Carp Bait Digestion Secrets for Making Top Homemade Carp Baits
In carp digestion, Trypsin and Chymotrypsin, (digestive enzymes from the pancreas,) are largely responsible for protein digestion.
Carp do not have a conventional stomach, but a simple intestinal tube, and therefore no acid digestion takes place here, unlike in humans, where protein digestion takes place with hydrochloric acid and pepsin. In koi carp, for example, the gut is only typically up to twice the length of the fish.
Please notice, with regard to making baits for winter; it can take over 60 hours, at a water temperature of 12 Degrees Celsius, for the temperature-dependant enzymes, to digest food, for a complete gut of food to waste 'transit.'
Carp have a distendable receptive sack, where there is only sulphorous bile and enzymic digestion. Amylase is secreted in further down in the gut, in the small intestine, for internal digestion of starch.
Cellulase is secreted by bacteria, also in the small intestine, for digesting cellulose from plants. Once in the carp gut, and converted, glucose is used for energy, and is passed through intestinal cells into the bloodstream.
Blood insulin regulates energy levels, by helping glucose enter cell walls. In humans protein helps reduce glucose levels in the blood, by slowing the absorption of glucose into the blood stream, from the intestine. This then reduces hunger by lowering insulin levels, and making it easier for the body to burn fat and produce more energy.
By using increased soluble and insoluble fibre in your carp bait, at 5 % to 10 %, can speed movement through the gut by 'peristalsis', so enabling the carp to eat more food more quickly, and subsequently producing more potential for more 'takes' from fish actively feeding for longer period of time.
Glucose does not seem to be a superior energy source to protein or fat. High protein ingredients, such as casein, appears to slow down the digestive process, allowing more time for nutrients in other ingredients, for example in fish meals, or in bird foods, to be more efficiently digested and assimilated.
Unused glucose goes to the liver and is stored in a starch-like form as glycogen. This is reconverted to glucose using amino acid derived substance, when more energy is required.
Carp break down fats (lipids) using lipase, into soluble fatty acids and glycerol. Amino acids from protein digestion pass easily and quickly into the bloodstream.
Soya flour, the commonly used staple carbohydrate food in carp baits, may be maximized, by sourcing a soya meal which contains pre-sprouted beans. These contain higher levels of converted starch to sugars, which are more readily absorbed for energy at less digestion cost!
Soya has a seed coating designed to inhibit digestion by animals etc, for protection, so the beans can be transported inside the animal to new locations, be excreted whole, (undigested) in a useful pile of fertilizer for new soya bean plants to thrive!
Carbohydrates are converted by alpha-amylase from starch, by 'phosphorylation' to glucose-6-phosphate at 1.6 Kcal /gram -1. This energy conversion is not as efficient as humans; at 4 Kcal /gram -1.
Cooked or 'gelatinized' starches are twice as digestible to carp. And peas (pulses) are more digestible than cereals. Some examples are as follows:
• Wheat meal has a protein digestibility of 92 %
• Corn (maize) has a protein digestibility of 81 %
• Barley, a protein digestibility of 73 %
• Wheat meal has a fat (lipid) digestibility of 80 %
• Corn meal a fat (lipid) digestibility of 90 %
• Barley, a fat (lipid) digestibility of 67 %
These are all highly digestible foods, but the higher the overall digestibility of your bait, the better whether your bait is high in carbohydrate or in protein food sources!
By Tim Richardson. 'The thinking man's fishing author' and bait guru.
For more information see: www.baitbigfish.com
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By Tim Richardson N.D.C.H. The 'thinking man's fishing author' and bait guru.
For more information see: http://www.baitbigfish.com
Tim is a leading big fish angler with many incredible catches to his name. He is also a nationally recognised carp and catfish bait guru in the UK. His best selling bait making manuals are used by members of the elite "British Carp Study Group" for expert reference. This comprehensive information and research can help beginners and experienced anglers alike.
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