Many more new carp anglers swell the ranks of already heavily-pressured carp waters each year, and any tips and tricks and insights that give you edges other anglers and their baits, preferably saving you loads of money too, are very valuable! You will find some powerful insights and home truths about how to catch more carp for less money by maximising baits far more to their full potential and keeping full control over their impacts on carp and how much they cost!
You might think fish location is the most important factor in carp fishing, or a sharp hook, but my testing with big heavy blunt hooks, and random choice of old baits shows that neither in the absence of any application of watercraft nor any resemblance of an effective rig, big carp still wind up getting hooked! I used to think very conventionally that fish location is paramount followed by a very sharp hook on a proven rig for the occasion, but my results using basically rotten bait presentations in swims and areas looking about as unfavourable for a carp as possible, and using some of the most weird-smelling odd-looking old baits showed that unusual new bait is more than likely far more important and influential to success than first presumed!
Having been invited by a friend to visit the famous Horseshoe Lake I took some extra bait substances to add to and test against my friends already successful spod ground bait mix to prove the power of the appliance of science; and what happened was amazing! As a top rod and bailiff on the lake my friend fully expected his bait to compete against anything and induce carp feeding in a test situation. We introduced my friends original mix to a stock pond margin where carp could be observed easily and also introduced 2 other versions of his mix, but with added potent substances and ingredients chosen through scientific principles on natural fish senses stimulation, and the carp were actually head-butting where the new versions had been before being eaten while the original spod mix lay completely ignored even by tench and roach!
This was such a revelation to all of us that witnessed this test that it took us quite a while to accept what had happened and the strength of the reaction because after all, here was a proven consistently successful spod mix failing to even get nibbled whist in the presence of 2 other identically-based baits but with added extras. Of course I was expecting a strong feeding response to the substances added to the new spod mixes, but certainly did not really expect them to result in the original being ignored as if it did not even exist. Now if you have ever fished next to someone who is catching fish and you cannot get a bite on your formerly successful bait this could well be part of the reason and perhaps we all need to seriously ask ourselves if our baits are doing or not doing various things they are supposedly designed to do!
Bait is supposed to trigger a feeding response in order to get a hook into a fishes mouths, but for various reasons this obviously is not so straight forward in reality as carp dynamically learn in response to danger of being hooked on recognisable baits and bait substances and so on. Many times carp will eat free baits but identify and ignore hook baits entirely, if not mark them as dangerous, even fanning them to one side out of harms way and even silently communicating to other carp the dangerous nature of suspicious baits perhaps by hormones and body postures and movements etc.
Those big and smaller wary carp we all really want often respond best to baits that are new especially if they contain levels and combinations of substances not familiar or completely new to them and this especially is where homemade baits and ground baits very seriously score!
By being able to make your own baits and adapt readymade baits you control many vital aspects of bait, from the ways they impact on carp senses, rate of metabolism and feeding and digestion, to your all important bait cost itself! Picture the effect on carp of being able to introduce free baits with far high levels of natural feed-triggering substances than bait companies can afford to sell profitably and the results you will be able to achieve! Probably the most obvious example for this cold water period is the possibility of including far higher levels of the famous green lipped mussel extract and betaine hydrochloride for instance which are very well proven to keep carp feeding more strongly and more repeatedly for longer, thus giving you far more chances of bites and hooked fish...
Betaine and green lipped mussel are but 2 substances well-known in the public domain which are very often under-exploited in commercial baits and with the use of boosted levels can improve catches even if you use smaller amounts of homemade baits with raised levels of these, but other substances are available to be exploited which are amazing! Because carp are constantly changing and adapting creatures you can choose to stick to a handful of recipes or constantly change them whenever you like and swap between more nutritional or more attractor style baits but at your budget using your own secret choice of ingredients and doing your own thing is extremely productive as we all know being different in fishing is a central key to success!
Carp bait success in many ways is about the efficient maintenance of a concentration of feeding triggers and attractors etc around your hook baits. Anyone who fishes with glugged broken boilies in glug-filled PVA bags, and compares their catch results to using whole readymade baits straight from the bag (and used alone in PVA bags,) will be shocked by the difference! But perhaps the most sobering thought about making your own homemade baits and ground baits is not just the impact they can have versus popular conventional baits, but the degree you can control their cost and produce incredibly effective baits to your own recipes, with far higher levels of potent ingredients than bait companies can offer profitably! Read on for my uniquely proven homemade bait and fishing bait secrets ebooks...
