Choosing a fishing spot
When fishing with foam plastic, different conditions are taken into account.
- Still water. The fish does not accept inedible bait. More often she goes to get food from the bottom. The bait usually works because the fish mistakes the foam for debris and tries to push it away with its head. Thus, her skin accidentally gets caught on the hook. In this case, it is not necessary to give the foam a grainy appearance or add flavoring.
- Weak or medium flow. It is most preferable for fisherman. Part of the feed rises from the bottom and is in constant motion. The fish are distracted by the passing food and can easily get caught by the slowly sinking bait. Fishing with foam becomes more successful in currents if the bait is not in an unnatural position, but moves slowly, surrounded by food particles.
Fishing Features
You can use only polystyrene foam, but a combination with corn or peas works quite well, a worm and maggot are also suitable. Fishing with this attachment is no different from the classic version. There are some advantages to this. The hook is visible from a great distance; the bait does not touch the bottom. Attaching the bait to the hook is not difficult, it is even easier than corn. The tip of the hook must stick out, otherwise hooking will not produce results.
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How to fish with foam plastic
The methods of catching fish using polystyrene foam are almost no different. In preparation, you should not neglect equipment. Do not make long leashes, use a spring feeder and choose the right place.
Take the balls with you when fishing in a small container. They can be pre-treated with an attractant to impart an odor: tutti-frutti, garlic, plum, anise and others.
Bream fishing
They fish for bream in weak currents. Mesh feeders and dust-producing feed formulations are used.
The leash should be pulled towards the train from the bait and not lie on the bottom, but constantly bounce.
The foam will be attached both by direct stringing and on a hair outlet.
The length of the fishing line varies from 30 to 50 cm. The pressure to the bottom is regulated by a sinker, the weight of which depends on the strength of the current and the weight of the bait.
When fishing for bream, it is advisable to use several tackles. One can be thrown 20 m from the shore. The other is a little 15 m from the first.
The bream sees the fragrant trail and walks along the path, eating the tasty morsels. As it moves, it eats food-shaped baits.
You need to hook at the moment when the foam ball is released through the gills. There the hook picks up the prey.
Fishing for crucian carp
To catch crucian carp using foam plastic, it is recommended to use a spring-shaped feeder. The weight of the feeder should be no more than 100 g. The bottom fishing method is used here.
Crucians are hunted in still water or in places with weak currents. Then the feeder freely sinks to the bottom. It does not show itself to the fish, but only gives out portions of complementary food, which comes off the bottom and settles on the surface of the silt. There should be a foam ball above this spot.
The bait is put on the hook, inserted into the bait, after which it can be lowered into the chosen fishing spot. The complementary food gradually dissolves and the hooks are released. The crucian carp, feeding on particles of food, also eats the hook with bait.
The photo shows an example of a rig using a spring feeder and a nipple (cork rig). The feeder is filled with bait, several short leashes with hooks on which there are foam balls extend from it.
To reliably catch crucian carp, you can make a control mark, and then fish for the trophy.
There is nothing complicated in catching crucian carp with a spring, so the method is common among beginners. There is no need to use special techniques here. After casting the feeder and lowering it to the bottom, you should not move it so as not to scare away the prey.
When it bites, you feel a jerk, after which the line sags.
How to place foam on a hook
When placing foam on the hook, the tip remains open no matter how many balls are on the hook. It is very important that the hook can freely hook into the fish's mouth. If there is too much foam on the hook and the sting does not stick out enough, then the fish will not be hooked well and will easily come off when fished out or will immediately free itself from the hook.
If you cover the tip of the hook with foam, then the fish will swallow it and spit it out, and you will be left without a catch and will not even notice the bite. You must understand that the principle of this fishing is based on self-hooking of the fish, that is, the fish swallows a ball of foam, understands that it does not have any nutritional value and tries to spit it out, but cannot, since the hook is caught in the soft tissues in the mouth. The next reaction of the fish is to run, but here it detects itself thoroughly and the fisherman can only pull the crucian carp ashore. Therefore, it is extremely important to leave the sting open.
When fishing this way, it is not necessary to hook; it is enough just to start reeling in the line after the bite. It is very important that the hooks are sharp and catch the fish well. It is advisable to use new sharp hooks for each such fishing, since the hooks from the previous fishing necessarily became dull during fishing, and then they could become dull during storage and transportation.
