What is the best bait for catching redfish? Practical bait selection tips shared

Redfish is a fish of the middle and lower water layers. It has a large body, few bones, and excellent meat quality, with characteristics such as a high meat yield and high protein and low fat. Its whole body is bright red, which is how it got the name redfish. Many people want to catch redfish, so what bait should be used for catching redfish?

1. What bait should be used for catching redfish?

Redfish is a carnivorous fish, and the bait is mainly meat-based. You can choose small fish, small shrimp, clam meat, and so on. You can also make your own groundbait by stir-frying rice, cornmeal, and rapeseed cake until fragrant, then soaking them with koji liquor before throwing them in to make a nest, which plays a role in attracting fish, while the koji liquor can help keep the fish around.

2. Living habits of redfish

1. Habits: before sexual maturity it inhabits estuary waters, and it can live normally within a water temperature of 2—33°C; it grows rapidly at 18—30°C. Redfish is a euryhaline fish. It can not only grow in seawater, but after domestication it can also grow normally in freshwater.

2. Feeding habits: redfish is a carnivorous fish with a large food intake and strong feeding ability. It is not demanding about bait and feeds on small fish, shrimp, and shellfish. In artificial farming, trash fish, prawns, and red sea bream can be fed.

3. Growth: redfish grows rapidly. In the winter of 1996, Xinlin Port in Lingshui County, Hainan Province, introduced 9000 redfish fry. After 10 months of cage culture, the average body weight of the grown fish reached 1600 grams each, with the largest weighing 2050 grams, achieving relatively good economic benefits.

3. Capture methods

Redfish like to live in sea areas with a water depth of 50 m to 90 m and a bottom of mud or sandy mud. If there is no sudden climate change, they generally begin to carry eggs between October and November each year, and spawn at the end of April to May of the following year. It is a carnivorous fish, and small red threefish, silver rice fish, and the like are their frequent food. Fishermen catch redfish according to their swimming habits and feeding habits. There are mainly two capture methods: one is to use motorized fishing trawlers and relatively large fishing boats to set large bottom trawls for capture; the other is to build redfish fishing boats and use the “fishing” method of longline fishing to catch them.

Once we understand the living habits of redfish, fishing for them will be twice as effective with half the effort. I hope the above content can help everyone catch redfish.