Fishing pellets
Fishing pellets
The fishing pellet is essentially a compressed mixture of vegetable-based flours (corn, soybean, hemp, and other grains) or animal-based (squid, halibut, tuna, krill, herring) that can be used either to bait the spot or directly as a primer, as an alternative or in addition to the main bait.
Depending on the ingredients used, the pellet may have different organoleptic characteristics, may be more or less oily, and will therefore be suitable for different types of fish, purpose, fishing area, or season.
Fishing with bait pellets is particularly suitable when approaching artificial lakes or quarries, because often the fish come from farms where from birth they are fed primarily by means of precisely this type of compressed flours. In addition, where baiting is prohibited, it is often permitted to use a limited amount of natural pellets that feed the fish quickly while keeping them healthy.
Pasture pellets
The pellets for baiting usually have a cylindrical shape, no holes and can range in size from 1/3 mm (micro pellets) to 20 mm. The function of bait pellets is basically to increase the attractiveness of the spot by attracting fish without feeding them. Unlike bait, the pellet dissolves slowly, remains partly on the bottom and does not disperse easily during feeding frenzy phases.
Pellets for priming
The bait pellets are used directly as bait or along with the main bait to attract fish to the hook. Usually perforated for more immediate use, they are often distinguished from bait pellets by color andaromatic intensity. Deadly for attracting the prey's attention and stimulating its final bite.
Ball pellets
In a hybrid area between bait pellets and priming pellets are ball pellets. This type of fishing pellet can be used both as a bait pellet and as a priming pellet.
As bait pellets, ball pellets are particularly good for fast fishing sessions, as they dissolve faster than traditional pellets.
As bait pellets they can be very useful for making selection on the size of prey, since, as a diameter, they are midway between the classic pellet and, for example, the boiles used for carpfishing.
Pellets for carpfighing
Fishing pellets are probably the fastest attracting bait when it comes to carpfishing. It is true that sometimes boilie may be enough to attract passing carp, but the action of pellets is definitely more durable, intense and able to cover a much larger spot. For a number of years now, the use of pellets in carp fishing trips has been a real must and not only for feeder anglers.
DIY fishing pellets
Talking about pellets, it often happens that we are asked how to make fishing pellets at home. The procedure is not very complicated, and with the right steps it is possible to achieve excellent results. Based on the creation of a good pellet obviously lies the selection of ingredients.
The classic approach involves the creation of a mix of water, flours and attractants specific to the fish we need to catch, to which we are going to add 3 egg whites per kg of mixture. The amount of water can vary depending on whether we wish to obtain a more or less consistent mix. We will then go on to make small cylinders (similar to those we might create for kneading dumplings) of the desired diameter, which will then have to be simply dried on a radiator inside a breathable container (an ordinary pantyhose might work just fine, as long as we do not then have to return it to its rightful owner).
