To catch white fish, anglers very often use hominy.
Its basis is corn porridge, from which chefs prepare various dishes. Fishermen use it to prepare bait and bait. In order for it to become suitable for fishing, anglers have to show a lot of imagination and diligence. Properly prepared hominy stays on the hook for a long time and can be used both for regular fishing and for feeder fishing. When bottom fishing (on a feeder), it is used both as a bait and as bait. A wide variety of fish bite on hominy - crucian carp, bream, ide, carp, carp, roach, rudd, etc. What is the secret of a simple bait:
- In order for the fish to like it, during the cooking process you should not deviate from the cooking technology.
- When preparing, only fresh ingredients should be used so that the final product has a pleasant taste and aroma.
- When fishing with a feeder, you should prepare several options for hominy, since the requirements for bait when bottom fishing are completely different.
Cooking hominy
To get high-quality bait that is exactly what you need, you need to spend a certain amount of time and put your soul into it. As a rule, fishermen plan their fishing trips in advance, which means that hominy is prepared in advance as well.
To fish with a feeder you need:
- Corn flour.
- Wheat flour.
- Flavoring.
Naturally, for this you will need a saucepan and a frying pan, as well as a thick plastic bag. The hominy preparation technology consists of the following processes:
- Three parts of corn flour are taken and fried in a frying pan.
- One part of the wheat flour is also fried in a frying pan. Frying is carried out separately to give the ingredients a pronounced taste.
- After frying, combine them and mix well.
- While stirring, gradually add water until the mixture has a creamy consistency.
- Flavoring is added to the finished mixture, if desired.
- After this, the hominy is transferred to a plastic bag (you need two, folded together).
- The bag is tied tightly and, along with the contents, placed in a pan of water.
- The pan is placed on the fire for heat treatment and obtaining the desired consistency. Processing time ranges from 30 minutes to 1 hour. The longer it cooks, the denser its consistency will be.
- After heat treatment, it is left in this state until the morning. As can be seen from the description, the technological chain is quite long in time: it starts in the evening and ends only in the morning, before going fishing. As they say: “If you want to catch a fish, learn to pull a sleigh.” It is brought to fishing in the same plastic bag, where it can be cut into pieces or rolled into balls.
Flavors
Adding flavors to hominy does not have unequivocal support among culinary anglers.
Some remain supporters of the clean and natural smell of corn, which attracts fish. Other anglers are looking for a magic additive to make hominy even more irresistible. Acceptable flavorings include natural products that have a familiar odor to fish. These ingredients include:
- Vegetable oil. It is added at the dough kneading stage, or used at the final manual kneading operation.
- Sunflower cake or ground seeds. It is used to attract fish with its particles. In the center of the bait ball there is hominy, and the surface is covered with dry bait.
- Sweet additives. Many members of the carp family love sweets. To give hominy a sweet taste, the following are used:
- honey;
- strawberry or raspberry syrup;
- vanilla;
- sugar;
- banana and coffee bean extract.
The best period for using hominy is considered to be the warm and hot season. This period can begin in mid-spring and end in early autumn. During the cold season, hominy loses its attractiveness to fish.
“Quick” recipe for bottom fishing.
It will appeal to those fishermen who are not particularly obsessed with the technology of preparing baits and baits. They believe that in this case fishing is more enjoyable, since more time is spent on it than on cooking hominy.
Recipe for “quick” mamalyga
- Corn flour is poured into boiling water in small portions with constant stirring.
- After the final addition of flour, the fire is turned off, but the porridge is stirred for some more time. Constant stirring is necessary to prevent it from burning, otherwise it will lose its taste.
- After cooling, the hominy can be used: roll into balls and fill the feeder.
The consistency of such bait is approximately equal to the density of plasticine, but somewhat softer and is intended for gear that uses a spring-type feeder.
How to prepare hominy for fishing?
