Get the biggest edge in carp fishing! The most powerful way to catch more fish is to always keep ahead of instinctive and bait-conditioned fish feeding caution by using your own biggest edge in fishing, by making your baits and thinking differently. Develop your biggest critical edge and fastest short-cut to big carp success right now and reap the big rewards by reading on right now!
Catching more big carp is much easier when you know some very stimulating details about bait components, how fish sense your baits, how to manipulate fish physiology to make fish want to eat our baits more and more! Many of the questions anglers ask about baits and fishing are pretty irrelevant compared to some of the most important which are so often over-looked because the angler is so conditioned to thinking like a commercially-manipulated angler instead of thinking like a fish which is far superior of course! When your thinking about baits choices and how to manipulate fish senses and behaviours in our favour against them begins with the fish themselves you have incredible potential power compared to anglers who merely follow the herd!
So why think about bait and bait substances in the first place when it is the fish themselves that will provide you with all the clues you need for successful baits?! Fish are sensitive to many substances but some much more than others and in various combinations for different reasons! So why not investigate your fish much further and discover how to manipulate and maximise their responses to your baits by the leverage of a wide variety of ingredients, additives and liquids etc!
The majority of carp anglers in the UK and some other countries where carp fishing has become so commercialised, are dependent on expensive readymade carp boilies, pellets etc. You could say that the bait companies just want that trend to continue so they can extract as much money out of you as possible.
After all, making customers dependent on products is one of the prime goals of those wanting to make big money but that gives them a huge amount of power over you which perhaps not too many of us can afford these days! When the price of readymade baits is the deciding factor in being able to afford to catch a few fish or even go fishing, you have to begin to wonder about making your own bait at vastly less cost with the chance to catch even more fish using your own baits with all the enormous satisfaction that brings!
Why allow someone else to decide your fishing budget when you can do it yourself and save an absolute fortune?! Whether your readymade baits cost you 5 pounds or 12 pounds a kilogram you can undercut and vastly reduce this cost and still out-fish all those popular readymade baits (when you know how with further information!) You really need to know some of the most vitally important details of fish senses, and how to best exploit them to get most bites, by leveraging various (endlessly varied) combinations of ingredients, special compounds, liquid foods, flavour components, oils etc.
The commonest bait making mistakes can be avoided by learning from others who have the long experience over the years to refine their knowledge and bait making methods, thinking and insights etc and who have achieved notable outstanding success by this long process. My 35 years of homemade carp bait making has gone through many changing levels of understanding, perceptions of the meaning and contexts of fish feeding feedback and changing awareness within myself of how multiple bait dynamics and fish behaviours, and my own creativity and thought processes all impact on how I make and adapt my homemade baits and why.
There are no mistakes in carp baits; merely invaluable fish feedback! Everything is of value providing that you actually observe fish responses and behaviours and learn more and more how to link these to your bait substances, levels and combinations.
Well over 95 percent of all my homemade baits have caught from at least the first cast and mistakes are really only priceless feedback towards even better baits! Certain carp waters demand specific bait alterations because no water or fish stock or ecosystem is necessarily identical, and it is very important to know how to out-fish competing baits by leverage of unique bait substances to achieve extra edges over them in many ways.
Probably the commonest mistake bait-making beginners make is formulating a bait based on their personal opinions and own human perceptions of bait substances aromas, smells, tastes etc. The best way to avoid limiting success of your baits is to start with the fish and what they are most sensitive. Basing your baits on fish sensitivities is the most powerful starting point and this encourages you to think like a carp and not like an angler merely choosing a readymade bait flavour that thousands of others may have previously already exploited so massively reducing any competitive advantages.
Some really great bait substances are not necessarily effective used on their own in water, but work at their peak in synergistic ways alongside other bait substances to produce maximum effects on fish. Certain bait substances can be termed habit-forming and these do not have to be anything exotic or unusual. I would include essential amino acids and certain non-essential acids in this category. So many carp angler have somehow become conditioned to think that if their bait has very little flavours or smells that they can detect that their bait is going to be less effective, but the truth can very easily be the opposite!
In terms of linking fish senses and bait tastes, flavours and aromas for instance, carp can sense substances in solution down to just a few parts in a million and detect subtle energy fields in many ways in effect, so including almost any substance in your bait will be detected to some degree even it you cannot smell it or taste it or even if it supposedly inert in terms of our comparatively extremely dull human senses! Among the most potent of known substances that trigger true feeding responses in carp are undetectable by human senses. Some of these can be detected in just 1 part in a trillion concentrations in solution.
Carp are such highly evolved creatures able to adapt sensitivity to substances, sense completely new substances in water, identify new food sources and monopolise them to their own benefit. You can condition and train carp just the same as dogs by repetition of positive rewards (using new and thus safer baits.) Flavours are such a favourite topic of those anglers that know very little about how bait substances actually work and how carp evolved and why they are actually able to sense anything in the water physically or chemically, to any meaningful depths of impacts at all.
Flavours are literally the compounds which totally constitute your bait and are experienced simultaneously all at once by carp senses. So if you think that a sweet top note of maple will round off a liver or fish bait, just remember that the carp are experiencing every single individual natural flavour and taste compound within those ingredients at the exact same time as any additional added flavours. In fact flavours are often substances which mask some of the most beneficial aspects of certain carp bait substances.
It is very ironical that so many carp anglers actually mistakenly believe that bitter flavours turn fish off so you have to sweeten your baits. The fact is that countless winning flavours from decades of carp fishing are bitter in taste, though they might smell like sweet cream or ripe strawberries! Sweeteners of many forms are best used in baits alongside one another because they form multiple feed inducing impacts and effects on multiple levels. For instance the sweet protein-based sweetener called Talin will impact on the senses very differently to raspberry ketone, butyric acid, milk lactone, amyl acetate, ethyl butyrate, iso-eugenol, honey, maple syrup, molasses, icing sugar, milk B plus, lactose and so on.
The carp bait substances you choose literally manipulate their behaviours as they influence which hormones production which forms of physical actions; for instance the filter feeding on dissolved bait substances, or movement towards baited areas following concentration gradients, or intensive competitive feeding and repeated bait consumption. Revealed in my unique readymade bait and homemade bait carp and catfish bait secrets eBooks is far more powerful information look up my unique website (Baitbigfish) and see my biography below for details of my eBooks deals right now!
By Tim Richardson.