How to Fish for Carp in Stocked Ponds

There are many varieties of carp with different colors. In China, except for the western plateau area, all other waters are suitable for the growth of carp. Because of its beautiful form, delicious flavor, rich in nutrients, has been used as a gift to friends and relatives as one of the auspicious and nutritious, of course, has become the majority of fishing enthusiasts to obtain an important goal. The scattered fish ponds, reservoirs, lakes and rivers are full of carp breeding, which creates favorable conditions for anglers.

(A) Carp habits and characteristics

Carp is one of the large freshwater fish species. In the artificial special pool of intensive cultivation, 1 year old fish weight up to 750 ~ 1000 grams, large reservoirs in the age of carp, weight 10 kg or more is also more common. Carp usually live in water less than 2 meters deep, but they also like to swim upstream in groups, which is especially obvious in rivers. It usually reproduces its offspring in thickets of water and grasses, feeds in thickets of water and mud with soft humus, and often goes to the shore or the shallows to look for food in the morning and evening when the wind and waves are calm. It feeds a bit like a pig, searching for small insects, eggs, seeds and fruits of plants in the humus by arching its mouth. The diet of carp is very varied, but it is also very selective. When experimenting in a large glass tank with artificial feeding, it is common for it to suck the moss attached to the wall of the tank. At this time, if we put millet, young leaves, bean cake residue and other food into the tank, it immediately stopped sucking moss, and scrambled to eat bean cake residue first, and then ate millet, not in the case of starvation seldom grabbed young leaves. If you put in a few small live shrimp, it will immediately give up other food and go after live shrimp. Occasionally feed some minced beef, minced pork or sausage scraps it also eat, but not feed live red worms, live earthworms, live river shrimp as fast as swallowing. This shows that live bait is a great attraction. Carp do not swallow the bait like crucian carp, but swallow the bait quickly and cleanly, and swallow the bait after a few times of pressure grinding, especially when swallowing small and fine red worms. The result of the verification in the fishing pond also shows that the live bait is faster and more catching than the normal vegetarian bait.

In the breeding base of fish ponds, you can often see such a situation: male carp weighing about 2,000 to 2,500 grams chasing the female carp of the same weight, they are not afraid of people at this time, the female carp almost to the shore, stirring up a big splash, no matter where the female carp run, the male carp are chasing them until they finally scampered into the bushes to hide. At this time, it is cast to their favorite live shrimp, with a long pole and short line to the mouth, it seems to be blind, how to tease, but also do not care about it. This means that the carp of AE0 are not biting. This period lasts for about 50-60 days, that is, in May and June, at the end of spring and the beginning of summer. During this period it is impossible to catch adult carp with the current technology. After the spawning, their appetite increases greatly, and from the beginning of July, it is the prime season for carp fishing." The fish will eat a lot of food when the day is hot,

To master the carp's habits, you must also understand the effect of water temperature on the carp. Carp do not bite; in water temperatures higher than or equal to 13 degrees, carp begin to bite, with the rise of water temperature, its bite rate also gradually increased. The bite rate is highest when the water temperature is 22～25 degrees Celsius. When the water temperature is lower than or equal to 8, the carp live peacefully and are not active, feeding both meat and vegetarian bait, but the vegetarian bait (cornmeal base bait mixed with a little shrimp and rolled into granules) is not as popular as the meat bait (red worms, earthworms). When the water temperature drops to 5?e, carp seldom swim, and even if they are fed with live bait, they do not swallow it right away, but eat it only after a few hours or a dozen hours. When the water temperature is lower than or equal to 2?e, carp basically do not swim, in a "hibernation" state, and seldom forage for food. The water temperature is the key to determining the appetite of the carp, and it is also an important factor that affects the carp's ability to take the bait.

Carp like low light, in the abutment under the weak light environment, summer and fall shade, is often the carp habitat to avoid the summer heat. Carp are more active in cloudy days than in sunny days and love to bite. It is very alert and timid, and will flee to deeper water if it is disturbed.