There are plenty of ways to cook aromatic porridge for fishing, but one of the prerequisites is clean dishes. Many fishing enthusiasts change the consistency and add their own ingredients and flavorings to make the brew brighter, denser and more tasty. Here we will consider the most effective and field-tested recipes for preparing hominy for fishing, with the help of which fishermen managed to bring home a rich catch.
To prepare a delicious brew for fishing you need to purchase:
- corn and wheat flour;
- two transparent plastic bags;
- Additives: raspberry, strawberry.
Stainless steel utensils will be required. Take corn flour and wheat flour in a ratio of 3:1. Pour everything into a frying pan and fry in sunflower oil. Make sure that the ingredients do not burn, add water, mix thoroughly, achieve a thick consistency similar to cream. Add the extract at the same time. If you couldn’t buy it, you can add vanilla sugar or honey.
In fishing, ordinary corn porridge can only be used as bait
Fold the purchased plastic bags one into the other, place the hominy inside and place it in a pan filled with water so that the liquid covers the wrapped bag. Next you need to cook the resulting kutya. If you need to cook hard porridge, you will have to cook it for about 40 minutes. After the allotted time, the container should be removed from the stove and the bait should be allowed to brew for 1-2 hours. It is advisable to unwrap the bags while fishing so that the dough does not sour and the appetizing smell is preserved.
A quick recipe for hominy for fishing - bottom fishing
There is an option to cook traditional porridge for fishermen who prefer bottom fishing. The method is interesting and, according to those who like to sit with a fishing rod by the river, effective.
To prepare the dough you need to purchase:
- corn, wheat flour;
- puff bread;
- jam or jam.
Soak the bread with purchased sweets and knead wheat and corn flour for cooking, as described above, but in this process you need to add jam or jam mixed with puff bread into the brew to achieve a thick consistency.
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The high density of kutya, boiled for 15 minutes, allows the dough to be used for bottom fishing and specifically for feeder fishing. You can also feed the fish with cooked hominy, but not by adding it to the feeder, as it will clog the feeder bait. It is better to put the finished mixture on top rather than inside. If you prepare porridge according to the recipe described above, you can successfully catch carp.
Properly made hominy stays on the hook perfectly
A quick recipe for mamalyga made from corn grits for fishing
There are ways to prepare delicious dough in the shortest possible time if you don’t have time to cook traditional kutya for 30-40 minutes to achieve its characteristic density.
You need to buy similar ingredients:
- corn flour;
- two plastic bags;
- pot;
- raspberry, strawberry flavoring.
No frying required here. Add flour and flavor enhancers to boiling water in portions with constant stirring. When it is clear that the consistency is similar to cream, the porridge is transferred to plastic bags folded in half. The bag is wrapped.
This is the fastest, most effective recipe for preparing dough, but you should remember that corn for fishing will be slightly plastic and will be suitable for bait and fishing. It is not difficult to roll a hard ball for a hook from such a brew; kutia is equally suitable for spring-type feeders.
Universal recipe for hominy for fishing
Every person who likes to sit with a fishing rod wants fish to bite well on cooked corn porridge:
A properly prepared bait should have a fragrant smell.
- bream;
- rudd;
- roach;
- carp;
- crucian carp;
- perch.
To do this, you need to prepare a special dough, where healthy ingredients are combined in different proportions. This recipe for mamalyga for fishing exists when the following is mixed in during the preparation of kutya: sunflower oil, roasted coffee beans, honey. Experienced fishermen add a little banana to enhance the smell, so that the taste is rich.
The versatility of the recipe lies in enhancing the taste and smell due to new aromatic additives when there is a chance to catch a lot of different fish.
After preparing mamalyga with the above-described ingredients, directly at the fishing site when rolling the balls, you need to add grated seeds or stick the crushed grains around the lump. In the reservoir they will separate and become an interesting bait for carp, crucian carp, and roach.
