CATDOLL : CATDOLL: I have a question, what is the difference between a lure rod and a boat rod?

I would like to ask, what is the difference between a lure rod and a boat rod?

The difference between a lure rod and a boat rod lies in the hardness, material, target fish, and bait type:

1. Difference in hardness

Luya rod: If it is a gun-handle rod, the hardness is medium-soft (ML); if it is a straight-handle rod, the hardness is medium-hard (MH).

Boat rod: The hardness of the boat rod is super hard (EH).

2. Different production materials

Luya rod: The material used to make the lure rod is "silicon carbide reinforced ceramic", which is harder, lighter, has better heat dissipation and a lower friction coefficient than the previous generation of "alumina reinforced ceramic".

Boat rod: The boat rod is made of polystyrene. The fishing rod made of this material has good telescopic performance and is mainly used with spinning reels.

3. Differences in the target fish

Luya rod: Luya rod is mainly used for small target fish such as horsemouth, whitebait, silver carp, and small tilapia. It has a fast reeling speed and does not require bait adjustment.

Boat rod: Boat rod is mainly used for target fish such as black carp, bighead carp, redtail, sea bass, and mandarin fish.

4. Different types of bait

Luya rod: Luya rod uses fake bait, such as plastic shrimps, plastic fish, etc.

Boat rod: Boat rod needs to use live bait or fish paste, such as loach, live shrimp, earthworms, etc.

What do freshwater fish eat?

Different fish have different food needs due to their different living environments and living habits. Most young fish feed on plankton and have a mixed diet. As the fish grow and develop into adults, their food preferences gradually show different characteristics, and they can be roughly divided into three categories: meat eaters, vegetarians, and omnivores.

1. Vegetarian or carnivorous. Most carnivorous fish have sharp teeth and a very flexible and thick appetite. Snakehead, catfish, mandarin fish, Taimen, etc. are typical representatives of carnivorous fish. They mainly feed on fish, shrimp, and frogs, and never eat vegetarian food. They are often the ones who "eat small fish". Some of them even eat their own kind, and their children eat their fathers. They are the law of the jungle. Some carnivorous fish have no stomach or teeth, only "pharyngeal teeth". Most of them are omnivorous. They not only eat fish and shrimp, but also eat various insects, miscellaneous meat, and internal organs. They not only eat benthic organisms such as snails, clams, and mollusks (such as black carp), but also filter plankton such as rotifers, crustaceans, cladocerans, and fleas (such as bighead carp) in the upper layer. Their common feature is that they are generally not vegetarian.

2. Vegetarian or herbivorous. Adult fish of this type mainly feed on aquatic and terrestrial plants, such as aquatic duckweed, duckweed, Vallisneria, waterweed, Potamogeton, Hydrilla verticillata, terrestrial barnyard grass, wolftail, foxtail grass, tender stems, leaves and seeds of leguminous plants, dandelions and wild lettuce in the Asteraceae family. Representative fish of this type are grass carp and bream, which have a pair of serrated throat teeth that are enough to cut through plant stems and leaves. Silver carp, which mainly filters floating algae, also belongs to this category.

3. Omnivorous. The typical representatives of omnivorous are crucian carp and carp, which are not picky about meat or vegetables and have a wide range of food. They will eat almost everything mentioned above, but they have different preferences for different fish, different seasons, and different waters. Fishing enthusiasts have this experience: in early spring and late autumn when the water temperature is low, they mostly like to eat earthworms, while in summer when the water temperature is high, they prefer to eat pasta.

Understanding the feeding habits of fish is very important for selecting the correct bait, but it must be pointed out that there is no absolute boundary among the above three types of feeding habits. Each type of feeding habit is relative. For example, grass carp will also eat earthworms to satisfy its hunger when there is a lack of grass in the water. There are also many cases of using grasshoppers to catch grass carp even in summer.