Plant baits for fishing

It's no secret that fish, like any other living organism, loves variety in food. Depending on the time of year, water temperature and habitat, plant bait may be preferable to maggots, worms, and larvae of various insects. Just as people want something on a hot day, fish scour in search of some goodies, fishermen noticed this a long time ago and began to use a wide variety of plant products for bait:

• Wheat
• Barley
• Peas
• Corn
• Beans
• Potato
• Carrot

Boiled wheat

A good summer and autumn bait, reminiscent of small water snails, is especially effective for catching small and medium-sized crucian carp. After first filling the wheat with water for 8-10 hours, cook it for 2-3 hours over low heat until the grains swell and crack lengthwise. Then let the mass cool in the broth, which we sweeten a little. On the smallest crystal hooks No. 7-14, place from one to three grains, depending on the size of the hook.

All grain baits must be boiled in a mixture with cake, preferably hemp. The cake can be replaced with sunflower, flax and hemp seeds, first pound them in a mortar or pass them through a meat grinder twice. It is better to prepare any dough for the nozzle not with water, but with milk or berry juice. Boiled cereals are one of the most reliable baits for catching crucian carp. Roaches and all cyprinids also take them well.

For attachment, select whole grains with unbroken skins. The hook is passed under the skin, and the sting is brought out slightly. Wheat is placed on a dark hook No. 2.5-4 with a short shank; more than three grains are not hooked. Complementary feeding is necessary according to the principle: less, but more often. Roach is caught especially well; ide, silver bream, bream, podust and dace are also taken. Small grains are put on the hook in several pieces, piercing them in the middle.

You can also use oat and wheat grains taken from the ear and reaching milk maturity. In camping conditions, a thermos is suitable for steaming cereals and legumes. The required amount of grains is poured into it, but not more than a third of the volume, poured with boiling water and steamed until soft. Having filled the thermos in the morning, you get a ready-made nozzle for lunch or for the evening, and if in the evening - by the morning.

Porridge

Kashi are the favorite baits of Kursk fishermen. When preparing any porridge as a fishing bait, add half a teaspoon of salt to the water or milk in which it is cooked, and at the end of cooking add half a teaspoon of honey or sugar. Before taking the bait, the fish tastes it and takes salty or sweetened porridge much more readily than fresh porridge. It is better to cook porridge in an enamel pan, but not in an aluminum pan, and certainly not in a galvanized one.

Semolina

A glass of milk diluted half with water is poured into the pan. Add a teaspoon of sunflower oil and vanilla on the tip of a knife. Bring to a boil and gradually pour in a quarter cup of semolina, stirring continuously. Cook the porridge over low heat until thickened. After cooling, mix with dry semolina and knead until a viscous dough that does not stick to your hands is formed. This bait is also bait, since semolina grains separating from it attract fish from afar. This attachment can be colored with lipstick, food coloring or beetroot infusion.

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Millet porridge

For a glass of washed millet, take two glasses of water. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly so that the porridge does not burn. When the cereal is cooked, pour three tablespoons of milk and a spoonful of sunflower oil into it and continue to cook until thickened. Then the porridge is kneaded in a saucepan and put in the oven for about an hour. After removing from the oven and cooling, knead the porridge to a viscous thick mass and make balls of the required size, depending on the size of the hook. If you roll these balls in dry aquarium food while fishing, the bait will attract fish not only by the smell, but also by the particles of food that separate from it.

Pea porridge

Pea porridge is prepared mixed with semolina. Half a glass of peas is poured with two to three glasses of water and left to swell for 3-4 hours. Cook over low heat until creamy consistency. If necessary, you can add boiling water. Then the mass is rubbed through a fine-mesh sieve so that no undercooked grains or pea skins remain. The resulting liquid puree is placed on the fire and, when it begins to “puff”, gradually add semolina, stirring vigorously with a spoon until it becomes a stiff dough. The ratio of pureed peas and semolina is approximately 1:1. The mixture is placed on a clean table and stirred until smooth. Here it is important to observe the dosage of semolina. If you pour in the cereal, the porridge will become hard after cooling and unattractive to fish. If you don’t get enough sleep, it becomes liquid, and such a bait often flies off the hook already during casting. These shortcomings can be corrected as follows. Dry semolina is added to the liquid porridge and kneaded to the consistency of soft plasticine. If the porridge is too hard, it is kneaded in water from the reservoir where they are going to fish. There is no need to add odorous substances, as they will “clog” the smell of peas, which is easily captured by fish.

