The best bait for bream on a feeder with your own hands

DIY bait for bream

To catch bream, you need a lot of bait mixture, since it is not clear in advance what the activity of the fish will be and how often food will have to be supplied to the fishing area. If the bait suddenly runs out, then you can safely reel in the gear and go home - there will be no bite. Fishing stores sell a wide variety of mixtures.

Advanced and professional brands are expensive, so purchasing them is a costly affair for a simple fisherman, and budget products do not show the expected results. In this case, the most reasonable solution would be to make your own bait for bream at home. Let's look at several recipes for its production.

First recipe

1. Boil oatmeal and millet in the required quantity over low heat. Be sure to make sure that the porridge does not burn, otherwise the unpleasant smell will not allow you to make attractive bait.
2. Arriving at the reservoir, we mix the porridge with sand and soil obtained from the river bank.
3. Add breadcrumbs, peeled sunflower seeds, and vanilla to the resulting mixture. You can fill the mixture with chopped worms or bloodworms.

That's it, the simplest bream mixture is ready. All that remains is to make balls with a diameter of about 10 cm, make a starting feed and periodically throw them into the water, keeping the fish in the fishing zone.

Second recipe

A little more complicated in terms of ingredients, but just as easy to make. We recommend you take note of this:

1. Directly on the pond in a bowl, mix bran, corn or oat flakes, sunflower cake, bloodworms or maggots, coffee drink or ground coffee beans.
2. Add clay from the bottom of the reservoir and water also taken from there to the prepared mixture.
3. Mix the mixture until thick. Let it brew for a few minutes.

Similar to the first case, we make balls and send them into the water in portions.

Advice! Breadcrumbs are the most versatile aromatic component of a homemade mixture for bream fishing.

Third recipe

The most complex of those presented in this section, but it is the most versatile; it works throughout the open water season; in addition to bream, it can be used for hunting roach, crucian carp and crucian carp. Does this:

1. Boil 3–3.5 cups of water in an enamel pan.
2. When the water boils, add 2.5 cups of barley to it.
3. Cook it until half cooked and then, as the pearl barley swells, add millet to the pan.
4. Cook the porridge until almost all the water has boiled away.
5. Then turn off the pan, cover it with a lid and let it brew for about 45 minutes.
6. You can add vanilla, sunflower oil, and other flavorings to the cooked porridge.

When going to a pond, we transfer the porridge to another container, mix it with corn grits, and add clay directly on the river bank. You can throw one or two handfuls of small bloodworms, maggots or earthworms, chopped into pieces, into a bucket of bait.

The advantages of bait made at home are:

• cost savings;
• you can come up with the recipe for the mixture yourself;
• full control over the cooking process.

However, preparing bait with your own hands will take time. The fisherman will have to control the process in order to make a working and catchable mixture.

Coloring of complementary food for bream

When searching for food, bream primarily relies on its sense of smell, which leads it to ready-made bait. After directly approaching the food, he pays attention to its color, so under no circumstances should you neglect the color of the bait.

The do-it-yourself feeder nozzle can be divided according to the time of year:

• to catch bream in spring and summer, it is worth using similar colors as dyes: yellow, white, red and foliage color;
• in winter and autumn, the predominance of colors such as black, brown, burgundy is observed.

Red is considered to be a universal color, for which you can add beetroot dye to complementary foods. Such color schemes are more suitable for attracting an inexperienced underbreeder in the case when older individuals prefer to pick up food from the bottom.

It is recommended to use more inconspicuous shades for them, which are similar to the color of the bottom of the reservoir.

What is needed to make it at home

To make bait for bream you do not need to have any top-secret knowledge and skills. It is enough to understand the basic principles of creating an effective mixture, take all the necessary ingredients, and have the desire to make it at home.

Basic components

The homemade mixture is made in such a way that it contains large fractions. Bream is a weighty fish that loves large pieces. Dusty bait, on the contrary, will attract the attention of small bleak, silver bream, roach, completely ruining fishing.

