Fish bait

Bait for fish can be of both plant and animal origin. Fishing is an experiment. Fisherman going fishing takes a variety of baits, and very popular now artificial, and plant baits, and baits of animal origin. Fish bait

Bait of animal origin

There are days when the fish gives preference to baits of animal origin. Let's describe what these baits are and how to prepare them. And in case the fisherman even forgot the baits at home, he can always find them in nature, in the meadow, near the river, because they are all natural, created by nature and familiar to the fish. Here is a brief description of the following baits of animal origin:

Red dung worm

Almost all fish are willingly caught on this bait. Red dung worm has a dark red or red color with yellow belts. It can be easily found in over-cooked manure, rotting hay, humus from leaves. Dug out dung worm should not be immediately baited on the hook, as it has a bitter taste and fish does not take it well.

Worms are prepared 3 days before fishing. Then they are placed in a worm bin - a jar with hay straw or floor half with earth, watered with borsch, soup or coffee grounds. After 3-4 days dung worms become hard, elastic, lose the bitter taste, and then the fish willingly swallows them. Dungworm Dung worms are prepared for the winter. Take a box for this purpose, pour into it rotted leaves with earth, on top of the layer of leaves lay the worms. The box is put in the cellar, watering its contents with coffee grounds and leftovers every 10-13 days. Red dung worm - a good bait for crucian carp, carp, roach, bream, redfin, perch.

Earthworm or earthworm (wormworm)

The size of the earthworm or earthworm is large and therefore it is not suitable for catching small fish, but large fish take it well. Earthworm These worms are harvested at night with a lantern after rain. It is easy to collect worms by attracting them on purpose. To do this, a plot of land in the shade of the garden or vegetable garden daily abundantly watered with salt water or slop and covered with damp straw.

After ten days on the straw at night collect a lot of worms, and under the straw you can find them in the daytime. On the earthworm catch large bream, tench, yazya, chub and even catfish.

Meat worm (oparychus)

Mischief Meat worm develops from eggs laid by flies on meat. To collect oparry under a piece of meat hung out in the yard, put a tin with bran at the bottom. From the eggs laid on the meat by green flies develop worms, which as they grow and fall into the tin.

To prevent birds from nibbling the worms, the meat and the tin are covered with a sparse net stretched on hoops. It is used as bait for bream, roach, crucian carp, redfin, carp.

Chrobak (May beetle larva)

The worm is the larva of the May beetle The color of chrobak is yellowish-white, length up to 6 cm and thickness up to 1 cm. Chrobak can be collected during plowing, in spring or fall. It is baited on a hook without a head. Catfish, carp, carp, yaz, chub take such a worm.

Brookworm

Leech - photo Find the larva of the brookworm in the water of a pond, lake or on the slow flow of the river at the bottom, among stones or in the garbage, in the recesses of the reservoir. The larva in the form of a white worm with a black head is placed in a pouch made of wood remnants covered with sand grains.

The pouch is carefully broken and the worm is extracted, which is baited on the hook through the head. Keep the grub in the water. Rucheynik is a good bait for roach, yazya, bleak and other white fish.

Moth

Moth Moths are bright red worms or larvae of the longnose mosquito up to 2 cm long. They live in the muddy bottom of ponds, lakes and in low-flow sections of the river. Moths are scooped from the bottom of a pond or other water body together with silt using a thick sack net.

The silt is then washed and larvae are selected. Larvae are stored in a damp cloth. They are planted 2-3 pieces on the hook. Such bait takes almost all fish.

Dragonfly larvae (babka)

Dragonfly larva Dragonfly larvae, this rather large (up to 3-4 cm) bait is caught with a net in low-flow areas of water bodies or standing water bodies. This larvae is kept near the bottom among sparse vegetation. It catches large fish: catfish , pikeperch, walleye, chub , perch, and sometimes pike.

Crayfish shakes

Cancer In reservoirs where there are crayfish, it is not difficult to catch them, using for this bait in the form of a spoiled piece of meat or fish, placed in the lowered to the bottom of the reservoir crayfish trap. The caught crayfish are torn off their necks, clean them from the shell and bait their hooks.

