Semolina chatter is a very common and truly popular bait. It got its name from the manufacturing process.
To obtain it, semolina is mixed with water and stirred with a stick like a mixer. A very attractive bait for fish, which will dust a little in the water and disintegrate. This will attract the fish to the hook.
The downside of the semolina chatter is that it doesn’t stick well to the hook, but this can be corrected by using non-standard methods of preparation and baiting.
Semolina for fishing is a very tasty bait for most peaceful fish, but it is important to be able to properly prepare the semolina so that it sticks well on the hook.
Semolina is mainly used when fishing with float tackle. To use this attachment in feeder fishing, you need to make it unbreakable by welding or washing all the dusty parts.
How to prepare semolina chatter and other bait - recipes, proportions, attractants
To make mash you will need semolina itself. It should be from soft varieties, marked M. You will also need a container, preferably closed, so that the semolina can last longer.
Water is the most important point when preparing semolina porridge for fishing
It is better to take water not from the tap. The best option is water from the same reservoir where fishing will take place. If the preparation of chatter takes place at home and not at a reservoir, then you can take spring or settled water. Tap water repels fish.
Attractants for different fish
When making mash, you can add flavoring to it. You can use both natural flavoring and special sprays. Sprays can be used to scent the bait right before casting. Using natural flavors, you can add them directly during the cooking process, or mix semolina water with these flavors. For example, crucian carp responds well to garlic, carp to strawberry flavor, you can use jam or syrup, and roach will not ignore coriander.
Crucian carp loves garlic
Recipe for semolina on water
If you want to prepare rubber semolina, you need to slowly pour dry semolina with water from a reservoir in small portions. After 30 seconds, drain off excess water and leave to swell for an hour. Stir the mixture with a stick until it becomes a sticky mixture.
And if you want a quick method of preparation: pour the required volume of semolina (for the day of fishing) in a stream with water from the reservoir, stirring constantly. When the wet mixture comes out, leave it for half an hour so that the semolina is saturated with water. Stir the mixture with a wooden stick for a quarter of an hour. As a result, a sticky, viscous mass will come out (stretches 60 mm).
When it doesn’t stretch well, on the contrary, it breaks, add a little water and stir again. When the mass is very liquid, add a small amount of semolina to the mass, stir generously, leave for 5 minutes, then stir for another 5 minutes.
Mixed porridge
Semolina should be divided into two equal portions. Gradually add the first one to boiling water and cook for 6 minutes. Allow to cool to 40 degrees. Then add the second portion, stirring thoroughly. Allow the mixture to cool. In the second portion, in addition to semolina, you can add wheat.
Manka - booze
A drunken chatterbox is one of the options for fishing decoys. Often when fishing, specially fermented baits are used. The fish's interest in the fermented fish is obvious - a strong smell. Therefore, you can try making mash with beer. Any beer is suitable for this, canned, bottled, draft, light or dark.
The beer for kneading semolina must be allowed to stand and evaporate so that gases come out of it. Then semolina is added to the spent beer. It is stirred and allowed to brew. This recipe has proven itself to be excellent when catching crucian carp.
Drunk bait for catching fish from semolina - a godsend in difficult conditions
With milk
The version of semolina porridge with milk adds thickness and flavor to the food cloud that spreads around the mash, especially when the milk is natural and not pasteurized. Although it forms a cloudier cloud, it adds almost no good aroma and taste to the chatterbox.
Winter fishing semolina with milk powder
In winter, fish need more energy-rich food. Therefore, she responds well to milk semolina. Powdered milk is mixed with semolina in a ratio of 1:3, and water is gradually added to it. Then the mash is made according to the method familiar above.
Rubber semolina for fishing
This is a non-killable super bait invented by sports fishermen. She barely gets off the hook. The only way it can be knocked down is by a fish in the process of fishing or a fisherman taking a hook out of a pond.
Approximately 100 grams of cereal should be poured into a small handkerchief and tied into a “bag” with thread. Place in boiling water for 6 minutes, then in cold water until it cools 100%. Then untie the scarf, you get a ball of semolina. When it is broken, the semolina will be boiled on the outside and dry on the inside. Then actively knead this ball by hand.
