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Article #243: MAKING HOMEMADE CARP FISHING BAITS - Secret 'Edges' Over Shop Bought Boilies and Baits!

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* You really can catch more big fish on essential dietary needs you can apply in
your homemade boilies and 'dough' paste your bait design!)
baits! Here's how... Previously, as baits became more
Carp baits vary tremendously in quality advanced, being based on information
around the world! gleaned from scientific research, it was
To such an extent that some baits contain made clear that a ' high protein' milk
ingredients and flavours of types and derivative bait would outfit a low
quantities that can even be repellant to protein cereal/bean based bait. Some of
carp after a period of time of these baits had an assumed 'biological
introduction into a particular carp nutritional value' of up to 96 % ! These
water! were based mainly on milk protein, milk,
So much of the reason for this lies in fish, shellfish and meat protein.
the nutritional value and health and But science has shown that the majority
energy benefits you give to your fish in of this protein is not synthesized to
return for them eating your bait, and benefit the fish at all and is wasted! In
this can have massive implications fact, baits with a biological nutritional
regarding your catch results over time. value (or 'BNV') of 30 % to 55 % or even
The fact that the majority of angler's lower, are just as effective.
use popular, shop - bought ready - made Costs of milk proteins became
boilies, and bait mixes, can actually uneconomical in the 1980s for anglers in
give you a massive unseen edge! the UK, and so anglers experimented much
Shop - bought baits will only provide more with cheaper bulk ingredients, and
certain levels and of nutrients, making their relative ratios to find success
it easier to catch carp on your own much more economically.
designed bait providing you aim to make a However, so - called high protein 'BNV'
bait with different ingredients, or baits still out fished the low-protein,
perhaps of better quality or percentage carbohydrate - based baits in the long
in your bait to the known shop - bought run, far more consistently and
baits being used on your water. effectively when it came to the really
For example, if fishmeal baits are big fish. And this again proved the
working well on your water, why not make benefits of using a balanced nutrition
your homemade baits with far higher theory bait, correct.
quantities of quality predigested fish This theory stands the test of time;
and shellfish proteins? Or really raise still today especially after decades of
the level of protein regarding the constant hard pressured carp fishing in
soluble attraction activity of your bait the UK, where carp are seriously 'clued -
- add loads more green lip mussel up'.
extract, corn steep liquor, predigested By 'high protein', I mean high - quality
liver powder, squid liver extract etc. in terms of your bait's amino acid
To understand bait from a commercial profile, and other nutrient ingredients.
producer's perspective; he must make a When compared to a carbohydrate bait with
profit, so if he can, he will use the a very low quality of these nutrients
minimum of expensive but most often most available. So when you see
highly concentrated nutritional / 'high-protein', don't assume that 30 -
effective carp attractional 45% is low.
ingredients,and 'bulk - up' their Semolina and wheat flour, 50 / 50 % mix,
commercial shop bait with less effective for example, may only contain a maximum
ingredients over the long term. of 10 % protein, if anywhere near that;
This as a major weakness you can exploit it feels to us like the difference
over EVERY angler who slavishly uses shop between eating pasta compared to stake.
- bought baits for fishing and who It's like eating sugar; loads of quick
wrongly expect exceptional results every energy benefit, but no essential
session due to using these baits. nutritional essentials are being supplied
Not only is the nutrition / attraction for essential bodily rebuilding and
factors limiting and very 'standardized' survival.
in many ways, but so are the ways they You don't hear about body - builders
are used by anglers too. Also thriving on a high sugar diet (this can
commercially made baits are produced by lead to diabetes among other poor diet
machine and most often result in effects), but on a high protein,
identical shapes and densities. This is 'balanced nutritional profile' diet where
not always in your interests if you wish every dietary essential need is met.
to target those big wary carp that have Most Americans and anglers from countries
been absolutely conditioned every day to where carp fishing has not yet become an
eating anglers' shop - baits and managing extremely intensively competitive sport
to not get hooked on them. may quite rightly wonder; what all this
Many big fish actually eat your free fuss about bait and it's quality is
baits perhaps 4 or 5 days or longer after really all about, and question it's
you have gone home, when they have been necessity!
leached of anything that may be Even a simple 'kitchen' bait like a
associated as a threat to the carp. homemade corn flour dough, with added
(Perhaps certain flavours or types of coke or canned sweet corn juice with
attractors within the bait.) catch all day and probably always will on
Most anglers have heard of using baits most 'low or no pressure' carp waters,
with no flavours in, or using baits that around the world!