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Corn porridge

Corn porridge is prepared in the same way as pea porridge, in combination with semolina. Only instead of peas they cook corn grits, and there is no need to rub it through a sieve. But it is necessary to boil it completely, otherwise at the moment of hooking the fish may not be hooked, because the hook tip has stuck into an uncooked grain. If the porridge burns a little, it doesn’t matter. As practice has shown, fish will also take slightly burnt porridge.

Barley porridge

Pour two glasses of water into the pan, stir in a spoonful of sugar, add salt and bring to a boil. Then, to obtain stickiness, add a couple of pinches of semolina and stir continuously for 5-10 minutes. After this, add a glass of barley grits and cook over low heat until tender. After cooling, knead the porridge until smooth. You can add a little crushed cake or sunflower oil.

"Signature porridge"

Crushed “Strawberry” or “Yubileinoe” cookies are added to the corn porridge with a slight smell of honey in a 1:1 ratio. Instead of corn porridge, you can use barley porridge. In the Kurchatov Reservoir and in other reservoirs of the Kursk region, carp, crucian carp, bream, large silver bream and rudd are very successfully caught with this bait. A great variety of such “signature” dishes can be invented.

Pearl barley

A glass of cereal is poured into a saucepan with water and cooked over low heat, stirring occasionally. You need to make sure that the cereal does not burn. This is how readiness is checked. Take a few grains and crush them; there should be no dry, uncooked mass left inside. Then the cereal is washed, dried and sprinkled with breadcrumbs. After this, mix. The crackers stick to the cereal, forming shaggy grains. From cereals prepared in this way, pieces of crackers fall off in the water, attracting fish and causing a more intense bite. You can make pearl barley even easier. In the evening, pour a handful of cereal into a thermos, pour boiling water over it and close with a stopper. In the morning the pearl barley will be ready. It is shaken out of the thermos, washed and slightly dried. You can add breadcrumbs or two or three drops of flaxseed oil.

You should only use fresh plant baits prepared the day before going to the pond, or even better, directly on the pond. Soured ones only scare away the fish. It will be easier to keep the attachment fresh if, when preparing porridge or steamed grains, add aspirin to the water at the rate of one tablet per liter of water.

Pearl barley

In addition to crucian carp, carp, roach, ide, chub, rudd bite well on pearl barley, and worse - silver bream and bream. For a one-time fishing trip, 1 glass of this cereal is enough as bait. Large grains are used for baiting. They are pierced crosswise with a hook. Large fish are baited with 3 pieces, of which only one has the point of a round crystal hook with a short shank No. 4-7 inserted into it. Place 1-2 grains on small fish. In order to preserve boiled pearl barley longer, you need to add a pinch of salicylic acid to it.

Peas

It is better to take wrinkled peas rather than smooth ones. It is steamed like this. Pour into a vessel with water and keep for 8 to 24 hours, depending on the hardness. Cook the peas over low heat to prevent them from hardening. If necessary, add only boiled water. After an hour, the water is salted. Do not stir the mixture during cooking - it will turn out to be porridge.

Then the soaked peas along with water are poured into a pan, at the bottom of which a metal mesh or plywood circle with holes is placed. A net or board is also placed on top of the peas and lightly pressed down with some kind of weight. The peas placed on the fire are boiled for 40-50 minutes. Steamed peas should have a solid shell, be soft inside and not fall apart when lightly squeezed with your fingers. After cooking, the peas are separated from the water and dried, scattered on clean wrapping paper or a rag. This prevents the peas from spoiling quickly. The cooled peas are stored in a cool place in a vessel with water.

Boiled peas are an excellent addition. The crucian carp must get used to peas, so the fish must be introduced and fed. In calm waters, it is necessary to scatter the bait in two to four places the day before fishing. Immediately before fishing, only a few peas are thrown into the water. During the fishing process, from time to time several peas are dropped into the pond where the float is located. Raw and half-cooked peas are not suitable for bait and bait. Peas can be used most successfully in spring and autumn. With it you can fish both with a floating bait and with a bait on the bottom.

Place one pea on a dark hook No. 4-5 with a short shank so that it hides the sting, prying up part of the hook. The hook is inserted not between the halves, but across, the sting is slightly brought out. The most suitable hooks for this purpose are “crystal” hooks No. 2-1/0. Young peas, canned peas, waxy corn kernels from the cob can be immediately placed on the hook. Steamed corn and beans are planted in the same way. They are caught with bait, vertically and (less often) from the bottom. The hook must follow immediately.