With this, the non-killable decoy for fishing is ready. When the bait touches the surface of the water, dry grains are sprayed, attracting fish to the hook; boiled grains give tenacity and viscosity on the hook.
Viscous rubber decoy
Garlic semolina
The easiest way to make garlic semolina for fishing is to add garlic flavoring to an existing mastyrka, mash, dough with semolina.
When you have time, you can do this: squeeze a clove of garlic in a garlic press, add 200 ml of water. Leave for 2 hours. Then prepare mash using this water.
Second option. Squeeze the juice from a couple of cloves using a garlic press, pour a few drops of it into the finished mixture. It is, of course, more convenient to use either flavoring or juice. It is believed that the smell of garlic is liked by crucian carp, which are caught using garlic semolina using a fishing rod and float.
Semolina with revit
A special version of the bait is semolina with revit, which can be prepared very simply. To do this, you need to put 6 peas of vitamin “Revit” in a deep plate and pour in 5 ml of water.
Then pound them with a mortar to the consistency of a thick yellow liquid. Pour this liquid into the mash dough and stir.
It is not known why the bite on this bait is sometimes better than on an ordinary one. Perhaps the fish are attracted by the yellow color in addition to the semolina smell. Why Revit and not Undevit, ascorbic acid and other vitamins? Apparently, it is in Revit that a persistent yellow dye is used, which homemade fishermen like.
How to cook semolina in cotton wool
Since the chatterbox is held on the hook rather weakly, often gets knocked down, and needs to be replanted, you can use this method.
To increase the duration of holding the bait on the hook, add ordinary cotton wool, crushed into small pieces, during the cooking process.
The mash prepared using this method must be stored hermetically in a dark place, protected from direct sunlight to prevent loss of odor and drying out.
Recipe with rolled oats
Roll the finished viscous mixture in flakes, knead thoroughly, and form into balls. Such lumps will stick perfectly to the hook. When the water in the reservoir is cloudy, the nozzle will be invisible; it is better to paint it with dyes.
Microwave
For this cooking method, semolina in a plate needs to be filled with water to a level so that it slightly covers it.
Add flavoring if desired, leave for 15 minutes to swell. Then put the plate in the microwave, cook for up to 3 minutes (depending on volume) until cooked.
Don't miss the moment so as not to burn it! It’s better to cook for 30 seconds, check if it’s ready, if not yet, another 30 seconds. Then cool and knead with your hands.
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Cooking tips
Semolina is the result of grinding the top of wheat. The smaller and more uniform the grind, the better the characteristics of the mixture - stickiness, taste, solubility. Therefore, it is better to sift the semolina on a small sieve before preparing the mash.
What to use as flavorings
The smell of semolina itself attracts fish, but it can be enhanced by adding various attractants. To make the mixture sparkle with new shades of aromas, a few drops of vegetable oil - unrefined sunflower, hemp or anise - are added to dry semolina before cooking. We are talking about two or three drops, no more. Aromatic additives such as vanilla, cinnamon, coriander, basil, honey, cocoa, jam, caramel, roasted ground seeds, baby dry formula “Malyutka” and even garlic work well.
Here are a few recipes for mash using flavorings:
- Place fifty grams of semolina porridge in a deep container and add vanillin on the tip of a knife, a teaspoon of milk powder, a couple of drops of sunflower oil, a little sugar or honey. Fill everything with water and put it in the refrigerator for twenty minutes, after which the mass is kneaded for half an hour, achieving complete homogeneity. Then the mixture is placed in a container with a tight lid and sent to the refrigerator.
- Many carp anglers prefer chatter with garlic. Carp, unlike carp, loves many aromas that people like, including the smell of garlic. Add a crushed clove of garlic to the mixture prepared in the usual way and mix the mass thoroughly again.
- If you want to complicate the process a little and diversify the fish diet, in addition to semolina, you can use millet and corn flour (half a glass of each ingredient) to prepare the bait and add a couple of eggs to the mixture. Attractants, sugar and/or honey are added if desired. Mix everything thoroughly, let it brew and form balls from the resulting dough.
