The best vegetable baits for bream
Among the vegetable baits for bream, we will highlight the most popular ones.
Steamed pearl barley , which is often liked by large bream, is a good bait, but small fish can easily remove it from the hook. In addition, it cannot withstand power casts. Because of this, pearl barley is used when fishing with float rods or edges.
Corn or pea mastyr is a fairly common bait. It has a specific color and spicy smell. It attracts fish well.
Semolina is the most popular among vegetable baits. And the whole reason is its effectiveness. She has practically no flaws. The mixture does not become limp in water, sits well on the hook, and does not fly off during power casts. It is this last property that is very important, because bream lives far from the shore. Semolina is supplemented with a variety of flavorings to make it more attractive.
canned corn very often. This bait is specific. But it works very effectively on trophy bream.
Point No. 2 for feeding and catching bream. Edge edge.
The catchability of this point is also explained by the movement of water masses under the influence of the current. The river current throws small feed particles from its flow onto the edge of the edge, and larger and heavier ones will be nailed to its wall (foot). It is important to understand that by current we do not mean the powerful flow that rushes along the channel itself, but its residual phenomenon at some distance from the channel. It is also important to remember that the edge is nothing more than the bed of the former river bed, formed by washing out the soil under the pressure of water. Therefore, if such an edge is located far enough and besides it there are other, more “fresh” ones (for example, from last year’s river bed), then the current may not wash food onto such an edge.
Best animal baits
The standard bait is a worm. Suitable for a variety of ways to catch large fish. It is the worm that provides the opportunity to catch a trophy bream.
Maggot for catching bream is a bait for all occasions. It is resistant to small fish bites. A few maggots placed on a hook are an excellent treat for bream. The bait can be used at any time for all types of fishing. However, in some reservoirs, due to the nature of the food in winter, bream will choose bloodworms, not paying attention to maggots.
Bloodworm is a bait that can be used with any method of catching bream. It is effective in winter or during the warm season. It is best to use bloodworms in the spring; at this time, bream are not interested in other types of bait. Well, in the summer you will have to be creative, because a bloodworm attached to a hook attracts small fish and this is very annoying. So in the summer they rarely catch bloodworms.
The bream is also caught on the goose (dragonfly larva); this fish bites on a caddisfly or on a small herbivorous leech. It is worth experimenting, because in different places the tastes of bream are different and it is often difficult to predict them.
Sometimes experienced fishermen use more exotic baits, for example, cut toothless pearl barley. Its meat is cut into small cubes and slightly dried in the sun. There have been cases when bream was caught on a piece of lard.
Point No. 1 for catching bream. Exit from the pit.
Underwater holes serve as places in which what the river flows settles. In addition to debris, particles edible for fish also settle in the pit. Bream is no exception to the fish family and will definitely examine the contents of holes in search of food. A logical question immediately arises: why fish not in the hole itself, but precisely at the farthest (relative to the shore) exit from it? If you thoughtfully look at the situation through the eyes of a fish, then everything is very simple.
The fish in the hole is limited by its walls and feels unsafe, as if in a trap. It is easier for her to grab food from the pit and immediately get up from it, where it is safe and there is unlimited space for escape. In addition, the most optimal direction for the escape of fish will be towards the riverbed - to the depths, and not towards the shore, where it is shallow. The instinct of self-preservation forces the fish to feed where it will feel safe, i.e. at the exit from the pit. Another argument that you need to fish in this place is that food carried by the river bed will be carried to the edge closest to the river bed, and then washed into the hole, which suits the bream quite well. The occurrence of food objects on the opposite edge of the pit is very occasional and the fish will pay less attention to it.
Artificial baits
Styrofoam is a lure that can be used as an independent bait or to lift a hook off the bottom of a lake or stream. As an independent bait, polystyrene foam is effective for feeder fishing; together with a feeder, it is used exclusively in reservoirs where the current is very weak. The foam additive adds attractive vibrations to the hook, which are effective precisely in the current.
Dough pellets are dried dough casts threaded through with a piece of thread. Just in time for the thread, the pellet is attached to the hook. This bait is effective in strong currents when fishing with side rods. If you use leashes of 1-2.5 meters, the effectiveness of the bait increases greatly.