Sterilized (pasteurized) and frozen peas are widely used. Sterilized (pasteurized) peas are simply drained, and frozen peas are only lightly boiled; fresh - should still be soft. It must be inserted in such a way that the tip of the hook, which is inserted perpendicular to the seed groove, peeks out slightly. Catching crucian carp with peas is a very attractive method and can bring a lot of fun. Tackle used: light rod up to 3 m long, fishing line with a diameter of 0.25 mm, a small unpainted oblong float made of cork, a “crystal” hook with a round shackle No. 1. After the float is installed and the nozzle touches the bottom, you need to wait a few minutes. If there is no bite, the cast is repeated. When the crucian carp does not take the bait after several dozen casts, they move to a new place. They fish with one rod, constantly holding it in their hand. At certain intervals, several peas are thrown into the water. When fishing in a quiet pond, you can use a light sliding sinker with a stop set 60-80 cm from the hook.

Steamed peas and corn

Peas are a good bait when fishing with wire, float and bottom fishing rods. Ide, chub, carp, bream, and roach are caught.

Peas (preferably not smooth, but wrinkled) are pre-soaked for 12-20 hours, depending on hardness, in salted water at room temperature. The soaked peas are transferred to a small saucepan, poured with fresh salted water so that it slightly covers the peas, the water is heated to a boil and the saucepan with peas is moved to another, larger bowl with hot water. Then cooking is continued in this water bath for about 1-1.5 hours. Steamed peas should be soft, in a solid shell and should not be crushed when gently squeezed with your fingers.

Only whole peas are used for the nozzle.

Place it on hook No. 5-8, passing the sting under the skin and bringing it out again a little. You can also attach 2-3 peas, moving them onto the shank of the hook.

When cooking old, very dry peas, instead of salt, you can put a little baking soda in the water. In this case, the peas are easier to boil, but you must carefully ensure that the skin of the peas does not burst during cooking.

Store cooked peas in a jar of water in a cool place.

I use a different recipe for cooking peas for fishing. Regardless of the type of peas (without pre-soaking at the place of catching), I put them in a kettle or pan, fill them with two liters of water and put them on the fire (or stove). I cook until wrinkles appear on the peas, then after 3-4 minutes I remove the kettle from the heat, cover with something and cool. After this, the peas become soft and suitable for baiting. All this takes a maximum of one and a half hours. As dawn approaches, I drive out to the pond, anchor and scatter the peas. This bait attracts fish. The nozzle is still the same peas. The method of fishing is only by wiring, and the bait must pass strictly along the diametrical plane in relation to the “pea path”. Mostly ide and roach are caught with this bait.

Corn serves as a good bait for catching carp fish. For fishing, young corn is taken, straight from the cob. Ripe, hardened corn is removed from the cob and steamed at home in salted water until soft. Corn is used in the same way as peas. If necessary, you can use canned corn.

Corn

Ripe, firm corn should be cooked in the same way as peas. A fail-safe bait for crucian carp in early autumn is milky corn, the grains of which are simply husked from the cob and placed on a hook. At the stage of milky-waxy ripeness, the entire cob is lightly boiled (individual grains are husked only when planting). Supplies are made in this way: cooked grains are placed in glass canning jars and sterilized (pasteurized).

Only individual grains are planted, like peas. They are strung lengthwise on the hook so that the point of the hook pierces the skin and peeks out a little.

Potato

Potatoes are often used to attract crucian carp and crucian carp, and they are often caught using them. Take young, yellowish, slightly boiled potatoes and boil them with the skin on in salted water until almost done. Cool, place cubes of approximately 1×1 cm on the hook, and hide the hook in the nozzle. To prevent a piece of tuber from flying off the hook when casting, you need to know how to place the potato on the hook. Having cut the cube to the desired size, the hook is inserted into it. It is necessary that the hook is camouflaged; this is very important for success in catching such cautious fish as crucian carp. Some anglers make rounds instead of cubes, cutting them out of potatoes with a tube. When baiting potatoes, you can also use a needle with a torn eye. With its help, the leash is pulled through a piece of potato and the hook tip is hidden in the bait. By the way, the needle is useful when inserting other soft attachments, for example, dough. Having pulled the leash through the dough, a tiny crust of bread is hooked onto the hook and pressed against the bottom of the dough. This type of bait holds onto the hook more firmly. They are caught using potatoes mainly on the bottom, and in two ways. Large hooks are hidden completely in the potatoes, or small cubes are strung only on the tip of the hook. It is convenient to use a fishing needle. Potato bait - until the beginning of July - in the form of a prism (cube) about half the size of a thumb (so that a hook No. 1-2/0 with a short shank can be well hidden in it). By autumn it is necessary to reduce the bait according to hook No. 1-2. In hotter weather, when the carp takes the bait carefully, you need to make cubes with edges up to 8 mm, which are placed only on the tip of the hook, like peas. Bait is necessary when fishing.