Something more about catching crucian carp using polystyrene foam
In addition to the method of catching crucian carp using polystyrene foam, which is described above, polystyrene foam can help out the fisherman in many other cases. This mainly applies to reservoirs with heavily silted bottoms. Fishing on such reservoirs sometimes ends in complete fiasco, especially if you fish on a feeder with a feeder. And even with a float, when fishing from the bottom, you often won’t get a bite.
The thing is that the bait is simply not visible to the fish. It either sinks into the silt along with the feeder when fishing with a feeder, or is practically invisible to crucian carp when fishing with a float rod. But if you can still correct the situation with a float rod by periodically twitching the rod so that the bait moves, then on a feeder you won’t be able to play with the bait that much. I am sure that experienced fishermen have noticed more than once that after moving the bait, a bite occurred - this is precisely what indicates the problem of the invisibility of your bait.
In such cases, foam comes to the rescue. It is enough to place the foam on one hook with the main nozzle and your bait will immediately become much more noticeable to the fish and for silted reservoirs this is practically the only salvation from lack of bite. Firstly, the foam will prevent the bait from drowning in the silt, and secondly, the foam itself is white and contrasts very well against the background of the silt, attracting the attention of crucian carp.
If the pond is silted, first place a foam ball on the hook, and then corn, peas, maggots, a worm or any other bait. This kind of sandwich with polystyrene foam will save your fishing more than once when fishing on a reservoir with a heavily silted bottom. Just be careful, not only crucian carp are caught using polystyrene foam. This attachment works well when catching grass carp and silver carp; often roach, rudd and even carp are caught on the foam. As you can see, a fairly powerful specimen may be caught among the catch; cupid, silver carp or carp can easily break the tackle or drag it into the water, so you should be prepared for such surprises.
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Foam fishing tackle
Interestingly, now fishermen very rarely use this attachment as bait on a float rod. However, according to experts, it is the float tackle with this attachment that can give the greatest pleasure from fishing. Indeed, thanks to its properties, this bait perfectly attracts fish to the fishing spot. As for the donkey, in this case the floating bait is most often used for catching crucian carp.
We do the installation of bottom tackle with our own hands. Nowadays, fishermen mainly use several methods of installing tackle for fishing with foam plastic:
- You need to attach the feeder to the main line. After it is installed, you need to mount two anti-twisters with leads. Moreover, they are installed very close to the feeder. Then another leash is placed and thus the tackle will have three hooks with bait at once.
- In this case, a hook and (a little further on) a feeder are installed on a fishing line 40 cm long. Next they put another leash with a hook. This type of gear allows you to catch fish of all sizes.
Secrets of a good catch when fishing with foam plastic
Since crucian carp has a very developed charm, he is interested in unusual smells. And what is noteworthy is that he is suspicious of the shipped gear. This means that if he feels that the weight of his prey is too heavy, he will immediately spit it out and swim away from that place.
- The crucian carp has at least five different bites. He can bite sharply, and sometimes he tugs at the bait for several minutes and eventually swims away.
- It has been noticed that crucian carp are often quite capricious. For example, this gourmet today only bites on a worm, and tomorrow on anything, but does not pay attention to the worm at all.
- In some reservoirs, crucian carp may not bite at all until lunchtime.
In summer, catching this fish is not only interesting, but also effective. It is during this period of the year that he is more active. In summer you can use more fishing options.
The main thing is to be well prepared for catching crucian carp. It is better to take several types of foam balls with different flavors.
In general, fishing for crucian carp is quite exciting. Even though you don't need to spend a lot of money for this, you should be well prepared. You need to try all the options for feeding and gear from your own experience.
Where else can foam plastic help out?
Fishing with foam can be effective even in cases where fishing with classic baits does not produce any results. As a rule, polystyrene foam is effective in reservoirs with heavily silted bottoms. What's the matter here? But the fact is that, falling to the bottom, the feeder can gradually sink into the silt along with the nozzle. As a result, the crucian carp simply will not notice them. Experienced fishermen, knowing what's going on, twitch the rod from time to time, causing the feeder and the hook with the nozzle to move at the bottom. The task can be greatly simplified if you use polystyrene foam. It can be placed next to the main bait, and it will no longer drown in the mud. If everything is calculated correctly, then you can generally raise the hook with bait above the bottom, which will make fishing effective.
Catching fish such as saberfish requires that the bait be in the water column, since sabrefish do not feed from the bottom. It attacks the bait either at the moment when it slowly sinks to the bottom, or when it is in the water column. And here foam plastic can also help out. The main thing is to insert such an amount of foam so that the hook can rise from the bottom and can be in the water column. Then you can guarantee bites from other fish, such as grass carp or silver carp.