(2) Baiting for carp fishing

After choosing a good fishing spot, baiting is a very important part of carp fishing. If the selected bait is not suitable for the taste of the fish, even if the fishing position is good, excellent fishing skills, advanced fishing gear, but also to no avail. In order to observe the taste of carp in the glass tank, we mixed earthworm powder or flavor, human placenta powder, animal blood powder, tsetse powder, sparrow powder, new broad bean powder, silkworm chrysalis powder, fish powder, shrimp skin powder, fried soybean powder and so on in the base bait for experiment. Any one of the above powders will be mixed with the base bait, kneaded, rolled into small balls of green beans, and experimented with four kinds of bait at a time in batches.

In order to further select the best carp fishing bait, and then in the base bait mixed with some chicken bones fermented water, milk powder, raw soybean noodles or tofu powder, onions and leeks fermented water, strawberry jam, egg yolks, urine soaked eggs, vitamin B, garlic juice, cooked barley flour, cooked 2 young cornstarch nests, any of the above additives and the base bait mixed, kneaded to the softness, hardness, and experimented with batches of the selection of superiority and elimination of inferiority, and the effect of the ranked position The order of effectiveness is: milk powder (with sugar), strawberry jam as additives for fishing bait is always eaten first, and the rest is hunted later. In other words, carp love to eat all these baits with different smells in the tank, but there is a significant difference in the degree of preference. After many years of fishing practice in many ponds, we can see that when we mix urine-soaked egg, chicken bone fermented water, leek and onion fermented water with base bait and knead them together, no matter it is hand-rod or sea-rod, it is always easy to catch bighead carp or silver carp, while the carp and grass carp, although they all hooked up, but the number is small. The cooked cornstarch is mixed with additives and then hooked up, which is very popular with carp and crucian carp. The sweetened strawberry jam will attract more grass carp.

In the basic bait first mixed into the sweet taste of sugar, and then add some flavor or ferula powder, fried peanut powder, crank liquor, flower water, to make these five kinds of fragrant bait, rolled into green beans, experiment, the tank of carp are very much in love with eating, the performance of the "wolf swallowed". Therefore, it is very important to add sugar to the bait, as it is an important additive to induce the carp's appetite. This is true in aquariums, as well as in reservoirs and fish ponds. After peeling the white potato, cut it into dice pieces, steam it until half-cooked, and then marinate it in sugar to increase its toughness and make it less likely to come off the hook, which is a good bait for carp fishing. Raw cornstarch, human placenta powder, sheep bone powder, add the appropriate amount of white flour, with sheep oil as an additive, adjusted to the right degree of softness and hardness. Use honey as a solvent and mix with raw soybean flour or tofu powder, and make it soft or hard enough to hold the hook. These three kinds of baits have their own characteristics and can be used flexibly according to different seasons and regions. In addition, baked potatoes, baked white potatoes, etc., have good practical value for carp fishing and are easy to obtain. No matter what kind of bait, we should make sure that we know the food habits of the carp in the fishing area, and then we can achieve the desired effect, which is often a key part of the ranking when we participate in the competitions.

1. The food used for carp fishing should have different excipients, additives and binders according to different waters. For example, the food used in a reservoir is made of chicken feed as excipient, fish meal as additive, and water from the reservoir, which is very effective. If you add some sugar and raw soybean flour to this food and fish in the waters around a village upstream of the reservoir, you will catch fish as usual. If you are fishing in a fish pond, it is best to use the pellet bait fed to the fish in the pond and crush it to make additives, which is much better than other additives.

To prepare several additives, such as boiled barley, goat bone meal, goat oil, fried soybean meal, sugar or honey, etc., the dosage is small, the smell is big, the effect of fish attraction is good. In order to make the fishing carp dregs sweet and fragrant, you can buy processed pastry crumbs in the food store, which is both fragrant and sweet, inexpensive, and very suitable for the taste of carp. Flavorings, alcohol, and fried soybean powder can be used in small quantities and are easy to carry. Human placenta powder and raw bean powder can be put into a small one, so it will stay good for years. The excipient is not too important, if you go out of town or travel fishing, the bait with all the time, you can go to the farmhouse to find some chaff, wheat bran and other substances, or temporarily in the shore to pick up some dry cow dung rubbed into the crumbs, mixed with a little wine soaked millet as an additive, rice as a binder, made of bad food, not only to solve the urgent needs, but also to ensure that the harvest is an effective measure. In short, the carp fishing food should highlight the sweet and fragrant.