Artificial baits for fishing

Recently, artificial baits for fishing of various types have appeared on sale. Conventionally, they are also divided into plant and animal. The former include foam balls, silicone corn, eggs, and airy dough.

Animal baits include silicone worms, bloodworms, maggots and other larvae. Regarding the latter baits, their use is justified in combination with real live or plant baits. Autonomous use of these attachments does not bring the expected effect. Unless only when fish are actively biting. These attachments can be with or without scent.

The most catchy artificial baits today are foam and air dough. The polystyrene foam showed itself well when catching crucian carp using a nipple and a spring, when the fish eats porridge from the feeder and swallows hooks on short leashes.

The same can be said about the air test. The only difference is that it is softer and more appetizing. It also takes a foam saber fish very well on a long leash. These baits are also good in combination with a worm, maggot and bloodworm. They are used mainly for feeder and bottom fishing. You can often see balls of foam and dough on the shore. This indicates their popularity among fishermen.

As for silicone corn, it is used when fishing for carp. Success also depends on the aroma of this bait, as well as the density of fish in a particular body of water. Corn is also used in combination with plant and animal baits.

The value of artificial baits is that they can be used repeatedly. The same worm or silicone maggot holds well on hooks and is practically not damaged during fishing.

Bread

Carp fish are caught well with all plant baits. Bread was no exception to this rule. There are many recipes for making baits.

Here are some of them:

• White or black crumb, preferably dried, is moistened, squeezed and kneaded until it becomes a dense elastic mass.
• The crumb of rye bread is mixed with boiled, salted and well mashed potatoes, pour in unrefined sunflower oil and knead until a homogeneous mass is obtained that does not stick to your hands.
• The bread crumb is combined with processed cheese and kneaded until a paste is soft, like putty.
• The crumb of fresh bread should be mashed with a raw egg and placed in boiling water until it turns yellow.
• Fresh bread crumb is crushed with unrefined sunflower oil and honey, rolled into balls and brewed in boiling water.
• A cube is cut out of a bread crust and placed on a hook.
• The bread crumb of wheat bread (preferably not stale) is kneaded with your fingers until a dense, elastic mass is obtained. Sometimes 2-3 drops of vegetable oil are added before this. You can mix bread with hot mashed potatoes in a 1:1 ratio, but it is better if there are fewer potatoes. The prepared crumb is stored in a damp, well-wrung out clean cloth. For the bait, separate a piece of the finished crumb less than the size of a pea and attach it to a white hook No. 3.5-5 with a short shank. The sting and prying are hidden in the nozzle. It is possible to attach larger pieces in the shape of a pear, in which the hook is completely hidden. They fish vertically and from the bottom. Complementary feeding from grain waste is required. The hooking should not be delayed.
• Four-day-old stale white bread (loaf) is cut into slices 2.5 cm thick, the crust is removed. Each piece is placed in water for 2-3 seconds. The bread moistened in this way is placed on the palm of the left hand and kneaded with the thumb of the right hand until a paste is formed; it should be white, soft, viscous and without lumps. This can be achieved by using only stale bread. When made fresh, the paste turns out lumpy and gray. Store it in plastic containers.
• From a loaf of white bread, cut off the top crusty layer about 5-7 mm thick. Cut it into pieces of the required size and pour into a small glass jar with a lid. Add a little vegetable oil with a drop of the selected flavoring. You can’t overdo it here: if there is an overdose of flavoring, the fish may not approach the bait at all. Shake the jar thoroughly, the pieces of peel absorb the oil. The bait is kept in it throughout the fishing trip.

The number of bites increases noticeably if you mix a certain amount of ground bloodworms, shichits, babka, bark beetles, snails and shells into baits made from dough, bread, or porridge.

