| ry carp water requires you to spend a fortune on | | | | everyone has certain gaps in their knowledge which |
| top quality readymade protein baits and even on | | | | can always offer further advantages to their baits. |
| highly pressured big fish waters you can be very | | | | Well over all your homemade baits will catch fish; it is |
| successful using very cheap baits. Many bait making | | | | in developing the experience and the skills in designing |
| secrets are so simple yet so effective that anyone | | | | baits that will tempt the big ones consistently that |
| can instantly use them so here are some more | | | | takes far more personal input but inevitably pays you |
| unusual but potent ones that will save you a fortune! | | | | back big-time! |
| Many carp anglers today seem to be dependant | | | | Literally no-one knows it all because bait design is a |
| upon readymade baits, from ground baits, pellets, | | | | dynamite evolutionary process of feedback. It may |
| boilies and many other forms. But over a year the | | | | be noticed that certain aspects of bait substances |
| costs of your bait can be far more than you would | | | | are very successful and yet scientifically speaking no |
| dare imagine especially when you are buying bait | | | | bait boss that I have spoken with can explain this |
| piecemeal from fishing shops just before going fishing. | | | | success scientifically accurately and speculation is all |
| Carp fishing comes at a price because it takes the | | | | that is offered. It may be said that scientific |
| one commodity no-one can replace and that is time. | | | | absolutes in carp bait making do exist, but at the |
| As we know, time equals money and unfortunately | | | | same time these kind of rules as it were can be bent |
| the majority of average anglers are not making | | | | or even broken! |
| money while fishing and they could well spend a lot | | | | Fish are reactively learning beings whose strongest |
| of time doing it which is just one reason apart from | | | | instinct is for survival. If they do not want to eat you |
| the current economic climate why cutting costs and | | | | perfectly round standard sized boilies, or you cannot |
| making good savings is so important! | | | | catch big fish on various very popular pellets there |
| Readymade bait has become such a booming | | | | are obvious reasons why not and less well known |
| business ever since the time around 1983 when | | | | ones too. These reasons can all be part of your |
| Richworth first introduced freezers into tackle shops | | | | armoury in making your own baits totally unique so |
| and began to sell frozen readymade baits for the | | | | carp have literally never experienced you bait before |
| very first time. I remember when I along with many | | | | and will have most the confidence in actually |
| other anglers used these baits and at first they | | | | consuming it. Of course one of the greatest |
| caught so many fish. But of course when too many | | | | strategies in carp fishing is to pre-bait. Big numbers of |
| fish were hooked too many times on a particular | | | | high profile anglers do this all the time using shocking |
| flavour the effects were a drop in catches, especially | | | | amounts of bait, )especially boilies which are so |
| in the numbers of bigger fish and these were very | | | | resilient and build-up in effects over time.) But not |
| instant-catching concentrated flavour over-dosed | | | | too many of us have the time nor resources nor |
| baits. | | | | inclination to bait up a water for as long as 3 months |
| The flavours sure did work though and it is highly | | | | without even wetting a line in order to guarantee |
| significant that now the Richworth range of baits is | | | | multiple big fish success. |
| far more designed with long-term nutrition in mind so | | | | Fishing baits such as boilies vary widely in just how |
| the longevity of baits lasts. Over the decades I have | | | | strongly they induce various feeding modes in carp as |
| been able to use all kinds of readymade baits and | | | | soon as they first enter the water. With some baits |
| base mixes and calculate the costs in reality from | | | | fish will be pulled in from a large area and with feed |
| using them over long periods of time while testing all | | | | very intensively immediately. Other baits pull fish in |
| kinds of baits and recipes of my own. | | | | more gradually and induce a more leisurely almost lazy |
| Ultimately making your own baits is always a winning | | | | feeding behaviour that can last for hours. Many other |
| option when you want to save money. Making your | | | | responses can occur and often with all kinds of |
| baits totally unique is no problem either and the | | | | homemade and readymade baits you see fish |
| number of bait base mixes commercially available is | | | | unwilling to leave a baited area, only leaving to bring |
| huge. However you need to know a bit about bait | | | | back their friends which is great to watch as you |
