Hobbies, Homemade Carp Fishing Baits For Beginners Proven For Big Fish!


by Tim Richardson - Date: 2008-11-01 - Word Count: 1955 Share This!

Carp are such an exciting fish and fishing for them can easily become a passion for life! But where do you begin when you want to catch those big wary fish which are not always the easiest fish to catch especially for beginners? Bait is a massive key to success far - more than even many experienced carp anglers appreciate; so read on!

Bait is one of the best levellers of experience and fishing ability and so very often the beginner can catch the big fish like seasoned carp anglers easily by leveraging bait... It is well known that carp love boilies, pellets and particle baits like hemp and peanuts. But what is far less well known is why these baits actually induce fish into becoming hooked in the first place. This is where the beginner can very seriously get the edge over far more experienced and skilled carp anglers.

Very often even the most high profile of carp anglers know relatively little about the true workings on baits and their ingredients upon fish senses and biology etc. But if you know enough about these enormously powerful key aspects of fishing, you can literally manipulate fish in your own favour! In this regard you can even out-fish far better anglers using commercially produced popular ready made baits. I get feed back from readers all the time where this has been achieved and it is possible for anybody to do with the right specific information.

Now you know that catching the biggest fish in your water is a very definite possibility, even as a beginner let's look at baits and thinking approaches that help improve your chances hugely! One of the biggest secrets in carp fishing is the impact over time of the trained conditioned response of carp to angler's baits. By consistent introduction of boilies, pellets, particles etc the fish come to regard this bait as natural food. However it comes at a price, which is the risk of getting hooked, or caught with all the high stress this involves for the carp!

The trained response of carp to bait can therefore work far more for you or against you depending upon how stressed the fish are towards your choice of bait or bait recipe and its method of introduction and presentation. There are countless variations to get around conditioned carp danger responses, like using an alternative version of a rig or a new or adapted bait.

One of the simplest ways to catch the biggest fish is to top the most successful baits on your water. What topping a bait really means is going with the flow and nor trying to compete with the far better more experienced anglers at all, but using their own skills and experienced and bait introductions against themselves in order to catch fish yourself as a product of their efforts!

I am not suggesting you simply steal their baits or rigs or note the exact feeding spots in the swims they fish however! You can do things much easily and in far more personally satisfying ways! These days, successful readymade boilies are often offered for sale as base mixes in powdered, ready-bagged form. On the bag will be the mixing instructions and recommendations of what additives, flavours, liquid food feeding stimulators and so on to add to the mix for best results.

I can assure you that if you can verify for certain exactly what ready made bait is very successful on your water having been established by the experienced anglers fishing there, then you can exploit it in your own personal ways to catch even the biggest fish in that water. (Sometimes the biggest fish in a water will have become so-called natural feeders feeding on a predominantly rich natural diet rather than on dangerous fishing baits, but this does not mean they are entirely uncatchable; in fact, far from it!)

Once you know for sure what the currently successful readymade bait is that is catching the bulk of the fish, go to a fishing shop offering base mixes for that particular bait and company range. Very many bait companies offer such base mixes, from Rod Hutchinson, Premier Baits, Richworth, Mainline, Nash, and so on. Do not neglect the smaller lesser known companies however, as often many of the bosses of these seriously have done their homework on their recipes; and may well know the deeper aspects of bait workings that would surprise the big boys!

Now begin with your base mix. Let's say on your water the successful bait has been a Mainline bait. At the shop, find the ready made baits) probably in the freezer bait section,) and locate the exact bait the experienced anglers are using. There is no reason not to use these baits themselves to catch you fish. However, the chances are you can improve your catches hugely by making sure your baits are different to the ones already hooking fish in your water, (which fish may respond more cautiously to now!)

So locate the matching proprietary boilie bait mix you want, and read the recommendations for additional ingredients or liquids that need to be added. (Often bait mixtures will do very well with nothing extra added at all as all the feeding triggers and attractors and bioactive substances etc are intrinsically within the ingredients themselves. (Even when a bait does not smell much to you in air, in water to highly sensitive carp senses they can be extremely potent.)