The basic homemade components are:

• pearl barley and millet cereals;
• cereals;
• peas;
• bran;
• cake;
• breadcrumbs;
• peeled sunflower seeds;
• cornflakes;
• canned corn and peas.

Of the animal ingredients, it is worth noting bloodworms, maggots and earthworms. The first two components do not have to be selective. Choose a cheap feed option. It is better to chop the latter into pieces measuring from 0.5 to 2 cm.

Taste preferences of bream

Bream loves aromatic smells, so various additives that improve its taste are welcome. To do this, they often use natural ingredients that are accessible to everyone. They less often resort to the use of artificial purchased ingredients.

The most popular and effective flavored additives are:

• peeled roasted sunflower seeds
• cinnamon
• anise
• roasted and ground flax grains
• sea ​​buckthorn, hemp, and less often sunflower oils
• fennel
• garlic
• caraway
• coriander.

The listed additives have a positive effect on the bite of bream when fishing in warm water. When it gets colder, the taste preferences of fish change. Therefore, it is advisable to replace sweet smells with “animal” ones, increasing the amount of food bloodworms, chopped worms, maggots, or all of them together in the feed.

Basic fillers

Having decided on the main ingredient, we must not forget about the optimal proportions of bait components. It should be attractive to the fish, but not satiate it. Otherwise, the bream, having eaten the offered mixture, will not want to take the bait.

The basic homemade fillers are:

1. cereals
2. flakes
3. bran
4. peas
5. corn
6. compound feed
7. pasta.

The listed components in the bait should be about 30–40%. If it is less, the mixture will be ineffective. If it’s more, it’s too filling.

Binding Ingredients

Since bream is caught on the current, the bait mixture must contain a binding component. Otherwise, it will become dusty and disintegrate before it touches the bottom. It will be quickly washed away by the flow of water, and its effectiveness will be reduced to zero.

The main connecting elements are:

• clay
• chopped oatmeal
• pea puree or dry ground grains
• flour or bran

When preparing bait, it is enough to add one component, and moisten the resulting mixture with water, stirring until it reaches a consistency at which the mass does not immediately crumble in your hands, but also does not become too viscous, like dough.

For the feeder when fishing in the current

To catch bream with a feeder in the current, the bait options already described above are used. But, so that the flow of water does not immediately wash the mixture out of the feeder, you need to increase the amount of the large fraction in it. In addition, it is useful to add bloodworms to the porridge, or better yet, pieces of dung worm.

A special pea stick is used as a binding component, which can be purchased at any fishing point. To save money, you can grind your own pea flour or cook a thick puree.

The best all-round mixture

Every angler wants to know a bait recipe that is suitable for any conditions. This mixture exists and is quite simple to prepare. It contains the following components in the proportions below:

1. 2 cups each of barley, corn grits and pearl barley
2. 1 glass each of millet and semolina
3. 2 tablespoons unrefined vegetable oil
4. several packets of vanilla

For reference! This bait mixture was proposed by the famous bream breeder D.A. Salapin and tested by many feeders on different reservoirs.

First, cook the pearl barley until it swells. Then add unrefined oil, vanillin and millet to the pan. Immediately after boiling, remove the porridge from the heat, cover with a lid and let it brew for about half an hour. Now add the remaining ingredients to the still warm brew and mix the mixture thoroughly.

Bait depending on the fishing season

Depending on the season of the year, bream changes its taste preferences. The behavior of fish at different times must be taken into account when preparing bait for catching fish. An experienced fisherman understands these nuances well, acts flexibly, and quickly adapts to the prevailing conditions.

In the warm season, he behaves actively, eats a lot and willingly, but behaves choosily due to the abundance of various food in the water. It is necessary to use flavors and other additives to attract the attention of the fish and keep them at the fishing point.

As it gets colder, the fish reduces its activity, moves little, conserves energy, and therefore feeds modestly, quickly becoming full. In this case, bright aromas, on the contrary, can alert the fish, scaring them away from the fishing area. Therefore, a mixture with natural smells and tastes works better.

