How many times have you sat behind motionless rods waiting for a bite while watching carp merrily clearing up your free baits and all the time wondering what on earth you can do produce a hooked fish?! One part of the answer is not simply what your bait is or how you apply it, but what your bait is not! Read on to discover more and get some proven ideas for hooking more fish!

Your observation skills may be good, or they may be bad but they can be very much a part of your carp fishing success. You learn so much by watching fish respond to your presence at the bankside. What they do when you cast out or bait up is also very interesting and almost as important as what happens when you pack up and vacate your swim, only to sneak stealthily back to observe fish over your baited area!

If you want to catch more big cold water carp but are in need of a little sound technical advice about bait substances and bait choices to improve your catches that have been very well proven in winter - then read on!

Carp live in an environment ruled by water but why is this obvious fact something you can exploit to catch many more fish?! Carp detect your baits by many actions and interactions of substances both upon their senses and upon the water itself. So for instance take the example of ethyl alcohol based concentrated flavours which are popular in winter. These are very highly soluble in water and so disperse very quickly through the water. This dispersal through its mixing with water produces a concentration gradient of flavours that carp can follow back to your bait easily. Many great winter flavours have this kind of effect.

Carp fishing and catfish fishing are expensive sports and this article will help you avoid having to keep on paying for costly water soluble PVA products to bait up with - and will show you how to make much cheaper baits especially for winter (or all year round!) So read on for the very cheap and effective carp bait recipe ideas that are revealed here!

We humans are all very familiar with carbohydrates as land based forms of life; and nutrition from wheat grains, maize and sweetcorn kernels and rice for example are vital staple sources of food around the world and these offer minimal amounts of protein and other essentials required to sustain life. Cheap carbohydrates are also used in farmed carp feeds too. Proteins are obviously an important factor in carp feed design as carp utilise proteins to such an incredible degree, and these can be incorporated in unusual ways in cheaper forms of carp bait formulas and you will see!

To boost your catches one of the easiest and effective methods is to maximise the attractiveness of many readymade and homemade baits using potent unique bait soaks. These added liquids enable you to include incredibly attractive biologically-active substances which may be damaged if used before baits are boiled. Here are some details of highly stimulating nutritional bait liquids and powdered additives that can easily improve your cold water catches when using readymade and homemade baits!

Many readymade baits are made with the cheapest highly concentrated solvent-based flavours. Certainly over-loaded baits work but there are alternatives! Just one great trick is to soak your cheap readymade baits in a different flavour combination. For example soaking your baits in a nature-identical flavour combined with some added Minamino, cumin oil, predigested fish peptides, and PPC liquid. This new mixture will really boost natural nutritional attraction and very much reduce the potentially negative impacts of using certain all too familiar solvent based flavours!

baits need ideally to be easy and make fast to make or prepare. Here are some innovative ideas for proven naturally-based cheap homemade baits anyone can make easily and fast and use to great effect when on holiday or stuck for choice!

The idea of using particle baits like maple peas, black eye beans, hazelnuts, peanuts or Brazil nuts seems to be very foreign to so many carp anglers today despite these being very well proven baits for big fish in past decades (as well as today but more on the quiet!) Ccmoore offer Brazil nuts pre-cooked which are obviously highly effective. But not everyone thinks ahead when on holiday or cannot source readymade baits.

to laugh when I hear about homemade corn or maize flour type baits actually being used for competition carp fishing! (fishing matches or tournaments are not the limit of competing as we are all fishing against fish instincts - which is why you need to exploit them by using better baits!) Corn or maize baits are about the least nutritionally attractive of any baits you can possibly choose as competitive baits! You can do a quantum level better than this " so read on now and benefit from being much more open-minded about winning homemade baits!

an account of my latest carp fishing exploits and catches by refining my cheap homemade baits and includes details of natural flavours, feeding triggers, nutritional attraction, enhancers, essential oils, new attractors (and much more besides) to boost my catches!

I have not been fishing recently although last time I fished the local pond with some of my homemade baits and hooked 3 out of the ponds estimated 6 residents - in just 2 and a half hours! Having previously hooked just 5 of them in total in 10 visits shows I did something very right regarding the baits used, rig preparation and actual fishing and baiting approach this time because these fish are very clued-up and constantly fished for by anglers often using very fine tackle and tiny baits.

u can pull to your baits the more carp you will catch! Betaine is a big buzz word in carp fishing and listed as an extremely potent ingredient in boilies and pellets and other baits and liquid complexes etc too. Read on to discover more about how it works, how to use it far better - and catch many more fish!

The betaine most often offered for use in carp fishing baits is the commonest natural form usually referred to as glycine betaine or trimethylglycine; the free base form. (This is a quaternary ammonium compound related to the amino acid glycine.) This product is the familiar white sweet-tasting crystalline stuff often called the anhydrous betaine form. It is stable up to 200 degrees Celsius - so boiling it in baits does not damage it!

e to carp baits than meets the eye (and human senses) and these hidden factors can easily give you those edges you need to catch a big very wary fish or catch you far more than your fair share of fish over all; so read on for some surprising carp bait secrets!

I never got on with chess as a kid but I sure loved watching fish. All those videos all over the place showing carp feeding in the presence of free baits, and then in the presence of free baits plus a baited rig illustrate only to a limited degree what could be going on in your lake with your fish!

carp but it is only a small proportion of anglers that catch the biggest fish most frequently! To become one of this special group is the goal of countless carp anglers today. Here are a few very well proven innovative bait tips that you and your carp will find highly stimulating!

