Catching bream on a feeder in the fall: groundbait, bait in September, October and November

Groundbait and preferred baits: general rules

In the autumn months, residents of reservoirs begin to prepare for winter. At this time, bream need as much protein as possible to survive the long winter under the ice. If in September the fish prefers to remain on a summer diet, then as cold weather sets in, it is necessary to increase the amount of protein in the menu.

It is worth including some peas in the bait at the beginning of autumn. It is boiled and passed through a blender. Be sure to mix peas with breadcrumbs, adding pieces of maggots and worms. You can replace the peas with canned corn. Boiled pearl barley or millet groats are also added to the bait. But a diet without animal protein will be useless.

Important! For 5 kilograms of bait you will need 100 grams of maggots or bloodworms. From the baits you need to choose those that are of animal origin. Worms, bloodworms, and maggots are best suited.

The ratio of the protein component increases as the water and air temperatures decrease. The main thing in feeder fishing is not to overfeed the bream. Therefore, it is necessary to wisely fill the feeders with nutrient mixtures. The pleasant aroma will attract fish, and the catch will be significant.

But there are a number of rules for attracting:

1. Add maggots to feeders more often as fish activity decreases.
2. From the end of October, the worm should be replaced with bloodworms.
3. Food should be flavored sparingly.
4. For aromatization, alcohol liquids with aromas of anise, pepper, lemon balm, anise, and coriander should be used.
5. At water temperatures below 10-12 degrees, baits and bait made from plant components will not interest bream.

An attentive fisherman will experiment with baits, monitoring the behavior of the fish and its activity. Even animal food should be changed, starting with maggots, dung worms and switching completely to bloodworms until freeze-up. Mixtures for feeder fishing are purchased in specialized stores. But many people prefer to make their own bait.

Homemade bait recipe No. 1

The proportions of the prepared mixture should be observed so that the bream’s nutrition is high-calorie and balanced. Then the bite will be active. You need to calculate the components using small measuring cups. The mixture is based on special fish food. It will be sufficient in the amount of 2-dimensional units. Mixed with it:

• the same amount of roasted hemp seeds and breadcrumbs (3 m.u.);
• 1 part each of dry clay, egg powder;
• 3 parts crushed maggot;
• 2 pinches of dried dill.

Dry ingredients are steamed. The crushed mass of worms or maggots should be placed at the last moment after filling the feeder. Rusks are needed in bait to hold the nutritional mass together. The clay makes the feeder heavy, helping it sink to the bottom. During the current, fertilizer with clay is less washed away. In calm water, replace the clay in the nutrient mixture with sand. At the beginning of autumn, you can add some potato chips, after crushing them. They add flavor to the bait and contain a lot of calories.

DIY recipe No. 2

The nutritional mixture can be made by adding to it:

1. hemp or flax bran;
2. corn sticks, finely chopped;
3. sunflower cake;
4. bloodworm;
5. maggot;
6. dry clay.

Most of the complementary feeding is taken up by bloodworms (5 parts), maggots are taken a little less (3 parts). The plant component - cake occupies 3 parts, and bran - 2. The remaining ingredients - 1 part each. It’s worth adding a little dried mayfly and Zdorovye coffee powder. The main thing is that all the ingredients are crushed and moistened. Bloodworms and maggots are added in portions.

What flavors and dips work best?

You can attract bream to the feeder with aromas. In autumn they should not be sickly sweet as in summer. The smell of a worm and bloodworm works. The aroma of anise, cloves, cinnamon, and thyme will be attractive to the inhabitants of rivers and lakes. Don't add too much odorous liquid. Too much scent will only scare you away.

Bait for bream - the best homemade recipes

You can make your own bait at home. Below you can find recipes for the most effective mixtures.

Catchy winter mixture

To prepare you will need to purchase the following ingredients:

• breading – 250 gr;
• peas – 250 gr;
• sunflower cake – 60 g;
• flaxseed – 60 gr.

Peas are ground and steamed for 5 hours. After this, the ingredient is combined with sunflower cake, flaxseed and breadcrumbs. The composition is thoroughly mixed.

Recipe for catching bream in still water in summer

To prepare an effective bait mixture, the fisherman will need to stock up on:

• breading – 400 gr;
• ground roasted sunflower seeds – 300 g;
• bran – 400 g;
• boiled millet – 400 g;
• coriander – 1 tsp.

The listed ingredients are mixed together with a small amount of clay.

Bait recipe for catching leash in the current

Pour into a deep container:

• 350 g sunflower cake;
• 250 g breadcrumbs;
• 400 grams of oatmeal (pre-boil);
• 350 grams of sprouted peas;
• 2 tbsp. ground coriander.

The components are mixed. Arriving at a pond, the fisherman will only need to combine the bait with a small amount of clay or soil.

