Trik Cara Mancing Nila

Memancing merupakan hobi yang menyenangkan. Hampir setiap orang memiliki hobi memancing, terutama bapak-bapak. Memancing merupakan hobi yang tidak melelahkan, karena kita hanya duduk menunggu umpan disambar ikan-ikan lapar. Tapi, memancing juga perlu strategi dan trik agar ikan dapat ditangkap dengan mudah. Setiap ikan memiliki ciri khas dan tingkat kesulitan tersendiri untuk dipancing. Di antara beberapa ikan yang cenderung mudah ditangkap adalah ikan nila. Namun demikian, tetap saja perlu trik dan cara mancing nila yang jitu agar tangkapannya lebih cepat berhasil.

Cara Mancing Nila yang Tepat

Nila merupakan salah satu ikan yang sudah sangat populer di masyarakat. Cara mancing nila terbilang mudah. Hal itu disebabkan ikan ini dikenal sebagai ikan yang rakus. Nila dapat memakan apa saja, termasuk dalam kondisi yang kenyang sekali pun. Ikan ini memiliki persamaan dengan ikan mujair dalam hal mudah ditangkap. Oleh karena itu, nilai ekonomis ikan nila dan mujair cenderung lebih rendah dibanding ikan lain yang sulit dipancing, seperti ikan mas dan gurame.

Banyak cara untuk dapat mancing ikan nila. Yang perlu diperhatikan untuk memancing ikan ini adalah penggunaan umpan yang dipilih dan ukuran serta rangkaian mata pancing. Agar lebih jelas, berikut penjelasannya:

1. Umpan

Sama halnya dengan ikan mujair, ikan nila merupakan omnivora. Ikan ini memakan segala jenis umpan, baik dari lumut, daun talas, pelet, hingga cacing. Namun, yang paling baik untuk dijadikan umpan sata memancing ikan nila adalah lumut. Lumut yang dapat digunakan adalah lumut berwarna hijau yang biasanya terdapat di genangan air yang tidak terawat, permukaan danau, sawah, dan lain-lain. Sebagian lumut berbentuk kasar sedangkan sebagian lagi memiliki bentuk lembut. Kita dapat menggunakan keduanya. Lumut kasar biasanya disukai oleh ikan nila yang besar. Sedangkan lumut yang lembut biasanya disukai ikan nila yang kecil. Akan tetapi, lumut yang kasar cenderung susah dikaitkan pada kail.

2. Ukuran dan Rangkaian Mata Pancing

Selain umpan, ukuran mata pancing dan rangkaiannya juga penting diperhatikan dalam cara mancing nila. Ukuran pancing dapat menentukan ikan yang kita pancing. Oleh karena itu, sebaiknya pemancing mencari informasi terlebih dahulu, berapa ukuran ikan yang akan dipancing. Misalnya, bertanya kepada pengelola kolam pancing atau bertanya kepada orang yang terbiasa mancing di tempat yang sama.

Ukuran pancing besar hanya dapat dimakan oleh ikan yang besar. Begitu juga sebaliknya, meskipun ukuran pancing kecil juga dapat dimakan oleh ikan berukuran besar. Namun, tidak ada salahnya kita mempersiapkan terlebih dahulu. Umumnya, ukuran pancing yang digunakan untuk memancing nila berukuran kecil. Selain ukurannya, kita juga harus jeli menentukan rangkaian pancing yang digunakan. Apabila rangkaian pancing yang digunakan salah, maka sia-sia saja kita menggunakan pancing yang telah sesuai dengan ukuran ikan yang akan dipancing.

Cara Mancing Nila Badot

Lain halnya saat kita ingin memancing nila yang berukuran besar. Nila yang berukuran besar biasa disebut dengan nila badot. Nila badot adalah ikan nila yang bobotnya mencapai 5 kg lebih. Cara memancing nila badot tentu berbeda dengan cara memancing ikan nila biasa, sebagaimana telah dijelaskan sebelumnya. Untuk dapat menaklukkan ikan ini diperlukan teknik khusus. Berikut trik cara mancing nila badot:

1. Lokasi

Mungkin di beberapa kolam pemancingan disediakan tempat khusus untuk memancing nila badot. Tapi, jika Anda memutuskan untuk memancing di alam bebas, seperti danau, sungai, atau waduk, maka carilah sumber air yang airnya tidak pernah surut selama satu tahun. Tempat seperti itu biasanya dijadikan habibat ikan nila, termasuk nila badot.

2. Umpan

Untuk mendapatkan nila badot, umpan yang digunakan tentu berbeda dengan umpan yang digunakan untuk memancing nila biasa. Umpan yang dapat digunakan bisa dicari di sekitar habitat nila tersebut, seperti lumut, rumput-rumputan, kangkung, tawon, laron, belalang, ulat bambu, ulat pisang, udang iar tawar, dan lain-lain. Setelah mendapatkan umpan yang pas, yang perlu diperhatikan adalah ukuran umpan yang disediakan. Karena yang akan ditangkap adalah nila berukuran jumbo, maka gunakan umpan dalam ukuran besar.

