Currently, on the shelves of fishing stores you can find a huge number of all kinds of bait, flavorings and bait mixtures, both domestic and foreign producers. However, most often, a ready-made factory bait for fish is too expensive a luxury for amateur fishing and does not always suit certain conditions and water bodies. Such mixtures, as a rule, are a kind of averaged option, which, in principle, should work in all situations, but, as practice shows, does not give guaranteed success. If a fisherman wants to know what exactly he throws into the water, what component the fish reacts to, then the most reliable are the bait mixtures of our own preparation. In fact, no one will tell the exact recipe on how to make a bait for fish, which will work for sure. This is known only with experience and the method of trial and error.
You can develop a single recipe for preparing the mixture and adapt it to various reservoirs and fish species, adding a larger amount of one or another component. Such a bait for fish is suitable for gluttonous crucian carp on the lake, and for a finicky bream on the river. But before starting experiments with ingredients and proportions, it is necessary to study the physical properties of the food ball that it must possess for successful fishing both in still waters and in a pronounced course. First of all, this is the viscosity of the mixture. This factor has a significant impact on the speed and quality of the decay of the coma at the bottom. Of course, any fisherman will agree that it is extremely unreasonable to use bait that is easily decomposed on the surface to catch the same bream or large roach. And vice versa, if small things are caught, then it makes no sense to use a tight bait lump with a slow loss of particles.
The bait for fish, in addition to viscosity, must also have a certain weight. This is important when fishing on the stream. Unfortunately, most anglers forget about this property, but meanwhile, the accuracy of complementary food delivery directly depends on it. In order to enhance the effect and interest not only small, but also weighty fish, it is necessary that baits create a cloud of cloud around them when they disintegrate. Using such a stirring mixture, you can successfully catch kilogram carps and breams. If the bait for fish contains a lot of small particles, then, falling into the water, they will create the effect of a kind of cloud, which will be noticeable from afar. This is especially advantageous for fishing in clear waters. This effect can be enhanced at times if colored microparticles are used. Neither small bleak nor large roach will pass by such a temptation.
Another visual effect is slowly rising particles. If you add voluminous, but at the same time light dry particles to an already soaked mixture, then with gradual decay they will be released and rise into the upper layers of water. This will undoubtedly attract fish and bring it to the place of feeding. This method is especially often used in reservoirs with a large number of medium-sized fish, it will rush to the surface, collecting grains, and leave hooks with bait for larger specimens.
These are the main little secrets of how to make a bait for fish as catchy and attractive as possible for small roach, and for trophy carp.