Surface minnows, also known as white fish sticks, are slender, flat on the side, white, small in size, and the weight of a single tail ranges from a few grams to about 200 grams. The life habit of surface minnows is that they like to live in groups, especially like wind and waves, and often force waves to feed. Although small, white striped fish lives on a wide yellow-white water surface with delicate meat because of its clean food and little pollution. Moreover, because of its strong reproductive ability, high density in water and gluttony, it is very popular with people. Many fishermen (especially children) often use short rods and thin lines to catch white striped fish.

White striped fish lives in the upper water, and its hypoxia tolerance is poor. White striped fish likes sunshine and is not afraid of high temperature. Appetite is particularly strong in spring and summer, especially when it turns sunny after rain, and especially when it shines on the water in the evening and sunset.

White grass is an omnivorous fish, which mainly feeds on plankton in the upper and middle layers of water, such as bedbugs, dragonfly larvae, duckweed, algae, small fish and shrimp, and various plant seeds, petals and grass clippings scattered in the water.

White striped fish can be used as bait, such as wheat bran, bran powder, cake powder, millet and so on. Add a little water to the bait and stir well. Don't knead into a ball. Grasp some bait by hand and grasp the dry humidity of bait by throwing. When rubbed, it will be granular and wet. The amount of bait thrown at a time should not be too large, and bait should be thrown continuously for fishing.

The bait can be rice grains, maggots, flies, red earthworms, diced meat (mung beans are big enough), foamed plastic particles soaked in wine, and feather hooks (feathers are tied to the handle of the hooks).

It is advisable to use short poles (3-4m), short lines, thin lines and small hooks to catch white bars, instead of drifting. Usually, we use the "line-throwing fishing method" to raise the pole and throw the line into the water from the back or side. After a pause of 3-5 seconds, we can quickly lift the pole to take up the line, or we can slowly drag the line in the water. If you think there is no fish on the hook, lift the fishing rod line and throw it into the water; If there is fish on the hook, take the negative before throwing the line. Repeatedly, walking and swinging, swimming and fishing, chasing fish. This fishing method is called "throwing white stripes".

"Throwing white stripes" means catching fish head-on after white stripes.

You can throw white bars with single hook, double hook or string hook. Put a hook on the fishing line every 15-20cm. The hook type can be a medium hook, such as size 4-5. Brain line should not be too long, 3-5 cm is appropriate. When the brain line is long, it is easy to entangle with each other.