Bait for bream - the best recipes in spring, summer, winter and autumn

DIY bait for bream

To catch bream, you need a lot of bait mixture, since it is not clear in advance what the activity of the fish will be and how often food will have to be supplied to the fishing area. If the bait suddenly runs out, then you can safely reel in the gear and go home - there will be no bite. Fishing stores sell a wide variety of mixtures.

Advanced and professional brands are expensive, so purchasing them is a costly affair for a simple fisherman, and budget products do not show the expected results. In this case, the most reasonable solution would be to make your own bait for bream at home. Let's look at several recipes for its production.

First recipe

Boil oatmeal and millet in the required quantity over low heat. Be sure to make sure that the porridge does not burn, otherwise the unpleasant smell will not allow you to make attractive bait.
Arriving at the reservoir, we mix the porridge with sand and soil obtained from the river bank.
Add breadcrumbs, peeled sunflower seeds, and vanilla to the resulting mixture. You can fill the mixture with chopped worms or bloodworms.

That's it, the simplest bream mixture is ready. All that remains is to make balls with a diameter of about 10 cm, make a starting feed and periodically throw them into the water, keeping the fish in the fishing zone.

Second recipe

A little more complicated in terms of ingredients, but just as easy to make. We recommend you take note of this:

Directly on the pond in a bowl, mix bran, corn or oat flakes, sunflower cake, bloodworms or maggots, coffee drink or ground coffee beans.
Add clay from the bottom of the reservoir and water also taken from there to the prepared mixture.
Mix the mixture until thick. Let it brew for a few minutes.

Similar to the first case, we make balls and send them into the water in portions.

Advice! Breadcrumbs are the most versatile aromatic component of a homemade mixture for bream fishing.

Third recipe

The most complex of those presented in this section, but it is the most versatile; it works throughout the open water season; in addition to bream, it can be used for hunting roach, crucian carp and crucian carp. Does this:

Boil 3–3.5 cups of water in an enamel pan.
When the water boils, add 2.5 cups of barley to it.
Cook it until half cooked and then, as the pearl barley swells, add millet to the pan.
Cook the porridge until almost all the water has boiled away.
Then turn off the pan, cover it with a lid and let it brew for about 45 minutes.
You can add vanilla, sunflower oil, and other flavorings to the cooked porridge.

When going to a pond, we transfer the porridge to another container, mix it with corn grits, and add clay directly on the river bank. You can throw one or two handfuls of small bloodworms, maggots or earthworms, chopped into pieces, into a bucket of bait.

The advantages of bait made at home are:

cost savings;
you can come up with the recipe for the mixture yourself;
full control over the cooking process.

However, preparing bait with your own hands will take time. The fisherman will have to control the process in order to make a working and catchable mixture.

What is needed to make it at home

To make bait for bream you do not need to have any top-secret knowledge and skills. It is enough to understand the basic principles of creating an effective mixture, take all the necessary ingredients, and have the desire to make it at home.

Basic components

The homemade mixture is made in such a way that it contains large fractions. Bream is a weighty fish that loves large pieces. Dusty bait, on the contrary, will attract the attention of small bleak, silver bream, roach, completely ruining fishing.

The basic homemade components are:

pearl barley and millet cereals;
cereals;
peas;
bran;
cake;
breadcrumbs;
peeled sunflower seeds;
cornflakes;
canned corn and peas.

Of the animal ingredients, it is worth noting bloodworms, maggots and earthworms. The first two components do not have to be selective. Choose a cheap feed option. It is better to chop the latter into pieces measuring from 0.5 to 2 cm.

Taste preferences of bream

Bream loves aromatic smells, so various additives that improve its taste are welcome. To do this, they often use natural ingredients that are accessible to everyone. They less often resort to the use of artificial purchased ingredients.

The most popular and effective flavored additives are:

peeled roasted sunflower seeds
cinnamon
anise
roasted and ground flax grains
sea buckthorn, hemp, and less often sunflower oils
fennel
garlic
caraway
coriander.

The listed additives have a positive effect on the bite of bream when fishing in warm water. When it gets colder, the taste preferences of fish change. Therefore, it is advisable to replace sweet smells with “animal” ones, increasing the amount of food bloodworms, chopped worms, maggots, or all of them together in the feed.

Basic fillers

Having decided on the main ingredient, we must not forget about the optimal proportions of bait components. It should be attractive to the fish, but not satiate it. Otherwise, the bream, having eaten the offered mixture, will not want to take the bait.

Binding Ingredients

Since bream is caught on the current, the bait mixture must contain a binding component. Otherwise, it will become dusty and disintegrate before it touches the bottom. It will be quickly washed away by the flow of water, and its effectiveness will be reduced to zero.

