The foods carp likes to eat include sweet potato bait, corn kernels, small river shrimp, etc.

1. Sweet potato bait

Sweet potatoes are a common delicacy on the human table. Boiled sweet potatoes are fragrant, glutinous, sweet, delicious and filling, and everyone loves to eat them. Boiled sweet potatoes are also the favorite of grass carp and carp, and the effect of using sweet potatoes to catch carp is absolutely extraordinary. The method of making sweet potato bait is very simple. You only need to wash, peel and steam the sweet potatoes, then beat them into a puree while hot, add some wheat bran and cornmeal to the mixture, and finally knead it into a dough to use it for fishing. You can also add chicken feed and flour to make explosive carp bait.

2. Corn kernels

When seeing these four characters "King of Vegetarian Bait", I believe corn bait will first appear in the minds of fishing friends. Corn bait is a powerful tool for catching large carp, herring, and grass carp. Not only that, there are many ways to make corn bait. It can be hooked directly for fishing, soaked in white wine, cooked in boiling water, or fermented with distiller's yeast. Corn bait and more! Because it is so easy to use, every summer and autumn, fishermen who love carp fishing will choose to use corn kernels as bait for fishing.

3. Small river shrimps

“Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimps.” I don’t know whether big carps eat small fish, but after many times of practice, small river shrimps It is definitely the bait that carp love to eat. The method of making bait and fishing for small river shrimp is also extremely simple. You only need to take a live shrimp, remove its shell, and then use scissors to cut the shrimp meat into small sections and directly insert it into the fishhook to use.

Life habits of carp

Carp is a freshwater fish in the middle and lower layers and is omnivorous. It has strong adaptability to the living environment. It lives at the bottom of the water body. It has a gentle temperament and strong vitality. It is resistant to cold and hypoxia, and is relatively tolerant to salt and alkali. It grows well in salt water less than 7 g/L, and the optimal salt content is 1 ~4g/L. The most suitable water temperature is between 20 and 32°C, and the most suitable water temperature for reproduction is 22 and 28°C. The optimum pH value for growth is 7.5 to 8.5.

Carp is an omnivorous fish, and its young mainly feed on rotifers, crustaceans and small invertebrates. As the individual grows larger, it gradually eats small benthic invertebrates; adult fish mainly eat snails, clams, clam molluscs and aquatic insect larvae, small fish, shrimp, etc., and also eat some filamentous algae, aquatic plants, and plant debris. crumbs and artificial compound feed, etc. As the water temperature rises, the food intake increases, and the reproductive season begins and food intake stops. After breeding, there is a peak feeding season. In winter, the feeding intensity is weak or even no feeding.

The growth of carp in China varies with the cold and warm climate; it is faster in the south and slower in the northeast; there is a similar phenomenon in the Yellow River Basin; it is faster in Shandong and Henan, and slower from Inner Mongolia to Gansu.