DIY bream bite activator

There are quite a lot of bite activators on the market and there are many mixed reviews for all of them. When you want to buy and try an activator, a real dilemma arises: a lot of reviews, good and bad. We bought all the available activators on the market and tested them, and also compiled a top list and descriptions especially for you.

We included in our rating only the best activators that are not difficult to obtain. The following criteria were taken into account:

price;
effectiveness in application;
reviews from fellow fishermen.

How we tested them. After the purchase, we went fishing on a large pond in the summer to catch peaceful fish. The time of year is summer.

We tried to land close to each other and on a similar type of bottom, keeping an approximate distance of 30 meters. There were 8 of us (1 person fished with regular bait without activators). We made the same amount of bait with different activators. Fishing took place with 2 fishing rods of 5 meters with a float. The only bait is a dung worm. The fishing duration was from 04.00 to 13.00. We caught roach, perch (on a hook with a worm), crucian carp, carp (if caught).

After finishing fishing, I weighed each fish caught and wrote down the results. Then I summed it up for you. So, see the rating based on our experience below.

Place 1. Dry Blooder

5.0 For some reason I heard little about this activator and immediately wrote it down as an outsider, but I was surprised by its victory. Overall, the advantage is undeniable, which is why it takes first place. The fish caught is similar to the catch from the second location. Large fish: 3 carp, one of them weighing 2 kg 100 grams. The largest crucian carp weighing 500 grams was also caught (I thought they didn’t live there, I was surprised). Result: 10 kg 300 grams.

I tried to describe our fishing in detail and make a rating. If you are interested, we can conduct more experiments. Some people don’t believe in activators and attractants and don’t use them; for example, I go on almost every fishing trip with them. And you?

Share your impressions and experience of using activators and attractants, let's help each other.

The article discusses a bite activator for bream and natural flavors to enhance it, making them yourself and using them in practice.

Bream is extremely popular among fishing enthusiasts. Fishermen classify it as a fish that is more oriented by smell. It has also been observed that bream are attracted to the sounds of other feeding fish. As soon as one fish begins to get food for itself, others immediately approach it, forming schools. But remember that bream is very shy and cautious.

Brake fastener: design options

The brake clasp is often duplicated with buttons. They are sewn on the wrong side behind the lining fabric for additional fixation.

Pay special attention to the button and cord. The holes in the button should be large enough so that you can thread the cord through them. For overlays, it is best to use samples of natural or artificial leather so that the edges can be left open.

If you are using fabric for the overlays, cut out the pieces with additional hem allowances, turn the edges under and baste, and then sew to the product. In addition to the cord, you can also use strips of leather or sewn tucked cord from leftover fabric. You can take not one, but several thin cords and tie them with several knots.

For one brake fastener you will need one button, two overlays of the desired shape and size and two pieces of cord, the length of each should be twice the length of the loop plus an allowance that will be covered by the overlay.

So, let's sew a brake fastener with our own hands.

Progress

Cut out two identical pieces for the overlays and prepare two cords and a button.

Insert one cord into the button as shown in the photo.

Tie a knot or sew a cord, leaving about 1 cm from the button.

Pin the front pieces together, aligning them in the center. Fold the second half of the cord in half and cut it to the same size as the first half. Place the button with cords and the other half of the fastener at the same distance from the center. Pin or baste.

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Bite activator for bream

The bite activator increases the effectiveness of catching bream. In order for the bite to be successful, the fish are lured with bait the day before fishing, immediately before and during fishing.

The best bait for bream

Pour 600-700 ml of water into the pan, put it on the fire and let it boil.
Pour two cups of pearl barley into boiling water, mix and cook until completely swollen.
Then add a glass of millet to the pan with boiled pearl barley and mix everything.
Pour in 2-3 large spoons of unrefined sunflower oil and add a couple of grams of vanillin, mix the mixture thoroughly.
When holes appear in the millet, remove the porridge from the heat and cover tightly with a lid and let stand for 30-40 minutes.
Then we transfer the mixture into a large container and add a couple of glasses of ground crackers and the same amount of cake.
Mix everything well and form balls suitable for throwing.

Natural scents for activators

All fishermen know that fish prefer natural odors. Natural flavorings include oils such as sunflower oils, as well as aromatic plants. In another way, they can be called “do-it-yourself flavors.”

There are so many types of them:

Garlic. Suitable for carp and bream, used in dried form, and different amounts are added depending on weather conditions (up to 5% in summer, and up to 2% in winter). They try to use garlic tincture as bait for crucian carp.
Star anise. Perfectly used for hunting small herbivorous fish. It has an anise aroma and a bittersweet aftertaste. It is used in preference to just anise.
Basil with dill. Used in reservoirs with a large amount of silt and thickets, for catching non-herbivorous fish of modest size.
Cinnamon. It catches bream and roach, regardless of the heat or cold and the body of water.
Turmeric. Well suited exclusively for roaches, especially in summer.
Thyme. Used for carp breeds, used in unpolluted rivers.
Coriander. Powder is used, but you cannot grind it in advance, as it will lose its properties. Goes for bream in any water and in any weather.

