How to cook millet for fishing: a recipe for bait, for a feeder, how to steam porridge for crucian carp, bream, carp

Millet has been actively used by fishermen for a very long time. This is one of the most common types of porridge, which is used in fishing as bait, and a little less often as bait for catching peaceful fish in the form of mastyrka. Porridge is an ingredient in many homemade baits that can be made from homemade ingredients.

Millet as bait and as bait

Fish responds well to millet porridge. It has a pleasant yellowish tint and is clearly visible at the bottom, attracting underwater inhabitants.

Millet is added to bait as a feed part. In addition to aromatic ingredients and those that create turbidity and a trail at the bottom, the bait must contain food parts so that the fish have something to eat. Otherwise, she simply won’t stay on the point. The aroma and turbidity will attract fish, but if it doesn’t find anything at the point, then it won’t come to the point.

Millet porridge is made of different types as bait. Firstly, the porridge can be made crumbly, then it will be easily washed out of the feeder.

Individual millet grains are small, which works great for all types of fish. They are not as big as pearl barley, and even small fish can profit from it.

The grains are small and attract a variety of fish

But even larger fish will not refuse to eat millet porridge. Loose porridge is used for float fishing as bait. The porridge is mixed with other components of the bait, balls are formed from them and thrown into the fishing point. The balls at the bottom disintegrate and the millet at the bottom forms a beautiful, pronounced bait table.

Secondly, for bottom fishing with a nipple and flat feeder, the porridge is made of a sticky consistency. To do this, the porridge is boiled. The boiled millet acquires a homogeneous mass, which is then mixed with other binding elements and, when cooled, the resulting mastyrka can be sculpted and stuffed into a flat or pacifier.

Porridge suitable for a feeder - crushed millet can be used to fill a feeder, or can be used as a bait for crucian carp, bream, carp, roach in the form of a mastyrka

You can use this kind of mastyrka to make hook baits, which means millet is suitable for this role as well.

How to cook millet for mastyrka fishing and for bait: recipes and tips

General tips for choosing porridge

Cereals must be chosen fresh. You should not buy millet if flour dust is visible at the bottom of the bag. This means that the cereal has been sitting for a long time, and the cooked cereal becomes bitter.

When choosing cereals, you should pay attention to its color. It can be bright yellow or paler. The bright yellow grain, thanks to the elements it contains, turns out to be crumbly. But pale grains produce a stickier product.

Before cooking, millet groats must be washed several times in warm water, this will remove the bitterness from the porridge and it will be more crumbly.

How to cook crumbly millet for fishing in a slow cooker and steam it in a thermos

Cooking porridge in a thermos can be called a method for the lazy. You just need to pour cereal and 3 times more boiling water into a thermos. Then close the thermos tightly. It should be good and not cool quickly, otherwise the cereal will not have time to steam. If this happens, you can pour boiling water again. The millet turns out very crumbly.

The second easy cooking option is a slow cooker. To obtain crumbly porridge, you also need to add cereal, add 2.5 times more water and select the required cooking mode. In 15 minutes, excellent fish food will be ready. The ease of this method is that you do not need to stand over the pan constantly monitoring the process; the porridge in the slow cooker will not burn.

Take more water than cereal

Recipe for millet porridge for feeder and groundbait

To prepare porridge that can be used in a feeder feeder and as bait, you need to get a fairly crumbly porridge. To do this, add 8 times more water than cereal to the pan. That is, for 2 glasses of cereal, take 4 liters of water.

The water is brought to a boil and the cereal is poured into it. You need to cook until the cereal stops crunching on your teeth. Next, the porridge is removed from the heat and washed in cold water several times. The result is a soft, but at the same time very crumbly feed component.

Loose millet can be used in both feeder feeders and feed balls

How to make a nozzle from millet: recipe

First recipe

For the first method you need a saucepan:

Pour a glass of cold water, pour in half a glass of washed millet and cook over low heat, covering with a lid, until the porridge is boiled and the water has evaporated.
Then you need to take a masher and thoroughly mash the cooked porridge.
That's not all. Now you need to turn on the oven to the lowest heat (or the lowest temperature if it is electric) and put the crushed porridge there for two to two and a half hours, tightly closing the lid, periodically you need to remove the pan and knead the simmering porridge.
After this, you can take out the porridge and let it cool at room temperature, this will take some more time. After the porridge has cooled completely, you can put it in the refrigerator. It will harden in the refrigerator, and you can easily roll it into balls or cut it into pieces of the desired size and desired shape.
When placed on a hook, its tip must look out, and the puncture must be made in the center of the piece or ball.

