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Fishermen who catch white fish know about the vagaries of crucian carp, roach, bream, carp and other representatives of water bodies. To guess the desires of the fish, you have to resort to all sorts of tricks: cooking in the kitchen, creating a new bait or catching bait.

In this article we will do a quick run through the main baits used by bottom fishers, feeders and floaters. Nozzles are divided into two main categories: plant and animal. Vegetable - these are flour and bakery products, boiled grains and combinations of these attachments. Animals are the familiar worms of various types, maggots, bloodworms, insects and various larvae.

Recently, artificial baits have become very popular among anglers. This is especially true for polystyrene foam. Fans of bottom fishing understand what we are talking about. There are also attachments such as liver, udder, lard, meat, etc.

Plant baits for fishing

The most popular vegetable attachments are bread and dough. They are used when fishing with a float rod and, less commonly, with a bottom rod. Crucian carp, roach, rudd, white bream, silver bream and carp are caught on hooks rigged with dough and bread.

Bread is used in several ways. It is mixed with water or liquid flavoring, and sunflower oil, flour or crackers are added to it. The result is a soft mass that attracts fish.

Donors and feeders take a crust of fresh bread and cut it into small cubes. These cubes are quite voluminous and hold well on the hook. Some people fry the bread and add garlic to it. The result is a very aromatic and appetizing nozzle.

The dough is suitable for fishing with float and bottom gear. For the first case, it is made softer, and for the donk and feeder, a harder one is used. Vanillin, sweet attractants and store-bought bait are added to the dough. Bread and dough work best in the warmer months of summer.

A universal attachment is pearl barley. It holds the hook very well and is suitable for fishing with all peaceful gear. Rusks and store-bought bait are added to pearl barley. You get such delicious lumps that when they get into the water, they start to get a little dusty. Naturally, crucian carp, roach, silver bream, bream, ram and other peaceful fish cannot swim past such a delicacy.

Barley is boiled or steamed in a thermos. Barley grains secrete mucus, which attracts crackers and crumbs.

In stagnant bodies of water, crucian carp and other white fish are caught using semolina. This soft mass has a very pleasant taste if vanillin or raspberry, banana, barberry, or other fruit flavoring is added to it. This bait is suitable for fishing with a float rod.

Such a bait as the mastyrka has long been a killer when catching bream, roach, crucian carp and other white fish. The highlight of this fish dish is the pea smell. It is the taste of peas that attracts white fish. Mastyrka, like dough, is suitable for fishing on float and bottom gear. The principle is the same: for a fishing rod they make a softer mass, and for fishing with a bottom or feeder they use a harder one.

Canned corn is often used for fishing carp and carp. This is a good bait and groundbait. Sweet, juicy, large corn is suitable. It is planted one at a time or several at a time, depending on the expected size of the trophy. The juice from a can of corn is used for its intended purpose. It is added to the bait and a fragrant mixture is obtained.

For fishing for carp and silver carp, the best bait is technoplankton. To be precise, this is bait that captivates the fish so much that in the process of eating it swallows the hooks. And it doesn’t matter what’s on the hooks. They can be empty, as the cloud created by the barrels camouflages them perfectly. Technoplankton is sold in stores, but some fishermen have already learned how to make it themselves.

Another high-calorie bait for fishing carp, carp and grass carp are boilies. These dough balls of different colors, flavors and sizes have long been the main bait for bottom and float rods when fishing for carp. They contain betaines, proteins, fats, milk powder and flavorings. When they hit the water, the boilies begin to slowly dissolve, releasing a fragrant cloud that attracts fish.

For carp fishing, boiled potatoes, cut into pieces, cake in briquettes on bottom gear, as well as boiled wheat are successfully used. The last attachment is used when fishing for bream, crucian carp, silver bream and other white fish in rivers with moderate and fast currents.

To catch bream, feeders and bottom fishers use star-shaped pasta. If you cook them correctly, you get a very delicate nozzle. Several stars are placed on the hook, and then a maggot or other attachment is threaded through, which securely holds the pasta on the hook.

