Are you one of those fishermen who would love to have your own unique and exceptionally successful bait? Carp bait is such a big issue and staying ahead of the majority with bait is very often the key to success.

Here in the UK carp bait making is not as popular as it once was owing to the massive availability of readymade baits. But for many carp fishermen, they want more satisfaction from their catches and more control over exactly what goes into their bait. They recognise many of the great benefits and advantages of using bait that is unique only to them!

Also, homemade bait making is a great economical way to compete with those notorious ‘bait sponsored anglers' enjoying the edge of subsidized commercially produced pellets and boilies.

Bait making is still very much alive in Europe, the United States and many other parts of the world. We fishermen enjoy a challenge, especially one which enhances our enjoyment of our sport and very often can multiply results beyond the average or simply ordinary.

Often bait making enthusiasts are either keen beginners or experienced fishermen who have the knowledge from years of fishing perhaps beginning some 25 years ago or more.

But the old recipes from the past decades can be vastly improved upon these days. In fact, there's far more available than the commonly used betaine hydrochloride, or corn steep liquor. Often newer products have resulted from commercial pressures within a variety of industries, from brewing, to aquaculture to livestock farming.

For example, there have been many scientific studies on fish feeding triggers and also and especially, methods of enabling fish to benefit from the maximum energy from there food as possible for the least energy expended in digestion and other important and vital processes.

There is definitely a greater move by fish farmers in response to the rapid decline of the world's fish and shellfish stocks. They are needing to replace the conventional protein providing fish farming feed constituents, with those from alternative sources like beans, pulses and cereals.

This is obviously not just down to ‘saving the planet' but in full knowledge that the prices of fish and shellfish are rising, many to uneconomic levels, as supplies become far scarcer. But what does this have to do with bait making and producing our own special and unique secret baits? The big ‘hook point' is that there are new and alternative products available today and also so many just waiting to be exploited in carp baits, if you know what you are looking for.

Farmers are being forced to supply their animals' feeds with a lower protein content as sea products availability drops and prices rise. They are exploiting ways of producing better results with lower protein feeds instead. There is much research going on in this area and it is of great interest to us as regards carp baits. We may have to convert to non-sea products for ingredients at some stage the way things are going.

For example, the use of industrial enzymes and bacteria and special methods to really maximise the energy and nutrition provided in cereals for example, to be converted to maximum yields in farmed animals. These are exploiting corn and wheat for example.

In fact, cereals are being bred for better nutritional profiles and indeed sweetcorn has been bred for maximum sweetness and sugars content for years. Crops grown in areas where nutrients are less available are obviously not going to be as beneficial as they will contain less vital minerals and trace elements and lower percentage of protein, for example.

In carp bait, one of the great aims is the maximum triggering of the carp's sensory systems, so changing carp brain functioning and getting the carp to feed on our hook baits. But a bait does not have to consist conventionally of ‘protein this or amino acid that.' There are thousands of other substances and unusual ingredients which can act as ‘feeding triggers' or various stimulators, that can impact upon carp behaviour.

For this particular reason, you can make baits very different to those of your carp fishing peers baits. It's human nature for the majority to jump on a successful readymade bait ‘bandwagon.' But as you get to know more about bait, then the more you will be able to actually take advantage of ‘going' baits that the majority are using, by ‘topping' them in creative and scientific ways.

Very many of these ways are both surprisingly easy and extremely effective in catching you more fish than the ‘average' guy. Why not make your own bait ‘the flavour of the month?'

The author has many more fishing and bait ‘edges' up his sleeve. Every single one can have a huge impact on catches. (Warning: This article is protected by copyright.)

By Tim Richardson.

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