Thus, for making your own activators, there are many different natural flavors, depending on the type of fish you want to catch.

Description of work

Button

Tie a cord of 4 stitches about 14 cm long. Make a double knot as shown in the picture and sew the ends of the cord.

Decorative tassel

Tie a cord of 4 stitches about 25-30 cm long. Twist it according to the pattern and sew the ends. Then make a tassel and secure it to the straight end.

Decorative clasp

Tie 2 cords of 3 stitches, each about 50 cm long. In accordance with the pattern, fold the ends in a spiral, securing its turns with hidden stitches, and then make the remaining folds. At the end of one of the parts, make a knot as a button.

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How to make an activator with your own hands?

To make an activator correctly and well yourself, you need to rely on the weather and the type of fish you are going to catch. But there are also general things for creating an activator yourself.

For example, the production of a fruit activator (flavor)

For 1 liter of water use 3-4 tablespoons of fruit concentrate
Place on low heat, wait for it to boil and wait 10 minutes
Remove from heat, let cool, the finished mixture can be added to the bait.

And this is how you can prepare garlic bait:

Grind 4-5 cloves of garlic through a garlic press into a container or use garlic tincture (3-4 teaspoons)
Add 1-2 teaspoons sunflower
Mix the components thoroughly.

There are many more recipes on how you can make a bite activator at home, since in essence it is just an additive to increase the appetite of fish and attract its attention.

Top 3. Dynamite effect

Rating (2021): 4.34

The best choice The most effective bite activator, equally effective on both predators and herbivores. The product is based on artificial pheromones, natural food and essential neutral oils.

Characteristics
Average price: 1,450 rub.
Country: Italy
Types of fish: all
Application: in water, for bait, in a feeder
Consistency: dry

The activator could have taken a much higher position in our ranking. If you believe the reviews and tests conducted by several independent publications, it has truly unique qualities. Both predators and herbivores react to it equally. It doesn’t matter whether it’s winter or summer, the pheromones used excite the fish in any weather and atmospheric pressure. The only drawback of the product that immediately catches your eye is the price. Almost one and a half thousand for one package. Its weight is 150 grams, which is enough for about 20 casts. If you use the activator in the hole, then only once. According to the same reviews, saving the mixture is irrelevant. The fish simply stops noticing the bait.

Advantages and disadvantages

High performance
Improves winter and summer bite
Natural ingredients

Very high price
Doesn't work in small quantities

Flavors

For a larger catch, fishermen often use flavorings. They are in many ways similar to attractants, but they affect the fish’s taste preferences rather than their sense of smell. That is, they make the bait taste more suitable for fish; they usually use plant-based amino acids.

Often, extracts from plants that attract the attention of fish combine the qualities of both flavoring agents and attractants. It costs less and is easier to dose. Therefore, companies associated with fishing are already producing different mixtures with one or another component that is included in the base (vanilla, cinnamon, anise or others).

In this regard, a flavoring agent in the form of an aerosol , since it is easy to process complementary foods in portions as needed. Just remember that a large amount of flavoring will immediately kill the bloodworms. Therefore, for application it is necessary to first spray or pour the preparation onto your finger, and then onto the bottom of the container where the bait is located.

This method is most suitable in winter, and it is better to add liquid flavors before going fishing in the evening. Then the liquid components penetrate well into all complementary foods (crackers, bran, cake) and are not washed out so quickly with water.

Note

You should not overdo it with flavorings in the activator, as this may scare away the fish. If you plan to find such supplements around you without resorting to buying them in specialized stores, then castor oil, valerian or asterisk and others are perfect.

There are also flavors of animal origin:

In addition to liquid products, you can also use powders. The main thing is to choose the right taste and smell for the selected type of fish in the right body of water.

Top 3. Fish XXL

Rating (2021): 4.51

Best value for money The activator, used by professional fishermen, is designed specifically for fishing in places that are not very rich in fauna and do not offer much catch. The consistency of the spray completely offsets the seemingly high price tag.

Characteristics
Average price: 990 rub.
Country Russia
Types of fish: all
Application: for bait
Consistency: spray

One of the most convenient activators to use is Fish XXL spray. It was developed in close collaboration between scientists and professional fishermen. It took three years to determine the optimal composition. The effectiveness of the product has been proven in practice; many athletes have won prizes in international competitions thanks to this development. The substances that make up the spray actively affect the fish’s sense of smell. By irritating the nerve endings, the drug detains the fish at the fishing point and stimulates it to bite. The activator can be applied to silicone baits when fishing for predators with a spinning rod or added to the bait before casting when fishing for bream or carp.

Advantages and disadvantages

Recommendations from athletes
Irritating and fish provoking additives

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DIY fishing bite activator for bream

Each fish requires a different approach.

So, the following flavorings are perfect for bream:

Vanilla
Anise
Strawberry
Various fruit attractants

Bream likes almost any fruit flavoring, but it prefers vanilla. Which is also suitable for other inhabitants of the reservoir. With the help of the current, the smell will spread very quickly, which means the fish will soon react to it.