By Tim Richardson.
You might think fish location is the most important factor in carp fishing, or a sharp hook, but my testing with big heavy blunt hooks, and random choice of old baits shows that neither in the absence of any application of watercraft nor any resemblance of an effective rig, big carp still wind up getting hooked! I used to think very conventionally that fish location is paramount followed by a very sharp hook on a proven rig for the occasion, but my results using basically rotten bait presentations in swims and areas looking about as unfavourable for a carp as possible, and using some of the most weird-smelling odd-looking old baits showed that unusual new bait is more than likely far more important and influential to success than first presumed!
Having been invited by a friend to visit the famous Horseshoe Lake I took some extra bait substances to add to and test against my friends already successful spod ground bait mix to prove the power of the appliance of science; and what happened was amazing! As a top rod and bailiff on the lake my friend fully expected his bait to compete against anything and induce carp feeding in a test situation. We introduced my friends original mix to a stock pond margin where carp could be observed easily and also introduced 2 other versions of his mix, but with added potent substances and ingredients chosen through scientific principles on natural fish senses stimulation, and the carp were actually head-butting where the new versions had been before being eaten while the original spod mix lay completely ignored even by tench and roach!
This was such a revelation to all of us that witnessed this test that it took us quite a while to accept what had happened and the strength of the reaction because after all, here was a proven consistently successful spod mix failing to even get nibbled whist in the presence of 2 other identically-based baits but with added extras. Of course I was expecting a strong feeding response to the substances added to the new spod mixes, but certainly did not really expect them to result in the original being ignored as if it did not even exist. Now if you have ever fished next to someone who is catching fish and you cannot get a bite on your formerly successful bait this could well be part of the reason and perhaps we all need to seriously ask ourselves if our baits are doing or not doing various things they are supposedly designed to do!
Bait is supposed to trigger a feeding response in order to get a hook into a fishes mouths, but for various reasons this obviously is not so straight forward in reality as carp dynamically learn in response to danger of being hooked on recognisable baits and bait substances and so on. Many times carp will eat free baits but identify and ignore hook baits entirely, if not mark them as dangerous, even fanning them to one side out of harms way and even silently communicating to other carp the dangerous nature of suspicious baits perhaps by hormones and body postures and movements etc.
Those big and smaller wary carp we all really want often respond best to baits that are new especially if they contain levels and combinations of substances not familiar or completely new to them and this especially is where homemade baits and ground baits very seriously score!
By being able to make your own baits and adapt readymade baits you control many vital aspects of bait, from the ways they impact on carp senses, rate of metabolism and feeding and digestion, to your all important bait cost itself! Picture the effect on carp of being able to introduce free baits with far high levels of natural feed-triggering substances than bait companies can afford to sell profitably and the results you will be able to achieve! Probably the most obvious example for this cold water period is the possibility of including far higher levels of the famous green lipped mussel extract and betaine hydrochloride for instance which are very well proven to keep carp feeding more strongly and more repeatedly for longer, thus giving you far more chances of bites and hooked fish...
Betaine and green lipped mussel are but 2 substances well-known in the public domain which are very often under-exploited in commercial baits and with the use of boosted levels can improve catches even if you use smaller amounts of homemade baits with raised levels of these, but other substances are available to be exploited which are amazing! Because carp are constantly changing and adapting creatures you can choose to stick to a handful of recipes or constantly change them whenever you like and swap between more nutritional or more attractor style baits but at your budget using your own secret choice of ingredients and doing your own thing is extremely productive as we all know being different in fishing is a central key to success!
Carp bait success in many ways is about the efficient maintenance of a concentration of feeding triggers and attractors etc around your hook baits. Anyone who fishes with glugged broken boilies in glug-filled PVA bags, and compares their catch results to using whole readymade baits straight from the bag (and used alone in PVA bags,) will be shocked by the difference! But perhaps the most sobering thought about making your own homemade baits and ground baits is not just the impact they can have versus popular conventional baits, but the degree you can control their cost and produce incredibly effective baits to your own recipes, with far higher levels of potent ingredients than bait companies can offer profitably! Read on for my uniquely proven homemade bait and fishing bait secrets ebooks...
By Tim Richardson.
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