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Second recipe

Loose millet for fishing

The second method is more universal, and millet can be used both for bait and for bait.

Third recipe

The third method is the simplest. The millet just needs to be steamed in a thermos.

To do this, pour half a glass of washed millet into a thermos, add a tablespoon of honey, pour a glass of hot milk and let it brew for about an hour.
After an hour, transfer the porridge to a cutting board, add a little semolina and knead until smooth. The result is a soft plastic mass, ideal for fishing with a float rod.

If desired, you can add flavorings to the porridge - vanillin, garlic, anise, dill or chocolate. For a more active bite, you can add five to ten drops of hemp oil to stimulate metabolic processes in fish. The most important thing is that the millet should not burn, because fish absolutely cannot stand the smell of burnt porridge, and it is impossible to get rid of it.

Remove the pan from the stove. Place under running cold water. We pour until we can freely hold the handles with our bare hands. Pour out the muddy water, holding the millet with your hand. Afterwards, pour cool water again, stir lightly, pour out the water. And so on until the water becomes clear. Approximately time is 10 minutes.

Like a nozzle in the form of a mastyrka

To prepare mastyrka from millet, you will need the actual cereal and water. Take 1 part cereal and 2 parts water. The water is brought to a boil.

Then the fire is turned to minimum and millet is poured into the water. The porridge should be cooked to the following state: the cereal should be easily rubbed in your hands, but at the same time it should not boil in water, turning into a homogeneous mass.

In the latter case, the resulting mastyrka will not stick well to the hook. When the cereal is cooked, it needs to be left to steep so that the moisture remaining after cooking is absorbed. Then, using a masher and a mortar, you need to grind the grains.

How to properly cook millet for fishing

You don’t have to go fishing without bait, especially when you don’t have enough experience in this matter yet. Speaking about the delicacy that people make with their own hands, bait made from millet has become very popular - it is impossible to ignore it. True, the nuance is that you still need to know how to cook this porridge so that it turns out aromatic and tasty.

Important! Fish are attracted not only by the smell, but also by the size of the pellets, their shape, and color.

Therefore, these important points cannot be ignored, because fishing can be wasted. If everything is done correctly, the fish will begin to eat the goodies, and therefore will easily get hooked.

Recipes for catching different types of fish - how to flavor bait

Either bait or groundbait can be additionally flavored to attract specific fish. These flavors can be added during the preparation of porridge, when it is just boiling.

Crucian carp responds well to fairly strong aromas. This could be garlic, turmeric, which will additionally color the bait yellow.

Crucian carp also loves cooked millet porridge - millet with garlic is one of the best baits for crucian carp fishing

For bream, flavorings should be used carefully. In cold weather, strong aromas can scare away fish. During the warm season, bream prefers sweet aromas, so vanillin can be added as a flavoring agent.

A good supplement option for catching roach is coriander. It works especially well in cold weather, but roach responds well to it in summer too.

You can also use this grain in carp fishing. The best flavor options for bait would be strawberry and other fruit flavors, and in cold water, spicy flavors.

How to cook millet for fishing to prepare bait for catching carp, crucian carp and other types of fish:

Cooking millet using the “1 thumb” method

This method is not ideal, but it is simple (for the slightly lazy) and, in principle, working. Especially if the millet is cooked for feeding balls . It is recommended in a feeder feeder only as an addition to the main bait, as a large fraction for retention .

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For carp fishing, it is still better to cook it the first way, and undercook it a little, as for winter bait. Undercooked grains are much easier to “mix” with other grains.

Now to the recipe.

If you go fishing on the eve, you can get there quickly enough—you don’t have to put it in the refrigerator. In other cases, refrigerate after cooling.

You can also cook porridge directly while fishing this way. All you need is to have the right tool.

Original recipe:

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Original recipe:

"Lazy" recipe:

After this, the millet has an excellent consistency. Mix it with any bait or cake, and you get an excellent bait composition for fishing.

