| * It is extremely valuable to discover
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| | way they are recognised as food and in
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| as many true reasons why baits and all
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| | how they can 'trigger' a search and
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| their ingredients work; and how to
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| | feeding response whether carp, trout,
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| maximize their effects for the most
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| | catfish, or bass.
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| unbelievable catches. *
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| | For example I persisted in fishing using
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| If you regularly use, pellets, or
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| | one version of a homemade bait, which I
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| boilies, or dough baits etc, how much do
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| | believed would work extremely well on a
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| you really know about how these really
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| | particularly hard fished 'pressured'
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| attract fish to take your hook?
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| | water. But this bait did not even produce
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| I think it's sad that most anglers don't
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| | a 'bite' for 7 separate individual nights
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| give their bait the thought it really
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| | spread over a period of 7 weeks!
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| deserves and most often, the 'average
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| | Just as I had nearly 'given-up' faith, I
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| angler' just copies what his friend or
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| | 'free fed' 7 kilograms of this boilie
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| the most successful angler along the bank
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| | bait, at the start of the last night of
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| is using. Or he uses whatever 'favourite'
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| | fishing, to see if much more bait was
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| fashionable shop-bought bait happens to
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| | really required for a response in this
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| be 'en vogue' at the time.
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| | lake. It was also the very last of this
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| To me this is completely missing the
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| | homemade batch that I had made so I was
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| point about 'effective bait!'
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| | puzzled by this stage by the lack of fish
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| Its role has changed since fishing
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| | caught.
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| became so commercially and the thinking
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| | Previously I had only been 'feeding free
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| of anglers became conditioned and
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| | baits' while actually fishing; with 2
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| 'warped' by the power of powerful
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| | kilograms of bait at the start of a
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| advertising - telling us "Our new pellet
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| | night's fishing session. Well that
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| or boilie bait, or this new 'packbait' is
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| | penultimate night the fish finally got
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| the best - it has caught 50 lake
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| | the 'message.' Some of the lake's biggest
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| records!" Then the following month a
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| | carp succumbed to this 'failure' bait
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| completely different bait, a new addition
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| | that night!
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| to their products range is introduced,
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| | Tactics for very big waters and smaller
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| and forcefully marketed!
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| | waters need to differ - because often
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| It is no surprise that many anglers feel
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| | your baits absolutely need to pull fish
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| confused, and spend their hard earned
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| | from extreme distances. I have found that
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| money on 'the next best thing' whatever
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| | some ingredients do this far more
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| it is; the amount of 'manipulation' is
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| | powerfully than others, and it is the
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| staggering!
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| | 'mechanism' of how this works that is
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| Obviously there are multitudes of
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| | significant to success.
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| reasons why baits work - one of the
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| | Otherwise it's often the 'old routine,'
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| strongest is the availability of 'easy
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| | of finding actual or 'likely' feeding
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| energy'. In this case bait merely
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| | spots and regularly baiting those areas,
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| supplements the carp's natural diet; it's
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| | until the fish get in the habit of
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| for this reason that any
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| | visiting with the purpose of eating your
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| 'non-nutritional' bait will dominate a
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| | bait - if they ever do! This can take
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| water if it is fed in masses of
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| | more time and fishing bait to test
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| kilograms, perhaps by the majority of
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| | different areas, than you may have
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| anglers that fish the water.
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| | available.
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| Even the notoriously angling pressured
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| | It really helps to understand far more
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| 'bait oriented' big carp and catfish fish
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| | about 'why' baits make fish behave the
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| water "Darenth" in the UK, was
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| | way they do. Like most anglers, I have
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| 'absolutely torn apart' by a simple
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| | used 'shop-bought baits of many kinds and
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| semolina and soya flour bait. This bait
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| | there are many benefits of this habit.
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| was made by a commercial bait
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| | (But there are definite disadvantages
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| manufacturer and purchased at the lake by
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| | too.)
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| very many of the anglers fishing the
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| | In the UK the very biggest carp or
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| lake.
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| | catfish often get caught on the most
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| This bait's easy availability and
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| | frequently heavily baited areas, even if
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| continual abundance in this lake, made it
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| | they have long since been 'eaten out' of
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| work so very well on this water
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| | natural food. (Where the fish would
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| especially. Within one season at least a
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| | normally have moved on to regularly feed
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| tonne of this carbohydrate based,
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| | elsewhere.) In this situation, a complete
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| 'flavour attractor' type bait was bought
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| | beginner using a commonly used
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| and fed in the lake! The manufacturer
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| | 'shop-bought' bait, can cast to the
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| told me this himself.