Original recipe for mamalyga
There are dozens of fish baits based on corn porridge. Many recipes are positioned as original when unusual ingredients are used, from the point of view of an amateur fisherman.
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It makes sense to talk about one way when hominy for fishing is prepared using:
- crumb of white bread;
- sweet cookies.
The mixture requires another secret additive - corn sticks.
To prepare food using original technology you need:
- pour boiling water over corn sticks;
- add crushed cookies;
- put the crumb of white bread.
You can add a drop of honey to enhance the taste. The mass needs to be mixed and the texture of the dough achieved.
All-purpose hominy recipe
This type of hominy is suitable for fishing both in still water and in the current. The recipe is to make cornmeal pancakes. For this you need: one part corn flour and one part water.
The cooking procedure is as follows:
- Water is poured into the pan and brought to a boil.
- Corn flour is poured into the water in small portions. In this case, it is necessary to stir the contents of the pan.
- Turn off the fire and cover the pan with a lid.
- After cooling, the porridge is made into pancakes with a diameter of 6-8 cm and a thickness of about 1 cm.
- The finished pancakes are placed in a pan of water and cooked until cooked. They will be ready as soon as they swim to the surface.
- The finished pancakes are taken out of the water and allowed to cool.
Hominy prepared using this technology is suitable for use in standing water. So that it can be used during the current, 0.5 parts of semolina and 0.25 parts of wheat flour should be added to the recipe. After cooling, these pancakes are kneaded with your hands, having previously lubricated your hands with unrefined sunflower oil.
Cornmeal hominy recipe for fishing
In the southern regions of the Russian region, corn porridge with the interesting name mamalyga is very popular. In addition to being used for its intended purpose, it can be used to make a “catchable” bait for catching white, peaceful fish.
For the bait to be “working”, it must have a dense consistency, smell pleasant, and stay on the hook perfectly.
Hominy is caught not only with float gear, but also with feeders and donks. When fishing with English donkey, the corn mixture is both bait and complementary food.
A few words about the bait
Canned corn is simple: choose a product among dozens of “brothers” standing on store shelves, open it, and fish to your heart’s content.
But with corn bait you will have to tinker a little, however, the result can exceed all expectations.
Most fishermen cook hominy bait themselves, fortunately there are a whole bunch of recipes. You need to approach the process of preparing bait thoughtfully, having conducted a preliminary analysis of the taste preferences of the fish inhabiting a particular body of water.
The huge advantage of making this bait yourself is that the fisherman can create various flavored mixtures.
Corn grains and hominy are two completely different baits, although the original product seems to be the same.
In most cases, the grains are attached to the hook, but the hominy bait “works” perfectly both when attached to a spring, and when equipped with a hair rig, and when mounted on a hook.
In addition, dense balls made from porridge can additionally be used as bait for the fishing point.
Tips for cooking hominy from experienced fishermen
To make your fishing successful, listen to the advice given by experienced fishermen.
1. You need to prepare the bait in a good mood. This way it will absorb the positive energy of the owner, and, undoubtedly, the fish will like it more than a product that was prepared in upset feelings.
2. The “correct” hominy should be aromatic and have a bright color. This will happen if fresh, high-quality products were used for cooking, and the dishes and hands were clean.
3. For long casts, as a rule, a feeder is used. To prevent the bait from flying off the hook and being washed out of the feeder not immediately, but after a given time, you need to have several bait options in stock - this way you can choose a more effective option on the spot.
Each fisherman has his own recipe for making corn bait, proven over the years. Some people treat the cooking process carelessly, “carelessly,” while for others, cooking resembles an oriental ritual with many subtleties that complement each other.
There is another category of fishermen whose “hands do not grow from there.” They don’t know how to cook, so they have to ask relatives or friends. Which category of fishermen do you belong to?
Corn porridge can be held together in different ways: some add gelatin for density, others mix it with cotton wool. And all this to ensure that the bait does not fly off the hook. There is a universal recipe that allows you to prepare porridge for all occasions.
