Baits and baits for crucian carp: animal and vegetable baits

This guide allows you to get acquainted with the best animal and vegetable baits that are used when fishing for crucian carp. The presence of various recipes will help you cook them yourself at home, as well as choose catchy baits.

In the spring-autumn period, the crucian gives preference to baits of animal origin, but in the summer it changes its diet, and does not mind profiting from baits of plant origin.

Animal baits

In cold water, baits of animal origin are the most effective. It can be:

• earth or dung worms;
• maggot;
• underleaf;
• bloodworm;
• slugs;
• not big leeches.

Baits such as bloodworms, maggots and worms are very popular. They are not difficult to obtain or buy from an angler’s shop.

Herbal baits

Crucian carp is also caught on nozzles of plant origin, especially in the summer. As an example, one can take crumb of black or white bread, add a few drops of sunflower or other oil to it and knead until the consistency of the dough.

Carp can peck at various grains, such as wheat, corn, as well as their combinations. Not a bad result shows such cereals like barley, barley, wheat. They are usually steamed in a thermos or boiled over low heat.

Some anglers have successfully used pasta, which only need to be cooked correctly so that they do not stick together and hold well on the hook.

Semolina added to almost every recipe. Semolina is either boiled or added raw. The technology for preparing semolina can be completely different. Many experienced anglers have their own recipes and cooking techniques that they are not averse to sharing.

Mix

Basically, different baits are mixed together in order to get a greater effect.

• If you take a bread crumb, then boiled potatoes can be added to it, after which the ingredients are mixed to the desired consistency.
• The same bread crumb can be combined with honey or ginger cookies. Something sticky must be added to the resulting mixture so that the mixture does not fall apart.

Flavours

• As a flavoring agent, when catching crucian carp, you can use honey. Before use, honey is diluted in water.
• Garlic present in many baits and baits, as it is a fairly strong attractant. The garlic is cut very finely, after which the juice is squeezed out of this porridge.

Lure

You can get bait by combining together ingredients such as peas, millet and barley, and if you add anise oil to this mixture, you get a super catchy bait. The bait is prepared as follows: barley is steamed, and the remaining components are added to it in equal proportions. After that, all elements are left for 2-3 hours. After this time, the water is drained, and the contents of the container are mixed. Finally, a few drops of anise oil are added to the mixture and the mixture is stirred again.

Cake and crackers

To prepare such bait, you need to grind the following components:

• breadcrumbs – 1 kg;
• pass through a meat grinder 0,5 kg of roasted sunflower seeds;
• shortbread cookies – 0,5 kg;
• wheat chaff – 1kg;
• semolina – 1 kg.
• vanilla and cinnamon – 20g each.

Soldier’s bait

It is prepared from what is available, and there is the following:

• Rusks of any origin.
• Millet.
• Corn flour.
• Hercules fried.
• Oat cookies.
• Various flavors (ginger, cinnamon, anise, vanilla).
• Bloodworm.
• Worm (chopped).
• Maggot.
• Clay or earth.

When using a feeder, ingredients such as earth or clay are not added.

Crackers need to be mixed with yogurt

This additionally stimulates crucian appetite, and white spots in the water column will certainly lure fish. Very often, regular milk is added to bait, which performs the same functions as yogurt. The same function is performed by most small particles, such as breadcrumbs, which float out, creating a fodder spot in the water column.

When fishing in cold water

Very effective is the bait, consisting of 10 parts of molehills and 1 part of chopped worms. Small balls are formed from such a mixture, which are easily thrown into the water. This is a very simple, affordable, but very effective recipe.

Bait for float fishing

You can cook according to the following recipe. Any crackers and fried seeds are taken in equal proportions. To these components, you can add a little food for aquarium fish, bloodworms and a little vanillin. Then everything is mixed with the earth with the addition of water. The result should be a mass from which balls are easily formed.

From cake and flour, you can also easily prepare bait

Despite the fact that the recipe is very simple and quick and easy to prepare, the bait turns out to be quite catchy. Since this is a quick recipe, it can be prepared directly on a fishing trip using water from a pond. Dough is molded from flour, a little flavor should be added to it (do not overdo it), after which balls are made from the dough, which are rolled in cake or breadcrumbs. After falling into the water, the crumbs will begin to float, separated from the dough, and will begin to attract crucian carp.