Tilapia, scientific name Mozambique tilapia, also known as African crucian carp, commonly known as snapper. It is a widely salinized fish, which can grow and reproduce in freshwater and seawater, and has a strong adaptability to the environment, but its cold tolerance is poor, and it dies when the water temperature is below 8 ° C. It feeds on zooplankton and protozoa, and is an omnivorous fish with a predominantly plant nature. It usually inhabits the bottom layer of water and sometimes lives in the lower and middle layers of water bodies. In the case of full sunlight and rising water temperature, it often swims to the surface of the water, and when it encounters a sound, it will dive into the silt at the bottom of the water and stand still.
bait:
Tilapia is more heterogeneous. Meat bait is eaten, meat bait includes earthworms, maggots, shrimp, bread worms; vegetarian bait has dough, rice grains, sticky cakes and so on. Commercial baits include special baits for fishing for tilapia or baits with a fishy smell. These baits can be used to catch tilapia.
There are two ways to catch tilapia, both with a hand rod and a throwing rod. When using a throwing rod to catch tilapia, the use of a hook fishing group is more effective than other methods. Especially for fishing for larger tilapia, the advantages of throwing rods with string hooks are much more obvious than other fishing methods.
Fishing tackle:
Use a throwing rod to fish for tilapia, and apply a rod with a thinner tip and a softer tone. The length of the rod is more suitable at 2-3 meters, and the diameter of the fishing line is between 0.25-0.35 mm. It should not be too thin (because the hook may also be on the big fish) and not too thick. The thick line is not conducive to straightening, will weaken the signal of the hook in the fish, bring difficulties to the angler to judge the fish, and is not conducive to long-distance shooting.
Throwing rod fishing tilapia hook is the key, the main line of the hook can take a 50-80 cm long nylon line, but also according to the actual depth of the fishing ground water to determine the length of the hook, but the length should not exceed 1.2 meters, the diameter of the line is within 2 -2.5, the sub-line takes 1-1.5 strong pull line, each length of 20 cm.
Fishing hook, because the tilapia mouth is large, should choose a sharp hook, hook toughness of the pill ㄝ 7 long handle hook. Because, throwing rod fishing is a kind of passive fishing, the angler can not get advance notice, if the hook tip is not fast, the hook door opening is not large, even if the fish swallow the hook into the mouth, it is difficult to stab the deep hook, the fish can easily get off the hook.
The bonding method of the hook is to tie the hook at equal distance to the sub-line (the hook spacing is 18 cm, and the two hooks are not matched with each other). Then, from left to right, it is tied to the sub-line of the fishing group, and one hook group can be tied to 6 hooks. At each end of the hook, a connector is tied, one end is connected to the main line, and the other end is tied to the lead pendant, which weighs 20-30 grams, using the method of dead drop combination.
Fishing Spots:
Tilapia like to be warm and afraid of cold, and when choosing a fishing spot, it should be on the sunny side of the pond or lake reservoir. In addition, according to the law of tilapia activity, according to the change of water temperature to determine the fishing point, in the early morning when the water temperature is low, the fishing rod frame can be lowered, around noon when the water temperature rises, the fishing rod can be appropriately raised slightly to the height of the floating fish.
Fishing Method:
Hook fishing tilapia can be a nest or not a nest, which must be considered from the fishing situation of the fishing ground, if the fish head is thin, you can make a nest. Fish head density is high, there is no need to make a nest. The fishing method can be used to find the fishing point with the fish bite hook in a short period of time, and then the fishing rod can be concentrated on one point to improve the catch rate.
skill:
Hooked earthworms are slightly different from those used with hand rods to catch earthworms. Hand-hung earthworms can be used to make whole earthworms. The hook-hung earthworm can only be half a strip slightly longer than the tip of the hook. Although the whole earthworm is more pronounced than half an earthworm, the fishing effect is worse than that of half an earthworm. The reason is that tilapia easily bites off part of the hook without hook. This phenomenon also leads to the appearance of false signals of biting hooks, so that the matter of empty hooks appears repeatedly. Therefore, it is better to use a half-strip earthworm hook.
Tilapia eat fiercely, it is easy to eat dead hooks, and when the fish bite the hook more frequently, the frequency of fish collection can be appropriately reduced. After the signal of the middle hook appears at the tip of the rod, you only need to take the rod with you, then tighten the fishing line and fish again. When there are 3-4 fish messages at the end of the rod, then raise the rod to collect the fish, you can use more than one rod, which not only reduces fatigue, but also increases happiness.
Notes:
The dorsal fin of the tilapia is well developed, and its pectoral and fins have hard spines, which can easily puncture the hand when grasped by hand. In general, it is necessary to grasp from head to tail to prevent hands from being stabbed, but it is best to use gloves or a towel, so that it is safer to remove the hook.
Tilapia feeding times are regular, usually in the afternoon with a higher rate of hooking than in the morning. This is related to its habit of being afraid of cold and not afraid of heat. Therefore, the best time to fish for tilapia is in the afternoon when the temperature is higher. In other words, fishing for tilapia requires that the higher the temperature, the better.