Summer

In the summer, bream becomes picky, since there is a lot of nutritious food in the reservoir. The angler is faced with the task of attracting the attention of the fish and not saturating it too much, so that it has the desire to “graze” in the feeding area and it eventually swallows the hook with bait.

High-calorie bait is not needed in warm water, so it should consist of plant components based on cereals. Of the natural additives, sunflower seeds and cake showed themselves to be the best. Also, the mixture must be generously diluted with inedible ingredients - earth, soil, sand from the bottom or shore of a reservoir.

Recently, experienced fishermen are increasingly using an additive such as betaine. This is a special powder designed to increase the appetite of fish. A bream that eats a mixture containing this substance does not feel full, so it “grazes” longer at the point. Therefore, the likelihood of it being bitten will be higher.

In addition, it is recommended to add various attractants to the summer mixture. Among the most popular are:

1. anise
2. cinnamon
3. coriander

Fruit flavors show good results, especially strawberry and pear. But they must be added carefully, otherwise you can spoil the bait, on the contrary, reducing its productivity and attractiveness to fish.

Spring

In the spring, before spawning and after the winter lull, the bream begins to eat off, gaining strength before moving upstream and the spawning process. At this time, you can serve him plenty of different food without fear of overfeeding the fish.

In addition to cereals, complementary foods must contain animal components. Chopped earthworms and bloodworms would be a good choice. Protein components attract bream to the fishing site. Additionally, you can add the smell of honey or vanilla to the mixture.

Winter

When fishing in winter, all sweet tastes are excluded from the bait. The mixture is prepared on the basis of peas or pearl barley. Bloodworms and worms must be added to it, or similar attractants are used. Less soil is taken from the bottom of the reservoir than in summer.

In winter, fish should be fed in smaller portions. During the cold period, the bream is in a kind of suspended animation, trying to move less, expending energy. Accordingly, he eats less often and only in limited doses. It is important not to oversaturate it, otherwise the bite will be sluggish and the results will be almost zero.

Flavorings for bait

The above recipes used coriander. This is a substance with a pungent but pleasant odor for fish. At the same time, it is better to take the seasoning not ground when fishing, but grind it immediately before throwing it into the water.

This way the aroma will not have time to dissipate.

You can also use:

• cumin seeds (ground);
• roasted flax . Considered a favorite scent at any time of the year;
• fruit ingredients ;
• honey _ Many fishermen believe that bream is a sweet tooth lover, so the pleasant smell of honey will never be superfluous;
• a few teaspoons of chopped dill;
• vanillin , usually one sachet is enough;
• ground coffee beans;
• cinnamon;
• purchased sprays . You need to be extremely careful with them and strictly follow the instructions. An overly rich aroma will scare away the fish and it will be almost impossible to attract them back.

The choice here is quite large and it is impossible to say in advance that you will like bream. You need to start with a small amount; if there is no bite, spicy flavors need to be added or changed.

Ready-made purchased options - the best manufacturers

The modern fishing industry offers anglers a great selection of diverse baits. The store counters are full of colorful packages with the object of fishing on them. Unobtrusive advertising encourages you to use bright packs and memorable names.

However, not every factory bait shows the expected result. There is a certain list of brands that have proven their worth in many reservoirs of our latitudes. Among them:

• Sensas Feeder
• Traper bream
• Green Fishing Energy
• Dunaev Premium bream
• Marcel Van Den Eynge Gold-Pro Greel
• Mondial-F Wintermix Bream Red

Many of the listed brands were developed by professional athletes, taking into account the specifics of fishing in our regions. Therefore, their effectiveness is confirmed by impressive catches and weighty trophy specimens.

How to properly feed bream

It is not enough to simply prepare a tasty mixture; it is important to correctly deliver it to the fishing area. The fisherman must learn to accurately deliver bait to the fishing point, be able to dose its quantity and determine the moment when it is necessary to send a fresh portion into the water so that the fish does not leave the area where fishing is being done.