Should the prepared mixture be colored? It depends on the conditions under which the fish will be caught using chatterbox. The white color of the bait itself is attractive to aquatic life. It works well against the background of a dark bottom during daylight hours, as well as at dusk - early morning and late evening. If you intend to use the mash in muddy water, it is also undesirable to paint it.
When fishing in mid-water, it is recommended to color the mass red or light green, especially for autumn fishing. In winter, fish go better on bright red and orange bait.
It is best to use food coloring for Easter eggs for this purpose. They are gradually placed in water to soak the semolina.
If in summer or early autumn you plan to catch carp or crucian carp on a float tackle, a chatterbox the color of machine oil works well, which is obtained by adding natural cocoa powder in small quantities to dry semolina before soaking, or dried and ground rye gingerbread or crackers into flour.
Read more about how to make mash for crucian carp with garlic.
How to store ready-made semolina for fishing
It is better to store prepared semolina while fishing in a closed container. This storage option will avoid souring. Also, do not store the nozzle in direct sunlight, but rather hide it in a cool place.
If the bait is left over after fishing, you can take it home and hide it in the refrigerator. However, in the near future you will have to go fishing again, since even in the refrigerator, the semolina will not last more than 2 days.
Another option is to freeze the mash. This is convenient to do in syringes. One syringe is usually enough for one fishing trip, so you can prepare several servings for future fishing trips.
Using semolina and types of attachments
Lures and lures based on semolina perform well in bodies of water with standing water or a slight current. The bait holds perfectly on the hooks and in this regard gives a head start to other plant baits - bread, dough. Semolina is a product accessible to everyone; it is prepared quickly, but not all fishermen know how to prepare and use it correctly.
- for bait;
- for bait;
- for winter (ice) and summer fishing as an attachment.
Bait and bait contain cake, various seeds, flour, cereals, including semolina, and flavorings in different proportions. The gluten of the cereal perfectly binds bait mixtures into tight balls.
Fish give greater preference to semolina during winter fishing. In summer, the bite on bait is worse due to the greater variety of food.
Main types of semolina attachments:
- talker;
- cooked cereal;
- mastyrka;
- steamed porridge;
- boilies.
Boltanka is used mainly in winter for nodding tackle. In the summer, for the float rod and for the feeder, in addition to chatterbox, other types of baits are used: semolina, both an independent bait, and a sandwich with animal baits. For bottom gear, hard-cooked grits serve as a bait as dust. The principle of use is the same - a bar of porridge is attached to the top of the head, and hooks are attached to the corners. While feeding, the fish sucks in the hooks and is hooked.
Semolina has virtually no odor of its own. To make the bait attractive, dry or liquid flavors and attractants are used. Crucian carp really like bait with garlic. Liquid flavors are added - 1-2 drops, dry - on the tip of a knife or match.
Mix semolina with water from a reservoir if the bait is prepared at the fishing site. At home, take clean water.
Store any plant attachments in the shade, avoid direct sunlight and rain. Use special bags, fabric and thermal bags for storage.
How to plant a chatterbox
In order to place the semolina on the hook, you can use the same stick that was used to knead it. The semolina should be sticky and viscous, so you can scoop it up with one end of this stick so that a certain amount of chatter remains on it. Next, having hooked the semolina onto the sting of the hook, they begin to rotate the stick around the hook. Due to the fact that semolina stretches, it can be wound on a hook like pasta.
Another way to insert a talker is to use a syringe. To do this, the resulting substance is placed in a syringe, after removing the piston from it. Next, the semolina is squeezed out of the syringe and wound onto a hook.
In order for such semolina to stay on the hook, it should be applied to a small hook of no more than number 7 according to domestic qualifications.
To use semolina as bait, it needs to be made more liquid. Then it forms a good bait table at the bottom. You can add flavors to this bait, such as ground roasted sunflower seeds.
Preparing mash
The recipe for making semolina mash is very simple.
Ingredients:
Preparation of mash:
- Semolina is poured into a jar in which it will be convenient to mix;
- The cereal is filled with water until covered and left for 20 minutes;
- The swollen semolina is shaken for 10-15 minutes until thickened.
