Carp Fishing Bait Secrets For Your Best Catch Ever!
Carp fishing is such a popular and very competitive sport today that the edges and tips you can discover that give you more bites and that also save you valuable money in these hard times are seriously needed! So here you will be introduced to some hard-hitting facts, experiences and insights proven to catch you more big carp that save you money and seriously give you much more control over your bait and fishing costs and will even help you catch more fish while using less bait!
When you think about carp fishing, after location and a sharp hook you might consider bait to be a less important factor; well I disagree; Ive seen big carp caught on the crudest of rigs on the bluntest of hooks possible on outrageously thick nylon line and certainly fished in places seemingly totally devoid of any fish. But the factor that really did get the fish on the hook was the bait. In fact I have gone as far as testing numerous hooks, rigs, (very thick hook links and big heavy hooks too,) and what makes the most difference is the bait recipe employed; the fish response to this has proven to over-ride other considerations to the degree they are pretty secondary.
Having been invited by a friend to visit the famous Horseshoe Lake I took some extra bait substances to add to and test against my friends already successful spod ground bait mix to prove the power of the appliance of science; and what happened was amazing! As a top rod and bailiff on the lake my friend fully expected his bait to compete against anything and induce carp feeding in a test situation. We introduced my friends original mix to a stock pond margin where carp could be observed easily and also introduced 2 other versions of his mix, but with added potent substances and ingredients chosen through scientific principles on natural fish senses stimulation, and the carp were actually head-butting where the new versions had been before being eaten while the original spod mix lay completely ignored even by tench and roach!
This was such a revelation to all of us that witnessed this test that it took us quite a while to accept what had happened and the strength of the reaction because after all, here was a proven consistently successful spod mix failing to even get nibbled whist in the presence of 2 other identically-based baits but with added extras. Of course I was expecting a strong feeding response to the substances added to the new spod mixes, but certainly did not really expect them to result in the original being ignored as if it did not even exist. Now if you have ever fished next to someone who is catching fish and you cannot get a bite on your formerly successful bait this could well be part of the reason and perhaps we all need to seriously ask ourselves if our baits are doing or not doing various things they are supposedly designed to do!
Even though many believe in the high and balanced nutritional bait approach or the instant bait approach and any permutation in between, what ultimately matters from a results point is that you get a hook into a mouth in order to hook it, but obviously this is nowhere as simple as it might sound and success in this varies by miles between different baits. There is also the phenomenon of so many anglers free baits being regularly consumed while hook baits get rejected, and even put aside or marked as a potential threat by carp communicating between each other in various ways in a baited swim. Many anglers talk about carp having to get hooked because in order to sample baits they need to pick them up and chew them, but the fact is much of the substance of a bait in water can be identified and even filter-fed upon without a carp ever actually touching a bait let alone actually taking it into the mouth and consuming it.
Those big and smaller wary carp we all really want often respond best to baits that are new especially if they contain levels and combinations of substances not familiar or completely new to them and this especially is where homemade baits and ground baits very seriously score!
What you can do with your own baits is amazing because you can control precisely how you wish to trigger feeding responses among many other things too. You can make homemade baits with far higher levels of feed triggering substances which without over-powering the baits with induce maximum concentrations of stimulatory substances in the waters and at carp sensory cells that lead to a strong confident feeding response. It is obvious that betaine in various forms contribute to the taking back of baits more positively to the back of the mouth to be swallowed and to the repeated consumption of baits.
Betaine and green lipped mussel are but 2 substances well-known in the public domain which are very often under-exploited in commercial baits and with the use of boosted levels can improve catches even if you use smaller amounts of homemade baits with raised levels of these, but other substances are available to be exploited which are amazing! Because carp are constantly changing and adapting creatures you can choose to stick to a handful of recipes or constantly change them whenever you like and swap between more nutritional or more attractor style baits but at your budget using your own secret choice of ingredients and doing your own thing is extremely productive as we all know being different in fishing is a central key to success!
Most carp anglers really over-look the gigantic significance of the power of being able to deliberately maintain a higher, even optimum concentration of substances in the water around their hook baits and how this drastically improves chances of takes. A simple relative example of this is using readymade baits straight from the bag and placed in water soluble PVA bags, as opposed to using them by opening the bag 3 days in advance, then chopping and crumbling them and soaking them in triggers and attractors and so on before putting them in PVA bags in an added PVA bag-friendly feed-triggering glug; the difference in results is strikingly obvious (pun intended!) The level of control of the cost of adapting readymade baits so you need less for better results or control all bait costs by making them yourself is so important to most anglers today in these hard and financially uncertain times when money is such a vital issue. So why not find out more about effective baits and their secrets and save yourself a fortune with my unique carp bait secrets ebooks series and read on!
By Tim Richardson.