Whatever you do, make sure you add the trigger liquids if your bait is an enzyme active bait, (Mainline baits are known for this for instance; so verify this with the company or staff in the shop.)

When you have verified the only additional ingredients that must be added to the mix to make it work in the designed way, then you in effect have a close replica to the successful bait used on your water used by the experienced anglers. However, there is no guarantee that their baits are always the conventional bait you buy in the shops but they may be using a special version. This might have added ingredients, changed ratios of ingredients, some added ingredients or flavours of their own, or contain much higher attractor or flavour levels than the ready made version for instance.

Whatever the case is, if the base mix is very similar, then when their baits have washed-out to a degree, then they will be similar enough to your bait for this trick to work as the fish will still recognise your base mix as highly desirable!

I would suggest if this is your first try at this to ask the shop staff for their recommendations of alternative flavours and attractors and feeding stimulators to add to your new special homemade base mix. You might add flavours or liquid additives from a different company range, using a Nash additive to a Mainline base mix, or a Solar additive to a Nash bait for example. Yu might even add you own choices of new and alternative additives etc, once you know what to look for and this information is what my book researches are all about. You might even add a supermarket oil combination with alcohol based vanilla extract high in attractive vanillin terpenes for example.

All you need to do is make your bait by following instructions on the bag of base mix and add your own choice of personal flavours, liquid proteins, alternative oils, etc and of course, you do not have to make them similar to ready made baits either. It is far quicker to make your baits odd shapes, and even make it and use it un-boiled. (Boiling baits in water creates a resistant coagulated protein coating which reduces baits effectiveness although prolonging functional life in water before bait breakdown.)

It will pay you to bulk-up your bait slightly with cheaper but still stimulating ingredients and additives, such as soya flour, yeast powders, herbs and spices and various seeds and crushed nuts for example. I've found that even making baits that are completely un-tried and untested on a water before, that over 80 percent of them will catch fish from the first session on, provided fish are present and feeding in the swim, (do find your fish first!)

But the best way to get you results as good if not better than the more experienced anglers, is to spot fish feeding where they are away from the most busy and popular swims, and begin introducing a few kilograms of your new bait as free bait or ground bait multiple times (in the areas you are going to fish,) over a few weeks before you actually start fishing your new bait. This enables the fish to begin recognising your new bait as safe food and their bodies and senses will begin to become trained to respond to it when they sense your bait in water from the substances leaching out from your baits in solution.

Few anglers realise carp actually filter feed on your baits in solution long before they pick them up and they have the ability to even identify individual substances in your bait ingredients such as betaine, and amino acids, vitamins and salts etc! At this stage, your fish may behave very strongly towards your bait positively, or far more cautiously, if the bait is an established one that carp have experienced being hooked on before! This is just one contributing reason why using a new unique but recognisable base mix homemade bait is a very great edge indeed in the increasingly competitive world of big carp fishing!

Boilies are still the top carp bait in the world for many very powerful reasons and the advantages of either being able to make your own and also to be able to adapt ready made boilies and commercially produced pellets etc are giant competitive edges in the short and long-term. This ability will literally save you a fortune in bait costs too, and with practice you will be able to make baits using short-cuts that mean you can produce kilograms of bait as fast as many commercial companies but at far less cost to you personally!

Do talk to other anglers other baits as much as possible and you will find so many conflicting views that you will probably reach the conclusion that it is best to find out everything for yourself first-hand and seek the very best information directly from source as it were! The best anglers will be happy to share information with you instead of keeping secrets, because they have so much more to offer; and they themselves became the best as a result of being helped themselves, by countless fellow anglers!

Yes, sometimes you will not truly appreciate the wisdom they offer at the time, because only with experience and repetition comes a deeper appreciation of the significance of things in the larger carp fishing picture or in the successful formula for consistent success. You will find that beginners luck comes your way big-time; but then this trick is really exploiting the efforts of the far more experienced anglers and bait makers!

Happy hunting and remember to keep your new bait consistently going in to your water - especially in the winter months and keep looking a little bit further for the extra information that could make a quantum difference to your catches!

By Tim Richardson.

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