Almost all fish take well on crayfish necks, except pike-perch, zander, pike and zherekh. During the molting of crayfish they can be baited entirely on the hook, having previously cleaned them from the hard shell. Moulting crayfish takes well large fish: catfish, pike, carp, chub and yaz. Fish are caught on boiled crayfish, but this bait is worse.

May beetle

May beetle - May beetle With the appearance of young leaves on the trees appear and May beetle. Catch them in the evening with a net, and in the morning and afternoon shake them off the trees: maple, birch. Tearing off the stiff upper wings, this beetle is strung on a hook through the head and caught by yazya, chub, and zherekh.

Kuzka (July crustacean)

Kuzka is a June crunch After the flowering of cereals on their ears appears a beetle similar to the crunch, but smaller in size, it can be collected in large quantities on the ears. Cuzka is caught by fly fishing for yaz, chub, chub, large roach and taran.

Alenka

The allen beetle A grayish bug 10-12 mm long with white spots. Alenka is also called mohnatka. The bug appears at the beginning of flowering of trees. This bait is well taken by yazi.

Bark beetle

Bark beetle larva The larva of the bark beetle is found in large numbers in dry wood, stumps or harvested firewood under the bark. The size of the bark beetle is up to 3 cm, the color is dirty yellow, the head is brown. It is kept in boxes with wheat flour.

The bark beetle can be kept in flour for a long time, even in winter in a warm place. It is put on the hook through the head. Takes on such bait all year round all white fish and even perch.

Grasshopper (konik)

Grasshopper In the meadow, after haymaking, you can meet grasshopper in abundance, different sizes and colors. This bait is good for fishing with a fly fishing rod. When planting on the hook of the grasshopper should be cut off the back legs to the knee, as on his legs there are sharp spikes that prevent fish to take the bait.

Catch on the grasshopper is good yaz, chub.

Dragonfly

Dragonfly A good bait for fishing rod-nakhlist. Catch dragonflies in grassy ravines and in the field with a gauze net. Dragonflies are readily taken by chub and yaz.

Moth

Moth Catch moths with a gauze net in gardens with flowers and in meadows, especially during the blooming of wildflowers. The moth is caught by fly fishing for yazya and chub.

Various caterpillars

A caterpillar for bait Bait caterpillars, as well as larvae of other insects, through the head. Such bait is good for fish that take from the surface of the water - yazya, chub.

Flies

The fly is bait for small fish Flies serve as a good bait for all white fish. Particularly well caught on the room fly ukleyka.

Lawn (small shells)

A little seashell Lawns are small conical spiral-shaped clams that live on rocks and piles in lakes and slow-flowing rivers. Lawns are harvested from rocks with a wire net. They are crushed and peeled from their shells before baiting the hook.

Bait a soft bait on the hook. To do this, it should be well crushed with pliers. This shell should be stored in a box with water. Catch on the lawn: gouster, bream, yazya, carp, redfin, roach, takes it and perch.

Bivalve mollusk

Bivalve The bivalve mollusk is harvested in shallow sandy places in running water bodies. Having opened the shell flaps with a knife, the meat is cut out and baited on a hook. Catfish are caught on this bait.

Livebait

Special fishing of predatory fish is mainly done on a live bait - small live fish: gudgeon, spruce, bleak, roach, roach, loach. At the end of the line, adapted for catching predatory fish, tie a steel leash with a live fish and a hook. Bait for predatory fish There are four most common ways to put a livebait on the leash.

  1. The leash is passed through the mouth, intestines and anus, then to the leash tie a treble hook and attach it with a thin red silk or woolen thread to the tail of the bait, released into the water.
  2. The leash is passed through the mouth, intestines and anus, then to it tie at the mouth of the animal hook-double, and to the free end of the fishing line.
  3. The bait is strung by the back on the hook and lowered into the water.
  4. The live bait (by both lips) is strung on the hook and lowered into the pond. This method is used to bait gudgeon when catching pikeperch.

In all cases, the leash with the bait is connected to the line with a rotating carabinchik, which prevents twisting of the line.

Light

The best bait is chicken and rabbit lungs. They are dried, and during fishing they are cut into pieces and baited with them on hooks. White fish are caught on this bait, especially in winter.

Pork fat

Pork lard Fresh pork fat cut into small pieces is not a bad bait for catching white fish, especially in winter. A good fishing trip will be ensured if the fisherman stocks a variety of fish bait.