The bream takes well on pasta. Fishing on them can be carried out in different ways, including in winter. There are many subtleties in how to cook pasta, put it on a hook and catch it, and many of them will be discussed further.
As a bait, they are little used, especially in comparison with animals – a worm, a maggot and a bloodworm. But in vain! The bream bites perfectly on them. They are used both independently and in combination with other plant and animal attachments.
Before buying, you should immediately clarify one question: medium-sized piece pasta is suitable for fishing. They can be in the form of stars, horns, spirals. The main thing is that their size should not be too large so that the bream can come up and calmly pull them into the mouth along with the hook. The most widespread among pasta lovers are stars and horns, as they are the smallest in size. However, if we are talking about catching a trophy, you can try to catch large ones as well. Definitely, spaghetti is not suitable for fishing.
Among the brands, one is usually chosen. There is a great variety of manufacturers and varieties. However, it makes sense to choose one pack that is suitable for fishing and household use. You need to know how exactly this pasta is cooked, how long it takes to cook a good nozzle that will not fall off the hook and will be attractive to fish. When cooking, you must use a stopwatch to know what the result will be. In any case, a lot of experimentation will be required.
Another question is the price of pasta. Usually quite expensive Italian pasta is made purely from durum wheat. Cheaper ones have in their composition flour from soft varieties or those hard varieties that give flour of lower quality. Usually they boil very quickly – all housewives know this. Finally, the cheapest pasta is almost always too soft and will almost never stick on the hook. It is best to purchase still quite expensive, because if necessary, it will be possible to boil them to a very soft state. But a cheap dense nozzle will no longer work.
Preparation
The easiest way to master the preparation of pasta for fishing on very small products. Those are the stars. They have the smallest mass of one pasta. Also, stars are well suited for catching not only bream, but also smaller fish – roach, silver bream, white-eye. They can be caught with a float rod, and bottom gear, too, and for winter fishing they are used more often than others.
You need to cook pasta in much the same way as for eating. First you need to boil a pot of water and salt it a little. After that, the pasta is poured into water and boiled for several minutes. Then they are drained and placed under cold water to make them crumbly.
In our case, the cooking time will be very short, since the stars themselves are very small. Cooking can take place in a saucepan. But given the fact that relatively little pasta is needed for fishing, it is wiser to cook in a colander. Pasta, as needed, is poured into a colander, and then it is placed in a pot of boiling water, resting the handle and horns on the edges of the pan. After that, the colander is removed and the pasta is cooled under a tap with cold water.
Cooking time is determined experimentally. The pasta should be easy enough to break in two with your fingers, but it would take more effort to crush. As a rule, softer pasta is cooked for float fishing, as well as for winter fishing. But for fishing on the donk, they use tougher ones. Therefore, it is always desirable to have a stopwatch or watch on hand.
After the pasta is cooked and drained, they must be dried. For drying use a regular newspaper. They are poured on it and laid out in a thin layer. After the paper absorbs water, the pasta separates well from each other. They can be collected in a jar for a nozzle and go fishing.
A more advanced way of drying pasta for bream is breadcrumbs drying. Crackers are scattered on a baking sheet or plate, and then freshly drained, still warm pasta is scattered there. In this state, they give off water well. In addition, when fishing, a nozzle sprinkled with breadcrumbs creates additional turbidity in the water, a smell that is attractive to fish. Even better, instead of crackers, use ready-made dry bait like “Geyser” of a small fraction, or the one they are going to catch. She is flavored with fish flavors and additives that she will also like.
Larger pasta needs to cook a little longer. Usually the cooking time is directly proportional to the size of one pasta. If for stars it is minimal, then for horns, each of which weighs about twice as much as an asterisk, it will be twice as much. Using pasta of the same brand, but different types, it is advisable to take this into account. True, the end point in the matter of cooking time is still put by the experience, and not only the sensations of the angler, but also the biting of the fish. It is quite possible that it is worth taking a couple of different versions of the same pasta for fishing, but cooked in different forms.
Roasting pasta is another method used by some anglers. For frying, only pre-cooked pasta is used. However, they can even be slightly overcooked. They are fried for literally ten seconds in a pan with the addition of oil, stirring constantly. At the same time, if the pasta initially turned out to be too soft, they become much more elastic and hold better on the hook. The oil also gives them a good smell and attractiveness. The fried pasta is removed from the pan and rolled in breadcrumbs. The main thing here is not to overcook, as overcooked fish will bite much worse.
How to hook pasta
When using herbal baits, you should always remember that the success of their application depends not half on how the bait was prepared, but on how it was planted. When planting, it is necessary that the sting of the hook pierces the pasta at least once, but is well hidden in it. You also need to select the length of the hook so that after the nozzle, the smallest possible part of the forearm with an eye sticks out of the body of the pasta, but it was still convenient to put on, and there was something to hold on to.
Asterisks are usually planted in several pieces, piercing them through and through the side of the central hole, and at the end one asterisk is planted across so that the tip of the hook is entirely in it. Or they use a sandwich, planting a maggot on the end. This practice shows itself very well in winter, because stars can be strung on a hook through a hole, which is more convenient to do with frozen fingers than to press on it and pierce it.
Horns are planted a little differently. First, one horn is pierced with a hook through both walls. Then they shift it a little, and pierce the other half, but in this case they try to draw the sting along the wall so that it is hidden, but goes out to the edge of the horn. The result should be a horn, the bend of which follows the bend of the hook. The size of the hook is best selected based on the size of the nozzle – this is very important, otherwise it will be inconvenient to put on, and the pasta will not hold well. The author did not use other types of pasta, he only guesses how to plant them, but his friend caught them on spirals. Apparently, there is not much difference here, the main thing is to pierce at least once and then hide the sting.
Catching
Pasta is a fairly situational attachment. There are reservoirs in which they show themselves incomparably. There are places where they do not bite at all. However, they have one feature – they just perfectly cut off the bites of little things. This is the ruff, which most of all annoys the bottom bream and feederists, and the roach. Even large roaches are almost indifferent to horns, sometimes they can take one in a maggot sandwich for stars.
Thus, the bream will have more time to come up and take the bait. They are cooked from durum wheat, that is, the same material as semolina. And we all know that this porridge is excellent for catching bream, however, the little thing loves it very much. That is, pasta is a smart choice when you want to catch good fish, even if you have to wait a little longer for it.
As a donkey bait, this is generally an excellent thing. Pasta that has been well cooked and hooked can last a few casts. However, it is better to change them anyway, since crackers are washed off from them during their stay in the water. Pasta perfectly keeps both on current, and in stagnant water. On the muddy bottom, they do not sink, but continue to lie due to their low specific gravity and area of support on the surface of the mud, being visible to fish.