Hi all! I decided to post my own recipe on how to cook millet for fishing.

I don’t wash the millet, so it’s quick and not tedious. Minimal time investment. Many people, I have seen, wash it for a very long time before cooking it. I don't understand why. Millet already performs great when fishing.

Actually, we need the following ingredients: millet, water and a saucepan. Take millet and fill it with water. After boiling, cook for three to five minutes, depending on the amount of cereal.

After this, the millet has an excellent consistency. Mix it with any bait or cake, and you get an excellent bait composition for fishing.

The entire process is on video. Enjoy watching everyone!

Millet recipe for fishing

The resulting millet bait must be filtered through a sieve so that the grains are separated. The resulting mixture is mixed into dry bait. This mixture does not require additional flavorings.

How to preserve at home and while fishing

Cooked porridge will not be stored for long. This is because it is cooked in water and will turn sour at normal temperatures. Therefore, there is no point in preparing a large quantity in reserve. She will disappear anyway.

In order to preserve bait with porridge while fishing, it should be stored in a place where direct sunlight will not reach.

This is especially true in the summer when temperatures are high. Another item that can be used when fishing is thermal bags. You can store cooked porridge in them. This is especially true if you plan to go fishing for several days, and to prevent the porridge from souring, it should be stored in such travel refrigerators.

There are special resealable foil buckets for mixing bait, which serve as protection from ambient heat.

Advice! To store the finished bait after fishing, you can use the refrigerator. At temperatures up to +5 degrees, bait can be stored for up to 3 days.

Therefore, it will still have to be used in the coming days. There is also the option of freezing the porridge. In this case, the bait can be stored for much longer. To do this, place it in a plastic bag.

If you initially cooked a large amount of porridge, you can immediately put it in portions into bags and take it out if necessary. After defrosting, the composition will need to be re-moistened, since frost displaces moisture. Also, after defrosting, the aroma of the bait may decrease, so it should be additionally flavored.

Dace also loves feeding in the form of millet

How to cook

Preparing this grain for fishing does not require much time and is easy to cook just before going out to the pond. Methods for cooking millet for fishing depend on its purpose.

Millet as a bait

A significant disadvantage of this product is its low adhesiveness. Lumps made even from overcooked grains do not stick well to the hook. But the problem is easily solved with the help of available supplements.

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A proven way to prepare millet for bait is to boil the cereal in milk. First, millet porridge is cooked in the usual way (as for yourself). As the milk boils into the porridge, you can add a little hemp, sunflower or anise oil and sugar. You need to make sure that the porridge does not burn (this smell scares away fish) and if necessary, you need to add milk or water.

After cooling, lumps form from boiled millet. To increase stickiness, wheat flour and cotton wool fibers are gradually added. The density of the nozzle is determined experimentally: the plucked pieces should roll into balls and have sufficient viscosity.

The nozzle should be stored in a plastic bag or in a tightly sealed container. If you need to soften the bait while fishing, you can add a little water like in fishing dough. You should not overuse flavorings, as their excessive smell can scare away fish and attract cancer, and it can turn fishing into a boring and unpromising activity. Although without fish...

Millet as a component of bait

Millet porridge is excellent for bait when fishing with bottom gear, which uses various feeders. Boiled millet is quickly washed out of the feeder and delays the approaching fish for a long time. Usually pearl barley for fishing, chopped worms, small bloodworms, etc. are used with millet.

Preparing millet as complementary food is quite simple. To do this, add the cereal to boiling water and cook until tender. The volume of water should exceed the volume of cereal by approximately 7-8 times. If necessary, water can be added during the cooking process.

When ready, the resulting porridge is cooled under cold water. Upon arrival at the reservoir, cooked millet may form into lumps, but they are easily destroyed by hand. You shouldn’t pack the feeder tightly, because the complementary food should spread quickly enough. When fishing on a current, there are usually no problems, but in still water it is advisable to use additional ingredients, including bottom silt.

The nozzle should be stored in a plastic bag or in a tightly sealed container. If you need to soften the bait while fishing, you can add a little water like in fishing dough. You should not overuse flavorings, as their excessive smell can scare away fish and attract cancer, and it can turn fishing into a boring and unpromising activity.

How else to use it when fishing

Millet porridge can be used as bait or bait. As a bait, this porridge is good because it does not saturate the fish too much.

