In order for fishing to bring a good catch, you need to prepare for the process in advance. The most important point is bait. The ability to prepare a quality mixture of the right ingredients will help to attract a large number of individuals to the feeder. When fishing for bream, bait must be used throughout the process along with the bait. The most common feed option is mixed mixtures based on all kinds of cereals.
What should be porridge for bait bream
In modern fishing stores you can find bait for any kind of fish. Their purchase significantly reduces the time and effort required to prepare for fishing. However, such ready-made mixtures often do not live up to expectations. Prepared in a standard way from the usual ingredients, they do not take into account the nuances of a particular area and pond.
Experienced anglers always try to carefully and scrupulously prepare the bait mixture on the bream on their own. Basically, various cereals are used for this. Porridge for fishing on bream should have a light alluring aroma, without excessive harshness and importunity. It should be remembered that in warm water bait aromatize more than in cold water. In autumn and winter, just the smell of mixed ingredients is enough to attract fish's attention.
Bream is very sweet with sweet foods. In order for the bait to work, sugar or honey must be included in its composition. Molasses and other sweets are attractants for fish. This representative of cyprinids is easily interested in bait, from which a muddy trail stretches, so the preparation of porridge is accompanied by the addition of ingredients that create a blurry spot in the water. A sweetish smell combined with a cloudy trail attract fish even from a long distance. The stronger the current in the pond, the more dense the consistency prepare the bait. The mix should not disintegrate instantly when it enters the water. It is necessary to achieve such an effect that it slowly erodes.With bottom fishing, lure is at a considerable depth, where there is little light and colors are poorly distinguishable. Therefore, baits do not pay much attention to appearance. In order for the food to be visible from afar, it is prepared light. At the same time, the color of porridge should not scare away the fish. To do this, they make it the same color as the bottom of the reservoir (beige, light gray, yellow, greenish).
The composition of complementary foods should include similar ingredients that are used for bait. At the same time, in bait they should be smaller and more ordinary-looking than those on the hook so that the fish will certainly peck. With the right bait, you can attract a lot of fish, which in the conditions of competition try to quickly capture the best parts of the feed, which ensures a hook.
Cooking porridge is immediately before fishing. As a last resort in the evening. The bream is very picky about the quality of the food and will never eat poor-quality or spoiled foods. Sour porridge can be safely thrown away, fishing on it will not work.
The choice of ingredients for cooking
Both for fishing on the feeder and on the donka from the boat, from the shore and during strong currents, complementary foods are created using the same components. The difference is usually only the viscosity and density of the mix. All ingredients are divided into subcategories, according to the role that they play in complementary foods. Knowing and composing them with each other, you can get a unique mixture that promotes the effective lure of fish. At the same time, the cost of such complementary foods will be extremely small.
The basis
Finishes are based on finely textured ingredients. Often these are crushed cereal grains, breadcrumbs. You can also take ready-made compound feed, cookies with a sweet taste, linen, rapeseed, sunflower, hemp, and pumpkin seeds twisted in a meat grinder or in a blender as a base.
Oatmeal flakes are also suitable here. When in contact with water, the base mixture should create turbidity and thereby attract bream. (This has already been mentioned above)Important! The volume base should be 60% of the total mix.
Flavors
Most bream bait recipes use flavorings that can be used to count on attracting a large number of individuals. To give aromas to cereals, products of natural plant origin should be used. It can be spices, juice of fruits and vegetables. It is impossible to unequivocally predict what kind of aroma will attract fish in a certain reservoir at a specific time - it all depends on the samples and experiments in place.
Cooked mixtures are usually flavored with anise, vanilla, cinnamon, cocoa, coriander, caraway seeds, dill, fennel, garlic, fish oil, vegetable oil (especially in cold weather). Also, for flavoring, you can purchase concentrates of strawberries, banana, apricot.
Did you know? In reservoirs with stagnant water, breams sometimes live up to 23 years. While in conditions of rapid flow, individuals of this species live no longer than 10 years.
Fillers
Fillers include heat-treated products with the addition of bait. These ingredients make nutrition more nutritious and nutritious. This can be boiled peas, corn, pasta, eggs, wheat, barley. As bait (depending on what will be the bait on the hook) put maggots, cut worms, fodder bloodworms, canned peas or corn, which are slightly kneaded.
For consistency
The consistency of the bait should be viscous, ensure turbidity and evenly washed out of the feeder. The stronger the course, the more dense the lumpy lump should be. To do this, add sugar, wheat flour, clay, bread crumb, dough, chopped oatmeal. As a loosening component for too thick a mass, you can use sunflower cake, which at the same time serves as an attractant for fish.
Dyes
As a dye, natural components are used. For this purpose, clay, soil, crushed crackers are used.. However, the color of a bait is usually not critical.
How to cook porridge for fishing on a feeding trough
There are many recipes for porridge for bream fishing. We can say that there are as many of them as there are fishermen, because everyone experiments and uses those ingredients, which, in his opinion, best attract fish in a specific reservoir. At the same time, at different times of the year, you can use the same recipes. The difference lies solely in the use of attractants and flavorings - they are practically not needed in cold water, and in the warm season you can give free rein to imagination and try all kinds of smell enhancers.