3. Teknik

Setelah menentukan lokasi dan jenis umpan, trik selanjutnya adalah teknik yang digunakan. Diperlukan teknik khusus agar dapat memancing ikan nila badot ini. Apabila umpan yang digunakan adalah umpan binatang, seperti tawon, udang air tawar, dan ulat bambu, maka tidak ada kesulitan untuk memancingnya. Namun, jika umpan yang digunakan adalah tumbuh-tumbuhan seperti kangkung atau lumut, diperlukan teknik khusus untuk dapat memancing nila badot.

Sebelum digunakan sebagai umpan, usahakan membuat rumpon buatan. Caranya, ikatlah tumbuhan yang digunakan untuk umpan sebanyak 3 hingga 6 tangkai dengan menggunakan tali atau kenur. Panjang tali atau kenur harus lebih panjang dari kedalaman air agar tali dapat mengambang. Apabila digunakan di lokasi yang tepat, maka ikan akan mudah strike.

Selain kedua trik di atas, masih ada cara lainnya untuk dapat memancing ikan nila, yaitu memancing tanpa menggunakan umpan dan kail. Cara yang dimaksud adalah mancing dengan menggunakan kenur, kili-kili, pemberat, dan jaring. Cara ini memag tidak terlalu banyak digunakan oleh pehobi mancing karena sensasi yang didapatkannya tidak seasyik mancing menggunakan umpan atau kail. Namun, tidak ada salahnya jika cara ini dijadikan salah satu referensi Anda untuk dapat memancing ikan nila.

Yang perlu diperhatikan dari memancing dengan menggunakan cara ini adalah sebagai berikut:

1. Tidak diperlukan umpan dan kail.
2. Alat yang digunakan adalah kenur, kili-kili, pemberat, dan jaring.
3. Ukuran jaring yang digunakan maksimal 1 meter persegi. Sedangkan jaring yang menggunakan kenur maksimal 150 cm. Penggunaan jaring kenur yang tidak terlalu besar bermaksud agar jaring dapat mengembang di atas air.
4. Memancing dengan cara ini tepat untuk dapat menangkap ikan yang tidak mau memakan terlalu banyak jenis umpan,
5. Memancing dengan cara ini dapat dilakukan dalam segala cuaca, baik panas, hujan, atau angin.

Memancing dengan cara ini terlihat lebih mudah dibanding memancing dengan cara konvensional, yaitu menggunakan kail dan umpan. Apalagi, alat yang digunakan pun cenderung mudah didapatkan di sekitar kita dengan biaya yang relatif murah. Memancing dengan cara ini dapat diterapkan pada saat liburan keluarga, karena tidak semua anggota keluarga mampu bersabar untuk memancing dengan menggunakan kail dan umpan.

Namun demikian, banyak pehobi memancing profesional tidak menyukai cara ini. Sensasi yang timbul dari memancing dengan cara ini diyakini tidak sememuaskan cara memancing konvensional, yaitu menggunakan kail dan umpan. Para pehobi memancing biasanya mendapatkan kepuasaan saat bisa strike. Sedangkan memancing dengan cara ini tidak memungkinkan pemancing bisa strike karena ikan hanya berhasil ditangkap melalui jaring.

Yang perlu diperhatikan dari memancing dengan cara ini adalah cara ini tidak dapat dilakukan di sembarang lokasi. Apabila kita hendak memancing dengan menggunakan jaring, harus dipastikan kolam yang dijadikan tempat memancing memiliki dasar yang bersih. Karena apabila kotoran ikut terjaring, maka jaring pun akan mudah. Selain itu, memancing dengan cara ini tidak dapat dilakukan apabila target kita adalah memancing ikan nila bandot karena jaring yang digunakan tidak akan kuat menahan berat ikan yang mencapai 5 kg.

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Bassin With Crankbaits - Colour Choice Tips and Techniques

In the blog I posted on April 28th I had promised to share my secrets for crankbait color choices and how to find the bass using electronics. In this blog lets look at color choice for crankbaits. This is going to be a long post, but will contain much information and crankbait tips. I have heard from several anglers who tell me that they just do not have any luck using crankbaits for largemouth bass, however, the tips in this blog will help you to understand why color is important and help you to catch more bass using crankbaits.

Bass eyes see in water, and our eyes see in the air. But there is an uncanny comparison in how a bass eye sees color and how a human eye sees colors. Cones in our eyes see colors and rods see things in shades of gray. Scientist and biologist have concluded that a bass sees colors much as a human sees colors. This theory is thought to be true for the reason that bass eyes have cones very similar to the cones in human eyes. One difference is the absence of a pupil in the bass eye. This is the part of our eye that dilates or gets bigger when light is dimmed.