The mass is mixed until a consistency is obtained at which it thickens, sticks together and stretches.
The water should be at room temperature. Excess water will not allow you to obtain the desired properties, and too little will make the mass look like dough. Both options are unacceptable.
Add water gradually until all the cereal is wet. The correct mash looks similar to how it is shown in the video below.
As a bonus - other recipes based on semolina
Boiled porridge
Boil 100 ml water in a small saucepan. Slowly add semolina, stirring all the time. Cook for half an hour over low heat without boiling, stirring the mixture all the time. Leave it warm, wrapping the pan in a towel. Knead the warm mass by hand until a homogeneous composition of the “soft plasticine” state comes out. Cool to 25͒C.
Boiled boiled
2 tbsp. semolina pour 100 ml of water. Bring the mixture to a boil. Cool in air. Knead by hand until smooth. Boiled mash is great for making balls.
Then pour a drop of unrefined sunflower oil into the plastic mass, knead it thoroughly, form balls, lightly fry them in a frying pan until golden brown, boilies will come out.
To prepare this recipe right at the fishing spot, it is optimal to take a spirit lamp or dry alcohol, sifted semolina, select an accessible tank, then cook the mixture over an open fire.
How to make a rubber chatter from semolina for fishing, suitable for catching roach, bream, rudd and other fish - video recipe:
Semolina for various fish
Before answering the question of how to cook semolina for fishing, and indeed when going fishing in general, you need to understand for yourself what kind of fish you will be catching. Each type of fish has certain preferences that need to be paid special attention to. And it also depends a lot on the time of year:
- The crucian carp
's preference was always semolina, which was brought to a boil. You need to cook it according to the following recipe: pour 100 milliliters of water into a pan and add two tablespoons of semolina. Then you need to mix everything and put it on the fire, there, without stirring, bring the mixture to a boil. Now you need to turn off the heat and leave the semolina to swell for half an hour. Now you need to knead everything with your hands and add a little honey and strawberry flavoring.
In most cases, carp The recipe has remained the same for many years: boil the peas (cook until the grains begin to fall apart). After this, pour the semolina into a pan with peas and water and leave for half an hour. Now all that remains is to knead it all until some kind of plasticine forms.- Semolina porridge with cherries is considered a popular recipe for fishing for many types of fish. Pour two tablespoons of cereal into a bowl and fill it with 100 milliliters of water. You need to boil this for 4 minutes, then remove from heat and leave to cool. After cooling, you need to drop 4-6 drops of cherry juice into the porridge and add a little sugar. Then you need to thoroughly knead the resulting mixture with your hands for 10 minutes.
- There is also a recipe for a universal mash that will appeal to bream, roach and perch
. You will have to stock up on corn oil, sugar and spoiled semolina, which contains insect larvae. You need to pour 100 grams of cereal with 100 milliliters of cold water and leave the mixture to swell. Now you need to add a pinch of sugar and two tablespoons of butter to the mixture. Now you need to knead the resulting mixture for about 10 minutes until a homogeneous dough is formed.
These are the simplest and most popular recipes for preparing bait. As you already understand, answering the question of how to prepare semolina for fishing is not so simple. After all, the recipes for each fish are individual and there is simply no universal bait.
Semolina in a syringe for fishing
To prepare semolina dough you will need semolina, plain water and gauze.
The dough is prepared in several steps:
- You need to take the required amount of semolina and fill it with water for 20-25 minutes;
- You need to wrap wet semolina in a piece of gauze and let it swell for several minutes;
- Then the bag of cereal should be immersed in boiling water for 5-7 minutes;
- Then you need to let the water drain and cool slightly;
- Place the cereal on the table and knead the dough;
- You can add flavoring agents (available in fishing stores).
Semolina mash
This recipe requires semolina and peas. The preparation is very simple, but it helps the fisherman get an excellent catch. To do this you need to boil the peas.
Then drain the water, but not completely. Add a little semolina flour to this mixture and mix thoroughly. Place the dough on the table and knead with your hands. The fishing mask is ready for use.
