Attracting fish to the fishing spot
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Over many years of practice in fishing using bait on a hook, anglers have developed many ways to increase the efficiency of this process. In particular, one of the effective methods of increasing the concentration of fish in a local place, and therefore the biting activity here, is either baiting or baiting. What is the difference between these two approaches?
First you need to decide on the terminology. Bait is considered to be a portioned supply of fish-attracting feed substances (substances) to the place where fishing is planned, and this is done directly during the fishing process. Privada, on the contrary, is served ahead of time, for a long time, and then fishing is organized at this very place. During the fishing process, bait can also be used. On the other hand, if an angler constantly, with short breaks, fishes in the same place with bait, then the selected area of the reservoir can be considered important. Now let’s understand the purposes served by bait and bait.
Bait, with the help of smell and food particles moving in the water, collects fish located near the fishing site, increases its concentration in a small area of the reservoir, increases food competition and, as a result, the activity of the fish.
The bait is used in order to, with the help of “improved nutrition” in a local place, accustom fish that randomly move around the reservoir to regularly, at a certain time, visit the area of the reservoir chosen by the fisherman. The immutable rule of hooking is to throw food at exactly the time at which they then come to fish.
Having understood the terms and purposes, we note that in addition to bait and bait, there are other ways to accumulate fish in a chosen place. Many publications have been devoted to its successful attraction with the help of various objects (snags, branches, bushes, stones, wickerwork, painted balls, transparent vessels with fry, luminous devices, etc.) placed on the bottom of a reservoir or in the water column. In a similar way, both peaceful and predatory fish are collected in a limited area.
Here, for now, we will only talk about attracting fish of the Cyprinidae family with the help of bait and bait, more precisely, such typical peaceful representatives as bream, roach, carp, crucian carp, silver bream, bleak, ide, tench, etc. Naturally, if the bait or bait contains components of animal origin (worms, bloodworms, maggots, shellfish meat, dried blood, etc.), then it will also attract predatory fish, especially juveniles (perch, pike perch, ruff, chub, Zherekhov). In addition, the very noisy crowding of fish around bait in a limited area of a reservoir is clearly audible to large predators even from a great distance, and they will not ignore it.
In the last century, fishing (not commercial fishing!) was the lot of the elite, and in some places it was persecuted as socially harmful, corrupting idleness. Only thanks to our great fishermen S.T. Aksakov and L.P. Sabaneev and the popularization of Western fishing culture, especially English, fishing became a hobby for millions. Therefore, as for bait, today it is used extremely rarely, although at the beginning of the century it was the main way to attract fishing objects. After all, attachment involves a long-term assignment of a place to one fisherman, and with the modern mass of visiting water bodies, especially near large cities, the unauthorized “rental” of a convenient section of the shore causes categorical protests from other fishermen. It is for this reason that our technology for hooking fish has remained at the level of the last century, while an entire industrial complex has grown up around the production of bait.
Now about the composition of baits and baits, depending on the fishing conditions, season and type of fish, about the means of delivering them to the fishing site and about the correct and responsible use of this serious “weapon” by the fisherman. First of all, it is necessary to keep in mind that if it is used thoughtlessly, great harm can be done to the ecology of a reservoir: more than once we have had to deal with a complete lack of bite in an ideal place in all respects, but often visited, “overstayed” by others. This is the result of the activities of “breadwinners” who are excessively generous due to their fishing illiteracy, who carry backpacks full of various cereals and cakes to the reservoir, and go back empty, cursing the lack of fish, bad weather, bad place... Others do not sin with abundant offerings, but even in a standing situation in water they roll the bait into such dense clay balls that it becomes inaccessible to the fish and quickly deteriorates in warm summer water, scaring away all living things around. The same thing happens in the first case - the fish is not able to consume a large amount of food, it is not a pig and knows when to stop.
Baiting, unfortunately, gives the same picture, only here a large amount of food is considered almost a common rule. Although in this case, one or two handfuls of aromatic spice is more than enough. The main thing here is not to feed the fish, but to teach it to “come fishing” at the right time. A simple conclusion follows from the above: it is better to underfeed fish than to overfeed, and the activity of food consumption should be comparable to the rate of digestion, which in summer most depends on the water temperature - the higher it is (in a certain biological range), the more food the fish consumes, and vice versa. To ensure that the rate of feed consumption is close to the rate of its absorption, modern baits are made from carefully ground components. Collecting small particles, the fish slowly fills the intestines, moves a lot, and additionally consumes energy. In addition, some components of bait, especially those containing heavy vegetable oils, in particular oil cakes, or additives of the oil itself (sunflower, corn, rapeseed, burdock, etc.), act on fish as a laxative, as L.P. wrote about .Sabaneev.
In general, in accordance with the biting activity, you need to supply just enough bait and with such frequency that the fish spends the whole fishing time waiting for the next portion of tasty food and the hook with the nozzle would be desirable for it.