Bream spawning
The fish reaches sexual maturity at the age of 5-8 years. By this time, the body length is 30 cm. The mating season for bream occurs within a month, when the water temperature reaches 12-15 degrees. The depth of the spawning ground is 0.2-2.5 m. But even in one river or reservoir, some individuals begin to spawn at the moment the willow leaves bloom, while others spawn only at the end of the flowering of the gardens. Bream lay their eggs in places flooded with spring water directly on the vegetation. If the mating season in a reservoir goes smoothly for 10-14 days, then after two weeks you can start fishing for bream.
During spawning, it is useless to hunt this valuable fish. For about two weeks, the bream stops feeding. But it is also important to remember that fish love peace. Will not take bait in noise. It is not for nothing that in ancient times in some settlements where bream were caught, it was forbidden to ring church bells. The noise scared the fish and could deprive an entire village of food.
Other baits
A separate type of bream bait are boilies on a hair rig. This bait should measure 8-12 mm. If the size is smaller, small fish may bite. In this case, both bottom and float tackle are used.
You can buy boilies, but you can also prepare them at home. The recipe is simple. You need to take 100 g of ground seeds, 10 g of sugar, 10 g of flour and 30 g of egg powder. Knead this into a thick dough, stand, roll into balls, boil, and then dry. The finished bait is placed in a plastic bag with the addition of a small amount of ground flour and placed in the refrigerator.
Experienced bream fishermen recommend using combinations or “sandwiches” as bait:
- pearl barley and maggots;
- corn and worm;
- worms and maggots;
- bloodworms and worms (sometimes dough is added);
- bloodworms and maggots.
Such combinations are very effective when fishing.
Features of choosing bait and bait for bream
Depending on the season, the food preferences of bream differ. So to catch it you have to prepare different baits and lures.
Bait in spring
In early spring, bream prefers maggots, bloodworms, caddis flies or worms. If the reservoir is rich in bloodworms, it is preferable to use this type of bait. To catch trophy bream, a worm is used, but for this the water must warm up a little. It is allowed to use different “sandwiches” from maggots and bloodworms, worms and maggots.
If the water warms up and spawning time approaches, you can use vegetable baits: steamed pearl barley and peas, canned corn, bread crumb, semolina porridge or mastyrka. Artificial baits such as foam and test pellets are also effective.
As for bait, be sure to use ingredients that contain sugar: canned corn, the smell of cinnamon, vanilla, fennel, coriander.
A good effect is obtained by adding these components to millet, peas, rolled oats, and pearl barley. You can also add some chopped worms. To form a cloud of turbidity, it is useful to add 2 a little cocoa. And fruit essence will add sweetness to the bait.
Lure in summer
In summer, bream bite on baits of animal origin: bloodworms, maggots, and worms. Vegetable baits used include mastyrka, peas, corn and pearl barley. An excellent result is ensured by the combination of mastyrka and worm. Often, aromatic dough is added to them.
As for baits, you can use both branded and your own mixtures. The main ingredients when preparing your own bait: corn, crackers, millet, oatmeal and sunflower cake. Powdered milk is used to create mule cloud and attract fish. Not a bad result and artificial flavors. But you can't overdo it.
Bait in autumn
In the fall, bream gather in schools to feed before winter. He's very careful. During this period, experienced fishermen recommend taking with you all available types of bait and experimenting. After all, the fish is often capricious and bites uncertainly. It is best to use a bunch of bloodworms as a bait. Also good is maggot or “sandwich”: maggot and bloodworms. Large bream bites on the worm as always.
And of course – the right bait. In autumn it should contain a lot of proteins, because bream tries to gain more fat. Therefore, it must contain maggots and bloodworms. The role of a flavoring agent can be played by the smell of thyme; it is better not to use others.
To attract large bream you need to mix maggots, chopped worms and millet porridge with clay.
In addition, bait made from bran, crackers and sunflower cake, to which bloodworms and maggots are added, has a good effect.
Bait in winter
In winter, bream bite much weaker than in other periods. Practice shows that at this time you can fish with bait of animal origin, however, in addition to maggots and bloodworms, you can also choose soft vegetable baits: steamed pearl barley and dough. You can fish with “sandwiches”: bloodworms and maggots.
Winter bait is not very diverse. Experts recommend completely avoiding flavorings.
The most effective simple baits: cakes and bran, crackers, familiar and effective products with various additives of millet porridge, hemp, pearl barley and peas. It is worth adding small food bloodworms. But the quality of the bait must be high. It is better to choose crackers from black bread and bake them before fishing, and then grind them to a fine fraction.