Original recipe for mamalyga
This recipe can also be classified as fast, although it is quite catchy.
To do this you will need the following components:
- Corn sticks – 10-15 pcs.
- Cookies (sweet) – 3 pcs.
- Crumb of white bread, for plasticity.
Preparation procedure:
- Take corn sticks and pour boiling water over them.
- Crushed cookies are added to this mixture.
- The crumb of white bread is added to the resulting dough and mixed by hand.
- You can add a drop of honey to the resulting hominy, which has the consistency of chewing gum.
Cornmeal hominy is the most correct recipe for fishing
Mamalyga is a traditional porridge of shepherds.
It is very aromatic, soft and nutritious. But, as practice has shown, not only people, but also fish like this porridge. Corn porridge - hominy is very popular as a vegetable bait for fishing, especially in the southern regions of our country. It is well suited for catching such species of fish as: carp, bream, carp, ide, rudd, chub, perch, crucian carp.
Preparing such a bait is something that requires some tinkering, but many fishermen still like to cook it with their own hands and approach this process very carefully.
Flavorings used
When preparing mamaliga, flavorings should be used very carefully and in small doses. Many fishermen do not use them on principle, believing that the natural smell of corn is no less attractive to fish, and adding flavorings to hominy can scare away fish, especially since flavorings interrupt this natural aroma and taste. Some fishermen, on the contrary, do not go fishing without flavorings. If they are used, you should use ones that: firstly, are familiar to the fish, and secondly, can enhance the natural odors of hominy.
- Sunflower oil. Typically, in such cases, unrefined sunflower oil is used, which is added to the hominy either during the cooking process, or during the process of forming balls, or during its use as bait.
- Ground sunflower seeds or cake. Its use is associated not only with the presence of a special aroma, but also as particles of food that will attract fish. Ground seeds can be used to coat hominy balls, which is a rather exclusive method of using ground seeds.
- Sweets. They are added to bait when catching many types of fish, including the carp family. For this use:
- Vanilla.
- Honey.
- Sugar.
- Various fruit syrups.
- Coffee bean extracts.
- Banana.
The best way to catch fish is with hominy in the summer, but fish bite on it both in the spring and autumn, although not as actively. If you prepare such porridge correctly and with soul, then the fish are unlikely to swim past such a delicacy.
As a rule, avid fishermen are subject to such serious preparations for fishing. They believe that the process of preparing bait and bait is an integral part of the fishing process. Such fishermen always prefer gear made by themselves. They make not only porridge at home, but also all kinds of baits (spinners), which are no worse than factory ones. Their grandchildren catch fish with baits made by our grandfathers and are very successful. The calling card of each fisherman is his own technology for preparing baits and baits, and they are happy to share these technologies among themselves.
Among the huge cohort of amateur fishermen, there are those who do not want to waste time preparing various types of hominy. They are more interested in ready-made mixtures and baits, which are simply abundant in the retail network. For such fishermen, the manufacturer has prepared a large assortment of ready-made dry mixtures, into which you just need to add liquid and stir. Among this variety you can find both universal mixtures and mixtures designed for catching specific types of fish. In such stores you can also find flavoring agents with a very large selection of aromas, but we must not forget that this is pure chemistry.
Who's into corn porridge?
Fishermen with many years of experience use a ready-made brew if they want to catch:
- carp;
- rudd;
- bream;
- crucian carp;
- ide;
- chub;
- carp;
- roach.
Fishing with hominy is very popular in the southern regions of the country, but professionals in this business who live in the middle and northern latitudes know the secret of the success of porridge very well and prefer to take it with them when fishing.
The bright color and aroma of hominy can even attract perch and other fish living in the pond. Corn kutia has plenty of advantages:
- easy to roll into small balls;
- apply to different gear;
- many river inhabitants willingly peck after bait;
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