Sports Articles - What Are The Best Carp Fishing Baits And Why Do Bait Sheep Miss Better Catches!


by Tim Richardson - Date: 2009-11-20 - Word Count: 2542 Share This!

Many anglers ask what the best bait recipe or bait format is, be it boilies, pellets, paste or particle or natural or fake baits etc. But it must be obvious to anyone by now, but no single person is emptying lakes wherever they go without hard work! If magical baits exist one of the biggest drawbacks to them is that carp are not robots and they instinctively constantly adapt to avoid any potential dangers from baits! So if you want improved baits and better catches read on now!

A potential danger can be any bait they had had any reason to be suspicious of in the past. But in order to detect potential threats then a threat usually needs characteristics that can be associated with danger. Human babies can instinctively and hold their breathe and start to swim when in water for the very first time and this is a great example of survival instincts at work. But remember that babies develop within a liquid environment before they ever take their first breath. This liquid-based link is very interesting and humans have many similarities to ancient teleost fish such as carp in terms of instincts and physiological needs, processes and responses to stimuli.

Just hypothetically speaking, would a human baby (when swimming) react to a great white shark in water the same as it would to a cuddly toy when on land? After only one bad experience of the shark the baby will more than likely be terrified for ever more of literally anything that reminds him or her of the shark threat and may never ever even go near let alone ever dip a toe in! Any stimuli that reminds the baby of a negative experience conditions future behaviours to avoid literally any possible potential threats and this is the essence of conditioned unconscious instinctive survival mechanisms at work.

Readymade baits have so many characteristics that cause them to be regarded with suspicion due to countless negative experiences of them and similar baits and associated circumstances and places where they are encountered. It does make me laugh when you get a bait designed to be a nutritionally valuable bait made into a conventional ball, barrel or pellet shape. Such carp bait shapes are well and truly past their point of best potential on waters where they have been used en masse by the masses already!

So many angling-pressured carp survive by avoiding readymade baits when they are introduced as fresh intact baits packed full of flavours, aromas and smells. Ironically enough carp can feed on dissolved substances issuing from boilies well before they actually decide to sample them by touching them with fins or lips for instance (if they do at all while such baits are still intact and not washed-out!)

I have to laugh at how many anglers coat their relatively ineffective standard readymade boilies with paste when actually doing this simply demonstrates that the standard readymade boilie format (where the bait is fairly firm and usually pretty resistant to fast breakdown) is basically faulty! How many more sheeple will be mindlessly following this fashion and doing this in the coming weekend because the magazine gurus tell them it is logical (thus selling more of their brand of readymade paste?!) Note I do not mean to be demeaning of sheep nor people here; I am simply making an observational statement about natural human behaviour and the natural herding instinct used for survival in past eons to boost survival prospects that works against our interests as anglers today in many ways! Look out for all the brand loyalty conditioning, selling of brand perceptions manipulations, and exploitation of mass markets which companies seek to grab bigger proportions of all the time and you will see what I mean!

Ultimately if you follow the herd and current fashions you miss some of the greatest edges over carp survival instincts because you will simply be thinking and fishing the same as the herd when far greater success is just an individual creative thought away! Do not forget it is the herd that actively conditions fish responses by its predominant paradigms of thoughts and activities and styles and methods of fishing at any particular point in time. For instance in the seventies and early eighties the fashions were Heron and Optonic alarms, canvas bell tents, nylon over-wraps and tilted Wavelock brollies, Mitchell reels, Walker and Maddocks carp rods milk protein and bird food baits and then Richworth frozen readymade boilies.

Today carp fishing is all flashy big pit reels and rods you need a mortgage just to insure, clothing and luggage that make you look like a real tree, bush (or a fanatic of some kind out on a terrorist job.) What about the dizzying kaleidoscope of light emitting fake baits and fluorescent readymade boilies, glow in the dark fake baits and dips, plus myriads of pellets and boilie pellets (usually of quite similar types of formulations and fashionable flavours.) Now there are million candle power multiple LED head torch lights that can bring down a 747 with the flick of a button and bite alarms that bleep 6 times so loudly whenever you turn them on that the ground shakes (and are great idea by the way for alerting the fish to your presence since fish hear in the same frequency humans do and sound travels very nicely through water thank you very much!) How much heavier can the average tackle barrow get - many versions sound like an elephant pounding their way into a swim (so much for watercraft and subtle presentation!)

How many more tree-less, wildlife-less commercial waters will spring up with instant fifties with swims so closely packed together you might as well share your bivvy with your neighbour, let him bait your rods and let him cast out and fish with your rods while you chat with his mates on his mobile and listen to his IPhone or IPod on full blast all night long! It might sound cynical, but when all you hear all night long are ring tones going off around a lake at full volume (that sound like the latest 20 megawatt bite alarms) followed by ignorant prats shouting on and on into their mobile megaphones as if they are deaf, you could be forgiven for thinking you had not gone fishing but had accidentally been transported to a loony bin for noise addicts! (No wonder such distraction addicted morons complain when they fail to catch fish as a direct result of them not blending in so very well to their natural surroundings and not putting fish as well at ease with their totally unnatural presence on the bank as possible - duh!

There is no helping such idiots who probably think what they are doing is normal so it is not a problem - the sooner they give up fishing and go raving or pubbing or clubbing every week or whatever they do instead the better! What they completely over-look is the very often dramatic negative impacts their presence on the bank has on fish awareness and consequent behaviours in response to anglers and their lines rigs and baits which inevitably lowers the chances of success not merely for them but for everyone else anywhere near them! Far too many carp anglers are too busy being addicted to their new electronic gadgets and new flashy gear (and making sure everyone else knows about them) instead of getting carp really confident in their swim and even addicted to their very own creative baits and using their own innovative fishing edges that guarantee success without any of the BS bells and whistles and shouting about it!

