins to feed on other fish.

Habitats. Is held mostly in submerged weeds, the snags, the whirlpools, under the bushes, loves the quiet water. When fishing with fertilizing on the river is suitable to hunt, fish, attracted by the lees and food. In the summer time, hiding in a greatly overgrown places of the pond, where the cooler and easier to perform their swift from the ambush on the victim. There is, of course, to get it more difficult. Bail can only circles, which is along the thicket.

Rudd

Rudd is rightfully considered to be one of the most beautiful fish in our waters. The body is quite high, the back is brown-green, on the sides of the Golden scales. The irises of the eyes orange with a red stain at the top. All fins are red, but the base of the spinal cord black and infant grey.

Unlike roach corners of the mouth of the red-eye upward, the dorsal fin much forced back, abdomen compressed, covered with scales and forms the keel. However, ichthyologists have found that in some bodies of water meet hybrids Rudd with other cyprinids - just here, roach, and accept them for independent species.

Нерестует Rudd, when the water warms up to 18-20 degrees, Matures on 4-5 year of a life in the body length is 12 cm. Adult specimens can reach 30-35 cm and weigh up to 500 grams, but there are also two) copies.

The best period of the bite. Rudd feed only in the daytime. In the spring and in summer it pecks at dawn, in cold weather - from the bottom, in the hot days at the surface.

Favorite bait - moth, worms, maggots, grasshopper.

Means of Amateur fishing. Red eye catching float fishing rod.

Habitats. Rudd likes to clean water. By the way, the presence or lack of it is a good indicator of, what is the status of the river. In the young age of the fish are swimming in flocks in the coastal strip. Rudd most commonly found in the overgrown areas of the reservoir - in bays, oxbow lakes. Catch her best to calm water in the "Windows" among the thickets of reeds, water-lilies.

Crucian carp

There are two types of carp: gold - round, with a high body, dwelling in pools of stagnant water and silver, with lower body and bright scales, occupying not only the lake but also the river. Golden crucian carp inhabit the rivers of the European part of Russia, except for the extreme West and the Kola Peninsula, and in Siberia - to the basin of Lena inclusive. Silver crucian carp inhabit water reservoirs of Siberia and the Far East, and it is found in some places in the European part. The weight of the adult animals of the Golden carp in average 500-700 g when the amount of body 20-28 cm, silver - 700-900 g.

aximum weight of 3-4 kg. They are very unpretentious to the content of oxygen in the water. Well to cold winter and hot summer. Especially tough Golden carp.
Spawning in the southern areas of the country usually takes place in may, and in the Northern - in June, depending on prevailing weather conditions, at a temperature above 15 degrees. During the spawning crucians gather in large flocks and spawn among the aquatic vegetation.

The best period of the bite. Crucian carp good for the prespawning period, when the water warms up to 14 degrees. And in General in the summer of peck unevenly, capricious, especially if the pond a lot of natural feed. Best buy in the morning, with the rising of the sun, and in the evening with a downturn heat of day.

Favorite bait. As bait used by worms, best red manure. You can use balls of dough, blood and black bread crumb, spiced with the hemp or aniseed oil.

Means of Amateur fishing. To catch carp enough telescopic rod with a thin line (0.2 mm) and leash (0.15 mm). Crucian carp quickly becomes accustomed to feeding, and you can use it to attract a great pack.

Habitats. Crucian carp less careful. Hold to the grass, digging in the mud. Large fish to the shores of suitable only with the onset of twilight. Habitats crucian constant, and, catching one, there is no doubt that the bait get a few more.

Carp

As argued, even in the middle ages it is widely bred. This has led to the emergence of several "rocks", which differ in terms of body structure and scales. The body of a carp is a hooked or elongated. The mirror carp scales little, but she is very large, and the framework of carp scales in General, no.

The speed of its growth depends, as with all the fish, by the abundance of food. For fishermen, catching fish, carp is the most interesting fish. Firstly, it reaches a weight of up to 15 kg. Secondly, it requires a lot of skill, experience and patience to get it on the hook. Thirdly, while pulling it has so stubborn, determined and energetic resistance struggle that often ends up in his favor.