You can simply throw it in the form of food at the fishing point or mix it with other components and make more complex baits.

If you use clean porridge, you can simply throw a piece of boiled grain into the water, pointwise or fan-wise across the sector, scattering it at several points. If millet is added to more complex compound baits, then balls are molded from the resulting mixture and fed to the fishing spot.

Mastyrka obtained from millet can be used as a bait on a hook. You won’t get away with a lot of mastyrka in one fishing trip, so there’s no point in doing a lot of it.

Millet bait

Many fishermen approach the issue of choosing bait with a healthy minimalism. They believe that it is enough to boil ordinary millet, and the fish will be right there. It is often cooked incorrectly - instead of crumbly bait, you get one large piece that lies in a lump on the bottom and practically does not attract fish. Moreover, in the hot season, such porridge turns sour very quickly, even in water, and can quickly scare away fish from the fishing spot.

The resulting millet bait must be filtered through a sieve so that the grains are separated. The resulting mixture is mixed into dry bait. This mixture does not require additional flavorings.

Remember the main condition for proper millet bait is the order of mixing the components: millet is added to the dry mixture, and not vice versa. If you do otherwise, the bait will not have enough flavor to attract fish. Millet granules act as food for fish and keep them in the desired fishing spot.

Particular attention should be paid to storing porridge. In winter, it will not spoil, but in summer it is better to place it in a cooler bag.

There are many cooking methods here, which depend on the fishing conditions and the expected catch.

Method 1:

250 g of millet should be thoroughly washed beforehand.
Pour 750 ml of water over the millet and cook.
After boiling, reduce the flame intensity to a low level.
It is necessary to cook the millet until it thickens, and stir occasionally so that the porridge does not burn.
When the porridge is almost ready, add a few tablespoons of hot milk.
Now the porridge can be removed from the heat and placed in the oven, preheated to 100 degrees, it must be kept here for a quarter of an hour, adding a spoonful of sunflower oil.

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As a result, the porridge should not be liquid and elastic. It should be stored in a cool place. You can form bait from such porridge by rolling it into balls. You can use porridge cut into cubes as a nozzle. The size of the hook depends on what kind of fish you intend to catch. In all cases, the hook must have a short shank.

It should be taken into account that such a nozzle does not hold well and can erode, so you need to check its condition more often.

Method 2:

Take millet and liquid in a ratio of 1 to 8.
Rinse the millet well before cooking the porridge.
Pour water into a container and bring to a boil.
Pour millet into hot water.
Cook for a quarter of an hour, stirring constantly. The cereal should swell slightly.

If the porridge is burnt or overcooked, it is only suitable for bait. In order to get rid of the burning smell, which will scare away fish, various flavorings are mixed, for example, cake, sunflower, crackers or specialized additives sold in fishing stores.

Particular attention should be paid to storing porridge. In winter, it will not spoil, but in summer it is better to place it in a cooler bag.

If the porridge has spoiled, then you should not use it as complementary food and should not throw it into the pond, this will scare away the fish and pollute the water. Porridge should be prepared as much as needed for one fishing trip.

peas in any form;
porridge from pearl barley, millet, oatmeal, wheat;
dry oat flakes;
breadcrumbs;
corn flour;
cake and bran;
peanut;
roasted sunflower seeds;
cornflakes;
bloodworms, maggots, dung worms;
canned corn and peas;

If we are talking about self-prepared complementary foods, then you should remember that it must contain large fractions of the product. Since bream is a large fish, reaching over 1 kilogram of weight, complementary feeding should be appropriate.

The list of ingredients is quite long, but the preferences of the fish should be taken into account.

What can you use:

peas in any form;
porridge from pearl barley, millet, oatmeal, wheat;
dry oat flakes;
breadcrumbs;
corn flour;
cake and bran;
peanut;
roasted sunflower seeds;
cornflakes;
bloodworms, maggots, dung worms;
canned corn and peas;

A considerable list of products can be added to this list; this depends on the fisherman’s imagination.

Millet porridge is excellent for bait when fishing with bottom gear, which uses various feeders. Boiled millet is quickly washed out of the feeder and delays the approaching fish for a long time. Usually pearl barley for fishing, chopped worms, small bloodworms, etc. are used with millet.