The main connecting elements are:

clay
chopped oatmeal
pea puree or dry ground grains
flour or bran

When preparing bait, it is enough to add one component, and moisten the resulting mixture with water, stirring until it reaches a consistency at which the mass does not immediately crumble in your hands, but also does not become too viscous, like dough.

Groundbait for bream

Some anglers claim that the white bream bites better without bait, especially in still water, while others point out that it is impossible to do without it, especially when fishing on the river. Therefore, most of these anglers have developed their own approach, which is that not all holes are baited. In this way, it is possible to determine the preferences of the fish. Typically this is done as follows:

If a drilling scheme is selected, consisting of batches that include three holes, then the first batch is not fed.
The second batch is fed with a purchased mixture.
The third batch is fed with bait prepared independently. The easiest way is to use breadcrumbs, which are simply poured into the hole.

This approach allows you to determine not only the type of bait, but also whether bait is needed at all.

For the feeder when fishing in the current

To catch bream with a feeder in the current, the bait options already described above are used. But, so that the flow of water does not immediately wash the mixture out of the feeder, you need to increase the amount of the large fraction in it. In addition, it is useful to add bloodworms to the porridge, or better yet, pieces of dung worm.

A special pea stick is used as a binding component, which can be purchased at any fishing point. To save money, you can grind your own pea flour or cook a thick puree.

The best all-round mixture

Every angler wants to know a bait recipe that is suitable for any conditions. This mixture exists and is quite simple to prepare. It contains the following components in the proportions below:

2 cups each of barley, corn grits and pearl barley
1 glass each of millet and semolina
2 tablespoons unrefined vegetable oil
several packets of vanilla

For reference! This bait mixture was proposed by the famous bream breeder D.A. Salapin and tested by many feeders on different reservoirs.

First, cook the pearl barley until it swells. Then add unrefined oil, vanillin and millet to the pan. Immediately after boiling, remove the porridge from the heat, cover with a lid and let it brew for about half an hour. Now add the remaining ingredients to the still warm brew and mix the mixture thoroughly.

Bait depending on the fishing season

Depending on the season of the year, bream changes its taste preferences. The behavior of fish at different times must be taken into account when preparing bait for catching fish. An experienced fisherman understands these nuances well, acts flexibly, and quickly adapts to the prevailing conditions.

In the warm season, he behaves actively, eats a lot and willingly, but behaves choosily due to the abundance of various food in the water. It is necessary to use flavors and other additives to attract the attention of the fish and keep them at the fishing point.

As it gets colder, the fish reduces its activity, moves little, conserves energy, and therefore feeds modestly, quickly becoming full. In this case, bright aromas, on the contrary, can alert the fish, scaring them away from the fishing area. Therefore, a mixture with natural smells and tastes works better.

Summer

In the summer, bream becomes picky, since there is a lot of nutritious food in the reservoir. The angler is faced with the task of attracting the attention of the fish and not saturating it too much, so that it has the desire to “graze” in the feeding area and it eventually swallows the hook with bait.

High-calorie bait is not needed in warm water, so it should consist of plant components based on cereals. Of the natural additives, sunflower seeds and cake showed themselves to be the best. Also, the mixture must be generously diluted with inedible ingredients - earth, soil, sand from the bottom or shore of a reservoir.

Recently, experienced fishermen are increasingly using an additive such as betaine. This is a special powder designed to increase the appetite of fish. A bream that eats a mixture containing this substance does not feel full, so it “grazes” longer at the point. Therefore, the likelihood of it being bitten will be higher.

In addition, it is recommended to add various attractants to the summer mixture. Among the most popular are:

anise
cinnamon
coriander

Fruit flavors show good results, especially strawberry and pear. But they must be added carefully, otherwise you can spoil the bait, on the contrary, reducing its productivity and attractiveness to fish.

Spring

In the spring, before spawning and after the winter lull, the bream begins to eat off, gaining strength before moving upstream and the spawning process. At this time, you can serve him plenty of different food without fear of overfeeding the fish.

In addition to cereals, complementary foods must contain animal components. Chopped earthworms and bloodworms would be a good choice. Protein components attract bream to the fishing site. Additionally, you can add the smell of honey or vanilla to the mixture.

Winter

When fishing in winter, all sweet tastes are excluded from the bait. The mixture is prepared on the basis of peas or pearl barley. Bloodworms and worms must be added to it, or similar attractants are used. Less soil is taken from the bottom of the reservoir than in summer.

In winter, fish should be fed in smaller portions. During the cold period, the bream is in a kind of suspended animation, trying to move less, expending energy. Accordingly, he eats less often and only in limited doses. It is important not to oversaturate it, otherwise the bite will be sluggish and the results will be almost zero.