Classification of baits

Plant attachments

• Cake
  . The fish takes this bait willingly and greedily, but it stays on the hook very poorly. The pomace can be added to dough and bread crumb; soak, mix with cotton wool shredded with scissors, fry in a frying pan and cut into cubes of the required size. Carp, roach and other fish are caught using cakes.
• Cereal grains
  . The cereal grains used are barley, rye, wheat or oats. For the nozzle, select the largest, most selected grains and steam them. The steamed grains are placed on the hook crosswise or slightly obliquely. Use thin hooks with a short shank
• Beans
  – white, red, with black spots, mungo (green soybean), lupine. Soak and steam like peas and corn. Sometimes they are flavored. They are planted along the grain, hiding or leaving the tip of the sting.
• Berries
  . A good catch can be achieved by baiting with berries. Chub bite especially well on them. The most commonly used berries are raspberries, cherries, cherries, gooseberries, currants, grapes (raisins), and plums.
• Mulberry
  . In summer, this green filamentous algae can cover stones, bridge and pier piles, flooded trees, and other underwater objects. In old fishing guides, mulberries are considered good baits; they even say that roaches especially love them.
• Reed
  . For many anglers, it will probably be a revelation to learn that reeds can serve as bait. Nevertheless, this is a fact. Moreover, the bait is quite tasty, on which crucian carp, ide, carp, and other non-predatory fish bite well.

Porridges and cereals

• Hercules
  is used as a bait for large fish. A handful of cereal in a colander is lowered into a pan of boiling milk for 2-3 seconds. When the milk has drained, they are placed in a frying pan greased with sunflower oil and fried for 3-4 minutes. The flakes become elastic, do not soak so quickly in water and hold tightly to the hook.
• Peas
  . A good bait for catching carp, bream, chub, and ide. Peas for bait are pre-soaked and then boiled in water until tender. If, when pressed with your fingers, the peas do not divide into halves and an equal oily mass is felt, the peas are ready. Some fishermen recommend steaming peas in milk. You can also use canned green peas for the bait.
• Millet
  . For bait, it is used in the form of porridge when fishing for rudd, crucian carp, chub, roach and other fish.
• Corn
  . Carp and crucian carp are well caught on corn using bottom fishing rods and carp gear. This is especially true for fishing on paid ponds. The fish are caught using canned corn.
• Semolina
  . A very good summer bait. Boil the cereal while stirring, cool and mash, adding dry cereal. The semolina is ready when it turns out to be a dense, elastic mass.
• Perlovka
  . A very common and often used type of bait, as carp, roach, bream, crucian carp and other carp fish are happy to take it.

Flour attachments

• Bread
  . It is often used without kneading when fishing. In other cases, it is kneaded into a dough. Sometimes, adding a couple of drops of sunflower oil to such “bread dough” improves the bite, activating the fish’s appetite for this bait.
• Dough
  . It is used as a bait when fishing for roach, crucian carp, tench and other peaceful fish. Wheat flour is brewed in boiling water and stirred. Then add semolina or cookies to the dough and knead with your hands until the dough stops sticking to your hands. To catch fish in the current, prepare the dough for the bait like this. Place the dough in cheesecloth in boiling water for a few minutes. Then the bait will become elastic and will not fly off the hook, which is very important when fishing.
• Pancakes
  . It turns out that fish love pancakes too. No, not the ones served on the holiday table at home or in restaurants and cafes. And pancakes baked especially for gourmet fish. And among them are bleak and roach, silver bream and ide, bream and many other non-predatory fish.
• Pasta
  . A good bait for catching peaceful fish with bottom rods. This is how they prepare it. 200-300 g of pasta are poured with water and cooked until it becomes sticky rubber. Then they are thrown into a colander (sieve), doused with cold water and cut into pieces. Place it across, hiding the hook tip in the mass.

White dough

It’s not so difficult to knead the dough yourself, I think everyone has made pancakes or pancakes at home, you don’t need culinary education. In addition, the dough should be rolled with a small amount of cotton wool, which will help keep the ball on the hook. Chlorinated tap water used for mixing dough may leave you without a bite. It is better to prepare bait using the water of the reservoir where you fish. It is useful to add hemp, anise or camphor oil to the dough. Semolina dough is prepared from 2-3 tablespoons of semolina and double the amount of water. All this is cooked for 2-3 minutes after boiling. The cooked porridge is cooled to a state that allows you to pick it up. Then knead the porridge - first with a spoon with dry cereal, and then with your hands, like dough in flour, until a dense dough is formed that does not stick to your hands. It’s a good idea to add 2-3 drops of vegetable oil and the same amount of honey to the dough. Pieces ranging in size from a pea to a hazelnut are torn off from the dough and skewered, rolled onto a white hook No. 4-6 with a short shank. They try to hide the hook. The cutting must be timely. Feeding is necessary. Flour dough is prepared with vegetable oil, honey and egg (white), in other words, it is made rich. Apply in the same way as crumpled bread.

