| A vast number of carp baits have been improved by | | | | bait to the degree they begin to even ignore low |
| the many impacts of spices. Some spices are better | | | | nutrition corn or semolina type baits for example. |
| known than others, but a great number of lesser | | | | One of the key aspects of spices is how they speed |
| known spices are brilliant carp catchers. Here are | | | | up body metabolism and boost the immune system, |
| some effective short-cuts and recipe ideas for | | | | improve digestion of food and also provide very |
| making beginner homemade spicy boilie and pellet | | | | stimulating flavours, oils and all kinds of bioactive |
| baits! | | | | substances. As such they are used in condiments |
| You can begin with choosing spices individually or | | | | with our foods all over the world, from tomato |
| choose products containing numbers of them already | | | | ketchup and Worcester source to black pepper on |
| combined. From chilli pepper powders and hot and | | | | peppered steaks to spices used in Kentucky fried |
| mild curry powders, to Chinese 5 Spice and Thai 7 | | | | chicken McDonalds, curries and in many less obvious |
| Spice, Garam Masala and others, the choice is huge! | | | | applications too! |
| Certain commercial bait companies use Chinese 5 | | | | For a beginners bait why not make things a bit |
| spice for example. Personally I like to create my own | | | | different. For a start, why not try something like this |
| spice blends. | | | | spicy bait recipe - it is not big on the protein and |
| Among the most basic boilie bait base mixes is that | | | | amino side of things but it is low cost, will give you a |
| of the infamous 50:50 semolina powder and soya | | | | starter bait from which to gain confidence and |
| flour mixture. Anyone can make this kind of bait up | | | | experience and it will catch you enough fish for a |
| from supermarket and health shop ingredients and | | | | beginner: |
| using these add a huge number of other products | | | | 2 ounces of semolina. |
| with no need for going to a bait company at all! | | | | 2 ounces of soya Flour. |
| Many angler do not have access to bait companies | | | | 3 ounces of gram flour (this chick pea flour adds |
| for many reasons including where they live, credit | | | | protein.) |
| card access and so on, or purely the costs involved | | | | 2 ounces of maize flour. |
| in importing specialist bait products from bait | | | | 5 ounces of yeast powder (deactivated.) |
| companies is just too high. Being able to make baits | | | | 2 ounces of medium curry powder. |
| from your local shops is a very handy ability to have. | | | | 4 large eggs. |
| In fact I have been doing this kind of thing for over | | | | Examples of optional added extras: |
| 3 decades and having a bait that differs from normal | | | | 1 heaped tablespoonful of sesame seeds. |
| readymade baits is a huge big fish advantage in many | | | | 1 heaped tablespoon of raw molasses meal. |
| ways including massively cutting your bait costs each | | | | 1 tablespoon of hot chilli powder. |
| year! | | | | 2 tablespoons of Marmite. |
| I advocate you use a more beefed-up cheap bait | | | | 2 tablespoons of natural fruit sugar (fructose |
| which is easily possible. It is not essential but the | | | | sweetener.) |
| purchase of a small cheap grinding machine for | | | | 20 millilitres of sesame seed oil. |
| crushing pellets, cereals and seeds such as hemp is a | | | | 15 drops of aniseed oil. |
| very good investment and will save you an absolute | | | | If you want a fruit flavour instead, why not add a |
| fortune in much cheaper but highly effective baits. | | | | natural sunflower based orange essential oil flavour of |
| Although you can use a mix of soya flour and | | | | the kind found in supermarkets for cake making (add |
| semolina as the base to begin making boilies it has | | | | around 25 drops if based on sunflower oil and orange |
| very little intrinsic nutritional value in terms of | | | | oil for instance.) Many of the flavours found in leading |
| stimulation. In this regard it is very like all those | | | | supermarkets now are based on glycerol instead of |
| Wheaties and corn dough type baits Americans often | | | | acetic acid or propylene glycol or other very cheap |
| employ on their pay lakes. (You can make baits | | | | solvents so are far better suited for carp bait use in |
| massively more attractive and in a completely | | | | many ways! Incidentally the changes to such flavours |
| different league to such simple baits!) | | | | is most probably as a result of the backlash against |
| In fact, when using a nutritional bait by introducing | | | | artificial flavours in foods and super market isles have |
| volumes of it regularly into a water, over time in | | | | very many more healthy foods now available for |
| many carp waters it can easily have the effect of | | | | carp bait use! (For more information see my website |
| re-conditioning carp so they regularly look for such | | | | or biography! |