Steamed rolled oats and hominy have proven themselves to be excellent. The second attachment is corn dough. It's like mastyrka, only corn grits are used instead of peas. Mamalyga is popular in the southern regions. There the fish are more accustomed to corn.

Note that botanical baits work best in the warm months, when the water is well heated and all the aromas are well distributed in the water.

Bread crumb

Bread crumb is no less popular among fish of the carp family. Black bread is most often used, but sometimes the crumb of fresh white bread with the addition of garlic juice is used.

We must remember that a bait made from fresh bread becomes slippery in the water and easily slips out of the fish’s mouth when hooking. Therefore, it is better to prepare it from stale bread, soaked in water and minced a couple of times. Then knead the bread with your hands to a homogeneous viscous mass.

A variety of fishing baits are prepared from bread crumb, as well as from dough:

The bread crumb is mixed with hot crumbly potatoes in a 1:1 ratio with the addition of sunflower oil.
The bread crumb is mixed with crushed, toasted hemp seeds, and for softness and looseness, batter prepared in a pond is added. It must be remembered that fish are more willing to take a soft and fluffy bait than a hard and smooth one.
To catch crucian carp, bread crumb is mixed with fragrant Vaseline or garlic, or with mint toothpaste such as “Extradent”, or with crushed worms, shell meat, and in some reservoirs even with kerosene.

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Live baits for fishing

The most popular live baits among anglers are worms, bloodworms, maggots and dragonfly larvae, caddis flies, leeches, mole crickets, etc. However, worms and bloodworms are not always suitable for fishing in a particular body of water. Maggot stands apart as the most versatile live bait.

There is an opinion that fish prefer the food that is located within the reservoir or around it. Very often, local fishermen easily catch visiting fishermen, from whom all the baits were purchased in the store.

It happens that fish bite very sluggishly on delicious California worms or large bloodworms, but as soon as you put a leech found near the shore on the hook, confident bites follow. Moreover, a leech may be inconspicuous and not so appetizing, but the fish clearly prefers it. What does this mean? This suggests that if the bite is weak or completely absent, you should not fold your arms and wait for the bite. You need to change attachments and look for more suitable ones. Moreover, near the reservoir you can find caddis flies, dragonfly larvae, and the same leech. It is clear that in this case it is easier to start the meal in an alcoholic format, telling them that today is not a day for fishing. But in this case, the fishing will end before it really begins.

Types of famous baits for successful crucian carp fishing

To catch crucian carp, experienced fishermen use various baits, and almost everyone has their own cooking secret. The most popular are:

The bread crumb, pressed into pieces, attaches well to the hook. Crucian carp does not always take a ball crushed in the hand, and when it gets into the water it becomes slimy in consistency. And by hooking, you can completely lose the fish.
Barley is soaked in water for 10–12 hours per day. The swollen grains are placed in the oven and cooked over low heat. Soft pearl barley should not burst.
Semolina is cooked to a thick, homogeneous mass. Place 2-3 crushed cookies into the cooled porridge, cut into squares and roll in attractants.
Corn is very popular in southern latitudes, in reservoirs of rich feeding of fish.
Processed cheese is used together with rye bread in a ratio of 1 part cheese to 2 parts bread. You can add honey or garlic juice to the mixture.
Canned peas are planted after rolling in attractants before stringing a worm or maggot.
Canned corn, like peas, is used in reservoirs with good bait.
Steamed pulp. It is placed on the hook, covering the sting. The cake sprinkled with vanilla sugar is rolled in attractants.

Often, crucian carp are very selective in their choice of food. For example, in the morning it bites well on a worm, but in the evening you can’t catch it because it switched to pearl barley. This behavior is caused by a difference in oxygen content in the water. When its concentration increases, the fish are more interested in animal food, and when it decreases, on the contrary, in plant bait.

Where to look for live bait?

