| * Many top anglers have used the so called 'balanced | | | | fishing the lake over a number of occasions. This bait |
| nutritional profile bait' approach and thinking as the | | | | does not represent danger to the fish to the same |
| basics of their long term success, and some have | | | | degree as other people's boilie baits, because the fish |
| even turned their secret bait formulas into some of the | | | | find it different to any they have been caught on |
| shop-bought baits seen today! | | | | before and so consider them safe to eat. |
| Using this balanced nutritional value ('BNV') approach, | | | | They contain all the carps' essential dietary needs for |
| even relative carp fishing beginners can regularly start | | | | that particular water. The baits are a different size, |
| catching bigger fish far more consistently than using | | | | feel, buoyancy, density, texture, consistency, color, and |
| cheap carbohydrate flours based baits , when regularly | | | | shape to the usual found. There is a different smell, |
| applied to a water; to take advantage of the carp's | | | | taste, aroma; maybe it's something that's missing, or in |
| feeding habits. | | | | a reduced amount in its ingredients that makes it |
| I fished one UK water where an average 80 % of | | | | unique. |
| anglers blanked for big fish during 12 to 72 hour | | | | Perhaps it's the special herb extracts the angler |
| sessions! The lake carp record at the time was 39.12 | | | | tracked down, or a protein source the other anglers |
| pounds and the big catfish were getting caught less | | | | haven't seen in the bait adverts. Whatever it is, the |
| and less frequently due to fishing pressure. I used a | | | | purpose has been achieved, i.e. the carp liked the new |
| nutritional value bait the fish had never seen in this | | | | bait so much, that they went looking for it, knowing it |
| form. The first fish I landed was a 36.8 pound mirror | | | | would be where it is regularly found. |
| carp, followed by a 68 pound catfish! | | | | This process mimics the carps' natural behaviour, |
| The following week I returned and again, I landed a | | | | except something is not 'right.' How is it only one angler |
| different 36.8 pound mirror, followed by a 58 LB | | | | caught, and why all those big fish in such a short time? |
| catfish! I consistently applied the bait to the water over | | | | It doesn't sound 'normal' does it! An average-ability carp |
| an 8 week period. The highlight was catching two | | | | angler can't normally achieve this feat can he?....Um |
| different 38.12 pound mirror carp in 24 hours, along with | | | | Yes !!! When he really understands the 'Balanced High |
| nine 25 pound plus mirrors and commons! | | | | Nutritional Value Bait' concept and how to make it |
| The total for this period was sixty upper 20s, and | | | | work for him. He can achieve the incredible. |
| eleven 30 pounders; some of which were caught | | | | A carp may be so conditioned by anglers' baits and |
| twice! (There were estimated to be fifteen 30's in the | | | | being hooked, that it is permanently on 'high alert' when |
| lake at the time) | | | | near any bait. It may have a 'ritual dance' which may |
| To whet your appetite a bit more, I applied my own | | | | be repeated for hours - even days, before bait will be |
| design 'HNV' bait to a small heavily fished water with | | | | considered safe to eat. Apparently, the following is one |
| the specific intention of selectively catching multiple 40 | | | | of Terry Hearn's successful strategies; offering small |
| pound fish in a session; achieving three 40's in three | | | | bait amounts by hand, into natural looking feeding spots |
| days including a new lake record. After catching five | | | | for days, even months, before fishing. This is to get the |
| 40's from April up to July of that season, these boilies | | | | carp to eat the bait, feel it is safe to eat, and have it |
| really proved this theory correct! | | | | become a 'natural' food source... |
| You really need a basic understanding of a carp's | | | | The fish pick up the bait because it's attractive and a |
| essential dietary needs, in order to produce a bait that | | | | potential food source, but continue to visit the |
| will attract and catch the biggest or often, most wary | | | | developed 'naturalized' feeding spot to eat it because |
| carp, in both the short and the long term! | | | | they instinctively 'feel' it benefits them and is safe! |
| Your general aim, is to provide a practicle boilie bait | | | | When he notices the baits are being eaten confidently |
| that is quickly and easily digestible, 'complete food | | | | by the target carp in that area of the lake, Terry may |
| source', that is extremely 'energy efficient' to eat, | | | | only fish for one morning - but catch all his target fish! |
| palatable, and gives out excellent strong, sensory | | | | Such is the power of this approach!! |
| signals of its beneficial nutritional values. | | | | I've seen a carp travel clean across a six acre lake in |
| This bait could contain all the essential dietary needs a | | | | about two minutes to locate a preferred bait source!! |
| carp can be lacking at any particular time in your | | | | And this is across many other anglers' baits, with |
| particular lake; e.g. even a specific nutrient that it | | | | many, varied qualities of nutrition, levels of attraction, |
| cannot fill by any natural food source (or by anglers' | | | | and states of breakdown. But it sinks down and begins |