The best period of the bite. Catching carp since may, when the water warms up to 10 degrees, and before the autumn (until September, sometimes up to October).

Favorable for fishing factors: the murky water with a moderately rising level of a warm, close, overcast weather, weak South-West or South-East wind with decreasing atmospheric pressure (especially early in the morning and in the evening - before sunrise and after sunset), as well as for 12 - 24 hours before the weather changes for the better.

Favorite bait. The worm-dunger, dough, boiled barley, peas, wheat. Good bait is considered to be the gland (larva dung beetle), maggots. During the day you need to periodically change the bait. The nozzle of plant origin must be flavouring different flavors and aromatic substances. It is useful to places of fishing lure the fish. As a side-you can use a steep, millet porridge, boiled barley. Fertilizer in small portions should toss before the beginning of fishing and during the decay of a bite.

Means of Amateur fishing. A long pole with a strong rigging, when fishing from a boat - bamboo rod with reel, thin line. Carp fishing requires disguise, cautious steps. At the water's better not to get in all growth.

Habitats. Carp lives in lakes, ponds, clay quarries. Are found in the thickets of reeds, grooves, holes, under the overhanging trees and bushes. In the afternoon go away from the beach, night stay in shallow water. Location carp other time determined by the rising to the surface of the bubble.

Mormyshka

There are 3 types of lures: artificial, animal and vegetable. Their other quite a lot. Practice shows that fish is better caught on such nozzles (or imitation), which at a given time and in a given water body make up for their usual food.

Mormyshka this small weight of tin or lead with a fine (№2,5 - 4) hook. Fishing on it is based on the imitation of movements lobster-shrimp. On mormyshkas caught in the most different kinds of fish: roach, bream, IDE, ruff, perch and others. This lure can be used not only in winter but also in summer. It is used when fishing on the float, flight bait on the bottom line. Forms of mormyshkas can be diverse. Their sizes tend to increase every year. At the present time catch on mormyshkas in different sizes from 2-3 mm up to 8-10 mm. The summer mormyshkas larger winter.