Most of the larvae and live bait can be found in the accumulation of coastal algae. In addition to leeches, you can find dragonfly larvae there. It is enough to pull out these algae and carefully examine their contents on the shore. Having collected several larvae, place them in a small container with water and tear the next bunch. After spending about 20 minutes on this process, you can collect a sufficient number of larvae.

In shallow areas of reservoirs, the caddisfly, a green butterfly larva, lives at the bottom. These larvae live in tube-like houses. We collect the tubes together with the larvae and place them in the same container with other larvae.

As for worms, there may be nuances here too. The fact is that when the bite is sluggish, it is better to use worms that live near the reservoir. Take a small collapsible shovel with you and dig up the grass turf on the bank. If it's wet enough, you'll probably find a few worms underneath. It doesn't matter what they are called, just try putting them on the hooks of your fishing rods and see if the fish bite on them.

Green worms are found in the rich meadow soil and under water and marsh hummocks. They can also be found under the reeds. They are good for catching catfish and other large fish, since small fish have practically no claim on them.

River worms live near the roots of underwater plants. It is enough to pull out the reeds or algae along with the swamp, and you will find these worms. They live in rivers and lakes. Such worms are suitable for fishing all white fish.

This is not a complete list of worms. There are also marsh, sea, meadow, earth and other worms. The bottom line is that if the fish don't want to bite your store-bought pretty worms, look for any that might be in your fishing spot. The fish must bite on at least one type of worm. The gastronomic preferences of fish can be compared to those of humans. Fish, like humans, first of all eat “dishes” from their region, and then, with a good appetite, they try “overseas” ones.

The fact that fish prefer local worms has been repeatedly tested in practice. Probably, every angler has had a situation when, in a hurry while preparing for the next fishing trip, he forgot his worms. That is, I bought it, but forgot to take it with me. Realizing the unfortunate miscalculation, the fisherman begins a frantic search for worms near the reservoir. Having dug up a dozen worms and started fishing with them, he sees that the fish bite better and are caught with these worms. Some fishermen have completely abandoned purchased worms and fish only with local ones.

Pea mastyrka for fishing: recipe

Another very popular attachment, which is not at all difficult to prepare. Mastyrka, in other words, is pea dough. There are a ton of recipes.

Here is another popular way of preparing it:

Take shelled peas and cook simple pea porridge. Fill the peas with water to the top and cook for a couple of hours, stirring constantly. There are many ways to cook pea porridge without burning. Here everyone chooses for themselves depending on the available kitchen appliances. To prevent the peas from running away when boiling, you must first remove the foam.
When the pea porridge is boiled and looks like thick sour cream, turn off the heat, add semolina and stir. We do this in several stages. Ultimately, semolina should cost 2 times more than ready-made pea porridge.
The mastyrka will be ready when it becomes very difficult to stir.
After it has cooled down, knead the finished mastyrka, form it into a ball and let it reach the desired condition for another hour or two.

This was the most classic method, and the quickest way to prepare mastyrka is as follows:

Grind the split peas in a coffee grinder to make pea flour.
Mix the resulting flour with water until it becomes thick sour cream.
Brew the resulting mixture for just a couple of minutes on the fire.
Add semolina step by step and mix. We do this until the mastyrka becomes thick and it becomes difficult to mix.
Wet our hands with vegetable oil and knead the mixture well for several minutes.
Mastyrka turns out sticky, similar to plasticine. If you need to use it for bottom fishing with a feeder, then you should add more decoy. At the same time, the mastyrka will become dense and will stay on the hook better.

Catching bloodworms while fishing

Let us dwell separately on such an attachment as a bloodworm. It is known that these red larvae require special attention in terms of storage. The story with bloodworms is the same as with the worm. When the bite is weak and the fish are not very active, they prefer bloodworms from the local reservoir. You may have fat red bloodworms, but the fish will not eat them for some reason. But as soon as you select several larvae from a local reservoir and place them on a hook, you will get, if not confident, then at least some bites.