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| | vicinity of this spot and get 'beginner's
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| However, as fish wised up to this bait,
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| | luck' in the form of the lake's biggest
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| catches dropped, and then there were
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| | resident!
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| anglers who simply followed this current
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| | With using 'shop-bought' though thing
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| bait 'fashion' and had no-where to go,
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| | can just become too easy and catch
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| and starting 'blanking' in style! Some
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| | numbers orientated rather than in
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| have never caught like it since then, and
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| | appreciating and enjoying the fishing
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| blame every reason except their bait.
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| | process. One of the major disadvantages
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| With genuine knowledge of how and why
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| | is the fact we lose some aspect of the
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| baits really do their work, this
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| | joy of fishing that comes from catching
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| situation can never happen.
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| | your personal best fish, time and time
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| There are waters that have seen
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| | again, on baits you designed and made
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| practically every productive commercial
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| | yourself. (And knowing why they worked
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| boilie and pellet style bait ever made.
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| | successfully!)
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| Mostly catches on these baits seem
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| | Sure, it is a busy world, and it takes
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| especially cyclical depending on numbers
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| | time to experiment with making bait, but
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| of anglers using these. At any one moment
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| | fishing is an art form and a passion and
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| in time, most fish caught, will appear to
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| | not just a 'results orientated sport.'
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| result from the use of one particular
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| | Very many bait-making anglers are more
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| bait - or method and very frequently,
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| | successful than 'average anglers.' They
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| this is purely due to the fact that most
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| | know it pays great dividends to make
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| anglers are using that bait / method!
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| | records and give close attention to every
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| Surely the whole point of 'bait' as a
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| | detail that could give them an 'edge.'
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| concept is to create a 'safe hook
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| | This is not so much about achieving
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| delivery mechanism.' So many people
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| | results; but how they are achieved. These
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| forget the difference in quantities of
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| | lucky anglers reaps rewards in terms of
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| baits fed by anglers, especially in the
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| | satisfaction that cannot be measured!
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| UK and European waters now far exceed
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| | We all go fishing to enjoy it, so why
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| that in fed into fishing waters in the
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| | not enjoy it even more; and actually gain
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| past.
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| | far more control over your catches and
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| The great increase in anglers and the
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| | increase your personal satisfaction by
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| practice of actively 'baiting-up' their
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| | discovering more, how your bait
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| swims as part of the 'modern' carp
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| | influences fish behaviour and responses.
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| fishing method has massively multiplied
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| | If only you know how your 'personal
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| and exaggerated the effects of
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| | bait' works, and what ingredients you are
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| fishermens' baits. ('Mass baiting' a swim
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| | using; your bait won't 'blow' because
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| with far more than just half a pint of
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| | everyone else is using it! I find
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| boilies, or pellets as 'free offerings'
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| | catching on a 'shop-bait' to be far less
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| is simply another 'method' is it not?)
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| | exciting, and OK they may catch fish, but
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| In the case of overstocked waters,
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| | how much more have learnt and enjoyed the
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| hopefully baits with no harmful side
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| | experience?
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| effects, (and preferably health promoting
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| | As international angler Kevin Maddocks
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| effects,) are eaten with confidence. But
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| | once said (in so many words,) "It is just
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| are they?
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| | as important to understand the reasons
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| Even with the balanced food baits or old
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| | why you don't catch fish, as why you do!"
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| concept of high nutritional baits ('HNV')
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| style baits; it's the same mission; to
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| | I know that just one scientific insight
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| deliver a hook into a fish's mouth. (And
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| | or scientific new nutritional revelation
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| not to give the fish various expensive
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| | can improve an individual angler's
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| baits with 'optimum nutrition values' for
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| | catches and often, the size of fish
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| the sake of their 'health.') Are not
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| | caught too! Don't we owe it to ourselves
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| anglers' baits specifically meant to hook
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| | to understand more? After all, we get
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| fish, and only incidentally supplement
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| | what we give!
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| the carps' natural diet so promoting fish
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| | Of course, on the great rivers and lakes
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| growth gains?
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| | in the States, Canada, or Europe, there
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| Only on 'unbalanced waters' like those
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| | are many waters that are so vastly
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| that are well overstocked for the volume
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| | stocked and so little fished, (especially
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| of water available, that perhaps some
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| | for carp) that any bait will catch fish
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| 'bait dependence' sets in and natural
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| | of various sizes!