Point No. 3 Terrace behind the edge.
Again, the movement of water makes this point attractive to bream. The terrace is always located behind the edge and is the old bed of the river bed, flat and long. In this place, the flow of water behaves like a sea surf - hitting the wall of the edge, it creates something like a small whirlpool that licks the settled food from the base of the edge and carries it to the terrace (bream table). Then a new flow picks up food particles from the terrace and again carries them to the edge. This process continues continuously and the bream, knowing it, lingers on the terrace, taking advantage of the fact that each new “surf” of water will supply it with another portion of food.
The presented method of “reading a reservoir”, combined with knowledge of the behavior of fish, allows the fisherman to understand what is happening at the bottom of the reservoir in one or another part of it. Consequently, it will not be difficult to find catchable points, accurately predict where fish will stop and feed, relying only on marking data on the bottom of the reservoir and the behavior of the fish. Fishing turns out to be conscious and you no longer have to blindly thresh the feeder all over the bottom, in the hope of catching something “here and there.”
Choosing bait according to fishing location
When fishing for bream on a river with a strong current, especially when fishing, it is best to use baits that can stick well to the hook. A good effect is provided by bloodworms, red worms, maggot pupae, grains of barley or corn.
If you are fishing for bream in a canal, you should choose a small bait. 4 maggots on a hook or small red worms are best. Bloodworms and maggot pupae also provide a good effect.
When fishing on a lake, you should not use small bait, otherwise small fish will bother you.
The most catchy baits on bodies of water without current are:
- red worm or a bunch of small red worm;
- part of the crawl, and if a large fish bites, then the whole one;
- pasta “horns”;
- corn, 2-4 grains per hook;
- potato cubes, 1 cm in size;
- semolina dough;
- a bunch of maggots, but only in the absence of small fish.
When fishing in a reservoir, plant baits are used less frequently, giving way to animal baits.
Where to catch bream in summer
Where should you look for bream? What bottom topography will be attractive to this fish? To answer these and other questions, I propose to consider the illustration below, with a diagram of a cross-section of a reservoir valley, where three “catching” points are indicated.
I’ll warn you right away that these are the most frequent , and not permanent, feeding places for bream, provided that there is no strong current, an acceptable depth (we’ll talk about it below), no abundant vegetation - in which a predator can hide, and a hard bottom - preventing it from falling through. there is food in it (bream, unlike crucian carp and crucian carp, does not willingly dig into the bottom sediments). Now let’s look at each point marked on the diagram separately, trying to understand what is happening in it and what attracts bream to it.
Recipes for making bream bait yourself
In the summer, the following bait is used to attract large bream. A little sugar and honey are added to the boiled pearl barley. A few drops of sunflower oil are also added. Then the pearl barley must be thoroughly mixed until the sugar and honey are completely dissolved. The honey-sunflower smell is an excellent bite activator when fishing for bream. And the sweet taste will make the fish swallow the bait.
Bread with bloodworms is also a good bait. It is prepared very simply: half a loaf of bread is kneaded with bloodworms (about 100 g of larvae). The result should be a homogeneous dough. For bream, such bread will be much tastier, and the bait can be used at any time of the year. After all, even in winter this fish shows vegetarian preferences.
Another good bait are millet balls. To prepare them, you need to take 2 glasses of milk, add a glass of millet and boil over low heat until completely dissolved. A teaspoon of honey is added to the resulting mixture and everything is thoroughly mixed. In this case, you should try to grind the grains until a dough-like mixture is formed. Then the bait should be brought to condition in the oven, setting the fire to low. Before the finished bait cools, you need to add 5-6 drops of hemp oil to it.
Blitz tips
Experienced bream fishermen know the secrets that allow them to catch this cautious and rather capricious fish.
- An earthworm or dung worm is the most common bait for bream. Often this fish bites on a giant worm - a crawler. What makes this bait so popular is its accessibility: the worm can be found almost everywhere.
- Among the baits when catching bream on a feeder, the leaders are corn and unpeeled peas. They do not attract small fish and are used for catching large bream.
- When using semolina balls (also a catchable bait), you need to make sure that the semolina is not loose, otherwise it will fly off the hook when it hits the water.
- The bloodworm is placed on the hook only in a bunch, which is connected using a special knitting device. This royal bait can be used at any time of the year in all bodies of water.