How to wash bloodworms without a special tool? If the reservoir is “live” with a large food supply, then it is enough to scoop up a piece of swamp at the bottom with a shovel and wash it in small parts in a stocking or sock. Take a ball of swamp and place it in a stocking or piece of tulle and rinse it in water. After this, check to see if there are any bloodworms left inside. The process may take 30-40 minutes, but you will catch local bloodworms, which will catch bream, roach, silver bream and other white fish better than store-bought ones from an unknown body of water.

Bloodworms are the main bait for winter fishing and when fishing in cold water in spring and autumn.

Semolina porridge is a universal bait for fishing

There are three ways to prepare this cereal - steaming, boiling or making semolina mash directly while fishing. The choice depends on the fishing method and conditions. There are several recipes for preparing semolina bait for fishing. Let's look at the most effective ones.

Chatterbox

This bait is not intended for long-term storage. The method for preparing semolina is to stir the cereal with water in a bowl and add flavorings. It is advisable to use cold water to increase viscosity. Then the porridge should swell for 10-15 minutes. After this, it is mixed again, balls are formed for attaching to a hook or placing in a feeder.

Cooking tips:

water must be added gradually, bringing the composition to the formation of a dough;
after kneading, excess liquid must be drained;
add spices - vanilla, oil, coriander.

It is recommended to add spices in separate portions. This will help determine the best composition for the intensity of the bite. The shelf life of semolina for crucian carp does not exceed 5-6 hours. After this, it can be used as a basis for preparing the next portion, but with the obligatory addition of semolina and flavorings.

Steaming

You can steam semolina only at home. You will need a saucepan and standard additives. It should be less dense than mash. Application – for placing in a feeder or bait.

Preparation procedure:

pour water into a saucepan, put on fire and wait until it boils;
the cereal is added in a small stream, it must be stirred constantly;
After obtaining a homogeneous mass and soaking, remove the pan from the heat without ceasing to stir the contents;
seal the container with a towel, allowing the porridge to brew;
after 1.5-2 hours the contents are mixed.

To prevent the finished mixture from sticking to your hands, it is recommended to pre-lubricate them with sunflower oil. This will give the future bait an additional aroma.

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Cooking

The best cooking method is boiling the cereal. At first she insists. You need to pour the semolina into a pan and add water so that its level is 3-5 cm higher than the cereal. Then the mixture should sit for 8-12 hours. It is recommended to do this at night.

The composition is poured into the prepared canvas bag. The pan is filled with water and placed on fire. After the liquid boils, a bag of cereal is lowered into it. Cooking time – up to 20 minutes. The last stage is mixing.

Experienced fishermen prefer to fish with several types of bait. Therefore, it is recommended to prepare various porridges in order to determine the best option locally. The fish may be picky about what they eat and may not bite the standard bait.

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A few words about maggots

Every feeder, bottom fisher and float fisherman uses maggots when fishing. This meat bait works well in combination with worms, bloodworms and vegetable baits. And the maggot itself is a complete, self-sufficient attachment. If we want to catch large bream, roach or crucian carp, then it is better to buy large and nimble, fatty maggots. By placing 3 larvae on a hook, we will make an excellent delicacy for fish.

Fishermen use both white and colored maggots. Often, red maggots turned out to be more catchy, and fish were more willing to bite on them. Maybe because the red maggot looks like a bloodworm or a dung worm, having absorbed the characteristics of these living baits. In any case, from maggots you can get many successful combined and solid baits for fishing with bottom and float gear.

All of the baits listed are suitable for catching all white fish using all peaceful gear. Fishing is especially good on them in spring and early summer, as well as in autumn. In winter, the priority bait is bloodworms.

Catching pike, perch and pike perch can be very successful if you attach live bait to the hook - a small rudd or roach. You can catch these fish along the coastal vegetation with a fly rod or any other fishing rod. After catching live bait, keep it in the shade in a container with water. The most durable live baits are considered to be rudd and crucian carp.