Lures for bream

Lures for catching bream can be divided into seasonal and universal. A bunch of bloodworms, dung worms, earthworms, maggots or a “sandwich” made from them is suitable for any body of water, both in open water and for winter fishing.

In the warm season, the range of baits increases significantly due to the use of plant baits:

Steamed grains: wheat, rye, pearl barley, oats, corn, peas.
Canned peas and corn.
Bread crumb and dough with the addition of minced meat.
Ground porridge or mastyrka: millet, semolina, corn, buckwheat, oatmeal.

Choosing an effective plant bait for catching bream in an unfamiliar body of water is quite difficult. Therefore, it is necessary to consult with other fishermen, and in case of their absence, experiment on your own. In this case, the method of putting a maggot or piece of worm together on a hook with the plant bait being tested works well.

Ready-made purchased options - the best manufacturers

The modern fishing industry offers anglers a great selection of diverse baits. The store counters are full of colorful packages with the object of fishing on them. Unobtrusive advertising encourages you to use bright packs and memorable names.

However, not every factory bait shows the expected result. There is a certain list of brands that have proven their worth in many reservoirs of our latitudes. Among them:

Sensas Feeder
Traper bream
Green Fishing Energy
Dunaev Premium bream
Marcel Van Den Eynge Gold-Pro Greel
Mondial-F Wintermix Bream Red

Many of the listed brands were developed by professional athletes, taking into account the specifics of fishing in our regions. Therefore, their effectiveness is confirmed by impressive catches and weighty trophy specimens.

How to properly feed bream

It is not enough to simply prepare a tasty mixture; it is important to correctly deliver it to the fishing area. The fisherman must learn to accurately deliver bait to the fishing point, be able to dose its quantity and determine the moment when it is necessary to send a fresh portion into the water so that the fish does not leave the area where fishing is being done.

Each fishing method, at different times of the year, has its own specific feeding rules. By adhering to them, the angler will always be able to optimally distribute the mixture consumption and keep the fish at the fishing point for the required amount of time.

When fishing on the feeder

Feeder hunting involves the use of feeders, with the help of which the mixture is supplied to the fishing area. The fisherman is required to create a “table” at the bottom where the fish will gather. The selected point should be periodically recharged, maintaining its attractiveness for underwater inhabitants.

At the beginning of fishing, the angler determines the casting range and clips the cord on the spool. After this, the starting feeding is done, a spot is created on the bottom: the feeder is sent into the water, and with a sharp jerk of the rod it is freed from the bait. 5 to 10 casts are enough.

Then full-fledged fishing begins. As a rule, the fish arrives at the point after half an hour. First, small bream, silver bream, and roach begin to peck. Medium and large bream appear after an hour and a half. Therefore, you need to be patient and not change your place ahead of time.

If there are no bites, you should not move the equipment too often. The food should be washed out of the feeder. This usually takes from 3 to 15 minutes. It all depends on the strength of the current, the bottom topography in the fishing zone, the composition and consistency of the mixture.

When float fishing

In float fishing, it is customary to make a powerful starting feed. The fisherman makes 10–15 large balls and sends them to the fishing zone. After that, he methodically throws 1-2 medium balls into the water at intervals of 15-20 minutes.

Casting is done by hand. It's not difficult, especially with some experience. So that the ball does not fall apart when it hits the water and does not crumble when lowered to the bottom, it is weighted and held together with clay taken from the shore of the reservoir.

There are special slingshots. They are more often used by carp anglers, but in a float rod they are also useful for hunting at medium and long distances. If fishing is carried out in short distances, then you can use a bait cup attached to a telescopic stick.

When fishing on a medium and large river, you must take into account the current factor. The balls are sent into the water with the assumption that they will be carried away by the stream until they sink to the bottom. The more accurately the angler calculates the casting point, the more effectively it will work.

in winter

When hunting for bream from under the ice, the mixture is delivered to the point using a special feeder called a dump truck. It is filled with bait and lowered into the hole. After waiting for about a minute, the contents are poured to the bottom, and the device is filled with another portion.

After making several feeding casts, they pause for about half an hour. After the fish begins to feed, the created spot is periodically replenished with fresh portions. As a rule, this is done after 15–30 minutes, depending on the intensity of the bite.

Advice! In winter, you need to feed very carefully and in doses. An overfed fish will simply stop biting.

If bream fishing is carried out in calm water, then you can feed from the same hole where the fishing rod will subsequently be installed. If you are fishing in the current, then an additional hole is drilled in the ice 1–1.5 meters above the working hole, where the feeder will be lowered.

