Catching carp on a potato
Potatoes are quite attractivea delicacy not only for carp and wild carp, but also for some other fish. It becomes especially appetizing when combined with other products, including sweeteners and flavorings. There are quite a few recipes for making potato bait, but not all of them work in most bodies of water, so you need to experiment and find options that are suitable for the season and place of fishing. Carp fishing with potatoes boiled in ordinary water The simplest and most popular way to catch carp with potatoes is to use boiled tubers. Potatoes must be boiled until they can be pierced with a match, then immediately pulled out of the water and laid out on a board so that the tubers cool down and do not become soft from being in the water for a long time. It is important to achieve the golden mean so that the potatoes do not fall apart, but are not too hard, otherwise they will crumble when casting, or the fish will simply not be able to eat them. The boiled tubers are cut into small cubes or pieces of other shapes. For this, it is convenient to use a tube or syringe with the lower part cut off. The finished pieces are put on in the same way as boilies. For greater efficiency, foam balls are placed between the potato pieces, this allows the bait not to sink in the silt and to be at a certain distance from the bottom. Carp fishing with mashed potatoes Sometimes carp are more willing to eat porridge made from potatoes than pieces of boiled tubers. This is explained by both the addition of additional elements to the bait and a fundamentally different fishing method. How to cook potato porridge:
- Potatoes are boiled in a uniform, peeled and grated.
- In the resulting mass is added a little salt and sugar (with proportions you need to experiment, on average it is a teaspoon of sugar and a pinch of salt for 3-4 potatoes).
- Salted and sweetened potatoes are mixed with flour (it is necessary to give the mixture a consistency of a thick dough), then it is collected in a dense lump and cooked.
When cooking, it is necessary to put the lump in the form of a ballboiling water, not cold. For convenience, you can put the lump in a bag and cook in it. Cooking time is 20-30 minutes, sometimes more, it all depends on the proportions, the type of potato and other things (readiness over time you will learn to determine "by eye"). Instead of sugar, you can add honey to mashed potatoes. You can also experiment with different flavors. Carp are caught on mashed potatoes using springs and feeder gear, putting the porridge on hooks and adding it to the feeders. Fried potatoes There is an opinion that fish from the carp family bite well on fried potatoes, as well as on chips made at home. It is difficult to say anything about this, since I have not had to use these baits or watch other fishermen use them. But it is probably worth trying, because it is very easy to cook potatoes, and it is not as expensive as boilies and other specialized baits. It will be useful:
- How does carp bite