Forms of mormyshkas

Winter mormyshkas
Winter mormyshkas used to catch not the most active fish. They are of small size, painted, so that from afar to attract the fish. Usually they put on any nozzle.
Kinds of winter mormyshkas:
- mormyshkas for catching bass. Its size is from 2 to 6 mm, usually at her stick мотыля.
- mormyshkas for trout fishing. This is the biggest winter mormyshkas. She has a bit of an oblong form, usually painted in white color.
- mormyshkas-clip. This bait is used when the catch on the small bait, which is very hard to impose on a hook.
- without nozzles mormyshkas. The main feature of mormyshkas for fishing without nozzles is the ratio of the body mormyshkas, hook, beads and gum, additionally attract the fish. Fishing on without насадочную mormyshkas is a simple, production and at the same time economical way of fishing. The most common of these types of baits: «the ant», «уралка», vertical mormyshkas.
Summer mormyshkas
Summer mormyshkas have a big size. They differ from the winter and color. The most widely used in the warm time of the year mormyshkas red-brown colours. In the summer they are well caught crucians, perches, and Zanders.
How to choose mormyshkas
When choosing мормышек pay attention to the weight, color, size, material and the form. 
The material from which made mormyshkas:
Tungsten mormyshkas
The main difference of tungsten mormyshkas from a lead - what tungsten has a smaller volume with the same weight (tungsten is more dense material). This means that a tungsten mormyshkas faster reaches the required depth. Therefore, it is frequently used when fishing at great depths, as well as the current is strong. Bait provides the possibility of really active games.
Another advantage of tungstic mormyshkas is their relatively small size. This is especially important in winter, when the bite is very slow and we have all kinds of ways to make the fish to take the bait.
Such mormyshkas used to catch roach, bream, IDE, crucian, Tharani, Rudd, perch.
Lead mormyshkas
The big fish in deep water takes nozzle very carefully, so mormyshkas to be a small and can quickly reach the bottom. For whimsical fish tungsten мормышка is heavy. In this case it is better to use lead mormyshkas. These lures have a smoother game. Because of the low prices they are very popular in Russia. They are of various shapes and colors. The most common types: «уралка», «ant», «drop», «pellet actually». They are well caught large roach, perch, white bream.
Tin mormyshkas
Tin mormyshkas are easy, very small size, smooth game. They with success are used for fishing roach with a depth of up to 5 m of the fall of the nozzle in the absence of currents. The technique and tactics of catching on such mormyshkas is quite simple. 
Weight of mormyshkas:
- to catch roach best suited small, but heavy mormyshkas;
- heavy mormyshkas good for fishing on the relatively thick line with the bait;
- heavy mormyshkas allow you to quickly deliver the bait in the right place;
- small mormyshkas (up to 0.25 g) attract small fish at a depth of up to 2 meters;
- large mormyshkas (more than 0,25 g) attract predatory fish at a depth of 3-4 m;
- on the first and on the last ice justified the introduction of large models of mormyshkas;
- easy mormyshkas provides more delicate game.
The color of mormyshkas:
- silver, black or red body mormyshka serves as an additional point of reference for fish in search of food;
- black mormyshkas the most universal, but the most effective to use them in the spring;
- for catching the big depths suitable mormyshkas copper-colored;
- to catch roach and perch choose medium or large mormyshkas brown, dark-green, dark-purple, brass color;
- lighter than water, the cooler must be the color of mormyshkas;
"the more snow on the ice, the more light should be mormyshkas, the less snow - the bait choose darker, up to black colour;
- in the morning on shallow water, the better to catch at a bait, in the middle of the day on more dull;
- at a depth of more than 10 meters color of mormyshkas does not matter.
The form of mormyshkas:
- in order to mormyshkas attracted the attention of the fish his game, it should be long enough, able to generate fluctuations;
- a flattened top and bottom мормышка raises a cloud of haze on the muddy bottom;
- «drop» and «pellet actually» create a light puff of haze on the bottom;
- flat mormyshkas forms a visible cloud of haze on the bottom and at the same time as if scatters them, suitable for fishing roach, perch;
- кивающие movement effective the «Ural» mormyshka and «ant»;
- конусовидная mormyshkas, dropping to the bottom, is included in the top layer of the sludge.
- «Kapelka», «овсинка», «pellet actually» indispensable in winter;
- on the «чертик» catch perch, roach;
- mormyshka in the form of droplets, the ball of the most universal.
The size of mormyshkas:
- the size of mormyshkas are selected depending on the depth of the place of fishing activity and bite;
- at a very low Cleve often use супермелкие mormyshkas from tungsten a diameter of 1.6-1.8 mm;
- fishing in the small mormyshkas is happening in stagnant water at depths of not more than 2 meters.

Lures

There are 3 types of lures: artificial, animal and vegetable. Their other quite a lot. Practice shows that fish is better caught on such nozzles (or imitation), which at a given time and in a given water body make up for their usual food.

Lures are artificial lures for catching large predatory fish. They are made of wood, heavy-duty plastic, aluminium and copper. Can be up to 50 cm. Lures create fluctuations with a special blade, floor or indentations on the surface of a body of bait. They can catch fish in the any water layer. 

Types of wobblers

Sinking lures

The sinking wobblers are made from the material, the density of which is higher than the density of water. In front of the lure is located blade, which allows it to float in the water column. Sinking lures can be lowered to the bottom at a speed of about 30 cm/sec. They facilitate the determination of the depth. Wobblers is very effective at catching the big fish (e.g.: pike, perch, salmon) at a depth in the water column. But he had little use for the bottom posting. Lures have the same stable and effective movement regardless of size. They are less maneuverable at the time of posting, but they do not make the flow of water to the surface; they can catch, making abandoned upstream and putting bait on a specified depth.

Floating lures

Floating lures are made of wood. They imitate the poor sick or injured fish, frog tadpole, which float on the surface. Therefore, these lures are used for catching a predator, hunting in the upper layer of water. During the movement of the lures create a plume of air bubbles. This is a very attracts predatory fish. They are abandoned even in a strong wind. 