Plant attachments

There are a great many of them. It is not possible to consider them all in one article, and their effectiveness varies extremely in different bodies of water. Somewhere fish can peck wildly at mastyrka made from pea paste, somewhere it prefers pasta, and somewhere it bites well only on semolina pancakes, and ignores mastyrka altogether. All this is determined empirically. Therefore, it is best, when going to a reservoir, to take with you some animal baits, which are effective almost everywhere, and several plant baits, in order to determine which will bite better. In the future, you can use already explored bait.

Semolina

Nozzle No. 1 for bream. It is prepared by mixing it with an equal amount of water as the cereal taken. The result should be a thick paste that cannot be picked up, but can be easily wound onto a hook with a stick. You can fill a syringe with this paste by pulling out the plunger and sucking it in through the hole for the needle, and then insert it with a syringe - this way it will stay fresh longer in the summer heat and will stain your hands less.

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There is no point in being afraid that it will be washed away by the current. Even when fishing in a strong current, it will almost always be on the bottom, where the current flow is much weaker than on the surface, and there is generally zero current on the surface of the bottom.

The main problem with semolina porridge is that small fish can suck it from a hook, which it is not able to swallow. Therefore, it is effective only when it is known that there is a school of bream at the bait point and only bream will bite. Usually, bream rarely coexists with other non-predatory fish, repelling it with its presence. It is optimal to fish with something else, less susceptible to tearing, and then, when you catch the first bream, switch to semolina porridge. When the flock leaves, when many empty bites of small things begin, it is worth switching again to another nozzle.

Mastyrka

An attachment based on semolina porridge, when semolina is added to pea porridge and it swells there. The result is a paste that you can take with your hands and put balls on the hook. It emits a distinct protein odor in the water due to vegetable protein from peas, which fish like and are willing to eat. It, like semolina, can be sucked off the hook by small roach and silver bream, which are not able to swallow the hook, so it is better to use the same tactics as with semolina.

Tips for choosing bait for bream

Spring baits

Depending on weather conditions in the spring, bream can actively react to different baits: March: bloodworm, worm, semolina, dough. April worm, maggot, bloodworm. May peas, corn, dough, pasta, semolina, bread, boiled wheat, pearl barley. The higher the air and water temperatures, the faster the bream switches from animal baits to plant baits.

Summer baits

In the summer heat, many complain about a complete lack of bite, but this is not always true. Properly selected bait can attract the attention of bream even in the heat. June: worm, maggot, corn, peas, pasta. July: steamed barley, maggot worms in the form of sandwiches. August: bread, pasta, corn, maggot worm. Temporary decreases in temperature indicators will entail a return of bream to animal types of bait ; vegetable bait should be offered in hot weather.

Autumn lures

In the autumn, bream continue to be actively caught on the feeder; groundbait and bait, as before, should work in tandem in such gear. As the temperature drops, bream will again want “meat” baits. September: earthworm and dung worm, maggot, hominy, bread, steamed cereals. October: bloodworms, worms, less often maggots. November: maggots and bloodworms, plant-based baits will not work. It is important to understand that the bait used in crushed form must be added to the bait .

Winter lures

In winter, bait for bream is very important; it is more difficult for passive fish to attract attention. Therefore, the selection of bait should be approached very carefully. December : sandwiches made from pieces of worms, bloodworms and maggots, less often boiled peas are used. January : bloodworm, worm. February : worm, bloodworm, semolina, peas. You can experiment and try using the dough as bait; at the end of February, bream can respond well to this species.

Fishing pastes

In some reservoirs they have incredible efficiency, depending on the type of paste. There is no point in relying on color or smell - fish feel and see everything much more sharply than humans, and perceive synthetic colors and smells differently. You just need to remember the type of paste that was pecked at, and then continue to buy only that for these conditions. The rules for fishing with paste are the same as for mastyrka.

Corn and pasta

A large bait that cannot be swallowed by small fish and attracts only bream. Corn is used from canned food. Special fishing cans are sold, where corn grains have different sizes and are selected for fishing, which size will be the best to bite. Pasta uses the smallest cones that are sold in the store. When fishing with corn, be sure to move the tip beyond the grain, because it has a fairly tough skin that will be difficult to penetrate when hooking.

Cake

Makukha, or sunflower cake, is used in the southern regions. The flour is ground in a coffee grinder or blender and added to semolina. Then it is used to make a composition similar to mastyrka, steaming it in a saucepan or microwave. In some reservoirs, fishing with makukha can be very successful, especially in the summer. It has a strong odor that quickly spreads in the water, as well as a fatty trace that is attractive to fish.

In general, catching bream using vegetable baits is a more rewarding experience, especially when bottom fishing. There is no need to frequently re-throw the tackle to replace a dead worm or maggot; it’s easier to hook it. However, effective fishing will only take place in the summer, when the smell spreads well in the water. As the temperature decreases, the osmotic pressure in the water column will be lower, and odors will dissipate much worse. Therefore, it is better to use animal baits here.