| and most importantly fish senses in order to truly | | | | imagine. |
| exploit homemade baits in ways that will most | | | | Of course it may be that you do not even see a |
| economically out-fish a large range of readymade | | | | single fish nr even get a single liner at some waters |
| baits. | | | | during some sessions, just getting a hittable couple of |
| This pretty much can mean knowing as much or | | | | bleeps or a screaming run right our of the blue. |
| even about fish senses and baits design in terms of | | | | Confidence in your free baiting is a vitally important |
| what each ingredients and its components can affect | | | | aspect in catching more fish as is far more of a |
| fish in different ways in countless combinations. This | | | | delicate skill that the majority of anglers realise. The |
| takes years of experience to achieve but short-cuts | | | | key in many ways is to sustain the levels of triggers |
| are available in terms of concise specially gathered | | | | and attractors in the water column to maintain |
| information drawn from years of testing homemade | | | | favourably enthusiastic feeding behaviours that induce |
| baits based on fish nutrition papers plus bait design | | | | fish to pick up you hook baits more times than usual |
| pioneers articles and advice from nutritionists, | | | | so they make more mistakes, get hooked more and |
| aquaculture feed designers, biochemists and others. | | | | produce more caught fish. |
| When I was getting more into making homemade | | | | Now for the money-saving bit! Yes you certainly can |
| baits in the late Seventies and early Eighties there | | | | make a bait for just a couple of pounds but why not |
| were a few readymade base mixes available and | | | | make a control bait first to measure and test your |
| these were rich in amino acids and other natural | | | | experimental baits against? This is a critical point |
| feeding triggers especially and were highly successful. | | | | because feedback is priceless in learning as fast as |
| Duncan Kay Slyme baits and the famous Black Magic | | | | possible and you will always learn more by actually |
| among others were available. Last week I was | | | | catching fish as opposed to not catching them! Bait |
| making a special high protein paste based on various | | | | that is not catching fish is wasted bait! This even |
| milk and marine proteins with low levels of seedy bird | | | | applies to baits that pull fish really well into your swim |
| foods and very low levels of 3 flavours containing a | | | | but do not end up with you actually hooking fish |
| tiny amount of solvent base and packed with natural | | | | successfully; they must work all the way to banked |
| esters. | | | | fish! With a control bait, as your bait-making |
| This bait was a pretty firm paste which I moulded | | | | knowledge and skills in choosing ingredients and so on |
| actually around my hair rig just above my boilies just | | | | improves, your confidence will always be high (and |
| over the hook point to draw more attention to my | | | | rightly so.) |
| hook baits. This was also used to obscure the hook | | | | This is because you will always have a proven and |
| to a degree to stop it being seen and to stop chod | | | | reliable homemade control bait or a range of them |
| from obscuring the hook point (instead of using | | | | that will keep on catching in all fishing situations all |
| conventional water-soluble PVA foam.) While showing | | | | year round. True you can use a readymade bait as a |
| some anglers this homemade paste on the bank | | | | control bait but this will not give you confidence in |
| during my fishing session last week it occurred to me | | | | making your own baits and totally defeats the object |
| that it had a very similar smell and taste of one of | | | | of guaranteeing your baits are your own and will |
| the early readymade base mixes I had used very | | | | enable you to control every aspect about your |
| successfully 28 years ago. All I did in those days was | | | | fishing baits literally for life including all costs — |
| add water to the mix and many readymade mixes | | | | in advance! Many years I have totalled-up the cost of |
| only required this at that time and earlier because | | | | all the ready baits compared to the costs of my |
| they were used as paste baits. | | | | homemade baits and noticed I had much more |
| So in a way it has taken me 30 years to replicate in | | | | awareness and control over my costs in regards to |
| a way a bait that I knew was designed by a very | | | | homemade baits where I have justified every single |
| experienced bait maker still during the heyday of bait | | | | ingredient, additives, liquid, extract, enhancer, palatant |
| making pioneers. It might be noted just how many | | | | etc etc. |
| years people like Rod Hutchinson have been making | | | | Hook baits really do work when super-boosted and |
| baits not just commercially but for his friends going | | | | so hook baits are the thing you can focus your |
