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Makukha is a processed product (cake) of oil plants: hemp, flax, sunflower. Do-it-yourself fishing do-it-yourself cake is made from sunflower and is the most common type, the fish really like this smell.
Features and advantages of Makukha
Features include ease of preparation:
- Makukha is prepared without special devices and knowledge.
- With the help of a press, you can make a quality product. It is also permissible to use an ordinary jack, which needs to be compressed into briquettes.
- There is a special board for rolling boilies, which facilitates the manufacturing process.
The advantages include low cost and natural ingredients.
Briquettes made on their own are liked by fish, as it distinguishes natural from artificial smells, it always has natural ingredients as a priority. Therefore, it is recommended to make cake only at home.
What can be caught on top?
On top you can catch carp, crucian carp, carp.
Carp can be easily caught with the help of makuha, it is attracted by the aroma of peas and sunflowers.
When catching carp, it is recommended to use a heavy sinker and change the tip more often. Carp prefer places with a strong current, where it is quickly washed out.
Makukha is often used for feeding when fishing for crucian carp, but when used as bait, quite large fish can be caught.
Makukha as bait and bait
When using the cake as a bait, the hook is hidden in a briquette and thrown into the water. Such a fishing rod is called a makushatnik. The aroma of makukha lures the fish, and as soon as the fish notices it, it swallows the bait along with the hook.
Do-it-yourself Makukha
Do-it-yourself cake is being prepared for fishing at home. There are several recipes for making bait, they differ only in the ability to use certain equipment.
Makukha from peas
Makukha from peas is the main bait for catching carp. For its preparation you will need:
- 100 g of peas.
- 50 g of semolina.
- Raw chicken egg.
- Corn oil.
- Honey.
Preparation:
- It is necessary to chop the peas in a blender.
- Add semolina and mix.
- In another bowl, add the egg and 1 tbsp. l. corn oil and honey.
- Later, transfer everything to one bowl and knead until smooth.
- Roll boilies from this dough of the required size and boil them in salted water. After the boilies have risen, wait another minute.
- Next, dry the boilies.
Before using for fishing, it is necessary to add butter to the bag with boilies. Carp will love this flavor.
Recipe from “Mikhalycha”
For cooking, you will need the following:
- Jack.
- A glass with a piston.
- Metal plate.
Ingredients:
- Sunflower seeds – 30%.
- Bird food – 30%.
- Peas – 15%.
- Rusks – 15%.
- Nuts — 10%.
- Some popcorn.
Preparation:
- Grind all ingredients in a blender.
- Pour them into a glass and press down with a piston.
- Put a metal bar on top and clamp it with a jack.
- Pump up the jack to the force and leave for 4 hours.
- Put the finished briquettes in the air and dry for about a week.
Cooking a briquette is a laborious process that takes 3-4 hours. When pressed with a jack, very hard briquettes are obtained, which dissolve in water for a longer time.
Makukha from seeds
Method of preparation:
- Sunflower seeds are lightly roasted.
- Then they need to be crushed with a knife, blender, mortar, or in any convenient way.
- Metal molds are filled with crushed seeds.
- Using a pusher or a press, it is necessary to press the resulting porridge into the mold as much as possible.
- During all manipulations, the form should be heated.
- You should not immediately get the porridge out of the mold, otherwise it will begin to disintegrate. It’s worth waiting for it to cool down.
- Cooking takes about 1 hour.
- Makukha after cooking should be stored in jars with pressed oil.
Cooking features:
- Forms must have removable bottoms in order to get briquettes without problems.
- It is not recommended to cook briquettes long before use, otherwise they will lose their natural smell.
- Makukha should be stored in jars with closed lids.
- The oil that remains after cooking is perfect for bait.
Fly fishing technique
The fish can smell the makuha at a great distance. But for greater efficiency, the place of fishing is pre-baited. Various grains are added to complementary foods: corn, millet and peas. By combining cake and bait, keeping the fish in one place will not be a problem.
The makushatnik is thrown into the water only after careful preparation of the gear. After 3 hours after casting, the cake should be replaced due to its complete dissolution. The fish, sensing the smell of makukha in the water, swims up to the makukha and begins to taste it. Carp sucks food without disassembling, and only after getting into the mouth, it sifts out inedible objects. It is at this moment that he can suck the hook, and after spitting it out, it will catch on the lip.
Bait preparation
When buying or making a round briquette, you should cut it with a hacksaw into bars 3 × 6 cm in size. Set aside the remaining pieces with roundings as complementary foods. About 20 bars are obtained from one briquette. Fishing takes place on these bars.
Tackle preparation
Fishing equipment for Makukha should be prepared in advance, but you can also do it directly on the fishing trip. There are a large number of varieties of these gears, but among them there is one simpler and more effective.
Materials:
- Sinker. When fishing for Makukha, dovetail and horseshoe sinkers should be used. It is necessary to choose the correct weight: for a reservoir without a current 50-80 g, with a current of 90-160 g.
- Line or cord. The recommended diameter of the fishing line is 0.3 mm, and the cord is 0.2 mm.
- Hook. The size of the hook is selected according to the type of fish living in the reservoir, the recommended size is No4 and No6.
- Leash. It is recommended to use a cord of small diameter – 0.2 mm, when using a metal leash, peaceful fish may be frightened.
- Top clasp. Sold in a fishing store. For fishing, it is recommended to take a couple of pieces at once. The mechanism is a loop that fastens the sinker and the top together. Leads with hooks are attached to the wide end, and fishing line to the narrow end.
Manufacture:
You will need a piece of fishing line or cord measuring 30 cm, which must be threaded into the hole on the sinker from the narrow side to the wide side, then tie 2 knots at the end of the fishing line or cord. The main line should be tied to the fastener on the narrow side. Hooks are attached to the leash on both sides, and the leash is bent in the middle and tied to the clasp with a loop.
You should make a hole in the bars with a diameter of 4 mm and pass the fishing line through it and the load. Bring the fishing line to the narrow end and tie it on the clasp, then thread it through the hole. Next, you should make small indentations in the crown under the hooks, as they become dull when a dense crown is placed.
Additional recommendations from experienced fishermen
Experienced fishermen note several recommendations when using this bait:
- When making a cake briquette in a mold, you should choose a mold with a removable bottom in order to squeeze out the briquette with a press.
- Briquettes should not be made long before fishing, the smell quickly disappears, and the bait becomes useless.
- Keep the bait in tightly closed jars.
- Do not pour out the remaining oil, but use it with complementary foods.
Cooking makukha is not difficult, it does not require any expensive ingredients. Fishing for Makuha always shows a stable result and high efficiency as bait and bait.