2. Bait. The sifted corn flour and white flour according to the ratio of 2:1 weighing good, mix well, punch hot steamed to eight mature, mixed with sugar or honey, kneaded to the soft and hard moderate. According to the situation of the fish, you can mix some flavorings, fish meal or raw bean flour, adjust to the taste that the fish like the most, and load the group hooks - plum blossom type, snowflake type are good. In order to improve the visibility of the bait, can be mixed with a trace of riboflavin, dyed into a golden color, to increase the attractiveness, but do not mix too much, resulting in a bitter taste, affecting the hook rate.

3. Meat bait or live bait. River shrimp, red worms, earthworms, silkworms (maggots), oil gourd, crickets, maggots, corn worms, bee pupae or other larvae and other live bait, are the carp's delicacies, never let go of after meeting. However, due to improper hook mounting, the bait is often picked and eaten, resulting in distorted signals and empty hooks. In this case, when you set the hook, you can start from the head of the shrimp, cross the hook along the hard shell, so that the hook point is exposed, the shrimp body lies in the hook gate, and the shrimp gun is broken and pointed at the hook gate. The shrimp will not die within one hour after hooking and will keep swinging, so the attraction is maintained. Since the hook point is exposed, no matter where the fish swallows the bait, it can't escape from the hook point, thus increasing the catching rate. Load red worms, first of all, a blind tube, that is, 2 cm long end of the plastic tube, burned with fire pinch seal, will be 6 to 8 red worms loaded into the blind tube, when it crawls out of a red line to stop the waist ligature, crawling out of two on two a piece of ligature, until all the red worms in the tube ligature, then folded and tied the knot, cut off the excess red line. Don't use excessive force when tying the tubes to prevent them from breaking. Once the worms are tied, thread the hook through the red thread so that the hook tip is exposed. It is best to do this preparation before you go fishing. The red worm will keep moving even after 2 hours of hooking. When using red earthworms as bait, it is better to feed some animal blood before fishing to increase the color and fishy taste, which will increase the catch rate. If you don't have this condition, you can put the earthworm on the hook, moisten it with flavored water, and then put it into the fishing area, which is also very effective. If the fish is large, use a whole coarse earthworm or cut it into 1.5 to 2 centimeter pieces and put the hook through the worm. Whether it is a whole worm or a cut worm, and regardless of the form of the hook, the hook point should be exposed. Some anglers leave a small piece of earthworm outside the hook tip while the hook tip is "fully wrapped", claiming that the earthworm's movement will increase the attractiveness of the hook. In fact, this hook, the most likely to be picked by the fish to eat the bait, resulting in lifting the rod empty hook. This is a good way to improve the unscientific method of hook loading," he said.

(C) Carp fishing techniques

The carp's habitat, feeding grounds and return routes should be chosen according to its habits and characteristics. Use a strong lure or bait to lure the fish to the hook's surroundings. At the same time, use the appropriate fishing tackle to bring the hooked fish to the shore. All of these techniques have a bearing on the success or failure of fishing. In order to obtain satisfactory results, we must explore each of these measures.

1. Choose your fishing spot. According to the habits and characteristics of carp, according to different seasons and weather changes and other objective conditions, based on careful analysis, choose the best fishing position in the fishing waters. This is the most important part of the success or failure of fishing. Hot summer is the best season for carp fishing. If it is windy and sunny with no clouds, you should choose the fishing position under the shade of a tree or in a cool place where natural objects such as mountain peaks can block the strong light. This kind of place is suitable for carp to "escape" from the summer heat and also suitable for it to like the characteristics of low light.

If you are fishing in the morning, evening or at night, you should set up your fishing position in a place where water plants are growing or where there is humus near the shore. If it is rainy or foggy day fishing, you should choose the fishing position in the near-shore water grass growth and humus, and the morning and evening or night fishing is more or less the same. During the rainy season, small and large streams and ditches converge into the reservoir or the main channel of the river. The best place to fish is at the junction of these ditches and streams with the reservoir or the main road of the river. Because the water in the ditches and streams is full of dissolved oxygen and contains a lot of plant seeds or fruits, as well as food such as small insects and eggs, it can attract schools of fish to feed here. If you choose such a fishing spot, you can get a good catch even if you are a novice fisherman. After entering June, it is the spawning period of carp and also the dry period after reservoirs are released. At this time, the fish tend to be frightened and often scurry to the deep water to hide, so their appetite is not good. At this time, you must put a long line fishing deep water, or occasionally catch. In the migratory eddies of river bridges, and reservoirs connected to the abutments, 1.5 to 2 meters of deep water, often inhabited by large carp, encountered such a good fishing position, do not let go. Close to the village pond, washing vegetables, washing rice, is often a place where fish feed and linger. If you set up your fishing spot here, you won't be able to return home without your fishing gear. The river's migratory bay, docking ship dock side, fish ponds feeding point, are more ideal fishing position.