| back well before even the Seventies. I used his | | | | attention on when saving money. You can free bait |
| readymade base mixes as paste form as the | | | | with all kinds of cheap bait materials boosted with |
| mainstay of my fishing for quite a while but never | | | | some choice more expensive ones. Pop-up baits are |
| truly realised the complexity of their design and the | | | | very successful although I do most of my fishing |
| potency they had on fish senses and physiology etc. | | | | using critically-balanced and bottom baits. The main |
| There are many more people who have reached a | | | | this is to negate the weight of your hook. The |
| very high level of big fish bait making knowledge | | | | easiest thing to do is to begin with a readymade |
| over the decades. If you look at the Nutrabaits | | | | pop-up mix from a reputable company. |
| recipe the their Big Fish Mix designed by Richard | | | | You might add high or low levels of betaine or |
| Skidmore, or get to know a bit about the early | | | | betaine HCL, from 1 or 4 grams or more per kilogram |
| fishmeal baits boosted with predigested fish proteins | | | | of base mix, or simply add none (adding it is best!). |
| from Premier baits, find out the truth about the | | | | You might add a powdered palatant and fruit or fish |
| background behind the Nutrabaits Hi-Nu-Val milk | | | | or diary enhancers, or add none. You might add an |
| protein mix and so on, you begin to see a picture | | | | amino acid complex or something similar, or add none. |
| emerging of what sticks out in many decades-proven | | | | You might use flavoured oils, essential oils, an intense |
| big fish bait recipes. | | | | sweetener, or a flavour, or add none. |
| Whether you are a highly skilled and experienced | | | | You might just add a very potent powdered extract |
| carp angler who can leverage instant over-flavoured | | | | very rich in natural nutritional triggers, or add none |
| baits all day long, or a less experienced newer angler | | | | but I certainly do recommend it. Perhaps you want |
| wanting to establish a balanced nutritional value food | | | | to dye your bait green or red or black or white or |
| type bait on a water it matter not. The principles of | | | | coat it in a fluorescent gel to draw more attention to |
| bait making are the same because vital details in | | | | baits in turbid waters or night. (Note, much of the |
| regards to the workings and exploitation of fish | | | | time, fish are feeding actively in turbid water clouded |
| senses by particular bait components used in | | | | by their own activities!) |
| combination are very well known now. | | | | Here is just a sample of a recipe something of the |
| But science certainly has not discovered everything | | | | like you might wish to try: |
| and it cannot even totally accurately work out the | | | | 800 grams of Ccmoore fish meal pop-up mix. |
| actual biological value of 2 foods when consumed at | | | | 10 grams of Ccmoore de-fatted green-lipped mussel |
| the same time by a human. This is an extremely | | | | extract. |
| complex area and despite all kinds of refined and | | | | 5 grams of Lactose B Plus Concentrate. |
| re-defined specialist measure used to determine | | | | 5 grams of pure betaine. |
| conversion whether in regards to lysine in protein as | | | | You could also add instead 200 grams of whatever |
| the most limiting factor or simply measuring mass | | | | alternative base mix or other ingredients etc you |
| gains in fish as a result of test foods, things are still | | | | wish. You could add Ccmoore Feedstim XP powder |
| not accurate enough. | | | | or Ccmoore squid liver extract powder for example, |
| To me this just shows you do not have to be a PhD | | | | or spirulina powder for instance to make you bait |
| marine biologist nutritionist in order to make baits that | | | | green and less easy for nuisance birds to spot. The |
| work. You have very progressive guys such as those | | | | options are endless for differentiating and adapting |
| at Vision Baits, Future Baits, Sticky Baits and a host | | | | your baits for special effects and fishing situations to |
| of others, who are making the range of trustworthy | | | | keep ahead of the fish and other competing baits in |
| readymade baits even more diverse and in a very | | | | dynamic ways! |
| competitive market But there is loads of room for | | | | Flavours are a big issue for many anglers. Some are |
| any individual angler to exploit all kinds of information | | | | far more productive than others. I have been doing |
| to do their own homemade thing with bait in order to | | | | very well using a 50:50 mixture of Ccmoore crab |
| cut costs. | | | | Essence and their Frankfurter Essence for example. |
| You might say there are many very well proven | | | | This is all just a very simple introduction but will most |
| principles in terms of bait design and if you do not | | | | certainly catch you big fish! For masses more |
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