When I was at home, I often went fishing with my father, and also chatted with my uncles and aunts who fished with me. They often fished for freshwater fish such as crucian carp, carp, grass carp, and herring, and occasionally specialized in fishing for meat such as catfish, snakehead fish, and yellow catfish. Sexy freshwater fish, so do you know what bait is best when fishing for catfish? When is the best time to go fishing? The fishing uncles and aunts told us some tips on catching catfish, let’s learn them together.

Catfish are generally placed in ponds mainly to clean up small fish and rotten fish. Like silver carp and bighead carp, they also play the role of stilling water. Silver carp and bighead carp mainly attack the upper layer, while catfish mainly attack the lower layer. There are many types of catfish, and the catfish placed in fishing ponds mainly include There are two types, simply speaking, they are the largemouth catfish with 4 whiskers and the bearded catfish with 8 whiskers. It is very simple to distinguish them by just looking at the number of whiskers on their mouths. The characteristics of catfish are: big head, big mouth, body It is large, with no scales and lots of mucus on its body. It eats a lot and grows quickly. It is a nocturnal fish and has extremely high nutritional value.

How to match catfish bait? In ponds raised by others, people usually feed poultry offal. Catfish also eat dead small fish. Therefore, when fishing, we usually use poultry liver, intestines and other offal as the main food, followed by earthworms and worms, and the offal. Use scissors to cut the intestines and intestines into small pieces for easy hooking. Then choose a suitable fishing rod and start waiting for the catfish to take the bait.

?The habit of catfish is to stay diurnal and come out at night, so it is best to fish for catfish at night and then on cloudy days. Catfish have weak eyesight and small eyes. They mainly rely on their whiskers and sense of smell to find food. Fishing friends who want to fish at night should It is easier to catch catfish if you go out at night when the moonlight is dim. In most cases, the best time to catch catfish is in the first half of the night and at dawn. Everyone should seize this golden time to greatly increase the catch!

?Just like many fish like to hide in dense and shady places with water, catfish will hide in grass or obstacles and at the bottom of deep water areas during the day, rarely moving, and only come out to feed at night. April to June is the best time for catfish It is not suitable to fish during the spawning period. When the temperature is around 20-25 degrees, they will look for a lot of food. In winter, when the temperature is low, they will stay at the underwater obstacles and not look for food.

Finally, I will teach you a little trick to judge whether there are catfish in the fishing spot. Just hang the bait and put it into the den. If no catfish bites the hook after three to five minutes, it means that there are no catfish in the den. Catfish will not hesitate when eating. They will move around here, and they will not stay at the fishing spot without food.

When you are fishing for catfish, if you find that there are small miscellaneous fish in the nest, you must change the nest decisively, because small miscellaneous fish and catfish will not stay in the same area, and small miscellaneous fish do not dare to stay where there are catfish. In addition, catfish also like to move in complex environments, especially in waters with weeds and rocks at the bottom. When fishing in these places, it is best to use a single hook to reduce the occurrence of hanging on the bottom.

?Have you learned these tips? You can give it a try~

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