Each fishing method, at different times of the year, has its own specific feeding rules. By adhering to them, the angler will always be able to optimally distribute the mixture consumption and keep the fish at the fishing point for the required amount of time.

When fishing on the feeder

Feeder hunting involves the use of feeders, with the help of which the mixture is supplied to the fishing area. The fisherman is required to create a “table” at the bottom where the fish will gather. The selected point should be periodically recharged, maintaining its attractiveness for underwater inhabitants.

At the beginning of fishing, the angler determines the casting range and clips the cord on the spool. After this, the starting feeding is done, a spot is created on the bottom: the feeder is sent into the water, and with a sharp jerk of the rod it is freed from the bait. 5 to 10 casts are enough.

Then full-fledged fishing begins. As a rule, the fish arrives at the point after half an hour. First, small bream, silver bream, and roach begin to peck. Medium and large bream appear after an hour and a half. Therefore, you need to be patient and not change your place ahead of time.

If there are no bites, you should not move the equipment too often. The food should be washed out of the feeder. This usually takes from 3 to 15 minutes. It all depends on the strength of the current, the bottom topography in the fishing zone, the composition and consistency of the mixture.

When float fishing

In float fishing, it is customary to make a powerful starting feed. The fisherman makes 10–15 large balls and sends them to the fishing zone. After that, he methodically throws 1-2 medium balls into the water at intervals of 15-20 minutes.

Casting is done by hand. It's not difficult, especially with some experience. So that the ball does not fall apart when it hits the water and does not crumble when lowered to the bottom, it is weighted and held together with clay taken from the shore of the reservoir.

There are special slingshots. They are more often used by carp anglers, but in a float rod they are also useful for hunting at medium and long distances. If fishing is carried out in short distances, then you can use a bait cup attached to a telescopic stick.

When fishing on a medium and large river, you must take into account the current factor. The balls are sent into the water with the assumption that they will be carried away by the stream until they sink to the bottom. The more accurately the angler calculates the casting point, the more effectively it will work.

in winter

When hunting for bream from under the ice, the mixture is delivered to the point using a special feeder called a dump truck. It is filled with bait and lowered into the hole. After waiting for about a minute, the contents are poured to the bottom, and the device is filled with another portion.

After making several feeding casts, they pause for about half an hour. After the fish begins to feed, the created spot is periodically replenished with fresh portions. As a rule, this is done after 15–30 minutes, depending on the intensity of the bite.

Advice! In winter, you need to feed very carefully and in doses. An overfed fish will simply stop biting.

If bream fishing is carried out in calm water, then you can feed from the same hole where the fishing rod will subsequently be installed. If you are fishing in the current, then an additional hole is drilled in the ice 1–1.5 meters above the working hole, where the feeder will be lowered.

Components of bait

Regardless of the fishing method (rod, feeder), the main ingredients remain the same. The bait must perform several functions simultaneously, so the components are divided into several groups.

We create dregs

Bream can stay in muddy water for a long time; for cautious fish this is the best environment.

To please the fish in this regard, they usually use:

• powdered milk;
• semolina;
• various doughs;
• regular bread;
• purchased ingredients.

Basic nutrition

After the conditions for eating have been created, you need to provide the bream with its favorite delicacy.

Suitable for this:

• pearl barley;
• corn;
• peas;
• buckwheat (necessarily fried);
• millet;
• bran.

Flavor

This underwater resident is able to smell food at a distance of 200 meters.

And to help him do it faster, you can use:

• vanillin;
• coriander;
• ground coffee;
• purchased options that won’t cost a lot of money.

Connecting elements

It is especially important to use these components when fishing in the current.

The following options can be used:

• clay;
• ground dry peas;
• cereals;
• Wheat flour.

Dyes

As mentioned above, bream is a very cautious fish , so even the best bait with an intoxicating aroma, but a radically different color from the aquatic environment, will scare away individuals.

There are a set of rules for this ingredient, which will definitely be discussed a little later.