| There are countless baits you can make to give you | | | | Just messing around with a very basic recipe to begin |
| complete confidence when winter carp fishing. Many | | | | experimenting with gives you a starting point that |
| of them include highly digestible ingredients additives | | | | you can refine further and then use as a reliable |
| and liquids that easily travel through water to trigger | | | | control bait of your very own that is unique to you |
| feeding in the lowest temperatures. Here are some | | | | alone. This last point is very important and should not |
| very well proven ideas for winter boilies, pellets and | | | | be dismissed as the benefits of using your own |
| paste recipe formulations! | | | | unique bait recipes are enormous - and if pure |
| Liver in its many forms have been a traditional part | | | | confidence is something you highly value, they |
| of carp baits and offer carp an enormous list of | | | | definitely provide you with this! It is one thing to |
| powerful reasons to consume it. This does not simply | | | | discuss ingredients etc with your friends; but do you |
| mean that carp are triggered into feeding by it but it | | | | really want them cutting short the full potential of |
| offer carp very valuable essential digestible nutrition. | | | | your own baits by allowing them to copy your bait |
| Nutritional baits can have an almost addictive effect | | | | and putting you in just the same situation that so |
| on carp when established but great additives, | | | | many anglers are in who use popular readymade |
| ingredients and all kinds of substances do not have | | | | baits that are available to everyone? |
| to be used for long term effects, but simply to get a | | | | The liquid part of baits is incredibly important. Many |
| bite right from the first cast! | | | | carp angler think of eggs, flavours and oils and |
| Personally I feel that as most angler have very | | | | maybe something like liquid liver as liquids. For winter |
| limited time it is a good idea to make homemade | | | | baits always consider the proportion of oil present in |
| baits that really are instant baits but offer nutritional | | | | your base mix ingredients and additves and liquids and |
| and various other factors that make such baits | | | | use minimal oil levels. If you have a bait that has a |
| effective longer-term baits too. Liver powders, | | | | total of 5 percent oil that is absolutely fine although it |
| predigested liver, soluble liver extracts and liquid liver | | | | is probably more likely most homemade winter baits |
| products are reliable things to base a winter bait | | | | will be more like 10 percent fat for various reasons. |
| around for the purpose of this article, but there are | | | | Many soya and bird food products as well as eggs |
| countless others! | | | | contain a significant level of fat, as do many fish |
| Quality liver products like many other very high | | | | meals and many other marine ingredients for instance! |
| quality protein sources used in carp baits cost more in | | | | Just remember to include a liquid lecithin to improve |
| monetary terms. But when compared to using lesser | | | | your bait performance and bait digestion inside carp! |
| products they provide that all important top | | | | Why not talk to Phil at CW Baits (see online,) and he |
| performance and vital confidence that you need | | | | will give you more specific inside information on this |
| when the going gets really tough and temperatures | | | | additive among others; why his totally unique |
| plummet! | | | | readymade baits contain it and how it enhances |
| The choices of other ingredients etc to include with | | | | winter bait performance so well! |
| liver in an effective all year round and winter bait can | | | | For a liver bait, it seems most anglers would go for a |
| be almost anything suitable but winter baits are very | | | | stereotypical liver or liver sausage type of flavour to |
| effective with low protein levels so you can get | | | | match; but why not be different?! All you need to do |
| away with using far less expensive protein | | | | is think more about which other tastes and flavours |
| ingredients etc than at other times. A total bait | | | | could easily go with liver to produce for carp an |
| protein content of only 26 percent is quite adequate | | | | unusual experience. I would not hesitate to put a |
| for fishing for carp in low winter temperatures but | | | | quality spicy, creamy, fruity, meaty, fishy or other |
| the quality, digestibility, solubility and combination of | | | | marine type flavour or flavour combination to a |
| total nutrition in such baits takes some careful | | | | winter bait of this kind. |
| working out and refinement in practice! | | | | But frankly speaking liquids to be used in baits can be |
| Using whole egg powder instead of using just liquid | | | | literally anything you can make into a liquid and do not |
| eggs ensures your bait substances are not so locked | | | | even have to be concentrated flavours at all. Thinking |
| up so letting the bait release its attraction more | | | | along these lines can easily produce for you very |
| effectively and boiling times for winter baits should | | | | many unique, every effective and highly economical |
| be kept as minimal as possible! A liver based winter | | | | liquids that other anglers will never even think of |
| base mix can include many other ingredients and | | | | using and that carp will never have experienced the |
| additives including the following: | | | | like of previously. |
| Mixed bird foods, kelp powder, soya flour (of the | | | | The following example demonstrates my point; even |
| type treated for trypsin inhibition,) low temperature | | | | commercially-available liquid Belachan products are |
| fish meals, meat and poultry meals, whey proteins, | | | | most usually simply boiled down Belachan blocks! So |
| keramine, wholemeal semolina, acid, rennet and lactic | | | | do yourself a big favour and think about more |
| caseins, calcium caseinate, rice flour, maize protein | | | | unusual options for your personalised baits - because |
| such as MP60, various protein hydrolysates, etc. The | | | | the carp will certainly experience the difference and |
| vast choice of possible wet and dry ingredients, how | | | | this will be strongly proven by your improving catch |
| and why they impact on carp in different ways can | | | | results! (For more information see my website and |
| seem very confusing when starting out. | | | | biography right now! |