Dough

Dough is a good bait for all carp fish. During the preparation process, sunflower oil is added to the dough, which protects it from drying out and quickly becoming soggy, honey, red berry juice (raspberries, strawberries, currants), vanillin, cinnamon, dry aquarium food, which has a specific smell of crustaceans, at the rate of 2-3 tablespoons spoons per glass of flour, sunflower and hemp seeds, roasted and finely ground in a coffee grinder, dill, garlic.

Here are some recipes for making dough for fishing:

• A mixture of two tablespoons of flour, one tablespoon of ground sunflower seeds or cake is mixed with five tablespoons of water and immersed in boiling water for one minute.
• The yeast dough is made into pea-sized balls and dropped into boiling sunflower oil until light brown. This bait catches bream and carp very well.
• A tablespoon of flour is mixed with milk until creamy. Add a little sugar, a pinch of vanillin and baking soda. Pour a tablespoon of dough into a hot frying pan greased with vegetable oil, place a thin layer of fluffy cotton wool on top and pour a spoonful of dough. The finished “pancakes” are cut with scissors into pieces of the desired size. The bait holds very firmly on the hook, and when fishing with the bottom it does not sink into the silt.
• Directly while fishing, a spoonful of premium wheat flour is mixed with water from the reservoir and adjusted to the desired consistency. Nothing else is added, since the fish, especially crucian carp, sensing the smell of their native reservoir, takes the bait more boldly.

Butter dumplings

There are many recipes for making dumplings for fishing:

• Butter dumplings are made and boiled in sunflower oil until tender.
• Mix flour with raw egg white and add honey.
• Knead a stiff dough with fruit and berry juice, preferably strawberry, and roll it into balls together with cotton wool fibers.
• A spoonful of sugar and a pinch of vanillin are dissolved in a quarter cup of water, the wheat dough is kneaded and ground with unrefined sunflower oil until a homogeneous mass is obtained.

You need to store the pastry dough in a toothpaste tube. The wide end of the tube is opened, the inside is washed with potassium permanganate, and the tube is filled with dough.

Milk porridge

Milk porridge is prepared from millet grains. Cooked with milk. When the grains begin to boil, remove the pan, drain the milk, and knead the cooked porridge until the mass becomes as hard and sticky as window putty. The porridge rolled into lumps holds on the hook very well. It is useful to add anise drops or hemp oil to the porridge. During preparation, it is very useful to add a little vanillin and sunflower oil to all porridges and doughs intended for complementary feeding.

Cheese dough

Cheese dough is prepared like bread dough. Before the ends of the rag are brought together, the dough should be well coated with grated cheese. The dough can also consist exclusively of cheese. To do this, a piece of cheese is kneaded until it becomes suitable for attaching to a hook. You can also use soft cheese packed in regular aluminum cans. It's good to always have it on hand.

Cheese dough is used as a good bait for catching chubs. By moving it along the river bottom, you can catch the largest specimens. The three most important factors to consider when fishing with dough are its density, size and shape. There are different opinions about the degree of required density, but they all agree that the dough should be viscous enough to stay on the hook, and at the same time soft so that the hook tip can easily penetrate the fish’s mouth.

Cake

Of the cakes, hemp is the best, but crucian carp takes both sunflower and flaxseed well. Fresh cake is cut into cubes with sides approximately 1×1 or 1×1.5 cm and tied crosswise with a not too bright thread. To prevent it from slipping, grooves are cut into the sides of the cube. The hook is inserted under the thread. The cake is often steamed and kneaded with the crumb of fresh rye bread in approximately a 2:1 ratio, adding well-crushed charcoal until a thick dough is obtained, the point of the hook is hidden in the nozzle.

Vegetable baits for catching fish from grain, preparation.