| baits!) | | | | confidently feeding on one specific type of bait. |
| Instinct is hardwired into a carp's brain to detect and | | | | It's brain via it's senses has made it select this bait |
| remember essential food sources. Naturally, carp patrol | | | | because it features what none of the others have; the |
| their environment, constantly unconsciously detecting | | | | safest, most abundant energy efficient source, of an |
| potential food signals. They are like opportunistic 'cows', | | | | essential dietary requirement, that an individual fish is |
| grazing the most energy efficient and abundant food. | | | | deficient in,at any specific time! This can happen for |
| Depending on the individual, it may spend days or even | | | | you too, by regularly baiting, two or three times a |
| months on one area, monopolizing one or multiple food | | | | week, with the right bait. |
| sources. | | | | For example, in your own secret bait recipe or formula, |
| The carp go into moods and modes of feeding, that | | | | it could be just one mineral like phosphorus, or one |
| are affected by many combined factors ; dietary | | | | particular essential amino acid like lysine, or it could be a |
| needs, water temperatures, time of year and natural | | | | particular group of higher quality and freshness |
| food availability, fishing pressure, wind - driven oxygen | | | | long-chain essential fatty acids, or even, a specific |
| concentration, light intensity, bodily digestive rhythms, | | | | seed, bean, or root extract that it finds almost addictive |
| e.g. morning / evening, Solar / lunar cycles, dropping / | | | | because of the stimulatory effect on it's digestion, |
| rising / static air pressure, sudden changes in air | | | | immune system or metabolism. |
| pressures, etc. | | | | It may be in tiny amounts in the bait, like only 4 |
| It's our purpose in designing our bait, to ensure that | | | | milligrams, and form part of a predigested extract |
| whatever the carps feeding mood is, the carp have a | | | | powder product, spirulina for example, or perhaps it's a |
| hard-wired need to pick up your bait up. For example, | | | | vitamin like B6, found in very high levels in soluble |
| day/night, place and time, slow, cautious, fast, anxious, | | | | yeasts which also gets the carp highly excited, |
| erratic/confident, etc. | | | | because of the very high taste enhancing quality of |
| Just like blood worm, snail, mussel, insect larvae, shrimp | | | | the glutamic acids it contains!... |
| etc, a carp seems to know where they are and will | | | | - Carp prefer ENERGY EFFICIENT FOOD! |
| be, in advance of the correct feeding conditions to | | | | Carp aren't that clever that they ignore an essential |
| occur. | | | | food source they need!!! Scientific tests prove this |
| PICTURE THIS! | | | | beyond any doubt! I hope your homemade bait ideas |
| For example, if it was a very hot, dry mid-summer's | | | | have been expanded a little now. |
| afternoon, after 3 weeks of a high pressure | | | | The author has many more fishing and bait 'edges' up |
| anticyclonic system, static over the lake region. Quickly | | | | his sleeve. Every single one can have a huge impact |
| it may become very dark, and a thunderstorm could hit | | | | on catches. (Warning: This article is protected by |
| and lash the water with heavy rain and strong North | | | | copyright,but reprints with a link are OK.) |
| East winds. | | | | By Tim Richardson. 'The thinking angler's fishing author |
| However, the carp may not feed at that time! Instead | | | | and expert bait making guru.' |
| they could drift off the wind, gradually assembling in the | | | | For more expert bait making information and 'cutting |
| opposite area of the lake to the wind-hit end. The wind | | | | edge' techniques see the expert acclaimed new |
| then drops as the storm passes by. How would they | | | | ebook / book: |
| know that the following morning a breeze would start | | | | "BIG CARP BAIT SECRETS!" at: |
| blowing into the area they remained in that night! | | | | "> |
| Later that afternoon, they go on a sudden half-hour | | | | Tim Richardson is an internationally acclaimed carp and |
| feeding frenzy that stops, just as suddenly as it began, | | | | catfish bait-making expert, and a highly successful big |
| as the sun starts to turn the sky red! The biggest fish | | | | fish angler. His best selling bait making and bait |
| in the lake are banked by an angler who judged the | | | | enhancing books / ebooks help beginners and |
| condition correctly and estimated in advance that they | | | | experienced anglers alike, to improve and enhance |
| would feed there. | | | | their baits achieving far greater catches of big fish. |
| But why did he catch the very biggest, least seen, | | | | * His books are even used by members of the 'world |
| most wary and least-caught 3 fish in the lake, when | | | | elite' "British Carp Study Group" for expert reference. * |
| other anglers were also fishing adjacent and on the | | | | Your catches could gain from more understanding, |
| carp route of travel, fishing regular natural feeding | | | | expert bait making experience, powerful insights and |
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| The successful angler has designed, produced and | | | | look at Tim's dedicated fishing bait making website. |
| regularly fed an alternative, highly nutritional bait, whilst | | | | |