I think it is now clear that in terms of their composition, groundbaits and baits should be close to each other, only the technology of their use differs. The structure of both consists of a base and a binder, filled in one ratio or another with nutritional and attractive components. In baits, the production of which is accessible to any angler, the base usually consists of breaded wheat or corn crumbs and bran in a ratio of approximately 3:1. The most accessible binder is oatmeal. If you don’t have it on hand, you can take oatmeal, lightly fry it and grind it in a coffee grinder. The weight of the binder should not exceed 1/3 of the weight of the base, otherwise the bait, when mixed with water, will turn out to be too viscous, will lie on the bottom of the reservoir in a lump and slowly disintegrate into particles, as a result the fish will quickly become saturated and lose interest in your further actions.
Almost all components of bait are of interest to fish, but only those of animal origin (bloodworms, coretra, maggots, worms, etc.) are considered to be feed additives. This also includes a very small number of plant baits, which are introduced into the bait in the summer - with the purpose of “familiarizing” the fish with the bait. Usually these are steamed grains of cereals (barley, wheat, oats, corn) or legumes (peas, lentils, beans, etc.). But if the angler is not stingy and adds bloodworms and maggots to the bait, then the bite on live baits will be much better than on all sorts of cereals, dough and grains. In all bait, the feed component occupies a tenth by weight.
Additives that attract fish include those products that contain large amounts of substances that stimulate the sense of taste (milk powder, egg powder). They usually make up a maximum of a tenth of the whole bait, since, among other things, they have a very strong binding effect. Almost all modern baits are used in combination with flavors of various natures. Of course, the performance of bait and bait depends on how much water you add to the dry bait mixture (this is done immediately before fishing). Too much - then the bait will turn into a dough-like mass, too little - the components will not swell well, and the current will carry them away from the fishing zone.
Very often, it is necessary to introduce ballast - an inert filler - into the composition of groundbait or bait. This is necessary for two reasons: it increases the weight of the bait and “dilutes” its feed part, as a result of which the fish are not satiated so quickly. The ballast should be loose and not interfere with the washout of the bait in the water. Usually it is a river peso
k or fine gravel, less often earth or loam. Only for strong currents are additives with a high clay content suitable, but it is better to add them to the bait in dry, powdered form, and then stir the whole mixture with water - in this case, the bait will be well washed out, and the clay will give a long trail of turbidity that attracts fish.
Anatoly Mailkov July 10, 2012 at 00:00
Fish bait
Even people who are far from fishing know what bait is, but most likely they have not even heard about bait and baiting, and they don’t even know how one differs from the other.
With bait, everything is more complicated, because it is designed not to simultaneously attract nearby fish to the desired point, but to develop a conditioned reflex in the fish, like Pavlov’s well-known dog, to swim to feed exactly where it is needed and when it is needed, and in whole flocks. And if you don’t feed the fish, accustomed to a stable diet, on the day of fishing, then it will eat and bite whatever you put on the hook, since hunger is still not a problem, and there is no question of any special suspicion in this case can not. The main thing is to never feed them while fishing.
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Privada is not a matter of one day, so it is not accessible to everyone, because most often you can go fishing for one day off, and it is simply impossible to attach the fish to a place during this time. Those who have fishing within so-called walking distance are much luckier, which allows them to have not just one, but two or three baited places at the same time, fishing on which can be done in turn, today - on the first, tomorrow - on the second, in a week - on the third.
The first fishing trip is an indicator of the correct choice of bait, because in different bodies of water or even in different places of one large body of water, preferences can be different. You can experiment with bait by trying one, a friend, a third and choosing the most successful one. The time it takes to acclimate a fish to a place is not the same; for small bodies of water it is shorter, for larger ones it is longer. The time of feeding, that is, casting bait, is usually selected based on the time of the intended fishing, and most often it is either morning or evening.
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The effectiveness of a bait is influenced by a number of factors, such as smell, taste, variety and density. The aroma attracts the desired fish passing by, and sometimes scares away the unwanted ones. The aroma is most effective at night, in muddy or dark, opaque water, because in this case visibility is limited, and the fish largely relies on its sense of smell. The main thing is not to overdo it, because too much flavoring can have the opposite effect and scare away the fish.
The base chosen for bait should ensure that it erodes for as long as possible, because the purpose of baiting is not to feed the fish quickly and to its fullest, but to accustom them to the fact that food can always be found in a given place. Very often, clay is used as a base material, which is usually both available and free. The amount of base (clay) in a plant bait is half of the total weight, in an animal bait it is about a third, its density depends on the current - the faster it is, the thicker the clay; in stagnant water the clay can even be mixed with ground egg shells or sand. How much bait is needed is a delicate matter, and is determined experimentally in a particular place, the main thing is not to give it too much, so that the uneaten does not spoil and does not scare away the fish. There are many recipes for the bait, for example, pour a kilogram of bran with a liter of water, let it brew for about twenty minutes, then rub it through a sieve and leave it to brew for a day or a day. After this, you need to drain the water, add thirty grams of crushed hemp seeds, a couple of drops of anise oil, half a teaspoon of baking soda, and the same amount of fragrant sunflower oil to the resulting mass. Now you need to add flour and knead a stiff dough, form it into balls three to four centimeters in diameter and dry thoroughly, maybe in the oven. The concentrate is ready.
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Most often, the same components that will be used in subsequent fishing are used for bait, but this is not an immutable condition. You can, for example, use thick and tasty maggots for fishing, and attach the fish to the place with cake, all individually, and in the feeding place in the morning a flock of hungry breams and roaches will be eagerly waiting.
