Sting fishing in Lake Lūšiai is included in the collection of intangible cultural heritage

The collection of intangible cultural heritage values ​​has been supplemented by melt ice shelling and melt ice fishing spinning bobs on Lake Lūšiai. The collection also includes Lithuanian Tatar gastronomy, the celebration of herbal indulgences in Krekenava, the singing of the Lithuanians, the traditions of mushroom picking and the weaving of wicker ribbons. In the 2017 compilation, there are already 39 values ​​associated with diverse traditions of performing arts, folk art, crafts, festivals, culinary heritage, and more.

In lynxes, fish that had long smelled of cucumbers from under the ice were removed by hand by turning the so-called “bob”. It is a barrel on an axis with a transverse pole, through which the net is pulled. Wooden poles and ropes submerge a net more than 300 meters long and about 16 meters wide into the depths of the lake, with a huge pocket called “motnia” in the middle, into which the stint falls. The nets with the “boba” catch are taken out on the ice.

This archaic method of fishing, known since ancient times, is now rarely used. Well the lake smelled or smelled, it is one of the relics of the ice age, found in the deepest lakes in Lithuania. There are about 50 of them in our country (Asalnai, Almajas, Lūšiai, Šakarvai, Tauragnas, etc.).