This would explain why bass are light shy. They are structure orientated for more than reasons than just ambush and shelter, they prefer shade. Bass are most active in low light, morning and evening, but have some vision in darkness and stained and muddy water. A bass eye having no pupil, it adjusts to brightness by repositioning rods. In bright light cones are used with a majority of the rods of the bass eye being hidden behind the cones. As light dims more rods are positioned for sight. In dark conditions cones are of less use and the bass sees mostly with rods. To simplify this, cones see colors; rods see shades of gray. In dim light a bass sees in black and white. And a bass’s eye has more rods than the human eye and they function better. Thus it sees in dim light much better than a human can.

The temperature of the water and the Thermocline will determine the depth the bass will be holding, and this depth will affect the color of crankbait that you will need to fish.  (In my next crankbait blog we will get more into locating structure with electronics.) Once you find this target depth the bass are holding, finding structure at this same depth will provide bass. Select your crankbait according to its diving capabilities.

The larger the bill or lip on the nose of the lure, the deeper it will dive. Some lures will have the diving depth someplace on the lure and with most crankbaits, the packaging will display the diving depth, one tip is to write this number of feet on the lure with a fine point sharpie permanent marker. Also organize your lures by depth then color and label your lure box in the place for each lure with the diving depth. This will help you to quickly decide which lures you will be using, keep in mind that in a tournament time can be money.

If you have you ever noticed that the color of a lure seems to change in water and seems to change even more at different times of the day.  This illusion is because of light reacting with water. We will now look at how bass actually see the colors that we choose in crankbaits. Sometimes the color choice is paramount in the success of an angler’s creel. At different times of day, or in “different light” the color a fish sees makes it react.

Studying a prism will help us to see white light change into different colors beginning with red and then through the spectrum to purple.

When we see a rainbow in the sky it is the same thing, (Like the Ambassador guy above) we see light absorbed and or bent by water. A body of water however has an effect on light as well. The water absorbs light and turns it into heat, or converts light energy into heat energy. In this process some colors are absorbed much more than other colors. When we look at a crankbait in natural sunlight, we see all color waves. This is not possible once the color “wavelengths” enter water. The water actually absorbs the light. Reds are absorbed as heat before other colors while blues are absorbed last.

When we watch Hook n’ Look and other underwater programs on WFN, the absorption of light is what makes the water appear to be so blue. In water that is pure or perfectly clear water all red colors are absorbed and converted into heat energy before the light reaches 17 feet. After red is absorbed, then all variations of the color orange is then absorbed. Orange slowly fades into a dull yellow as an orange colored lure is fished deep. Yellows are filtered out after orange. And then the shades of green are the next to be absorbed. After this only blue light will remain. Once the blue shades are absorbed, then there is no light.

As blue light is absorbed lures appears in various shades of dark blue to indigo, violet and then finally black. A white lure out of the water still is white in the water, but it gradually reflects light and appears to be green then blue as it goes deeper. A red crankbait will appear bright red on the surface but cranked deeper it gradually turns black. This is because the absence of red light in deeper water.

Understanding this theory has apparently made KVD and Strikeking millions and he and the company have become very successful with the multi colored crankbaits from citrus shad to the “sexy shad” color that he has made so famous. For this reason I use crankbaits with an array of colors when fishing deep. This provides coverage as sunlight moves as well at different depths. When fishing in 20 feet of water or deeper, I like to start with brightly colored crankbaits. The reason for brightness over just a specific color is that I am looking for a lure that will reflect even a little light in the darkness of deep water.

Fishing a crankbait 15- and 18-feet when bass are holding at 20 feet, will determine if the fish are looking upward in a feeding pattern, or if you will need to fish deeper allowing the crankbait to search off the bottom bumping structure. By dive deeper than the depth the bass are holding will present frantic baitfish bumping into the structure with small thumping sounds as it hits solid objects, and as a crankbait strikes the lake bottom the lure will create clouds of silt, gravel or sand to billow up in the water (like a fleeing crayfish).

Backstabber Lures solved the issue hang ups on deep structure with the hooks being moved to the top of the lure. The company also appears to understand the importance of color as well with the range of colors available in their crankbaits.

The noise and the vibration will attract fish and provoke a reaction strike. Crankbaits that rattle and knock may help in deep, cloudy or dark water. Another tip to fish even deeper is to attach the crankbait to a one-ounce Carolina rig.  Keep in mind that light line will dive deeper than heavy line, but heavy line will rest on cover where light line will burry into cover. For this reason I stay between 10 and 14 lb test for deep cranking structure, and 17 – 20 lb test in heavy wood and rocks.

