Fishing for bighead carp is best done with natural bait.

The chub is the common name for freshwater fish in the genus Hypophthalmichthys nobilis of the family Carpidae, the scientific name of the bighead carp, also known as the black chub, fathead fish, hemp chub, etc., generally distributed throughout the country, especially in the south of the Yellow River in the various water systems is most common, mainly in the rotifers, branches of the class, copepods, and other zooplankton and some of the diatoms, cyanobacteria, and other phytoplankton as a food.

The chub is a typical filter-feeding fish, relying on the special structure of the gills filter-feeding rotifers, branching horns, copepods and other zooplankton, but also eat part of the diatoms, cyanobacteria and other phytoplankton, artificial farming is often fed soya bean dregs powder, bran, rice bran, soya bean meal, with the micro-pellet diet, etc., and in addition to the chub's feeding enthusiasm and the temperature of the water is positively proportional to the temperature is high in the summer and fall is the best time to catch the chub.

Formula 1: 500 grams of cornmeal with water and kneaded into a nest steamed and broken, add a small amount of brown sugar, put into a thick plastic bag sealed, put into the sun exposure for several days to make the bait produce a strong sour taste, when used to take a small group of white wine with some mixing.

Formula 2: 500 grams of soybean dregs, 300 grams of rice bran, 100 grams of flour and mix, and then add a piece of stinky tofu milk or a small amount of minced garlic, add water and mix and then put into a plastic bag and tie the mouth, after two days of fermentation in the summer to use, after a week of fermentation in the fall to use.

Formulation 3: 1500 grams of fine cornmeal, 500 grams of white flour, soybean flour 1000 grams, 1000 grams of wheat bran powder, mixed with fried to the color of the yellow fragrance, and with boiling water and well, on the cage steamed and exposed to the sun for a few days, and finally add tofu dregs or sesame paste.