Carp Fishing Baits And Secrets To Save a Fortune!
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!
You might think fish location is the most important factor in carp fishing, or a sharp hook, but my testing with big heavy blunt hooks, and random choice of old baits shows that neither in the absence of any application of watercraft nor any resemblance of an effective rig, big carp still wind up getting hooked! I used to think very conventionally that fish location is paramount followed by a very sharp hook on a proven rig for the occasion, but my results using basically rotten bait presentations in swims and areas looking about as unfavourable for a carp as possible, and using some of the most weird-smelling odd-looking old baits showed that unusual new bait is more than likely far more important and influential to success than first presumed!
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!
To say this experience shocked my friend was an understatement, because here was his successful bait being totally ignored in the presence of another competing bait. I knew the feeding response to the new homemade spod versions would be very exciting but had not considered they would actually lead to the complete failure of the original version to even get a single a response from roach or tench in the area around the baits! If you have ever fished beside someone who is hauling and you cannot get a bite on your previously successful bait then you might well ask yourself what is going on with your bait (or not) in respect of their internal impacts on carp; are they really doing their job to maximum efficiency?!
Baits vary by huge margins when it comes to how well they perform in various situations against competing baits and ultimately the job of any bait is simply to get an anglers hook inside the mouth of a fish to hook it but this is far more complex in many more ways than this appears while also being pretty simple! The fact that the vast percentage of anglers free baits get regularly consumed with ease by carp without them ever getting hooked is also a hugely important area to investigate because this is not simply about effective rigs at all and very much about truly maximising bait performance in the first place! There is no coincidence that so many old nasty smelling baits found in the bottom of rucksacks (and put on a rig as a last resort,) so frequently catch so-called surprise carp, very soon after being cast out during a bite-less session, and it must be remembered that carp can sample baits using various senses without ever touching them or even mouthing them at all.
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!
With your own personal homemade baits you decide the crucial cost of your bait and exactly how you want them to impact on carp in any of many various ways; including exploitation of their feeding response mechanisms, natural behaviours and other diverse sensory systems, so they actually work in your favour and not against you! When you truly realise the power of being able to induce feeding on your baits by including far higher levels of natural feeding triggers than commercial bait companies can include profitably in their boilies, pellets and ground baits etc, then things bait-related really get exciting! Just one example of a combination you can seriously boost in levels and exploit is that of the combination of betaine and green lipped mussel extract and these will provide more chances of takes as they encourage more intense and more repeated consumption of baits even in low temperatures in winter…
Just the popularity of one substance such as betaine shows that one substance that carp are naturally highly stimulated by can have a big improvement in catches, but there are many other substances to exploit in many various ways. Just as betaine and corn steep liquor are used in powder and soluble liquid forms you can apply this to a vast multitude of other substances you might never have considered before. The successful permutations and combinations are truly endless always keeping you ahead of those ever changing and adapting carp.
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.
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