Did you know? Bream dwellers in the south grow and gain mass much faster than their northern congeners. For example, in the reservoirs of Karelia, five-year-old fish have a body length of about 25 cm. Individuals of the same age living in the Volga grow on average up to 35 cm.
Pea
To prepare pea porridge for bream, 250 g of dry peas are poured into 2 liters of water and boiled until it begins to decay. After that add 1 cup of raw millet and 1 tbsp. l sugar, as well as 1 tsp. baking soda. All ingredients are thoroughly mixed. At the very end, you can add the flavoring component that the fish prefers in this reservoir (for example, anise, oil or honey). Such porridge is used when fishing on a feeder that has an open feeder.
Hercules or oatmeal
There are various ways to make bacon using oatmeal or Hercules porridge:
- Custard food. Hercules flakes must be tied in gauze. Dip the resulting bag into boiling water for 30 seconds. Then a lump is taken out and allowed to cool. Slightly warm mass is crushed by hands until a homogeneous consistency. After cooling completely, the slurry becomes very sticky. It can be used as a bait and bait, pinching off parts and pushing it onto a hook.
- Oatmeal dough. To prepare dough from oatmeal, they must be crushed using a blender or coffee grinder. In the process, you can add a quarter of pearl barley or millet groats to create a more attractive taste and texture. The milled flakes and grain are kneaded in warm water in order to obtain a dense viscous substance. Water can be replaced with egg yolk or canned pea juice. To make the feed more attractive, you can add a little valerian, anise, cinnamon or vanillin to it. If desired, you can also add sunflower meal to the dough or pour in a little aromatic sunflower oil. Such a thick viscous bait is useful when fishing from a boat in places with heavy currents.
Out of the cell
For spring fishing, porridge is often boiled from a box. To do this, take 1 kg of barley groats, pour plenty of water and cook until tender. After the cereal is cooked, it should be washed so that it does not stick together and subsequently can be washed freely from the feeder. Flushing should be carried out either by rain water, or from a reservoir where fishing will take place.
The washed porridge should be kept in the shade so that it does not sour. Part of the mass must be set aside in a separate container and mixed with small bread crumbs in a ratio of 5: 1. Put the resulting mixture into the feeder. Coarse barley grain can serve as bait. If other components are used, they must be included in the bait. Brown porridge is very good for catching large individuals, since it is practically not interesting for small fish.
Wheat
Wheat porridge is very attractive for bream.
It is usually prepared in three ways:
- Grains are sorted, washed and thrown into boiling water. Cook for 30 minutes. After discarded in a colander and washed. Such wheat is convenient to use as a nozzle when fishing in conditions of strong currents and with long casts, as it is quite dense and will not fall off the hook.
- Dry wheat (200 g) is poured into a thermos and pour 1.5 liters of boiling water. This is usually done in the evening before morning fishing. Wheat should be steamed for at least 7 hours. The resulting grains are ideal for use as hook bait for long casts from the shore.
- Rinse and soak the wheat grains overnight (12 hours). After that, boil them in boiling water for 20 minutes. The boiled product is wrapped and insisted for 6 hours. This recipe is good for laying in a feeder and in order to fish from the shore for long casting.
Salapino porridge
Salapino porridge is ideal when using a feeder. At the same time, it can be used both when fishing from the shore, and from a boat. It is convenient for fast-moving and in still water. The main ingredient is pearl barley. Grains must be boiled in water until fully cooked (in a ratio of 2: 3). After cooking, add 1 cup of millet to the porridge, 2 tbsp. aromatic sunflower oil and 1 g of vanillin.
Everything is thoroughly mixed and boiled until all the moisture has evaporated. The finished mixture is sealed and insisted for 1 hour. After that, add 1 cup semolina, as well as corn flour or yakovo to it. Mix should be thoroughly mixed. Flavors add at your discretion.
Rules for storing bait
Before you make porridge for bream bream, you must familiarize yourself with the rules of its storage. Individuals of this species peck exclusively on high-quality and fresh products. Lures that began to deteriorate (rot or sour) will only scare away the bream. Preparation of bait should be carried out no more than a day before fishing. If you intend to add any components of animal origin to the composition, you can do this only 1 hour before fishing. During summer fishing, this is especially important, because the higher the ambient temperature, the faster the food spoils.
Important! Arriving in the pond, bait must be placed in a shady place where the air temperature is as low as possible. In hot weather, you can use a thermal bag.
If you do not have a cooling bag or a portable refrigerator, you can take a frozen bait with you, which gradually thaws. You can also store the bait residues in the freezer for a week until your next fishing trip.
It’s quite simple to cook catchy porridge for feeding bream. To do this, you need to learn the basic rules of its preparation and storage. At the same time, there is room for creative thought, because through trial and error you can choose unique additives to the main traditional recipes. Such bouts will attract large trophy individuals, the capture of which is a welcome prey for every fisherman.