Check this out; many anglers think that making homemade baits is a waste of time and effort and the vast choice of commercially produced baits catch fish all the time. If this was correct then literally hundreds of carp fishermen would not have caught a new personal best fish on homemade baits the first time they were ever used on a fishery. The fact is that almost any baits will catch lots of fish when used by the majority of anglers because lots of anglers are using them, but this certainly does not mean they are worth the incredibly expensive prices being charged for them and there is another fantastically option available instead!

Homemade baits truly can catch more big fish than you ever thought possible compared to commercial baits. There are enormous disadvantages to using commercial baits that fish have been caught or hooked on before by a few to hundreds of other anglers. If you need more proof why making your own baits has caught so many anglers of average skills and experience consistent big fish here is why:

The fish have least reason to be wary of your homemade bait because they have never been hooked on them by anyone using them before and this is surely the biggest reason why unique and new baits are so successful. The fish have never experienced the unique combined characteristics of your homemade bait before. You can exploit the a massive advantages of always being able to fish a brand new bait on any water and keep adapting them to keep ahead of the fish and other anglers baits permanently!

You never know if someone else has already hooked the fish you wish to catch on a water when using commercial baits; but you know for sure only you can using your own unique baits. Although you do not need to know much about bait to make successful fish catching baits. You have a gigantic choice of new and highly advantageous ingredients and flavors to choose from to get bigger edges over more wary big fish and fulfil unique dietary requirements.

Commercial readymade baits must meet customer expectations durability in the water for a standard number of hours; which can very much limit their practical effectiveness. You do not have this limitation upon bait characteristics or such limitations upon homemade baits at all. You can make them as water soluble as much as you like which is often extremely important factor in success.

Most commercial boilies and pellets are of standard sizes and shapes because of the machining used and this also effects the density and surface texture of baits too among many other characteristics. This makes it very easy for fish to avoid your hook bait as they will experience standard ingredients baits all the time and learn to easily avoid them. Consider for a moment the fact that each weekend thousands of angler's fish waters with thousands of carp in but comparatively very few fish get caught compared to stocking levels...

The characteristics of your bait can be altered to suit whatever fishery and swim situation you require. You can make all kinds of recipes and formulas like square high flavor attractor baits for a rivers. Or you can make flat irregular shaped high nutritionally attractive baits for fishing over silt or fine weed in lakes for instance, with improved buoyancy to make them even more effective for example.

When your commercial bait is less productive than you expected you can bet that using a unique homemade bait will give you the key to much bigger successes, with the huge personal satisfaction that goes with this. And you will never have to worry about which readymade bait you have to spend an absolute fortune on each week just for average results. Instead you can frequently expect reliable results with more and bigger fish and get a shock at the money you can save; so find out more about making your own bait and improve your catches and bank balance for life!

By Tim Richardson.