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To boost your catches one of the easiest and effective methods is to maximise the attractiveness of many readymade and homemade baits using potent unique bait soaks. These added liquids enable you to include incredibly attractive biologically-active substances which may be damaged if used before baits are boiled. Here are some details of highly stimulating nutritional bait liquids and powdered additives that can easily improve your cold water catches when using readymade and homemade baits!
Many readymade baits are made with the cheapest highly concentrated solvent-based flavours. Certainly over-loaded baits work but there are alternatives! Just one great trick is to soak your cheap readymade baits in a different flavour combination. For example soaking your baits in a nature-identical flavour combined with some added Minamino, cumin oil, predigested fish peptides, and PPC liquid. This new mixture will really boost natural nutritional attraction and very much reduce the potentially negative impacts of using certain all too familiar solvent based flavours!
Another very effective edge is to soak your baits in liquid kelp with added vitamin 12 liquid or Cyprivit dissolved in liquid betaine for example (see Formula-Carp and Ccmoore for these.) I get madcap ideas all the time for making conventional baits that bit different and many are incredibly effective. In making an effective and cheap homemade ground bait or paste alternative, why not use a combination of calf milk with vanilla extract powder, ground up CLO from both Ccmoore and Formula-Carp, with mixed bread crumb, Bio CP predigested fish protein, plus dextrose-glucose and betaine HCL for instance?!
Very many particle baits are very much over-looked these days with absolutely no good reason. I suggest that if you are in doubt about using particles then use small test amounts and experiment soaking your baits 24 hours before boiling. Often 18 hours soaking plus 30 minutes boiling is enough for many particles. If you over-soak particles which is not really a problem, they make excellent ground bait bases that can be bound with all kinds of optional extras, from whey powder, CLO, wholemeal semolina, flaked maize, pinhead oatmeal, skimmed milk powder, Vitamealo and Lamlac, tiger nut meal, chick pea flour and loads of other things besides!
When preparing maize, tiger nuts and big particles like Brazil nuts it is best to soak these for 24 hours before boiling. Particle baits constitute an enormous variety of baits beyond those you normally see sold in ready-prepared form by fishing bait companies. So why not try preparing a mixture of particles of your very own that carp will never have experienced before that have all kinds of unique characteristics to keep you ahead of the fish and conventional competing baits?!
After all if you are constantly searching for new pellets and boilies etc from bait companies then you can be sure other anglers will probably be using the same baits as you on your waters too. But ironically, most frequently it is the total uniqueness and newness of a bait that generates the best initial catches potential; think remember how outstanding the catches made by bait testers can be – so why not be your own homemade bait tester for yourself?!
Normally commercially available nutritionally-based baits do not keep catching the same fish over and over again without changes or alterations having to be made to some aspect of your fishing. This might simply mean refinements of your rigs or changes to the taste or aroma of a bait as fish get more wary of the baits despite them continuing to be eaten following fish being hooked on them.
Of course this bait creativity also applies very much to your main hook bait boilies, boilie-pellets and pellets and so on. For the cold, drop those bulk fish and marine oils etc that perform badly in low temperatures and go for especially viscous winterised vegetable oils and roasted sesame seed oil, hemp seed oil and marine oil combinations that will perform well even in extremely low temperature conditions.
See Carpfishingpellets for high PC liquid lecithins and their related top class CW Baits that contain these – for example try the bait called The Supreme. I have seen the complex recipe and I cannot see how hardly any profit is made at all on it because the ingredients and additives are of such high quality. Apparently Future Baits who used to roll this bait for CW Baits have stated this is a viable alternative to rival T1!
Fishing a completely new bait is most frequently the recipe for enormous success and this really proves just how much ordinary average catches are very poor compared to what can be achieved with more focus on fish behaviours in response to new potential food items. Nuts and seeds get far more attention in the magazines and so on than beans, peas (or pulses.) But also many forms of grains and lesser known seeds are very much over-looked and these can be awesome fish catchers when prepared correctly to maximise their individual characteristics. In the late seventies when I began really getting into carp fishing for bigger fish things like tic beans, mung beans and maple peas were already being used a lot, but so many other options can be exploited.
Pulses are excellent for carrying liquids of all sorts so you can offer carp or other species many unique taste, smell, aroma, palatability and nutritional treats they will not have ever experienced previously. Just for example, what about preparing red kidney beans, maize, peanuts and wheat with Formula-Carp nature identical squid and octopus (made using the electrostatic carrier Talin) boosted with savoury MSG palatant, and coriander oleoresin?
Hemp is such a great bait but again it can be given lots of extra edges that make your version unique. Simply preparing it with Formula-Carp dextrose-glucose, plus Ccmoore Ultrasweet intense sweetener and fructose concentrate or corn sweet syrup, will give you a super-sweet bait. This example can be applied to any bait to differentiate it so it is without familiar conventional intense sweeteners like Talin, and this also avoids nasty back tastes from things like sodium saccharin for example. Another alternative idea to avoid using things like the more familiar aniseed oil and Robin Red is trying out hemp prepared with clove oleoresin and Formula-Carp Cypry Red Robin Red substitute for the winter!
I could go on, but these few example will give you a flavour of the possibilities you could well do with right now to improve your catches and be better prepared in preparation for the cooler conditions of autumn, winter and spring! By Tim Richardson.
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