A mixture for catching bream in the current is added to the feeder

Autumn bait for fishing in the current

To prepare, the fisherman will need to combine 300 grams of breading and 300 grams of sunflower cake in a deep container; add a small amount to the resulting mixture:

• unsalted diced lard – 50 g;
• rye bran – 100 g;
• boiled rice – 100 g;
• chopped bloodworms – 50 g;
• maggot – 50 g;
• ground coriander – 1 tsp.

The listed components are mixed with clay.

Recipe for tasty bait for catching bream in spring

400 grams of sunflower cake are combined with 400 grams of boiled millet. To the resulting mixture add 50 grams of bloodworms, 150 grams of rye bran and a couple of tsp. ground coriander. Arriving at the reservoir, you need to mix the components with a small amount of sand and clay.

Winter bait option

During the cold season, the water in rivers and lakes becomes more transparent. In order not to spook wary freshwater fish, it is worth creating a certain turbidity. To prepare a suitable bait, you need to mix 550 grams of breadcrumbs, 70 grams of fried sunflower seeds, 150 grams of pea cereal and 50 grams of pre-steamed oatmeal in a deep container.

To prepare a mixture that attracts bream, you will need to grind:

• 250 grams of peas;
• 300 g buckwheat;
• 250 grams of pearl barley;
• 100 grams of hemp grains;
• 200 grams of corn flour;
• 300 grams of breading.

After grinding, the cereals need to be fried. The components are mixed. When you arrive fishing, you need to add a small amount of clay and flavoring to the resulting mixture.

Salapinka groundbait

Winter geyser

To prepare the bait mixture, fishermen mix any porridge for bream (500 g) with dry milk (200 g), dark food coloring and 100 g of bloodworms. A winter geyser will generate a lot of dust and keep fish in the fishing zone for a long time.

Recipe for fishing during the low winter season

250 grams of wheat are combined with 125 grams of millet and 50 grams of feed bloodworms. First you need to steam the wheat and millet. The grains should not be soft. In the resulting porridge for freshwater fish, you should add 1 tsp. coriander or vanilla essence/crushed boiled egg.

Porridge recipe for catching bream on the river

To prepare porridge for bream, the fisherman will need to mix in a convenient deep container:

• 200 grams of bran;
• 300 grams of ground sunflower cake;
• 100 grams of ground corn sticks;
• 100 grams of clay;
• 50 ml Kolos coffee drink;
• 50 grams of small bloodworms;
• 80 grams of small maggots.

If possible, you can add a small amount of mayflies (winged insects).

The best powerful bait for catching bream, made by yourself - video recipe:

What gear is used

A decrease in water and air temperatures pushes bream to migrate away from the shore. After all, in shallow water the water does not warm up and is covered with thin ice. The fish goes deeper. At this time of year, they change gear to a bottom fishing rod, or feeder.

The feature of the fishing rod will be:

• The rod is 3.9 meters long. On rivers with strong currents, you need gear with feeder feeders from 100 grams. On reservoirs and lakes, the feeder is represented by a long rod from 3.8 meters, a heavy river fish or a medium.
• The rod's construction is Progressive. The upper part of the blank will work under medium load, the entire length will work under strong impact.
• Special feeder reels. Heavy river fishing requires a spinning reel with a spool size of 5000. Light and medium class bottom fishing rods require reels of 4000.
• Monofilament fishing line with a diameter of 0.25-0.3 mm. It should not stretch, otherwise the bites will not be visible. It is better to use a special fishing line that says Fieder. This indicates the rigidity and inextensibility of the equipment.
• Open type feeders in the form of cages made of plastic or metal.
• High-quality and sharp hooks numbered from 7 to 10. It is better to purchase thin wire hooks from Owner, Gamakatsu. They will easily fit in the mouth of a bream.

Even beginners know that before fishing it is necessary to adjust the gear to the fishing conditions. From classic feeder equipment choose:

1. paternoster with two outlets: for a feeder and a leash with a hook;
2. a Gardner loop, replacing the tap on the feeder with a loop;
3. a helicopter and two knots that allow you to fish with a gliding bait;
4. symmetrical or asymmetrical loop.

Any type of equipment must have bite sensitivity. It is important to choose the correct length of the leash and outlet, taking into account the current, depth of the reservoir, and the behavior of the bream.

For your information! At night, the bream bite gives way to calm. The fish bite continues for 3-4 hours, and before dawn there is a period without biting. You need to prepare your gear before dark and determine where the fish will be staying.

Nuances depending on the month

Fishing productivity can be high at any time of the year. It is necessary to take into account the nuances of fishing in each month of autumn.

In September

Bream is a fish sensitive to weather changes. Even a slight cold snap encourages fish to gather in schools and move in search of food. But they do not go deep, since there is enough food everywhere. They appear near the shore at night, and in the morning they can be caught in small depressions. In windy weather it is better to fish in calm places.