Lures with neutral buoyancy

Lures with neutral buoyancy are used when posting, when you want to provoke the attack of the predator in a cascade of chaotic movements of the lure (note that the posting of wobblers is not a simulation of the behavior of food items). There are two types of such wobblers: those who work in the surface water layer, and those who work in depth. They are made of wood, plastic. Lures with neutral buoyancy have a number of undeniable advantages. They create a sound effect, can long enough to be in the area of the alleged attack. Changing the tilt angle of the plate and the speed of movement of wobblers, you can change the depth at which plunges the bait.

How to choose the wobblers

When choosing wobblers, you need to pay attention to its shape, size, design, colour, method of application.

The form of wobblers:

- in case of equal volume, weight, type of the high-frequency oscillations have lures in the form of «fat wobblers» and «herring», lower frequency has a form of «fish»;

- the similarity of forms does not imply similarity of the game wobblers;

- forms of wobblers «fry», «herring» and «fat» are the most universal;

- on lures, imitating the frogs, crabs, shrimp, grasshoppers good catch Chub, IDE, Chub, Podust;

- scope of application wobblers «herring» - a deep, plots;

- if you catch where the bottom of the solid enough, and bottom relief is varied, the better equip the rod model «herring» with a broad flat body;

- when fishing on the muddy bottom of the better use of wobblers in the form of a pear;

- for wobblers in the form of a «fish» is characterized by a large variety of games when posting and good controllability;

- floating baits «Malek» get on a carpet of algae, with the depth of wiring up to 2 m;

- sinking of the model «Jack» is often used for fishing on the the current.

Dimensions:wobblers

- the most frequently used lures with a size of 5 to 9 cm;

- pike, perch, trout, trout well go on wobblers, comparable to their size;

- grayling, ASP should catch the lures of medium size;

- the larger wobblers visible from a greater distance;

the worse you know stretch of water, the larger should be the wobblers;

- if the blade is small and narrow, then the bait finely trembles;

- if the blade wider than the body of wobblers, then he will move into a wide corridor;

"the blade away from the front of the loop, the wider will be a game of spoons. 

The material from which made the wobblers:

- the dignity of wobblers of wood: lightness, great opportunities for additional balancing, lack of: the need for protection from water;

- the dignity of wobblers of plastic: the ease disadvantage: the fragility of the coating;

- the dignity of wobblers of polymers: high strength, lack of: limited opportunities for balancing.

Devon

Devon is a special class of  spinning   baits. The most  devon, having сигарообразное body with blades and a hole in the longitudinal axis, through which passes a steel rod with a t on one end and a rifle in the other.

There are many varieties of Devonian, different principles of construction and equipment. However, the information about them are very few.

Yes and find Devon on the counter of a shop - a task sometimes impossible. It and is clear: the Devonian satisfactory quality or one of any respectable business of our country does not produce. The same can be said about the majority of foreign companies among the motley the diversity represented in the directories baits devon meet infrequently. So basically fishers enjoy девонами, the wizard themselves or have become artisans.

Девоны less technology-wise, the spinners, and at first in their manufacture can be faced with certain difficulties. Some of the well, at first glance, made  devon  in water are less attractive for the predator, for they do not give due game. To help you avoid typical mistakes, I want to give you a few tips on the basics of building a devonian, and then offer several methods of their manufacture.

For the beginning - two important observations. We will talk only about the all-metal baits. Девоны there are also made of plastic, wood, and combinations of these materials with metals, but they have only external similarity with all-metal devon, and the technology of the manufacture and their practical application radically different.

At any artificial bait in principle, you can catch almost any predatory fish. And yet there is a bait "narrow specialization" to them as times and refers devon. It is intended mainly for catching ASP. However, in the historic homeland of the devonian, in England, this predator is not. And when I showed colleague from Manchester his book about fish breams, he did not understand, what kind of fish in question. I had to explain that she looks like, but larger and more aggressive...