have been pre - soaked in lake water to A high quality boiled bait approach is
mimic 'safe' free baits, that abound in not necessary on every water; not every
pressured carp lakes after a busy carp has ever seen a boilie bait before,
weekend. and many carp may not even recognise them
Also, one important point to appreciate as food items immediately!
is that if a carp senses a bait, but does And many waters are so over - stocked
not need more of it to fulfill it's that there will never be enough natural
dietary needs, it's brain will not food, nor anglers' bait to supply their
register a feeding response! needs fully, and any bait from maggots to
That is why being aware of all the carp's sweet corn, to bread will always catch
potential dietary deficiencies and their fare share of big fish, regardless
providing for them, is so vital because of any nutritional needs among the fish
you will achieve takes owing to perhaps population.
merely one ingredient and it's benefit, But on those hard - fished pressured
at times when if this ingredient was waters where big fish have seen
absent, then the carp will simply ignore practically every boilied bait of every
your bait! description before and been caught on
A carp's individual metabolism, them previously, they certainly do learn
programmed caution, mode of picking up by association, both of the dangers and
hook baits and preferences for specific benefits of eating particular baits.
tastes, smells, eating experiences, and The 'HNV' theory baits have historically
so on, an individual carp may be easier simply produced the biggest carp, the
to catch by exploiting this. Finding a most consistently, where anglers are
bait it likes it can be landed repeatedly using varied baits of different qualities
over long period of time, e.g. months or and designs from attractor baits to the
even years. most advanced highly digestible balanced
This shows that a winning formula does 'HNV' baits. (On high angling pressure
not need to be changed as often as the waters.)
bait adverts would suggest! I know Even where carp are being offered a range
extremely successful anglers who have of 'balanced nutritional value' type shop
used the same basic base mix formula for - bought baits every day, some baits will
decades And NEVER use flavors! tend to catch more bigger carp than other
By using your own mix, you know for baits, and this is where the advantages
certain what ingredients and attractors of designing and making your own homemade
certain fish prefer, gleaned from baits really pays long term dividends.
experience of past catches and why You see, no - one else can go to a shop,
because YOU know the ingredients used in buy the 'new' bait you've so been
your own baits, while no-one else does! carefully introducing into the water, (to
This gives you an incredibly powerful get the fish to feed confidently on it)
edge... and then have someone else catch the
You can catch the same fish on the same lake's biggest fish as a result of all
basic bait mix in different parts of a your efforts. You will benefit directly
large lake, at steadily larger weights, from your own unique efforts; and often
for years, because it wants and needs it, be rewarded with exceptional and very
and has accepted it as 'natural food'!!! consistent big fish catches!
Carp can learn just like dogs about Good fishing so often results from good
certain actions and rewards, some bait - may your baits be more than just
beneficial and rewarding, others 'the flavour of the month' in the latest
dangerous and stress inducing. shop bait advertisments!!!
Wary, big fish have been caught TWICE on The author has many more fishing and bait
the same bait on the same day because 'edges' up his sleeve. Every single one
they wanted and needed a certain bait so can have a huge impact on catches.
much at that point in time! (Warning: This article is protected by
The most wary fish can eat your bait in copyright,but reprints with a link are
confidence, in preference to shop-bought OK.)
bait, even selectively ignoring adjacent By Tim Richardson. 'The thinking angler's
baits! If a carp does not require the fishing author and expert bait making
substances in your bait, it will not eat guru.'
it. For more expert bait making information
In other words, when foods are available and 'cutting edge' techniques see the
of every kind, to satisfy the carp's expert acclaimed new ebook / book:
natural needs, then if he doesn't NEED "BIG CARP BAIT SECRETS!" at:
your bait, most likely he won't even ">
register it as food, unless he's ill, Tim Richardson is an internationally
diseased, or mad! Heh Heh... And I'm sure acclaimed carp and catfish bait-making
many of us have direct experience of this expert, and a highly successful big fish
extremely frustrating situation! angler. His best selling bait making and
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and koi - enthusiast feeds, are beginners and experienced anglers alike,
rigorously, scientifically tested for to improve and enhance their baits
optimal growth and health effects. If you achieving far greater catches of big
want to see this for yourself there are fish.
many papers and articles on this subject; * His books are even used by members of
especially from sponsored Japanese the 'world elite' "British Carp Study
research institutions and American Group" for expert reference. * Your
universities. catches could gain from more
It is complex stuff and it takes hours to understanding, expert bait making
extract information that is applicable to experience, powerful insights and cutting
carp fishing bait formulation. (My edge fishing information and techniques;
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clearer, in depth knowledge of a carp's bait making website.






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