Grass carp fishing bait recipes: learn to make your own effective grass carp bait

Grass carp is one of the target fish that anglers love to fish for the most. In the process of fishing for grass carp, apart from factors such as the fishing spot, climate and season, there is one more very important thing, and that is the grass carp bait recipe. How do you prepare grass carp bait? Over the long course of fishing, the vast number of fishing enthusiasts have summarized many grass carp bait recipes. Let us take a look together below at grass carp fishing bait recipes!

Bait recipes for fishing grass carp

30 grams of chives, 300 grams of fresh cornmeal, 20 grams of flour, 50 grams of bran, 10 grams of white sugar, a little qu liquor. The chives are best minced into fine bits with a soy milk maker; if you do not have the means, just cut them into small pieces with a knife, the finer the better. Mix the cornmeal with boiling water; once it is evenly mixed, add a bit of bran, then mix evenly, then add the flour to increase stickiness. It is best not to add too much water, as this makes it hard to control. After the boiling water has cooled, add a bit of white sugar, just a little is fine, and it is best to add a tiny bit of chicken essence. After stirring evenly, make a large pancake 2 to 3 cm thick. Then put it on the stove and steam it for about 15 minutes, and after taking it out, set it aside to cool. Once it has cooled thoroughly, crumble the large pancake, then put it into the fine chive bits, and after mixing evenly add a little qu liquor, then knead it into a ball, ideally so it does not stick to your hands, put it into a clean plastic bag, tie the bag opening tightly, and leave it in the sun to bake for one to two days.

Natural baits for fishing grass carp

1. Using grass and crops: Grass carp like to eat all kinds of aquatic plants and terrestrial weeds, and they like even more the tender seedlings of various crops and vegetable sprouts. When fishing for grass carp near waters where crops are grown, using the tender leaves of crops as bait often produces unexpected results. Anglers in the south, especially when crops are grown near reservoirs, often ask the local villagers for a few rice seedlings and vegetable sprouts to use as bait, or buy a bit of local rice grain from the villagers to use as chum, and fish with tender grass by the water's edge, often with outstanding results.

2. Using insects to fish for grass carp: Grass carp not only like to eat grass, they also like to eat insects. Especially in summer, the green caterpillars and green grasshoppers on plants are grass carp's favorites. When using green caterpillars and green grasshoppers to fish for grass carp, it is best to keep them alive, and the hooking motion should be gentle so as not to kill them. In waters with high surface visibility, grass carp will quickly spot the struggling green caterpillar and swallow it in one bite. Therefore, when fishing for grass carp, never let your mind wander, otherwise it is very easy to lose the rod or break the rod.

3. Using corn kernels as bait: For dealing with grass carp, corn kernels are a great contributor in the fishing world. No matter north or south, grass carp very much like to eat corn kernels, and especially when fishing in summer, you can even use tender corn directly as bait. If there is corn planted near the fishing ground or there is a grass carp pond fed with corn, the effect of using corn to fish for grass carp basically far exceeds other baits.

Classic grass carp bait recipes

1. 50% Da Yezhan 918 + 50% Dangbuzhu grass carp bait, bait-to-water ratio 1:1. After the bait has fully absorbed the water, sprinkle an appropriate amount of 2# 918 base bait on the surface. This recipe's bait tastes sweet and sour; the sufficient amino acid components added to the grass carp bait have enough allure for grass carp, and the faint milky fragrance of 2# 918 drives grass carp into a frantic bite. If an appropriate amount of water is added before fishing to ferment it, the effect is even better.

2. 50% Chao You + 30% Yezhan Cao + 20% Sugong, bait-to-water ratio 1:1. This bait has a unique allure for grass carp, and has astonishing effects when fishing for grass carp and mixed fish in professional fish ponds, intensive culture fish ponds and natural waters.

3. 50% Da Yezhan + 40% grass carp bait + 10% 2# 918, bait-to-water ratio 1:1. This bait is specially for fishing large-bodied grass carp in natural waters, large reservoirs and lakes.

4. 50% Juwu Xing + 30% Chao You + 20% Sugong 3#, bait-to-water ratio 1:1. This bait is suitable in early spring and late autumn for specially fishing large-bodied black carp, grass carp, common carp, bream and crucian carp in large reservoirs and lakes. After many trial fishings in northern and southern waters, its effect is outstanding.