You might think this is over the top until you figure it out that literally every single negative impact that every angler on the bankside has on fish even if they are not aware of it can directly negatively influence fish behaviours that reduce other anglers chances in many ways that they cannot even comprehend! This is a growing problem with many more pressured fisheries getting ever more like circuses these days.

Sadly commercialisation in fishing is not all progress and most new carp anglers will never appreciate true peace much of the time while at the waterside when beside other carp anglers today. This is of course unless they happen to be extremely lucky in getting into select limited number syndicate waters (usually filling dead mens shoes these days,) where swims are very sensibly widely spaced apart for instance. They might get access to fish certain private waters, or choose to fish much less frequented reservoirs, unfashionable pits, or stretches of rivers or other waterways etc that (only presently) are neglected. But you can bet that this will soon change when they are finally visited by so many self-promoting advert-filled magazine gurus who will be followed by the masses like hypnotic Pied Pipers dressed like Robin Hoods in their obligatory Realtree must-have fishing costumes and props!

This is the same sad desperate attention-seeking copy-cat mentality that so many morons have today when driving about with every headlight and side light on at full eye-burning halogen beam power. How many of you notice that sidelights are now often even bigger now than actual headlights - yet up until 2009 it was almost as if side lights did not even exist they were so rarely used. (Now they are just an obvious means of seeking attention!) When enough accidents have happened (due to these beams that outshine the average lighthouse) and when enough of these idiots have blinded each other over the course of time, perhaps they will wake up and realise what blindingly ignorant retards they have been. Humans are not designed to be shot at with headache-inducing beams of halogen light - pumping ultraviolet light directly into your brain! Its time to shop being sheeple people!

Why forget that a wary carp will easily take a worm, or fresh duck poop instead of fashionable pineapple chilli chicken boilie pellets!

Boilies work for many reasons other than what appear to be very standard conventional bait characteristics like bait shape, flavour, colour (and tone,) texture, buoyancy, liquid contents and their viscosity, permeability to water and water resistance or lack of, biologically-available stimulatory nutritional values etc. Pellets are just the same; some of the currently most successful pellets do not look or even act like any standard marine type halibut pellets for instance.

Very many characteristics of standard readymade boilies and pellets and boilie pellets are common to them and yet removing as many of these similarities can easily improve your catches as you are obviously avoiding those vital danger reference points that carp have come to associate with them.

It is obvious that science does not know everything about carp senses - far from it in fact. New rubber and plastic baits and baits that carry no strong aromas (as in neutral boilies for instance) are different to normal baits that carp have been experiencing and dealing with for decades. This is just one part of their success. In related investigations into robins it was discovered that they have photosensitive cells in their eyes that can track electromagnetic lines which they need to follow. (For instance it has been proven that without such super senses they cannot migrate and just get lost!) They also have specialised cells in their noses that also detect electromagnetic fields.

Carp detect electrical fields too and perhaps the way rubber and plastic baits act in water compared to natural baits and standard baits issuing water-altering and electrical field-altering dissolved substances is significant. Questions need to be asked; what really are the true natures of light energies for instance?! We humans have magnetite in our brains and this helps us navigate and orientate ourselves to natural magnetic (or artificial) north but I am certain it has more profound applications and purposes!

Carp are different being cold-blooded and their bodies match the temperature of the water surrounding them which very much determines their internal processes, metabolism and behaviours, digestion rates, times of spawning etc. But they too have their natural comfort zones in many regards and of course they instinctively prefer to be as energy-efficient as possible as this rather improves their chances of survival! (Being constantly stressed in pressured angling situations and when in the proximity of recognisable potentially dangerous baits is not necessarily particularly energy-efficient!)

It is for science to yet discover what further super senses carp are capable of in sensing any of our baits used in fishing so keep an open mind! Science has discovered more in the past 100 years than ever before but in such a short time it has mostly grown extremely arrogant and closed-minded too.

The best baits get hooks in mouths (ethically) in the main because somehow they get around defensive carp conditioning and behaviours that are naturally designed to avoid potentially dangerous hook baits. What specific bait that happens to be at any point in time is totally up to you to decide but you can be sure that doing your own thing is a very sure route to being different from the crowd and in so many ways multiplying and improving your chances of success! So remember to always keep an open mind if you really want your baits to get around the natural cautionary behaviours of angling-conditioned fish.

Often it is baits that get the attention of fish in multiple or even just single ways that get under their instinctive defensive radar of automatic danger reference points and associations with previously experienced baits of whatever forms.

A further investigation into carp senses and what triggers feeding or even aggressive or competitive responses is extremely rewarding and worthwhile and this is something I can help you with. You can re-invent baits that were very successful 20, 30 or 40 years ago, or you can literally discover or dream up something completely new and innovative that may always keep you ahead of the crowd and be kept personal to only you (so it never hits the fishing shop shelves and be a great edge ruined by the herd all jumping on it!)

I hope this helps you think a bit more open-mindedly to consider more innovative options instead of following well-trodden paths all the time. If all you do is regularly read the glossy magazines in the hope of keeping up with the edges and success of other anglers perhaps it is time you starting thinking about the fish first instead and get thinking for yourself more and more as a unique individual with all the great personal satisfaction and extra success will bring you; champions are made not born! (For much more more information on making homemade baits and boosting and adapting readymade baits of all kinds see my unique bait secrets ebooks and articles at Baitbigfish right now!)

By Tim Richardson.

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