Tilapia is commonly known as African carp, resembling crucian carp and black color, individual slightly larger than crucian carp. The year stocked tilapia, to the beginning of September can grow to about 1 kilogram. Tilapia is a warm water tropical fish, water temperature below 10 ℃ will stop growing. Omnivorous fish, China's southern and northern parts of the culture. All over the feed fed tilapia feed, are high animal protein content of the feed. South feed feed, silkworm pupa powder accounted for 10%; Beijing in recent years there are many ponds stocked tilapia for fishing enthusiasts fishing. The bait for tilapia fishing is the best bait with a strong fishy flavor. Although earthworms, red worms, live small fish, shrimp fishing tilapia effect is good, but with the grain raw materials processing synthetic fishy bait, with a wide range of sources, easy to produce, the advantages of high efficiency, is not lost as a good bait for tilapia fishing, fishing enthusiasts love.

The commonly used synthetic fishy bait for tilapia are as follows:

1 Fishmeal bait

Tilapia love to eat fishy bait, no matter which kind of fishy food, such as octopus powder, shrimp powder, silkworm pupa powder, they all love to eat.

Preparation: Take 35% cornmeal (sifted), 35% flour, 30% bait powder. Mixed with water, made into a nest, steamed in a cage, kneaded into a dough while it was hot, and pinched into a small cake when fishing for fine hooks (sea fishing), if the system and fishing with a hand rod, can be pinched into a small dough for hooks.

2 best shrimp powder bait

Preparation method: 60% cornmeal, 20% flour, 10% fried soybean meal, 10% shrimp powder, a little brown sugar, add water and mix well, make a nest, steamed on the cage, take out and kneaded into a dough while hot. If you use the sea rod fishing, can be pinched into a small cake loaded with group hooks, or pinched into a small dough loaded with string hooks; if you use the hand rod fishing, pinched into a small dough loaded with double hooks or single hooks.

3 best pupa powder bait

Preparation method: 70% flour, 10% glutinous rice flour, 20% pupa powder, mixed with water to form a paste, and then put into a pot or an iron spoon in the simmering fire, simmering while stirring, to simmering into a thick viscous shape can be pinched into a small dough that is made. This bait is made with glutinous rice powder because the amount of silkworm pupa powder is large, the silkworm pupa powder contains more than 95 moisture, with a period of time will become thin and sticky, easy to fall off the hook, with glutinous rice powder modulation, can enhance the viscosity of the bait, not easy to fall off the hook. Especially in the summer tilapia fishing, any meat bait containing much moisture will become thin or rancid and change flavor after a period of time, which will affect the effect of fishing.

4 Best moss bait

The best bait for tilapia fishing is fresh cotton (moss). Water cotton grows in water rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, fish it up and wash it, wring it out and put it in the freezer, you can take it at any time, it's the best bait for tilapia fishing in rivers and lakes. It can also be used in mossy water, holding a fishing line in your hand, fishing in the moss for a few turns, placing it in a small bucket and adding water to nurse it. When used, the small bucket to the fishing ground, will be chained to the hook of the brain line in the bucket containing moss stirred a few times, the moss hung on the hook, the hook tip can be exposed, fishing, the hook line into the water depth of 30 to 50 centimeters, fishing for a period of time, and then adjust the depth of the hook into the water. When you catch a tilapia, keep the bait at that depth and adjust it again if you don't catch any fish. Tilapia usually inhabits the bottom layer of the water, but does not live in the bottom layer like crucian carp, but swims in different layers of water with the change of water temperature. In sunny weather, early morning when the water temperature is low, tilapia activities in the bottom of the water, the morning with the air temperature, water temperature increases, and gradually swam in groups to the middle and upper layers, midday is the highest air and water temperature of the day, especially in the summer, their muzzle close to the surface of the water, the body and the surface of the water to maintain a diagonal angle, it looks like the "floating head" look, but it is not "floating head", it is not a "floating head". In fact, it is not "floating head", but open mouth feeding on the surface; in the evening, as the water temperature decreases, it sinks to the bottom of the water to live. In the evening, as the water temperature drops, the tilapia sinks to the bottom again. On cloudy days, when there is light rain or when the water is cool in the spring and fall, the tilapia are underwater. So, fishing for tilapia, at any time during the day Three changes to constantly change the bait casting swim layer, can not keep pole waiting for fish, should be adjusted in time to hook bait in the water position, otherwise, is not fishing tilapia.

If you are fishing for tilapia with a hand-held pole, you can't fish for them like you do for ordinary carp. The reason is that even if the tilapia is active underwater, it is not like crucian carp, sticking to the bottom of the water for food, but in the near-bottom layer of the swim, for food. Therefore, when fishing for tilapia with a hand-held pole, you should adopt the techniques of "drag fishing" and "lifting fishing". The so-called "drag fishing", is the hook bait cast, to be just stabilized buoy, that is, holding the rod handle, to both sides of the lateral Xu Xu pulling, each time the amplitude of pulling not more than 20 meters; pause for a few minutes, if there is no fish swallowing the hook, and then Xu Xu lead to the teaser. Often in the hook bait sticking to the bottom of the pond slowly pulling, suddenly feel heavy, the buoy has not responded to the feeling of known fish hooked, this time immediately lifting the rod, the hand can be fish fishing up. The so-called "fishing", that is, adjust the drift set a good fishing point, the hook bait into the bottom of the fishing point, keep the original position, and then hold the rod vertically up to about 10 centimeters, and then gently put down, after a few minutes, and then move once more, luring the fish on the hook. This kind of up and down gently lifting "lifting fishing" method, than cast the hook and bait after the stationary, waiting for the fish on the hook fishing method is much better. Tilapia have hard spines on their dorsal, ventral and anal fins. When a tilapia is caught and put out of the water, its dorsal fin will be open, at this time, do not catch the fish in the air, so as not to hurt your hand with the hard spines. The correct way is to put the fish on the ground first, and when it does not jump, use a dry cloth to grab the fish, and then take off the hook. When you put the fish into the fish guard, don't grab the fish with your bare hands, still use the dry cloth to pad your hands and put the fish into the fish guard.