Bait for catching bream in summer

Groundbait plays a decisive role in bream fishing, especially in the summer months. It will be about how to properly apply the bait bought in the store, how to use various components to improve its effectiveness. It also talks about the creation of homemade bait mixtures and their application.

The value of bait when fishing for bream

For catching bream, bait is of great importance. When searching for food sites, this fish is oriented mainly with the help of the olfactory organs. A good bait can attract fish from a distance and then keep them in one place. Here are the main arguments in favor of bait:

• Bream is a schooling fish, walks in groups of three or more, but more often twenty or thirty individuals. When baiting, the angler attracts not one fish, but many at once, and this can ensure success during fishing.
• Groundbait has a higher molecular weight than just bait. When concentrated at the bottom of the reservoir, it creates a significant flow of food odor particles, which leave a trace in the water, distinguishable at a very long distance. Such a track is able to attract bream from a greater distance than just an odorous bait on a hook. For example, the smell of a fresh loaf of bread can be distinguished only from a short distance, but the smell of a bakery can be felt already from a couple of kilometers.
• Bait allows you to keep a flock of bream for a long time and allows you to attract new ones. The bream is a voracious fish, and it needs a lot of food for growth and development. Significant areas of food give a signal that it makes sense to spend energy on movement and there is a lot of food for the whole flock.
• During the summer, bait is especially effective. Water has a higher temperature, and odors in it spread much faster due to the higher osmotic pressure. It is in summer that amateur anglers catch most of their bream catch per year, and it is in summer that it is most reasonable to use bait. In the cold season, the effect of bait will be several times underestimated.
• Often caught on vegetable bait and animal bait, which moves in the water and creates vibrations. The bream instinctively begins to search for live food on the bait spot, attracted by the smell, using the sense organs and the lateral line. He will find a live nozzle quickly enough.
• Bait allows you to attract schools of small fish almost immediately. Although this is not a target object for catching, a flock of bream will approach the accumulation of a flock of small things rather quickly, as the instinct for survival and seizure of territories will work. The bait spot in this case will be an additional factor that keeps the bream in the place of fishing.
• Even when a flock of bream is frightened by the capture of fish or the approach of a predator, it will still remain close to the bait. After the threat, according to the breams, has passed, they will soon return and fishing will continue.
• A large amount of tasty food makes the bream forget about caution and not react too much to hooking or falling weights. Small breams do not leave even after one of their brothers was pulled out of the water with a noise on a hook. In general, a bream is a rather shy fish, the capture of one in the usual case is accompanied by the departure of the flock for a long time.

These were several arguments in favor of prikormki. It becomes obvious that using the most expensive and thin tackle, but not using bait, the angler runs the risk of being left without a catch at all. This is confirmed by the practice of both feeder fishing and float fishing. The bream is attracted not by the game of the bait and not by a rod with a reel of a well-known company. He needs tasty food in large quantities, and only bait can give it.

Feeding and bait

How is bait different from bait? Does it make sense to attach bream to the place of fishing? You need to figure out how they differ.

Groundbait is used by anglers to create a scent trail in the water, a bait spot on the bottom where the fish will find food. Not always bait can attract fish. For example, there are doubts about its effectiveness in the cold season, when the smell in the water spreads much more slowly. The density of water is much greater than the density of air, the molecules have a “short range order”, and the osmotic pressure on the distribution of odors is very important.

At the same time, a bait is a way to attract fish from a certain area to the place of fishing and teach it to stay there all the time. A bait is a bait that is made many times at the same time in one place. After that, the fish gets used to being there all the time. Some species of fish, for example, crucian carp, roach, have a clear temporary memory, and it will even approach an attached area strictly at a certain time of the day, when it was fed there. The effectiveness of the bait is the same both in winter and in summer, it’s just that in winter the fish need more time to get to their preferred place.

The bait should have a low saturation component. Its purpose is not to satiate, but to attract the fish to the place of fishing, tease its appetite and make the fish take the bait. It should be clearly visible, have a strong smell and be not very high in calories. At the same time, the bait is intended to saturate the fish. Usually the angler attracts fish by throwing a significant amount of food into the water for several days in a row. On the day of fishing, the fish are given much less food, and in search of it, they eagerly swallow the nozzle on the hook.

Bream is a moving fish. It constantly moves along the riverbed, across the area of ​​the lake, looking for areas rich in food. He does this because the pack needs a large amount of food. She rather quickly devastates the bottom areas rich in larvae and nutrient particles, and is constantly forced to look for new ones. Even if the bait is made in large quantities, when the flock approaches, it will be exhausted in a couple of hours, if nothing scares it away. Therefore, even when feeding fish, you should take care of a large amount of food for her.

A bait for bream during summer fishing is used much less frequently. The fact is that the bream is found in reservoirs with a significant water area and has a mobile character in the warm season. If a fishing place is chosen, then one flock, another, a third will approach it, until there is nothing left of the food. The next day, it’s not a fact that the first flock will do – the fourth, fifth and sixth will do. Thus, the fish does not develop the instinct to find food in the same place at a certain time, since the fish will be different all the time. Or it will be produced much more slowly.

However, if fishing takes place on a closed small pond, the effectiveness of the bait will be much higher than the bait. The fact is that the bait will create a limited fishing point, where the amount of food will be several times higher than in the rest of the water area in general. Therefore, almost all the fish from the reservoir will gather for bait. If bream is caught in a pond, in a quarry, in a small lake where it is, then it already makes sense to use a bait.

However, modern fishing does not involve long-term feeding, the angler simply does not have so much time for this, since they do not go fishing every day. In addition, the compaction of reservoirs leads to the fact that amateurs with fishing rods and donks will flock to the place you have chosen, quickly identifying a promising area, and you will have to share the success of fishing with the rest. On the lake, a bait even far from the shore also does not guarantee privacy, as people travel with echo sounders, and they can easily find an attached cluster of fish.