Of the baits used to hold on the point, fine-grained mixtures with:

• cereals;
• dough;
• bread.

It will be more effective to use a “bait”, like that of hunters. Applying fertilizer to the same place every day will increase the bite. The most effective baits to use are maggots and dung worms.

In October

As cold weather sets in, bream becomes inactive. The fish migrate in schools. Flocks accumulate at depth. They need little food, they were full in September. October fishing is carried out with a bottom fishing rod. The equipment is chosen in the form of a paternoster and others, where the bait will lie on the bottom.

For bait, bunches of bloodworms and worms are used. But it’s better to refuse maggots: there will be no bites. Crushed live bait is added to the complementary food. Without it, bream will not react to cereals and peas. Flocks willingly visit feeding areas located at the exit from bottom pits. You should not apply fertilizing in one place. It is better to throw the feeder at different distances.

In November

Before freeze-up, bream lies at depth. In the pits, the fish prepares for the winter, without intending to leave their homes. The water at depth is warmer than near the shore. It is difficult to find it before winter. They often cast a fishing rod with a long rod to determine the bottom topography and the location of a school of fish. Searches are organized at depth using an echo sounder.

In cold water it reacts to complementary foods of animal origin. It is better to purchase the food mixture in a store that offers the brands Trapper, Sensas, Dunaev. “Sandwiches” are made with bait and bait taken in a ratio of 1:1 or 1:2.

Bait 1-2 pieces of bloodworms and maggots onto the hook. Bundles of bait will allow you to catch large fish, not small ones. The catchability of the feeder in November will increase if several feeders are included in the equipment.

Feeding features of bream in autumn

You can catch active bream biting in the fall at the beginning of September, especially if the weather is clear. Bites can also be observed in windy and cloudy weather, but for fishing you need to find a calm place. To attract the attention of the inhabitants of reservoirs during this period, it is advisable to use fine-grained feeding, which will only irritate the bream’s appetite. He will not be able to be completely satisfied with such food and will stand in one place for a long time.

The main baits for carp in September are:

With the arrival of October and a sharp cooling, the fish in question changes its behavior. At this moment, the bream are already sufficiently full, so the feeding regime lasts no more than 4 hours a day. Cyprinids begin to gather in schools; they prefer to be in the middle layers of the reservoir, where the water is warmer. In October, fish consume food from the bottom. It is advisable to use components of animal origin as a nozzle. It could be the same dung worm or a bloodworm familiar to bream. Using maggots does not always give the desired effect. Due to such behavioral characteristics, food components of animal origin must be used in the composition of bait used in mid-autumn.

Where to look for fish sites on rivers and lakes

Autumn searches depend on the type of reservoir. On closed ones, the bream sits in deep holes, where there are steep edges and sharp drops. The fish does not like a smooth descent of the bottom. It is better to cast the feeder from a boat in large lakes and reservoirs. This makes it easier to catch fishable areas.

On rivers, bream prefers to be in:

• deep pools, holes with a hard bottom;
• canals along the riverbed with edges;
• places where the current is slow or swirling;
• snags along the cliff.

Flocks roam in search of food near the bridge supports. You can find fish in the middle of the riverbed, where there is a lot of shell rock and pebbles at the bottom. In October, bream rarely appear on beach areas. It greedily grabs food at the average depth of the sandy bottom at night. But it prefers to walk in places where aquatic vegetation is found on the bottom.

Before you start fishing, you need to probe the proposed parking areas. It is impossible to carry out the procedure from the shore. From the boat they make several casts along the river bed, where the bottom is strewn with pebbles. Do not ignore steep banks. They are washed away by water, releasing food for schools of fish.

What do you use to catch bream in the fall?

In the autumn, bream baits are used of purely animal origin. As in the summer, the classic bait is a bunch of dung worm, which is stuck on the hook in the center of the body, allowing both tips to wriggle, which is very attractive to bream. Using a panicle of a large bloodworm and a bait formed from three to five maggots almost never remains without the interest of the fish. During periods of uncertain bites, they switch to combinations of these baits, using worms and maggots, maggots and bloodworms in a mix. Some regions are characterized by lard fishing. The meat of pearl barley and toothless fish works effectively in reservoirs where these mollusks are part of the natural diet of bream schools.

What is the best time to fish?

Most suitable watches:

1. In September at early dawn until 9-10 am. From time to time the fish bite at dusk.
2. In mid-autumn from morning until, occasionally, noon. Bream often go out to search for food at night.
3. In late autumn at midnight and until 2-3 am.
4. The biting mode is maintained until ice sets in the reservoirs. To make fishing at night successful, you should install a guard, sound or luminous, on your rod.
5. A fishing rod stand is also equipped with similar devices. When fishing from a boat, you need an anchor that can stay in one place.

Catching bream in the fall is interesting. The main thing is to find fishing spots and prepare your gear. You should opt for a feeder as the most catchy gear for this time of year.