In shallow water crankbait color choice is vital, as a bass can see the lure more clearly. “Matching the hatch” with a crankbait is a good way to choose your lure size and color, however it pays to try a different color if you do not get bit soon. Bandit, Norman and Live Target Lures as well as many other manufacturers all do well with natural color patterns on their lures. In shallow water this is very important.

When the fish are feeding on shad and there are many of them in a school, I choose a color that stands out amongst them and fish below them. Citrus Shad, Bluegill, and other bright colors by Bomber, Rapala, and other companies, seem to make the lure stand out in a crowd so to speak. Knowing the bass feed on the stray shad that leave the school due to injury or weakness. This natural selection is helped by a color that makes a target stand out a little more than the rest.

As with any crankbait lure presentation, always start moving the lure fast. If you are not soon rippin’ some lips, change your retrieve to a stop and go or slow it down to a crawl. As Bill Dance says, allow the fish to tell you what they want.  I hope these tips help you to more effectively take advantage of crankbaits while fishing deep structure as well as shallow water.   

Happy Fishing! 

 

Source : http://www.worldfishingnetwork.com/tips/post/bassin-with-crankbaits-color-choice-tips-and-techniques

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River Fishing Tips

Welcome to our section on river fishing tips. The goal of this section is to educate both novice and expert fishermen on how to improve their river fishing skills. Instead of just making a huge list of tips we designed this section to first educate you on the basics of river fishing. We then follow up with some of the best river fishing tips and basic river fishing safety information. These tips combined with our many other tips that are specific to certain species of fish will help make you a better fisherman. You can get started below by learn about the basic theory of river fishing.

The Basics of Fishing in a River

River fishing is the method of fishing in a body of water that is defined by science to be a river. A river is a body of water that flows towards another river, ocean, lake or sea. You can fish a river from the shore, by wading or if the size and depth of the make it possible, via a boat. A wide variety of different species of fish (including popular game fish) can be found inhabiting rivers or at least navigating them to reach spawning grounds or to migrate. Fishermen will need to use specific types of fishing rigs or bait casting methods due to the natural movement of a river. Rivers are used by invasive species to invade other bodies of water making it vital for humans to never introduce any foreign fish or bait fish to rivers.

River fishing has a bad rap in some areas, especially rivers that run through urban areas. This is due to pollution and lack of water clarity. While pollution is an issue in urban areas water clarity is just the result of sediment and mud being brought up from the movement of the water. Fishermen should always be aware of any advisories that are made by local or state agencies regarding the consumption of fish in specific rivers. Many rivers have dams and water locks that help control the flow of water, these structures can be a great place for large fish to congregate as a result of water depth and temperature.

River Fishing Tips, Tricks and Techniques

Fishing in a river is a great way to catch fish. By using our below river fishing tips and techniques you'll be able to improve your success catching fish in a river. The below tips aren't specific to any specific species of fish but rather strategic ways to fish in a river. If you have any tips that can help other fishermen be more successful in a river please use our submit a tip form and we'll add it to the below list.

• Get a Pair of Polarized Glasses - Depending on what river you plan on fishing in you may be able to see through the water with a good pair of polarized glasses. By being able to visually locate fish you can prevent a lot of wasted time searching for them.
• Bottom Bounce Live Bait - An effective method for catching fish in the river is to use live bait and bounce it off the bottom. There are several types of fishing rigs that can accomplish this and will help present your bait more naturally. Make sure you also bounce your live bait with the current, never against it.
• Find the River's Backwaters - Some of the most popular game fish that can be found in a river aren't too fond of heavy currents. Largemouth bass are a great example of game fish that will inhabit backwater creeks that break off the river and reenter it downstream.
• Find the Weeds - If you can locate a calm area of a river that has weed growth you've most likely found a prime fishing location. Since weeds aren't very common in rivers fish will group together in calm areas of the river with weed growth. Don't be shocked to find a monster largemouth bass hiding in this area.
• Fish Near the Islands - A lot of rivers will have islands in them and the slack area of these islands can hold some nice fish for you to catch. Be careful trying to wade out to any river islands, drop offs can appear out of nowhere and send you and your tackle downriver.
• Talk to the Locals - The local bait and tackle shop or even fishermen along the shore can give you some great insight on what the best methods are for fishing in a nearby river. The actual location of fish in a river can be greatly affected by the weather and the moon. Locals who fish in the river often will be able to educate you on the best time and location to fish in the river.

River Fishing Safety

When you're fishing in a river you'll want to follow basic safety precautions to ensure your safety and the safety of other people around you. You should always know how to swim or fish with someone who is able to swim. If you're wading in a river make sure to use a wader belt to prevent water from filling up your waders if you fall over. If you're using a boat make sure to follow all local and state boating rules and regulations and remember that the depth and speed of a river can change quickly. Always check to see if there are any advisories regarding the consumption of fish in the river you plan on fishing in.

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