Most people mistakenly believe that fishing is a hassle. And in order to get a more or less decent catch, you need to spend a considerable amount of money to purchase the necessary equipment. This is far from true.
It turns out that you can fish using quite accessible materials. For example, you can get a wide variety of fish with a simple plastic bottle.
One of the most common species for bottle fishing is pike. However, it is quite possible that you may come across carp or carp. Depending on the body of water you are fishing on.
On the Internet you can find a large number of videos of bottle fishing. The main aspects of this type of fishing can be learned from this article.
Methods of catching fish with a plastic bottle
To catch fish with a plastic bottle, you will need a fishing line, a hook and a sinker, the purchase of which will not require large financial costs:
- Bottles of any size from 0.5 to 2.5 liters are suitable. Finding such bottles is not difficult;
- if the tackle with the bottle breaks or deteriorates, it will be very easy to make a similar device;
- Fishing with a plastic bottle is convenient because it acts as a reel;
- It is not necessary to fish with a bottle from a boat or boat; it is quite possible to do it directly from the shore;
Electric mousetrap from a bottle
The proposed trap option is complex and can be dangerous for domestic animals. The essence of the design is to destroy the rodent with a discharge of electric current.
The materials you need are a piece of galvanized profile used for lathing when installing drywall. The workpiece is cut to a length of 30 cm. The cut neck of a plastic bottle is glued to the outside with a hot gun.
Electrical circuit elements are located inside the profile
For the electrical circuit you will need a 9-volt Krona battery, a Chinese current converter, a small switch from any household appliance and a piece of stranded copper wire. The elements are mounted inside the profile. The wire is connected in series into one circuit, but not yet closed.
The ends of the wire are brought to the contacts of the trap
Unscrew the plug from the neck glued to the profile. Pieces of steel wire are inserted through the drilled holes. These will be contacts. In the initial state they are open. The plug is screwed back on. One of the contacts is made in the shape of a hook. Bait is strung on it, for example, a lard skin or a piece of smoked sausage. Wires of the electrical circuit are connected to the contacts and profile.
To get to the bait, the mouse climbs onto the stand. When a rodent tries to pull the bait, the contacts inside the plug close. Current from the battery is supplied to the converter. Since the mouse simultaneously becomes a voltage conductor between the profile and the contacts, it receives a fatal discharge.
Fishing with a bottle from the shore
Making bottle tackle for shore fishing is quite easy. You need to firmly tie the bottle with a rope, it will serve as a connection to the shore.
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Next, you should wind 5 to 9 m of fishing line around the bottle. The sinker must be tied to the edge of the base. A metal leash should be tied over the load.
The bottle makes it possible to throw about 4 tackles to different places. They can be tied to a bush or tree and left for a certain amount of time. If you do everything correctly, the catch will please you.
Options for the most successful mousetraps
All of the mousetrap designs below do not require special skills or tools and can be made, as they say, “on the knee” in a few minutes. To build a trap you use:
- Scotch tape and adhesive tape, nylon threads;
- Plastic bottles with a capacity of 2 and 3 liters;
- Scissors or stationery knife;
- Bait.
Advice! A piece of salted lard, fried seeds and a walnut kernel work reliably as bait.
Oddly enough, cheese or sausage are significantly inferior in effectiveness to lard; such bait quickly dries out and loses its attractiveness.
Make an effective bottle mousetrap in 60 seconds
A simple and quite effective mousetrap can be made from an ordinary three-liter plastic bottle. We use a nut kernel as bait. The full course on how to make a mousetrap from a plastic bottle is shown in the video
Initially, you will need to make a mount for the bait from two loops of nylon thread.
Using a utility knife, make a cut on the wall so that you get a petal covering a small window. The window size should be no more than 20 mm. Due to its rounded shape, the petal should easily bend inside the plastic bottle and not deviate outward, preventing the mouse from getting out of the trap.
We pierce the side walls of the bottle on both sides, stretch the thread with the bait and fix the suspension in a taut state using matches and tape.
The place for hanging the bait can be chosen at a height of at least 10-12 cm from the bottom, this is enough for an ordinary mouse, sometimes rodents demonstrate miracles of jumping ability, so the design of the trap can be supplemented with another bottle, which will catch everyone who covets the bait.