There are also individual ingredients that can be used in addition to the bite activator for bream:

Millet
Pearl barley
Sweet corn
Green pea
Small bails

You can also add natural flavors to create the desired activator. Garlic is perfect for bream. Do not forget that powder or liquid mixtures are used within 5 or maximum 7% of the total volume, since they are not the main food for fish, but only stimulate their appetite.

What causes a good bite

Another feature of a high-quality bait is that it should not only attract prey to the bait point, but increase its appetite. After all, as you know, a hungry fish, having lost caution, begins to feed more greedily, and therefore is more likely to be hooked. In addition, a good bite activator, about which users leave reviews after use, should be practical, ready-to-use and environmentally friendly. The last characteristic is especially important so that the substance used, contained in the mixture, does not have a negative impact on the given reservoir and its inhabitants. Of course, first of all, it is understood that it should not be dangerous and chemically aggressive.

Bait for crucian carp

Since activators are designed to lure fish until the end of fishing, it is necessary to select the scent very carefully.

The timid crucian carp has smells to which it gives particular preference:

Vanilla. This smell will most attract small and medium-sized crucian carp, and you should not be surprised if, in addition to it, you also pull out several bream, which are also willing to go for it
Anise. It’s enough to just add a few drops of anise oil to bread or semolina, but it’s good for summer fishing, not winter.
Garlic. More suitable for large fish
Honey. Sometimes crucian carp want something sweet; honey can be added to semolina.
Hemp. Used if the bite is completely sluggish.
Dill. Used in heavily overgrown reservoirs.
Potato chips. If you want to catch small-sized crucian carp, then these are also suitable.
Oat cookies. Crucian carp are well lured to it, but to prevent it from falling apart quickly, add flour.

If you don't want to make the activator yourself, you can go to a specialty store and choose a liquid or powder activator there. Now the choice of such additives is very large, and for hunting any fish.

Carp bait

For active fishing for carp, as well as bream, garlic is a good choice. In addition to the tincture, you can add 4-8% anise powder to complementary foods.

Here, for example, is a recipe for feeding carp using an activator such as honey:

Weed out small unripe corn kernels
Pour the corn into a container and add water, leave to soak for 2-3 days
Then cook for about an hour, it is important not to turn the complementary foods into porridge.
Leave to cool
Before fishing, add a little honey to make the complementary food aromatic and sweet.

Carp are also well attracted by the aroma of fresh bread and legumes such as chickpeas.

How to lure fish to the fishing spot

Today it is difficult to surprise anyone with new bait recipes; there are a great many of them and they are all relatively effective. You can continue to use baits based on traditional recipes, but their performance is not always equally good. Even the use of flavorings used in most recipes does not radically change the overall picture. Aromatic and flavoring additives still fail, and often the fisherman is left without a catch.

After using bait with pheromones, a large increase in biting is immediately observed. The fish take the bait more confidently and swim away from a large area of water. The listed effects were the achievement of many years of research by biologists, ichthyologists and specialists in the field of synthesizing various chemicals. Pheromone-based bait shows good results in all types of fishing.

Attractants are active substances that affect the taste buds and sense of smell, attracting the attention of fish more strongly than the natural components of bait. They contain both natural ingredients and synthetic substances.

Roach bait

Roach is a very common fish in Russian waters, and there are a huge number of recipes for its bait. Here are a few of them:

Recipe one:

Cooked rye – 300 g
Crushed breadcrumbs – 300 g
Oatmeal – 200 g
Ground rolled oats – 100 g
Roasted ground hemp seed – 50 g
Filamentous algae – 50 g
Small maggot – 2-3 matchboxes
Grated garlic - half a tablespoon

Recipe two:

Ground biscuit about 300 g
Breadcrumbs 100g
Dry crushed clay – 100 g
Bran – 100 g
Cumin – 1 pinch
Small maggots or bloodworms - 2 or 3 matchboxes

The most favorite natural scents for roaches are the aroma of vanilla or coriander, as well as anise. The smells of almonds, caramel, chocolate, and hemp are added to dry mixtures.

How to choose

Fishing is a special art. It is necessary not only to locate the prey and hook it, but also to lure it. Although in practice it is not always easy to select the necessary fish bite activators. The reason is that there are many varieties on the market today from many manufacturers. There are a huge number of companies producing special compounds to attract underwater inhabitants - fish bite activators. Each of them offers its own product, although it is not always of high quality and, most importantly, quite effective.

Pike bait

Since pike is a predatory fish, it prefers scents of animal origin; it is also very picky and chooses only natural scents. Also, to catch a predator, you can feed not the fish itself, but its food, that is, it eats other small fish in the reservoir.

As bait, if you are fishing in water without a current, you can scatter pieces of fish; if there is a current, you must first weigh them down with clay.

So, in order to make a fishing activator with your own hands, you need to take into account several factors:

There are many natural flavors , so preparing an activator at home is not difficult.
If you don’t want to prepare the bait yourself , then to increase the fish’s appetite, purchase an activator in a specialized store, where there is a wide selection.
To catch pike, you need to use only natural scents or make bait to catch it.

These are the main points for making an activator for catching a variety of fish at home. If it is made correctly, a good bite will accompany you from the moment you start fishing until it ends.