| Everyone wants cheap bait these days but the big | | | | Ultimately everything comes down to energy! All |
| problem is that cheap often means rubbish! So how | | | | atoms are hold together by subtle forces on a |
| can you make a unique relatively cheap bait yourself | | | | quantum level. These energies are actually what |
| that will catch loads of fish and fit your own budget | | | | keeps us alive and what ultimately we eat food for - |
| that seriously ionises the water and impacts upon | | | | and it is just the same for carp. |
| carp senses? Here are a few very big secrets every | | | | Of course there has been talk about making baits |
| thinking carp angler who wants to keep ahead of the | | | | very highly digestible and as energy-efficient as |
| crowd really needs to know! | | | | possible in recent publications, but this is really only a |
| The idea for this article came from my making a bait | | | | small part of the formula that you can exploit - for |
| to test for myself today. Basically I was making baits | | | | there are very many more that appear to be ignored |
| using the flagship boilie bait base mix from Ccmoore | | | | completely maybe by a degree of ignorance; after all, |
| called Odyssey super-boosting the mix to trigger as | | | | absolutely no-one knows it all! |
| many carp senses as fully as possible simultaneously. | | | | If your bait is sorted down to the first 3 limiting |
| But my problem was that there are crayfish in the | | | | amino acids this will provide more energy to carp and |
| lake I am going to fish and I did not fancy wasting | | | | carp are basically extremely efficient at getting the |
| much of my extremely high quality bait on | | | | most from amino acids when compared to humans, |
| bait-robbing crayfish! Of course I could simply use | | | | but remember the aim is to hook fish not feed them. |
| specially protective hook bait netting or shrink tubing | | | | Most anglers want to catch fish instantly and not |
| over my hook baits but to me that is just not | | | | spend fortunes on readymade baits to do it either! |
| effective enough presentation-wise and I wanted my | | | | So consider salt for a second. When you leave a |
| hook baits to be as natural as possible. | | | | bowl of it in air it ends up absorbing water molecules |
| Now as I looked at possible ingredients to use there | | | | in the air and this forms a solution. This effect may |
| were many choices that would either harden the | | | | seem strange in terms of carp baits but it is a |
| baits or make them more resilient to crayfish | | | | crucially important factor in making baits perform |
| attentions. Things like extra casein, whey protein | | | | better! This is in part due to changing the nature of |
| concentrate, blood powder, egg albumin, whole egg | | | | water entering the baits and in changing water |
| powder, whey gel, maize meal, and many others | | | | surrounding baits as a result of substances leaching |
| came to mind. | | | | out from baits that will potently impact upon carp |
| Recently I have been doing very well using | | | | senses and incite positive feeding! |
| homemade baits made based primarily on CW Baits | | | | There are very many ways to induce carp feeding in |
| carp pellet powder and their unique seriously potent | | | | short and long terms, some very simple and others |
| salmon protein, their outstanding feeding trigger and | | | | far more complex, but all exploiting various carp |
| emulsifier which is a high PC form of liquid lecithin | | | | behaviours, re-training carp conditioning, and even |
| added to their premium grade of Scottish salmon oil. | | | | altering adaptive senses and even exploiting addictive |
| This bait has a reasonable content of very cheap | | | | substances. These can exploit especially powerful |
| maize flour to help it bind along with more nutritional | | | | hormone dumps and induce significant amino acid |
| binders to harden it. And for me this has formed the | | | | releases within the systems of the body creating an |
| cheap basis of a few very successful baits for big | | | | addictive feel-good factor for example that alters |
| fish (and these baits go hard,) so this was another | | | | carp behaviours in our favour very significantly! But |
| different option to use. (CW Baits is run by a koi | | | | again let us start in simple terms because things can |
| feed specialist who really knows practical carp | | | | become as advanced as fast as you like in bait |
| nutrition in bait design terms. | | | | design! |
| Now on the crayfish water where I will be fishing, I | | | | Think about salt in water for instance. Salt is naturally |
| have tested these CW Bait ingredients-based baits | | | | ionic - i.e. it has very strongly electrically-charged ionic |
| and they have been really productive - hooking the | | | | bonds. The actual water your carp are swimming |
| biggest fish in the lake on the first day which was an | | | | about in is not pure hydrogen and oxygen but is |
| upper thirty! Some of the secrets to this bait are a | | | | packed with minerals (just for starters!) Please ask |
| bit technical, and this cheap bait has a few more | | | | yourself now - what is salt? Now consider a car |
| goodies added that make all the difference but more | | | | battery. When you charge one you can actually see |
