Homemade Catfish / Carp Dough - Special Secret 'Buoyant Hook Baits'
As you are rolling all your paste into balls before boiling as you would to make boiled carp or catfish baits, put aside, maybe 50 paste dough pieces, for use as 'buoyant' hook baits; these are excellent great for specially attractive purposes!
They can be great fished on their own over weed or silt, or as a 'snowman' when used on the hair or hook with a normal sinking boilie, or used on a variety of hook rigs on the water surface, mid - water, on just off the bottom etc. In fact everywhere you might find a feeding carp or hunting catfish!
You can incorporate a piece of cork, or small balls of polystyrene into these dough pieces or even use a high amount of cork granules in a dedicated base mix, to adjust the amount of buoyancy of hook baits you want. These are available from the commercial companies too. The advantage with these is that your hook baits are identical in nutritional makeup and signal leak-off to your 'free' or ground baits.
Another method is to put a small number of smaller, normal baits on a plate, and microwave them in time increments of, e.g. 20 seconds, removing them before they begin to burn. These are soaked in attractors before use, to maximize attraction.
Another method is to adjust the level of ingredients until you arrive at a floating test bait. I've also had this happen by accident, and not design while experimenting with more buoyant ingredients like sodium caseinate, shrimp and krill meals, even some egg biscuit based bird foods, for example.
I use casein as the base with sodium caseinate and then other ingredients, as this offers great nutritional signals, while being a harder more resilient bait. Again, these baits are left to soak in an extract / flavor / amino acid compound, for example, to harden, preserve, and maximize carp attraction.
Such baits fished just on their own on hard fished waters can be very productive, especially casting immediately to 'rolling, and 'head and shouldering' carp!
Making great 'floater cake' bait:
The easiest method of mass producing personalized, random shaped nutritional floating bait is:
Make your base mix as normal but with much more buoyant ingredient, like 6 ounces per pound of sodium caseinate. Shrimp meal and krill meal will have the same effect if enough is added and both are great nutritional attractors in them selves. Add 2 extra eggs per pound dry mix (with bicarbonate of soda to put more air bubbles into it to help it float, if necessary), leaving the mix more liquid than solid. Whisk the mix, and pour into a baking tray, and cook in the oven until risen and just brown on top.
A good trick is to use a high level of ground - up dog or cat food biscuits in your floater cake ; these baits work great on waters where carp regularly eat these biscuits as free baits, and have previously been caught. Such big fish are usually much more difficult to hook, on the biscuits themselves as bait, even though all 'free' biscuits are eaten, hook baits may be rejected. (Very frustrating for the angler!)
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