Other predators, I believe, better to catch on some other lures. So, the speed of posting Devonian too great for catching perch and pike, and if we are his slow, then the trailing portion of the highly falls and the rotation of the strays.

So, what should be Devon, calculated on the ASP? He weighs 20-40 grams, has a length of 35-50 mm, quickly and easily rotates. The speed of rotation is largely determined by the angle of the blades to the direction of motion. Maximum speed is reached at an angle of about 60 degrees.

The first of the conditions that should be met properly constructed Devon - this is the lungs of the blade. They are usually made from stainless sheet steel or brass thickness of 0,5-1,0 mm. Brass easier by the fact that its easier to solder, but steel still preferable - it has a greater stiffness in the same thickness, as brass.

Another important requirement to the blade - their optimal size. The blades of a small, Devon is spinning fast enough; if is great, because of the resistance of the air during the hurling decreases "range" bait. Optimal total surface area of the blades to middle Devonian are 2.5-3.0 per square centimeter.

There is, however, the construction of the Devonian, which allows you to have larger blades without any negative side effects. The blades of "variable geometry" is not soldered shut in the body of the bait, and able to turn at a right angle to the special axes. In working position the blades through the fence occupy the same position, as usual, and when hurling the flow of air carries them in the head part of the body of the Devonian, thereby ensuring a minimum of sail bait.

Have the blades in Devon can in many ways. They are shifted back, sometimes to the very end, but all the same front blade Devon received the greatest distribution. 

The rapid rotation of the Devonian creates for the blades of a powerful vortex motion of water, which, apparently, is the main reason of increased interest of ASP to a decoy. When the blades are located in front of, turbulent flows cover almost the entire Devon, like a cocoon, and the fish is showing less cautious.

Another argument in favor of the front of the blades is much more robust sweep. In the grip of a predator (as cross, so also after) the blades, rear view, may prevent the hooks into the jaw of fish, acting in the role of a kind of braces. Usually Devon supply with two blades, at least - three, placing them symmetrically.

There is a group of baits, which to  devon  not, strictly speaking, belong - they are heavy  not spinning body and are associated with the blades. Such a design can be called "lazy" Devon - not because of the sluggish game, but because of the simplified manufacturing technology.

Really, no need to drill an axial hole, out of the blade. However, in the main - in attractiveness for a predator - "lazy" Devon markedly inferior to traditional. At the same time, the "lazy" Devon, with its asymmetric body, deprived of the principal drawback of the conventional Devonian - he did not  twisted line. However, the flaw inherent in  devon  with one-way rotation, it is quite possible to fight. For this there are several ways.

You can use anti spinner. They are eccentric (lead) and sailing (of celluloid or a thin metal plate). Lead completely exclude the kink the main line, but, firstly, worsen cast - in-flight Devon and revolve around a common centre of mass; secondly, it is not possible surface wiring - even at the highest speeds Devon is not close to the surface, and a few below.

All this severely limits the opportunities in the catching of ASP. Therefore, accessories with lead has a narrow scope of application:  when the fish is caught  or at the bottom. When the leash between anti spinner and Devon needs to be done not out of line, and of a rigid steel wire thickness of 0.5 mm, because soft leash very quickly collapse "thumb" and break even from a small load.

Not quite solve this problem and double-Devon - with different directions of rotation of the front and rear parts. One of the directions (usually the one in which rotates headache half of the Devonian) overpowers another, and as a result of the line was twisted. Although, obviously, so you can find the correlation of the size of the blades (rear - more front - less), that the overall rotation of the bait is reduced to zero. The method of trial and error I came to the conclusion that the best thing to periodically rotate Devon with the opposite direction of rotation. At first glance, it is very troublesome, because every 10-15 casting need to remove one of Devon and put instead of the other. However, the replacement procedure can be reduced to a few seconds, if not cut and tie every time Devon again, and use the simplest wire harness, which is attached to the rifle. Another effective way to deal with  anti spinner line is to achieve ease of rotation of the Devonian, using for this purpose the beads. If for rotating spinners have one beads, base on which tab, then for the Devonian they should be two-three, and touching the surface of the beads (like the end part of the lures that contact with them) should be perfectly smooth. Beads is better to make of metal or fluoroplastic. For the Devonian you can take one double rifle, but you should make sure that he is free to rotate in both joints.