Fishing with a bottle from a boat
A bottle of one to two liters would be ideal for fishing in this way. A fishing line, up to fifteen meters long, is attached to the neck of the bottle.
A sinker is suspended from the fishing line, which will not weigh more than one hundred grams. You need to make a loop on the base to mount the leash there.
Next, a hook is installed, its type depends on the type of fish you want to catch. Well, to prevent the fishing line from slipping off the bottle, you need to secure it with an elastic band.
Fishing for live bait in winter
The methods of catching live bait in the winter are significantly different from the summer, since there is ice on the reservoirs.
The correct strategy for catching live bait in winter with a jig
- Drilling a series of holes 5-6 holes.
- We will clear the holes from snow and ice.
- Feed the holes with a pillar, just put molded balls of complementary food and sprinkle a little powder. Shade the holes.
- Installation of empty girders without fry.
- The fry are suitable for complementary feeding. We catch the fry.
- We place the fry on the tackle of the girder.
Watch the video: Successful strategy for catching live bait in winter
Catching live bait in winter on a lift
Today, in stores you can buy a lift (spider, dwarf), which easily fits into the hole and folds up and is taken out of it. Operating principle: lower the lift, feed the fry with bread and after a while we take out the live bait from the net.
Watch the video: Winter lift (spider). Principle of operation. Live bait fishing.
How to keep live bait alive
If there is too much live bait, then you can leave it until the next fishing trip. There are several ways to preserve fry.
The main thing is that the container with the fry should not be brought into the room, into the heat.
Do not close the lid tightly, the fry must breathe, but you should not open it completely, they can jump out and die.
Storing live bait at home
Watch the video: Storing live bait all winter
Storing live bait in a pond
This method is suitable if you go fishing in the same body of water. We make a container with holes and put live bait in there. Live bait is in its natural habitat.
Watch the video: How to store live bait in a pond
They try not to harvest fry for use.
Live bait is mounted in 3 ways.
- Behind the back, the hook is threaded under the skin of the upper fin, the main thing is not to touch the ridge.
- In the head area, behind one or two lips or behind the nostrils, the hook is pulled out through the cheek.
- Or they are attached in the tail area, the hook is passed through the body, above the ridge.
Hooks use single, double, triple.
Important! For bottom predators or when fishing in weak currents, it is better to attach live bait to the back.
In case of strong currents, live bait is attached to a hook in the head area.
The main principle of fishing with a plastic bottle
After you have measured the desired depth, you should throw the fishing line behind the elastic band attached to the bottle. The caught fry should be placed on the hook.
You need to pour a certain amount of water into the bottle, this is necessary so that the bottle on the surface is held at a given angle, and does not float on the surface.
It is best to place gear in places where fishing spots are possible. A very important condition for bottle fishing is the attentiveness of the fisherman. Don't miss the moment when the fish gets hooked!
The simplest mousetrap options
The simplest version of a mousetrap made from a plastic bottle is shown in the video
You can make a simple device with your own hands in a few seconds. You only need to cut off the neck and cut the edge of the remaining container with scissors in the form of triangular teeth, 30-35 mm long.
The jagged edges are folded into the bottle, and the bait is placed on the bottom of the trap. According to the creators' plan, the mouse gets inside the mousetrap, but will not be able to get out of it because of the teeth.
A more effective version of a mousetrap can be made from a plastic container according to the diagram below.
You need to cut off the top of the bottle, turn it over, remove the cap and put it back into the cut part. The result is a design reminiscent of an old non-spill inkwell.
It is recommended to treat the inside of the mousetrap with sunflower oil, and the installed upper part of the trap will need to be fixed with a stapler.
A good falling mousetrap can be made from an ordinary plastic bottle with a window cut out in the neck area. Bait is placed at the bottom of the bottle, and the trap itself is tied with a cord around the neck and placed on the table.
To trigger the mousetrap, it is placed on the edge so that the bottom part with the bait is behind the edge of the tabletop. The mouse, having climbed into the bottle, upsets the balance, which leads to the container tipping over and hanging on the cord.
Getting out of the mouse container is quite difficult. It will be necessary to remove it from the trap in time before the cat steals it along with the trap.
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