To catch Wuchang fish, you can mix distiller's grains and cornmeal together, shape them into several apple-sized balls, and sprinkle them into the water as bait. Or use earthworms, red worms, shrimps, mulberries, and sweet potatoes.

1. Wuchang fish:

The body length of Wuchang fish is 165 to 456 mm, and its body is blue-gray. The base of the scales on the side of the body is light-colored, and the sides are gray-black, forming several numbers on the side of the body. Lines of intersecting vertical lines of deep and shallow lines. The fins are gray-black. The sides of the body are flat and tall, diamond-shaped, the back is thicker, and it is arc-shaped from the back of the head to the starting point of the dorsal fin. The abdomen has ventral ribs from the starting point of the pelvic fin to the anus, and the caudal peduncle is wide and short.

2. Living environment:

Wuchang fish is more suitable for living in still water. It usually inhabits the middle and lower layers of open water areas where the substrate is silt and submerged plants grow. It likes to overwinter in deep water.

Wuchang carp is a herbivorous fish. Fingerlings and adult fish feed on submerged plants such as Vallisneria verticillata, Hydrilla verticillata, and Echinacea, so they have a wide range of food habits.

3. Fishing methods:

(1) Bottom fishing with hand pole

It is most suitable especially in fish ponds.

However, the Wuchang fish eats unsteadily, and the float often lifts up suddenly, or floats black quickly, so the pole must be lifted in time.

If earthworms or shrimps are used as bait, they should be moved from time to time to attract the attention of the fish.

(2) Fishing in grass seams with long poles and short lines

In waters with many weeds, you can use long poles and short lines to fish in grass seams where the hook can be set.

First make a nest with millet soaked in wine. Later, hang the baited fishhook into the nest along the seams in the grass. Wait with a long pole in hand. If the float makes any movement, lift the pole in time according to the situation.

(3) Floating fishing

Floating fishing can often be used in grass or ponds with water peanuts, especially in the south where the water does not freeze in winter. Lowering the hook in the gap and fishing for floats can often achieve good results.

The bait selected at this time is generally whole red earthworms.

(4) Fishing far away with a sea pole

In large water surface farms, sometimes fish are concentrated far away from the shore, so you can fish with a pole.

The Wuchang fish has small eating movements, and the tip of the pole is not easily pulled. If a bell is hung, it often swings very small, making it difficult to judge. Therefore, you should concentrate on being ready when you find the tip of the pole is light, and lift the pole in time. .