Sweet potatoes, also known as groundnuts, sweet potatoes and so on. Cut into small pieces, sweet potato is a high-quality bait for carp fishing, hanging string hooks to catch grass carp mainly. Carp, carp and grass carp all like to take in light, sweet, fluffy and flavorful potato food. Although there is a wide range of commercial baits, there are two main types of baits: potato and other plant and animal based baits. The sweet potato as bait can cast the fish good, hook rate is high, is a good fishing bait.

Introduction of sweet potatoes

Sweet potatoes have red heart, yellow heart and white heart. The sweet potato with white heart has a lot of starch, which is easy to come off on the hook, and the effect is not good, and the hooking rate is low. Should choose red or yolk heart sweet potato is better, these two kinds of sweet potatoes contain sugar, starch, raw with a slightly sweet flavor, processing is still red or yellow, in the water body of the fish visual stimulus is strong, easy to be found by the fish. If you don't have sweet potatoes, you can use potatoes instead, which is less effective.

How to make bait with sweet potatoes

Steam (or boil) sweet potatoes

Wash the selected sweet potatoes, cut the big ones into 4 pieces, and the small ones into two pieces, and put them into a pot to steam. To pay attention to master the fire, available toothpick poke test, in order not to use force can poke through the best. Overcooked can not hang hooks, hooks are also easy to fall off after entering the water. Too raw sweet potatoes do not emit much sweet flavor, can not stimulate the sense of smell and taste of fish, fish do not like to swallow. Therefore, it is better to steam the sweet potatoes until they are seven or eight years old.

Before a carp swallows a bait, it tends to suck gently and savor the action slowly. When the carp is sucking on the sweet potato, there are tiny particles on the surface that come off, which can cause it to have an appetite. After steaming the sweet potato cubes, put them one by one into bowls or pots without overlapping them, and put them indoors so that they can slowly dissipate heat. The sweet potato cubes dried overnight harden by condensing the powder and sugar. Sweet potato cubes should not be placed on the balcony or in the refrigerator to dissipate heat quickly, so that sweet potatoes are prone to cracking, peeling or hard outside and soft inside, the fish hook in the sweet potato grains position is not fixed, the formation of the hook shank exposed, will reduce the chance of carp hooked.

Baked sweet potatoes

To be selected sweet potatoes, placed next to the fireplace, with the residual heat of the radiation for baking, and constantly turn over, baked to the hand pinch the skin elasticity, smell can be scented. The excellent characteristics of baked sweet potatoes, after cutting, because of the strong sweet flavor, in the water body of the fish's sense of smell and taste stimulation is very strong, which is short of steamed sweet potatoes. Production: Use a quick knife (can be dipped in water) to cut the cooled baked sweet potatoes into 6-10 mm slices, and then cut into a number of small cubes to make it 1 cm square or to 0.6 cm square bait. Put the cut bait flat on one side of the absorbent paper, and then fold the other side of the paper to cover, so that the bait's water is absorbed by the paper part of the bait, so that it becomes slightly hard, and then loaded into a plastic bag, and tie the mouth of the bag with rubber bands. Carry in the anti-pressure. Baked sweet potatoes used on the same day, the same day cut, used the next day, the next day and then cut, to avoid the strong sweet flavor dissipation.

Sweet potato puree

Sweet potato baked (can also be steamed, the effect of the baked worse than some of the cooking method because it will lose a lot of sugar, is not desirable), while still hot, remove the skin and baked part of the paste, put it into a pot with an iron spoon into the puree. Be sure to beat it while it is hot, if it is cold, there will be small pieces that can not be opened, not good to use. The mashed sweet potatoes can be added directly to fried cornstarch, foozies, etc., or to pellet powder, which is a good bait for carp and grass carp.

Potato noodle fishing bait

Choose the right amount of burnt sweet potato heart as the main material (steamed sweet potato heart can also be) and then mix 1/3 of the flour as a binder, and another 1/3 mixed with the fishing company King of the crazy fishing carp bait as an additive. (Burned sweet potato heart 3: flour 1: crazy fishing crucian carp 1) will be mixed and kneaded into a soft and hard, sticky and good, special flavor of the potato surface bait, it is not only viscous, easy to load the hook, not easy to take off the hook, and the burned sweet potato itself has a pure flavor, soft and pleasant to the mouth, suitable for crucian carp, carp, grass carp, and other fish eating advantages, coupled with crazy fishing crucian carp bait with a special flavor of the seductive force of the carp, carp, grass, and other fish can not refuse to eat and The bait has a special flavor that makes it impossible for the carp and grass to refuse to eat and bite the hook frequently.

Puffed potato powder

Many places have a kind of farm food called "dried sweet potatoes", the specific method is to steam the sweet potatoes cut into long strips, because the production time is in the winter, it is placed in the room to dry the cold air, and then fried, the flavor of fragrance, crisp, sweet. After the fried "dried sweet potatoes" are crushed, it is a major powder bait for carp fishing, and the effect is much stronger than raw sweet potato flour.

Homemade sweet potato bait

Bait production and use

Any variety of sweet potato can be used as raw material. The method is: about two taels (larger can also be) 2-3 sweet potatoes, washed without peeling it steamed or boiled to seven or eight mature, to be cooled down, cut in half with a knife, and then cut the half of it into four large pieces, so a sweet potato into eight large pieces, you can take away to play the nest bait fish.

Nesting method: In the nest before and after the left and right 1 meter range into 4-6 pieces of sweet potato cloth nest can be. According to this method in the morning and afternoon each playing a nest can be anglers all day fishing, save time, save bait, save trouble, the effect is good.

Hook fishing

Hanging sweet potato grains, from the middle of the sweet potato block through the first hook tip, and then slowly lift the pressure to rotate the angle, so that the entire hook along the hook tip of the piercing position into the sweet potato, in order to slightly expose the hook tip, do not leave the hook shank, no hooks black shadow is good. Hand rod, sea rod, pull weight can be used.

If you are fishing in slow-moving or still waters, wet the potato on the hook with water and roll it in fried peanut or sesame powder for a few times to increase the temptation, and the carp will be more greedy. The only thing you need to watch out for is the small fish pecking around. If the bait hook into the water for 10 minutes or so do not see the drift, you should be prompt to lift the rod to change the bait.