Millet

Millet is used for filling in the form of hard-cooked porridge or dough. The porridge is cut into cubes of approximately 1 square. cm and is used for catching Carp, Carp and Bream.

Crucian carp is best caught using millet dough balls. These are the simplest and most common plant baits among anglers. They are used when fishing with a Float Rod, Donka, Feeder, or Mormyshka.

It all depends on the preferences of the fishermen, on their personal experience. Using Plant baits not only saves money on the purchase of Animal baits, but also sometimes makes the bite very active.

After all, baits go well with bait of plant origin.

How to store live bait?

It is very important to keep live baits attractive throughout your fishing trip. This is especially true on hot days, when everything is literally boiled and fried. Firstly, the fisherman must have a supply of boxes for these baits. For example, like this:

Larger ones are suitable for storing worms, and smaller ones for maggots and bloodworms. It is better to store bloodworms in such a foam bloodworm container. With holes at the top. It opens and closes conveniently. A piece of foam rubber with water is placed inside it and bloodworms are placed.

In general, the principle of storing baits is simple: we create a natural environment for insects, with sufficient humidity and oxygen supply. For example, a worm lives in water, so we put it in a jar of water and put it in the shade. Under no circumstances should we allow maggots into the water. A dry jar is suitable for it, even without anything. You can sprinkle a little bait or crackers. We store the mole cricket or grasshopper in a dry jar with holes in the lid.

If we fish in the heat, it is better to place the main part of the baits in a thermal bag with a battery. This way you will keep them throughout your fishing trip. It is better to store worms in moist humus or soil from a compost pit. The main thing is that a swamp does not form in the box, in which the worms can die. When fishing, it is useful to cover boxes with bait with a damp cloth. We periodically moisten the cloth in water, thus creating a comfortable environment for worms, maggots and bloodworms.

If after fishing you have a lot of maggots and worms left, then you don’t have to throw them away. Maggot can be stored in the refrigerator for weeks, falling into a kind of suspended animation. We store the worms in a small bucket of soil, periodically adding potato and vegetable peelings to it.

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.

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.

Pearl barley

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Boiled pearl barley is an excellent bait that works stably both in currents and in still water. Properly cooked pearl barley, just like chatter barley, creates an appetizing trail in the water that attracts fish. In addition, pearl barley grains are securely held on the hook, which allows them to be used in any conditions and with a variety of gear.

In the fishing community, there are many recipes for preparing pearl barley, but most of them minimize all the advantages of this bait. Some fishermen recommend steaming the cereal in a thermos for 24 hours, which is not entirely correct. The steamed grains will swell and will stick well to the hook, but at the same time there will be no mucus on the surface of the bait, which forms turbidity and attracts fish. To prepare catchable bait that creates an appetizing cloud of turbidity in the water, you need:

boil 300 ml of water,
add 50 g of pearl barley,
simmer over low heat for an hour,
drain the water and pour the cereal onto a clean cloth,
Allow the pearl barley to cool and transfer it to a sealable container.

During the cooking process, you need to constantly monitor the amount of water in the pan and add liquid as necessary. The pearl barley must be stirred constantly, making sure that the barley does not burn, as the burning smell can scare away the fish. For the last 10–15 minutes, the grain should be cooked in a gel-like substance, which will cover the surface of the bait and give it properties that attract fish. Many fishermen make the mistake of rinsing pearl barley under running water after cooking. Washed grain does not stain the fisherman's hands, but the fish like it much less.

Boiled pearl barley can be used in combination with maggots or other animal baits.

If fishing is carried out in a reservoir with a current, then after cooling the pearl barley can be sprinkled with powdered milk or baby food. Such sprinkling will create additional turbidity and will quickly attract fish to the bait. Boiled pearl barley grains are quite large in size, so you should not use hooks smaller than No. 10.

Boiled pearl barley is often used not only as a bait, but also as a bait component. At the same time, you need to remember that pearl barley is rich in carbohydrates and saturates the fish very quickly, so there should not be too much of it in the bait.