| * Top carp fishing baits are rarely made from | | | | ‘Minglefruit,’ a ‘sugars’ based mix: |
| ‘purely’ milk protein ingredients these days. | | | | ‘Sucre Blend,’ and a spicy yeast bait |
| But there are many very attractive reasons to make | | | | ‘Ultraspice,’ blended together. |
| your own very unique and powerful homemade baits | | | | For example, in simple 50 % combinations like |
| using them. * | | | | ‘The protein mix’ with ‘Sucre Blend, or |
| It is rare to find any of your ‘competing’ | | | | ‘Black Juice,’ with ‘Minglefruit’ and |
| fishermen using these and so they really do offer a | | | | I’m sure some of his present proprietary mixes |
| massive and ‘different edge.’ Carp really | | | | were born using this idea! (And they have caught me |
| love them and these baits will often ‘select’ | | | | countless big fish over the years too while |
| bigger fish too… | | | | experimenting and ‘playing’ with baits and |
| One of the most successful homemade baits of the | | | | different versions and combinations!) |
| 1970s and early 1980’s era, in the UK, was what | | | | There was also bait mentioned, based on mixed |
| was termed, ‘the four milks’. This consisted | | | | spices and herbs, which was similar to: |
| of equal amounts of casein, lactalbumin, sodium | | | | 4 Ounces of 90 mesh acid casein. (Or a combination |
| caseinate plus a product called ‘FinnStim,’ | | | | of rennet casein too.) 4 Ounces of sodium caseinate. |
| which contains purified crystalline betaine, and was | | | | 4 Ounces of lactalbumin. 4 Ounces of soya isolate. 1 |
| best optimized with added amino acids. | | | | Tablespoon (or more,) of mixed spices and herbs. 15 |
| Apparently, this was one of the kinds of bait that | | | | Milliliters (or more,) of Regular Sense Appeal (or |
| made carp angling guru, Kevin Maddox, famous and | | | | ‘Spice’ or ‘Fruit Sense Appeal.’) 3 |
| he comes from a great era of widespread milk | | | | To 5 milliliters of ‘Ultraspice’ flavour. (Or |
| protein usage bringing to mind the use for example | | | | other flavours.) 1 Teaspoon of ‘sweet appetite |
| of baby milk, ‘Vitamealo,’ ‘Lamlac,’ | | | | stimulator.’ 5 Milliliters of ‘Intense |
| ‘Complan,’ ‘Casilan,’ etc etc... | | | | sweetener.’ Four large eggs. |
| With a slight change, Rod Hutchinson recommended | | | | With these as my ‘control’ boilie baits, I |
| this formula to me, in one of his very helpful letters. | | | | could experiment with other ingredients, like |
| It really helped me to ‘compete’ against | | | | body-building powders, individual herbs, spices, animal |
| much more experienced bait making anglers, who | | | | feeds, other natural extracts, and so on, and |
| were using very high quality milk protein and fish meal | | | | continue catching carp with confidence! |
| based baits at that time: | | | | A ‘control bait’ is essential, to measure |
| 4 Ounces of 90 mesh acid casein. (Or a combination | | | | results against your new bait creations when |
| of rennet casein too.) 4 Ounces of sodium caseinate. | | | | experimenting! As a special note, make sure you |
| 4 Ounces of lactalbumin. 4 Ounces of soya isolate. 15 | | | | make these baits ‘damper’ than usual and |
| Milliliters of ‘Regular sense appeal.’ 3 To 5 | | | | store them in cool conditions between mixing into a |
| milliliters of ‘Scopex’ flavour. (Or other | | | | dough and rolling in to baits, as they have a great |
| flavours.) 1 Teaspoon of ‘Sweet appetite | | | | tendency to go hard and dry out fast! |
| stimulator.’ 5 Milliliters of ‘Intense | | | | The author has many more fishing and bait |
| sweetener.’ Four large eggs. | | | | ‘edges’ up his sleeve. Every single one can |
| This bait was excellent! (And still is!) Other proprietary | | | | have a huge impact on catches. (Warning: This article |
| mixes and recipes followed, which recommended | | | | is protected by copyright, but reprints with a link are |
| combining: a milk protein base: ‘The Milk Protein | | | | OK.) |
| Mix,’ the amino acids based: ‘Black | | | | By Tim Richardson. ‘The thinking angler’s |
| Juice,’ the spray-dried fruit juices based | | | | fishing author and expert bait making guru. |