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| growth and weight gains are exaggerated.
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| | The key to very big catches of large
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| (Obviously, anglers' like this
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| | numbers of fish, (and therefore perhaps,
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| 'artificial produced' situation on
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| | greater numbers of bigger fish,) is then
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| heavily fished waters, because the fish
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| | solely determined by the length of time
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| they catch just keep getting bigger,
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| | those fish remain feeding in your swim
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| artificially faster, which is certainly a
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| | before moving on. It would take too much
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| continuing egos boost for the captors!
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| | money to 'hold them' with 'dough' baits,
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| I have tested baits on pressured 'bait
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| | boilies or even pellets, except for the
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| oriented waters' and hooked big fish
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| | wealthiest fishermen.
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| immediately on new baits. Carp
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| | Even when using maize as chum 'free
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| instinctively are drawn towards baits
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| | bait,' there is a physical limit to the
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| that exploit their own 'food' detecting
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| | amount of kilograms of maize you can
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| receptors - especially those 'positive'
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| | physically feed a swim with, in order to
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| for proteins, minerals, vitamins and
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| | hold a large number of carp in your swim,
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| 'saccharide' sweeteners for example.
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| | while fishing for them. With such intense
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| Notably, carp are especially sensitive to
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| | activity, 'angler exhaustion is
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| 'sensing' amino acids 'signals' via
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| | inevitable!'
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| receptor sites all around their bodies,
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| | Waters of the opposite extreme contain
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| using at least 4 different specialized
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| | 'highly educated' fish. This has resulted
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| neural networks in this process.
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| | fish by being caught by anglers over long
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| Any bait you use could hook a fish
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| | years, in a highly pressured angling
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| immediately, if it stimulates a confident
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| | environment. As in pay lakes, syndicate
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| feeding or even 'curiosity' response, and
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| | lakes, and other commercial waters run
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| there are thousands of permutations of
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| | for a profit. This is truly where
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| baits and lures all round the world for
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| | homemade baits, knowledge, and
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| doing this!
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| | understanding of how your own bait works
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| Your bait does not necessarily need any
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| | is and added 'edge.' Knowing how best to
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| particular individual ingredient to be
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| | leverage and apply it correctly, in
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| successful. A bait that has been given no
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| | direct response to what the 'majority'
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| flavour, no protein, no oil source, no
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| | are doing, is a major advantage.
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| additives etc, will still produce 'bites'
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| | I am not against 'shop-baits,' these are
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| in the right fishing situation. For
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| | allowing 'instant' anglers the
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| example, the use of plastic sweetcorn!
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| | opportunity to sample the delights of
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| Anglers don't need to be too
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| | catching very big fish. But it is sad how
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| scientifically technical to make great
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| | the easy availability of products can
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| productive baits. But it is a massive
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| | induce a 'conditioned expectation' of
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| advantage to really understand how your
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| | great results for very little effort
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| baits affect carp or catfish in specific
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| | input, where everything can be 'bought
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| ways, to stimulate the most dramatic
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| | off the shelf.' In contrast, the greatest
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| immediate feeding response. This is
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| | appreciation and satisfaction in any
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| knowledge is 'true' fishing enlightenment
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| | endeavour are actually earned.
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| because it can convert into far better
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| | 'Average' angling ability, knowledge,
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| catches.
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| | tackle and the methods used to catch
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| Most anglers do not know or care how
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| | fish, can be very similar, when compared
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| their baits 'tempt' and catch their fish.
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| | among the fishermen at any single water.
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| This presents a real opportunity for
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| | But bait knowledge can be a huge 'edge.'
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| those curious enough to find out and
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| | Consistently producing 'above average
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| exploit these 'secrets' for maximum
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| | catches' of big fish for the 'minority
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| effect!
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| | angler,' who is better educated and
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| Great power comes with developing an
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| | really knows how to exploit bait and
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| awareness of the broad 'alternative
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| | apply it creatively.
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| opportunities' for making 'different'
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| | The author has many more fishing and
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| baits that really catch fish; because
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| | bait 'edges' up his sleeve. Every single
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| they are different to 'the norm', and
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| | one can have a huge impact on catches.
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| also perhaps stimulate a fish in slightly
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| | (Warning: This article is protected by
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| unusual you're Your bait might work
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| | copyright.)
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| either instantly while actually fishing,
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| | By Tim Richardson. 'The thinking
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| or after a period of 'pre-baiting' with
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| | fisherman's expert bait making guru.'
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