Wheat, unprocessed oats, corn, peas, pearl barley, rice and other hard grains of cereals and legumes are steamed until soft over low heat. Better in a colander over boiling water. It is convenient to do this in a thermos. Add no more than a third of the volume of grains, scald with boiling water 1-2 times, drain the water, pour boiling water over again, close with a stopper and leave for several hours.

Legumes, such as peas, are more difficult to process. It is first soaked for 10-12 hours, then tied in gauze and boiled for about an hour, adding a little baking soda to the water. Young peas, canned peas, and waxy corn on the cob can be immediately placed on the hook.

The bait is young, yellowish, and minimally overcooked. It is boiled in salted water until almost done and cooled. Approximately centimeter cubes or rounds are placed on the hook, hiding it in the bait.

Boil until tender, cut into cubes and bait the hooks of a bottom fishing rod. Carp fish take this bait.

They can be used in bottom gear as bait, which is mainly used by carp fish.

Green ribbon-like algae from stones, piles, driftwood. Used in the middle of summer when fishing for roach and ide. A strand of greenery is rinsed, folded into a loop, tightened onto the shank of a hook (no more than No. 3 with a short shank) and the wire is caught.

Hemp is preferable, but fish can be caught well with sunflower and soy, as long as it is fresh. It is sawn into cubes with an edge of about 1 cm, shallow grooves are sawed on the sides and tied crosswise with a not too bright thread, under which the hook is inserted.

There is another way. In a lead plate 25x15x8 mm, a drilling with a depth of 4 mm and a diameter of 8 mm is made in the center, and a hole with a diameter of 1.5 mm for fishing line is made near one of the short sides. Strong carp hooks No. 8 are tied to a piece of nylon thread (namely thread) on both sides. The thread and hooks are folded together and a sliding loop is tied, leaving leashes about 40 mm long.

A piece of cake 32x15x20 mm is inserted into the loop and pressed against the plate. In opposite corners of the piece, pricks are made with an awl and hooks are stuck into them. In a reservoir, the lead plate is at the bottom, the cake is on top of it. An approaching carp or carp calmly sucks on the bait, and the interfering soft leashes with hooks are eventually thrown out through the gills, thereby being caught.

The cake is often steamed with the crumb of fresh rye bread in a ratio of approximately 2:1, adding well-crushed charcoal until a thick dough is obtained.

There are many recipes here. Boil, stirring, 2-3 tablespoons of cereal, cool and mash, adding dry cereal. When fishing, grains will separate from such a bait every now and then, attracting fish. Pour some water into the mug and add enough semolina so that it completely absorbs the water. After 10-15 minutes, the mass is wrapped in gauze, tied tightly and kept in boiling water for about 20 minutes.

Bring a quarter cup of water to a boil, add sugar, pour in the cereal until it absorbs all the water, then cool and knead with the addition of oatmeal. Soak the stiff semolina dough in cold water, let it stand for half an hour, then put it in a nylon stocking and rinse under the tap until “milk” stops coming out of the stocking. The mass is taken out and washed again. The resulting yellowish gluten is used as bait, placing small lumps on the hook.

Place the oatmeal on a rag in a colander, pour boiling water over it a couple of times, let the water drain and lightly dry it. They do this too. The flakes wrapped in a rag are dipped into boiling water mixed with milk for a few seconds. Several pieces are placed on the hook. You can cook porridge from one “Hercules”, you can add semolina, flour, etc. to it.

Greenery

Greens (water silk) in mid-summer make a good bait for crucian carp and roach. Greenery is found on underwater rocks, bridge pilings and snags in the form of soft wavy threads. A strand of greenery is rinsed, folded into a loop and tightened onto the shank of the hook. Its length is usually 20 mm, width 2 mm. Hook no larger than No. 3 with a short shank. The greens are planted in different ways: they wind the threads around the hook, covering the forearm and the sting with them; make a figure eight out of several threads and, folding them in half, put them on a hook and tighten them. The ends are cut off. They catch you in the wire.

Berries

Among fruits and berries, cherries, cherries, plums, grapes, raspberries, blackberries, currants, gooseberries, and also raisins, which are pre-soaked, are usually used as bait. Large fruits are divided. The cherry is placed on a single hook so that it goes around the pit; the rest of the fruits are either caught by the pulp, like dough (for example, halves of plums), or placed on the point of a hook, like peas. Fruits and berries are very effective bait, but preliminary attachment is necessary. Forest berries are good for bait. Where they often fall into the water, they (when fishing with bottom gear) often catch not only crucian carp, but also all carp fish.