What bait to use for fishing yellowtail? Bait selection and pairing tips

The yellowtail fish is a common, typical small to medium-sized river fish, one of the four high-quality fish species promoted nationwide as a priority, with high nutritional value, and is the target of choice for most anglers. So, what bait to use for fishing yellowtail?

1. What bait to use for fishing yellowtail?

For fishing yellowtail, generally use earthworms, bloodworms and other nematodes, or you can choose commercial baits such as 918 Wild Fishing Savory-Fishy 30%, Speed Attack 2 Savory-Fishy 20%, Musk Red Crucian 10%, Old Ghost Lake Battle Yellowtail 30% and 10% protein powder or krill powder.

2. What tips are there for fishing yellowtail?

1. Fishing by rock piles: the yellowtail fish mainly feeds on algae in the water, and places with rocks in the water often have large amounts of stone moss and the like, which are the favorite food of the round-snout yellowtail, so when fishing you only need to find a spot with rocks to cast your rod and you will surely get good results; the larger the rocks in the water, the larger the fish.

2. Fishing at flowing water: the yellowtail fish likes to gather and feed at culvert mouths and dam heads where water flows, because the dissolved oxygen here is rich and the large rocks used to build the dam are rich in algae. When fishing at flowing water, the shortcoming is that the vertical float of platform fishing is unstable, and you can only position it by pulling in the wind line.

3. Fishing at new spots: the yellowtail fish has a strong sense of territory, living in the water in schools and forming their own “tribes”; when encountering an invasion by an outside enemy, they will fight with their shovel-shaped round snouts to drive the other party out of the territory. Therefore, each time you fish, it is best to find some new spots where no one has fished before.

Although the yellowtail fish is a small to medium-sized fish, it has great impact force after being hooked, and anglers need to fully understand its habits and master the techniques in order to have a good catch.