Firstly, how many of you use meat baits? Luncheon meat, spam, turkey grill, ham and similar meat baits were exceptionally popular baits in the past before boilies and pellets became all the rage and very many famous carp anglers learnt their trade using this along with bread, sweetcorn, specially-prepared high protein pastes, trout pellets and other fish and bird and pet food baits.

I ask this question because this is a neglected area in carp fishing today, now so many anglers exclusively are using baits like boilies, pellets, natural baits and particles like maggots, fake plastic boilies and rubber sweetcorn. Among the best aspects of meat baits is they are very easily available, are alternative baits that carp do not see all the time and so learn to deal better with and do not fear to the extent of many other bait formats.

One of the best features of meat baits such as luncheon meat is that it has an unusual rubbery texture, is high in attractive oils, yet is water soluble, is nutritious and can be flavoured too. Various bait companies offer flavoured luncheon meat and similar products. Everyone knows luncheon met is a proven bait for lots of species including carp, catfish and barbel in specimen sizes. There is lots you can do with it to improve results that the majority of anglers forget.

For instance you can exploit various brands in your free-baiting so it is far more effective, rather like using very soluble ground baits like tiny pellets. All you need to do is use a few different brands and see which spam and luncheon meats have more or less water content, fat content and actual meat content. Usually a guide to this is the order and percentage of such ingredients in order stated on the label, with the largest ingredients per volume stated first. This means that some meats with have far more water or fat in them compared to other and also less meat. The ones with more meat are often much less water soluble and are best for resilient hook baits, while the more water and fat-filled ones make for excellent free baits.

One of the big plusses about meats is you can cut them instantly into any size and shape you like and so make them harder for carp for instance to deal with. The various brands also vary in their relative densities and buoyancies and this can all be used in various ways to your advantage to hook many more fish. I began fishing luncheon meat in the Seventies by actually fishing tiny cubes on the point of a size 10 hook and using a light running lead rig, a hook link of only 3 or 4 inches, a tight line and a very light indicator on the line with the rod pointing straight at the lead. This produced so many carp for me compared to other methods that I still use variants of it using various baits in my fishing for carp today.

As meat can be cut, various specialist and homemade tools can be used to generate uniform or odd-shaped free baits. I really favour using 2 different brands of luncheon meat for instance within my ground baits and PVA bag mixes and big carp love it! I have always found that using nearly square or rectangular baits are much harder for carp to deal with and eject than all those uniformly round shaped baits that the majority use. In the Eighties I used to cut my boilies into squares and in so doing it made them smaller. Strangely enough, this resulted in captures of many carp that had not been caught for a long time, some often with smaller mouths than you would expect for their size, especially in regards to common carp.

I have also found over the years that using a much more water soluble meat bait in a large size on a hair immediately by the hook, and alongside a boilie or pop-up bait has worked wonders for tripping up many wary carp over thirty and forty pounds. I evolved this further and often make homemade balanced protein pastes which are peppered (literally) and liberally, with small pieces of luncheon meat and even tiny chopped bits of worms and sea foods such as mussels, scallops, prawns, squid, and others.

I often made homemade pastes using many forms of oily fish like tinned salmon, anchovies and sardines, mackerel and herring, tuna and cod roe and other goodies. I place my paste actually around the hook and around baits on the hair rig too. This works so well in obscuring the hook from wary eyes and when it breaks down leave an irresistible pile of tiny food items that really trigger feeding and seriously improve numbers of bites from big wary fish.

A variation on this is to prepare homemade balls of ground bait that have been super-boosted with very well chosen forms of amino acid-rich ingredients and additves which often make the soluble and digestible content of many readymade baits look pretty impotent by comparison! I could add things like nucleotide enhancers, amino-rich palatants and complexes of many kinds, flavoured oils, essential oils and many other liquids and additves.

I generally use the very most potent products I can source especially when it comes to making homemade hook baits and PVA bag type mixes. Soaking luncheon meat baits in cubes and cylinders etc (in various sizes) for a few days, in special preparations really works! You might just go for conventional additives hat carp get to experience all the time and may begin to be wise to, such as marine halibut pellet oil, tiger nut oil and extract. Take it from me that adding aniseed oil and fennel oil to meats makes all the difference in colder temperatures as well as being excellent for summer use in high levels!

I especially recommend you try always to be as different and alternative as possible in preparation of your baits because it is this that multiplies your catches of the bigger, older most experienced and wary carp, most of all! For starters you might make a liquid soak using Ccmoore Marine Amino Compound with Feedstim CP or Odyssey XP liquid.

I used to use Rod Hutchinson Shellfish Sense Appeal or Nash Strawberry or Peach palatants but I have found methods to make my own unique amino acid complexes from fermented liver and natural flavour compounds among other goodies that save me an absolute fortune in homemade bait and I very rarely use readymade baits.

I use things like kelp, yeasts and Robin Red to make my own homemade liquid extracts using various special techniques to make such things even more potently bioactive. I am keen on many flavours and flavour components although I research them all as much as possible in terms of their possible bioactivity and past track record, as well as sourcing ones not known by the majority through my horticultural and health food trade contacts developed over 30 years and more.

One product I really do rate at the top of my list for productivity and great value is the hydrolysed salmon protein from CW Baits. This used with a combination of their natural flavours, pure salmon oil, betaine HCL and liquid lecithins is a great starting point liquid for all homemade bait enthusiasts as well as those anglers wishing to differentiate and boost their readymade baits! You can find masses of further information in my unique ebooks at Baitbigfish now!

By Tim Richardson.

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