2. The way to attract carp. The first is the use of advanced fish traps. This is based on the principle of attracting the same kind of fish in courtship signals and design, has the advantages of hygiene, lightweight and so on. The second is to use bait to make a nest. The aim is to lure the carp around the bait hook and keep the fish that enter the nest. For this purpose, you have to choose the food with strong flavor that carp like very much as bait. For example, mix fresh cow dung with some odorless hay, add some soil with a certain degree of adhesion, clench it into a fist-sized ball, and cast it to the fishing spot. Fresh cow dung is preferred by carp because of its odor. Cooked barley has a unique attraction for carp, especially big ones. When the barley is boiled until it is fully swollen but not broken, it is a good bait for catching carp. Mix the remaining boiled barley water with soybean cake and wheat bran (half of each) and knead it into granules, which can be mixed with sand and soil to make a three-dimensional nest. Clay can also be added to the above bait, and then formed into fist-sized balls to make a bottom nest. You can also boil barley water and soybean cake, wheat bran and mix, and then add an appropriate amount of rice or white flour as a binder, made of bad food, often can catch big carp. Another example is to use chicken feed mixed with some fish meal, add some wet soil along the shoreline and kneaded into a block, put into the fishing spot to play the bottom of the nest, the effect is very good. In order to keep the fish in the nest, on the basis of the bottom nest, and then into some clotted clay dipped in flavored water, or in the dry soil poured into the chicken bone fermented water or leeks and onions fermented water, mixed and then clenched into a ball, into the fishing area. This kind of double bottom nest, lasts a long time, do not need to replenish the nest in the middle, to the end of the rod and even the next day, the nest in the fish can be caught.

In the fall, it is better to play a three-dimensional nest than a bottom nest. Especially downwind, in the big dam or steep slope under the deep water fishing nest, can be used 20% of the soybean cake crumbs (or pastry crumbs mixed with wheat bran), mixed with the appropriate amount of goat bone meal and more than 60% of the sand, evenly mixed, and put in the loose granularity. Can also be used to boil barley residual water added to soybean cake residue, rice bran or wheat bran, and then mixed with 60% of the bank sediment soil, mixing well, kneaded into a loose granularity, spread while fishing, to maintain a three-dimensional shape of the bait nest. When you are fishing, try to cast the bait in front of the floating objects or water bubbles to keep them visible.

Using a handy rod with 3 hooks is good. In order to save time and bait, it is better to use medium-sized earthworms and dip them in flavored water, so that you can catch 3 to 4 fish without changing the bait. If you use a Styrofoam block in the shape of a jujube, and squeeze it in the flavored water, you can also catch fish, but most of them are small fish. Use bubble gum as bait, instead of earthworms, and you can catch dozens of fish without changing bait for a few hours. The sugar is not permeable to the hook, so you must expose the hook tip when you set the hook, otherwise, it is the same as fishing without a hook or a straight hook. Use burnt black chicken feathers to make fly imitation mock bait, dipped in flavoring or cranking wine to load the hook, the effect is also good, but not as good as earthworms or white jujube-shaped foam. Pure metal imitation shrimp mock baits do not bite, but white empty hooks can occasionally catch fish, and dead hooks, no matter how early or late the rod, the hooked fish can not run, but the white empty hook hook hooking rate is too low. The use of simulated baits for carp fishing has not yet been reported, and needs to be further explored in practice.

If you're fishing in a fish pond, it's best to choose a block of soybean cake weighing about 500 grams, spray it with a proper amount of alcohol the night before the fishing trip, make the surface wet, and seal it with a non-breathable plastic bag

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