It is important to wire rod was fairly tight and not moving from the small efforts, " this may lead to reduced speed or even to a complete halt. The same often happens in cases when the diameter of the holes in the body of the Devonian too small - it fall to the sand, get rid of that is not easy: we have to dismantle the bait. So diameter longitudinal holes must be in two-three times larger than the diameter of the axis. In this case, the sand does not stay inside and washed out with water. However, when the opening of the much broader axis, the rotation arise beats, but it is more of a positive impact on the nibble, because the Devon gets more and more game. Moreover, to strengthen this effect, it is useful to drill the hole is not axially body of the Devonian, and at a slight angle to the axis.

Devon is equipped with a tail tee, rarely - two. In this case, the stock of one of the tee is located inside the Devon and soldering of hooks in the immediate proximity to it. The second tee, of smaller size, designed to поклевку pursuit, very typical for ASP.

Any additional hooks, associated with the body of Devon, in the best case, slowing its rotation, in the worst - bring to nothing the measures against the tightening of line. Yes and special need for additional hooks no, because Devon - bait compact, empty poklevok on it, even at the same t a little bit.

At the time of posting Devon is not horizontal, and slightly tilted position. Some of the fishermen believes that this is a big minus - bait is unnatural look, especially when decreasing the speed of the movement, when the angle increases. I do not share their views. In some cases there is a rule: exacerbating the lack of, gettin ' dignity. An example of Devon illustrative in this respect.

What happens if shift the center of gravity closer to the tail of the bait? She, of course, will be stronger deviate from the horizontal. At a very fast wiring Devon with a heavy rear part, keeping the tilted position, leaves on the surface of the water, and located at the front of the blade noisy scatter around the fountain of smaller droplets. This is the so-called continues travel wiring, one of the purely methods of catching, the very effective in low-light conditions - before sunrise and after sunset. For fishing suitable and common Devon, and swaying spinners, but the skimmer Devon more convenient. You can give Devon ply properties,  making heavy tee lead on the stock. 

Now let's talk about the manufacturing Devonian in the Amateur conditions. The easiest way is to use a ready to lead sinker type "olive" appropriate weight,  cutting through the slots and soldered in their blades. Personally, I prefer  Devon  light colors (although some are caught mainly in the dim bait).

In the hole "olives " - billet insert a metal rod and  her in a Vice or on the anvil, so that the two parties were formed flat facets. To these the faces of the  cutting through the thin strips of Nickel silver or brass. The sides blades. Devon out half a brilliant, half-dark. When rotating turns out a kind of flickering, that, apparently, favorably affects of Cleves.

You can make the body of the Devonian of the whole metal blanks, drilling her along the longitudinal axis of the lathe or a drilling machine. It is important that the drill was sharp and strictly  center , as well as not happened distortions during drilling. Attempts to perform this operation manually using a drill or  brace , in the absence of a skill often end in failure drills. 
You can avoid the procedure of drilling, if you make housing Devonian not monolithic, but of two parts. For this it is necessary to make two identical (in a form the body of the Devonian) metal plates, but of different thickness - for example, 2 and 4 mm. On thick plate is done with a hacksaw and  needle files  drunk, after which the plates  solder. Be easy to make a cast Devon round cross-section with a shell made of brass, Nickel silver or tin. To do this, I take a plate of sheet metal the size of 50x50 and a thickness of 0,2-0,3 mm, and also a round wooden rod with a diameter of 8-10 mm (suitable thick pencil). Previously honoured with the inside of the square of foil tightly wrap it around the shaft and squeeze in a vise. Then set forth a rod out of the tube almost the entire length and put in his face surface pre-greased nail in the rod should be the deepening). Putting all of this construction vertically, fill the inside of lead. When the workpiece to cool down, take out a nail and a wooden rod, remove excess metal.