Therefore, the bait in our time is used only on forest lakes and ponds, far from fishing routes and outwardly unattractive, hidden behind fences and industrial zones, outwardly unattractive, but giving a good catch. The author successfully caught carp on the BOS ponds, ten kilograms per evening, where only he had access as a watchman and his boss, who had to give way from time to time.

In winter, the bream behaves a little differently. He stands on the wintering pits, where he spends time settled. Most of the breams are not active, only some individuals feed from time to time. Having found such a winter camp, you should attach a certain hole on it and occupy it. The bait should be thrown at a certain time, in sufficient quantity. Gradually, the bream will get used to finding food there, and even in winter it will be possible to secure a good stable catch if you do not show it to other fishermen. Otherwise, we can conclude that in summer bait is preferable to bait when catching bream.

Types and composition of bait

Most people divide bait into two types: store-bought and homemade. This division is not entirely correct, since store-bought bait is also different. It is made in the following way:

1. They make up a mixture of different grains and waste from the baking industry: biscuit, breadcrumbs, broken biscuits, crushed unsold bread, etc.
2. Aromatic additives and flavoring additives, including sugar and salt, are added to the mixture. Liquid is added in a certain proportion – water and various fats. Everything is thoroughly mixed and loaded into an autoclave.
3. The mixture is heated under high pressure and subjected to extrusion – it explodes with an increase in volume. The result is a homogeneous mass in which it is impossible to identify the components.
4. The mixture is then blended with whole grains, blended with various other extruded blends, further milled, other flavorings added, etc.
5. The packaged mixture goes to the counter, where it goes to the anglers.

This is a fairly modern way that allows you to get a convenient mixture. It is stored for a long time in a packaged form, fully retaining its qualities. If necessary, you can simply add a little water to it, in accordance with the instructions, and you can start feeding. By itself, the extruded mixture is very effective, as it gives the strongest odor stream when it enters the water due to the large total surface area of ​​the fine constituent particles. This is what you need when fishing for bream.

The extruded mass itself, being completely washed out by water, is, of course, of interest to him. However, he hopes to find the pieces at the bottom. It’s just that the grains that are added to the bait are too dry and not very interesting for this fish, which does not have strong teeth capable of grinding grain like livestock. Large particles must be added to the bait. In addition, if a trifle is very dense at the place of fishing, it is able to completely destroy the bait of a too small fraction in a short time, but it is not able to swallow large pieces.

For wealthy anglers, pellets are a good choice. This is a compressed fish food that becomes soft in water and remains in the form of small pieces for a long time. For the less affluent, regular livestock feed is a good solution. It is slightly worse than pellets in attracting fish, and it will be better to use it than cheap pellets from an unknown manufacturer. Of course, quality pellets are better. It must be remembered that when using pellets with a feeder, the latter must have a design that will prevent pellets from getting stuck in it, and a sufficiently large volume. It is much more convenient to add pellets to balls when fishing from the shore with a fishing rod or from a boat in a plumb line.

Another important part of groundbait is the soil. Usually it is a dark-colored soil of marsh origin – peat. Such soil is common for fish. Add soil to the bait to create volume. It is noticed that the fish tries to stay on the dark areas of the bottom, where it is less visible from above. To create such a spot, and even rich in food, is the main task of the angler when fishing both on the feeder and on the float. When catching bream, the ground in the bait can be up to 80%, and this is quite normal.

Usually, when fishing, they first try to throw a starter feed of a rather large volume. This is done so that in the future not to frighten the fish with a large feeder falling to the bottom or mass bombardment with bait balls, but to do this before catching. It is in the starting feeding that the soil should make up a large part. Then they make additional feedings in a small volume, but in this case the soil is used much less or not used at all. This is done in order to renew the amount of nutritious food on the feeding spot, where it is eaten by fish.

There are also other additives in bait – protein, live, aromatic, etc.

Homemade porridge for bream

Porridge is a traditional bait for many types of fish. It is less effective than commercial extruded food in creating a trail of odor in the water. However, it combines the properties of pellets and extruded food and can very well help fishermen who are not able to buy ready-made bait in sufficient quantities. For bream fishing, it is imperative to use a large amount of food, since this is what can attract a flock and keep it, and many can not afford it.

There are many recipes for porridge for catching fish. The recipe is quite simple. For porridge, you will need split peas, millet or long rice, breadcrumbs. The order is as follows:

1. Peas are soaked in a cauldron with water for a day. It should swell well, peas take about one and a half times less than water.
2. Sunflower oil is added to the water. It gives a smell and prevents burning. Cook this mixture on the slowest fire, stirring occasionally in a cauldron. Peas should be completely boiled into a liquid slurry. Be sure to make sure that the peas do not burn, otherwise the porridge will deteriorate and the bream will ignore it!
3. Rice or millet is added to the finished porridge. You can add both of them. Add gradually so that the liquid slurry thickens a little. Experience is needed here, it all depends on which peas are caught. Usually you need to add millet 2/3 of the amount of peas, or as much as rice peas. There is no need to be afraid that a slurry will turn out – after cooling, the mixture will thicken greatly.
4. The porridge is cooled to room temperature. The result is a fairly dense substance, which is punched through a sieve.
5. Breadcrumbs are added to the prepared mixture. The mixture is packed in a bag and placed in the refrigerator, where it can be stored for two to three days before fishing.
6. Before use, the mixture must be punched through a sieve at the place of fishing. It can be added to the ground, used with a feeder or in the form of bait balls.

This porridge is affordable, effective and perfect for both bream and many other species of non-predatory bottom fish.