If you take the Koni Highway from Ankara in a southerly direction, you can see almost almost immediately after the intersection with the ring road on the right side you can see a large mirror of water surrounded by reeds - this is Lake Gölbaşı.
After crossing the ancient Seljuk bridge over the Kizilirmak River, the travellers find themselves at this lake, whose name means "by the lake", located not far from the cave. Here, you can rest on the shore before entering Ankara. It is considered to be the largest body of water found in this region of Turkey.
Here you will see a shady park, two mosques and two ponds with fat carp. According to local legend, Abraham emerged from his cave and turned into a a harsh critic of King Nemrut and tried to smash the idols in the local temple. The tyrant didn't like this and ordered Abraham to be thrown off the wall of the fortress into a into the fire below. Abraham was saved when, at God's word, the fire turned to water and the wood into carp. The carp has been sacred ever since and it is believed that whoever who eats one will go blind.
Next to the first pond is Ayn-i-Zeliha (Ayn-i-Zeliha), named in honour of Nemrut's daughter, a restaurant and tea house where you can sit in the shade and feed the carp feed sold by peddlers by the water. Its shores are always crowded with pilgrims.
This lake is not very deep. The maximum depth here reaches up to four metres, the bottom is flat, muddy, without depressions. There are a lot of crayfish in it, which indicates the purity of the water - in dirty water crayfish do not live. That's why both tourists and locals both tourists and locals catch them here. But that's not what attracts fishermen from all over the world fishermen from all over the world. Gölbaşı Lake is literally full of fish. There are mainly pike, carp and tench, so you'll need a spinning rod. necessary.
Fish in the lake was launched, according to locals, the Americans back in the 1950s. They co-operated militarily with the Turkish government at the time. The Turks have since then started to maintain the presence of fish in the lake and prevent its disappearance. The pike's main food is silverfish, and since no-one eats it but the pike, this fish species has proliferated in large numbers here.
Lake Gölbaşı has long been recognised as the best fishing lake in Turkey. In such in this abundance of fish, not the least of which is the fact that until recently there has been no mass fishery on this lake, and fishing was mainly done by local fishermen and a small number of travelling anglers.
Only in recent times has sport fishing developed so much. This due to the fact that most of the locals started travelling to Europe for to work in Europe and there they have already learnt the sport and learned to spinning. Despite this, even now you can often find in the southern part pike nets or crayfish traps.
This lake has one major disadvantage: there are few places for fishing from the shore, as the shore is built up with houses on one side and overgrown with reeds on the other. The best fishing can be only fishing from a boat, but for this purpose you have to get one somewhere. You can negotiate with the locals or bring inflatable boat, or you can rent a wooden one. The tackle it is desirable to bring also with you, because there are no specialised shops where you can buy them.