| is revealed below! Those guys who already know a | | | | bubbles generated by the chemical reactions going on. |
| bit about the nutritional profiles of additives, | | | | You can turn you bait into an attractive bait that |
| ingredients and liquid substances for instance will | | | | purposely exploits subtle electrical energy that makes |
| certainly be interested in what I have to say. | | | | changes to water that carp very easily detect. |
| So I added various low levels of specially chosen | | | | (Logically-speaking, it makes great sense in survival |
| additves, liquids and other ingredients which are more | | | | terms that carp are highly attuned to the changes in |
| expensive but used in low levels bring up the | | | | concentration of oxygen and carbonic acid too and |
| performance of the bait tremendously. Now the | | | | again you can exploit such sensitivities as part of |
| secret to these is not purely their nutritional profiles | | | | your bait design!) |
| when combined, (nor their nutritional attraction,) but | | | | OK now, salt in baits and ground baits polarises the |
| how they impact upon the water surrounding the bait | | | | bonds in water (which are relatively weak,) and this |
| and within the bait, added to what happens in | | | | causes dissociation of the water molecules so they |
| regards to their components when contacting all | | | | break down into ions. Non-technically speaking this |
| those variously specialised and sensitive carp receptor | | | | forms brine or salt water solution which carp are |
| cells. | | | | definitely interested in for very many irresistibly |
| To put things very simply, carp are not merely | | | | strong reasons and not just due to it being essential |
| sensitive to substances and weak electrical fields in | | | | in very many processes and roles in carp (and us!) |
| water, they are very sensitive to changes in water | | | | Similar things go on in terms of how carp detect |
| as a whole and in more isolated ways. In fact many | | | | substances in solution that surround them and they |
| commercial bait designers will deliberately exploit very | | | | can detect strongly ionising substances very easily. |
| cheap substances mainly to produce differences in | | | | The absorption and adsorption of water into baits is |
| water that attract carp and it is not necessarily the | | | | critical in getting your baits to function effectively and |
| substance itself that attracts the carp directly; the | | | | this hydration of baits also has very big implications |
| majority of the cheap (and certain expensive) fishing | | | | when it comes to efficient carp digestion of your |
| flavours are very relevant here among many other | | | | baits. Just how many dry food items low in water |
| examples of bait additives, ingredients etc! | | | | content can you think of that carp naturally digest |
| OK now think of all those foods in the kitchen that | | | | and do you think they are evolved to best digest |
| go off fast due to bacterial action, them think of all | | | | wet foods?! |
| those substances that preserve themselves against | | | | This is just one reason why flavours based on |
| these effects! Now consider all those foods and | | | | bait-hydrating substances like glycerol, alcohol and |
| ingredients that seem to cake or even turn to a liquid | | | | other solvents are so easily detected by carp |
| once the tin, box or packet has been opened. Here I | | | | involving the permeability of baits and movements of |
| am referring to just a few of many very powerful | | | | liquids, particles and dissolved bait substances in |
| and well proven corner stones of effective bait | | | | solution and this is really your bait in action! |
| design and bait-making including the way carp most | | | | In fact this kind of movement and effective dispersal |
| efficiently absorb certain very short-chain peptides | | | | of very highly soluble substances leaching out of baits |
| which are formed in part by beneficial bacterial | | | | is just one reason why highly flavoured single-fished |
| enzyme action within their own gut. | | | | baits can be found so effectively when cast to the |
| Also I am referring to highly ionising substances and | | | | horizon at random! I could add that a vast number of |
| highly bioactive substances and things like metabolic | | | | the most effective bait substances are hygroscopic |
| and immunity stimulants etc, and those substances | | | | and this is immensely important - just think of |
| that contain significant concentrations of components | | | | betaine, Belachan, L030 fish protein, etc. |
| carp are very highly sensitive to and which naturally | | | | Other senses in combination are utilised when it |
| trigger intensive feeding! (What about monosodium | | | | comes to carp detecting non-glowing fake corn in the |
| glutamate in Chinese meals or stimulatory nucleotides | | | | dark, but it is all the highly tuned senses of carp |
| in Oxo cubes, among so many other familiar potential | | | | working together that we can exploit and use to our |
| bait ingredients everyone can easily relate to!) | | | | advantage or not; it is every carp anglers choice! For |
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