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MAKING AWESOME CATFISH and CARP GROUND BAITS - Keeping Ahead of
Author: Tim Richardson
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Baiting up and fishing with hook baits like paste or dough
baits, pellets or boilies are an accepted 'method' for catching
catfish and carp.
When these baits have been prepared, soaked and impregnated with
an additional attractive additives they can really be maximised
as ground baits or 'free baits.' or hook baits. The best way and
most instant method to use boilie baits for ground baits is to
crush them.
Ideally you will add very generous quantities of amino acids
supplements and betaine hydrochloride with added mineral salts
to most conventional readymade boilie baits you might choose to
use. You will find your results are far better than the massive
majority of so called commercially produced baits with lower
levels of these stimulatory attractors in them. And your big
fish results will be much improved too.
This is because the whole point of bait is to stimulate fish
into feeding as effectively as possible and preferably as fast
as possible too! Most commercial boilie baits take far too long
to break down and fully release their attraction, as good as
they may be. They are definitely not the best way to bait up
effectively in every situation.
Many commercial boilie baits act in an 'instant attractor bait'
effect. Others are good quality base mixes with quality
attractors and stimulators and flavours too. Commercial baits
mostly have flavours because the majority of fishermen seem to
prefer to buy baits that have a recognizable 'label' or flavour.
So this is where for instance, a flavour is used as the main
focus of the bait used in a fairly high level in a carbohydrate
and not protein based readymade bait. These catch fish pretty
quickly if at all because the flavour leaks out fast.
But if the fish are wise to this type of effect you might not
ever get the big fish you're after because the fish may have
learnt to eat these baits after a far longer period of them
being in the water than any average fishermen would use them on
the hook. Who do you know who uses a hook bait on their hook for
3 days straight?
It is a fact that on many big fish waters, it is the guys with
their baits left out the longest who very often fool the biggest
fish into taking their by now thoroughly washed out hook bait.
In fact most commercial boilie baits are probably at their peak
3 days after being defrosted or after being the water for at
least 3 days as they are just beginning to breakdown.
Making economical ground baits and feeding them regularly into
your swim has to be one of the best ways to attract and keep big
fish like big carp and catfish in your swim. The activity of
small fish feeding excitedly certainly attracts a water's big
fish!
You can try making a ground bait of ingredients like cooked
rice, soaked and cooked ground peanuts or fine ground mixed nuts
and seeds, soaked fermented wild bird food (cooked) all these
are soaked in additives overnight and cooked for half an hour in
water, curry powder and fructose, marmite and honey and any
other additives you think of. (Adding lots of betaine
hydrochloride really adds to the effect!
You do not need to limit yourself to expensive prepared crushed
or whole tiger nuts or hemp seed, or expensive types of pellets.)
I often use a lot of ground bait so I keep my ingredients as
cheap as possible, but they certainly work. Great bait just does
not have to be expensive to amazingly effective!
I add desiccated coconut, chilli powders and curry powders and
lots of all these! (It works out massively cheaper than any shop
bought baits or ground baits and is far more effective too!)
As an added tip you might like to add cheap milk powders,
evaporated milk, and nut and seed milks of various types and
blood powders or liver powder. Pates and fish concentrates like
anchovy and even tomato or chilli puree really turn the fish on!
Even liquidized liver, herring and squid work brilliantly in
ground baits. (Who needs expensive flavours?) Tench and catfish
seem to love these last 3, and the tench attract the catfish!
You could use ordinary white flour and oats to bind it all up or
dog food like "Vitalin" to make it all bind and form ground bait
balls. These can be thrown a surprising distance and very
accurately too, with practice! I add lots of rock or sea salt
and amino acid supplements also and these make a big difference
alongside using lots of fruit sugars or 'fructose' from the
supermarket. Molasses or black treacle really help attraction
too.
I put free amino soaked, refrozen and defrosted broken boilies
into the mix too. This is important to put the fish off guard
even more. For carp, using parmesan cheese or blue cheese powder
in your ground bait works wonders and comes into its own in
colder temperatures.
Garlic granules are great for carp and catfish and I'd add loads
of this cheap ingredient too. These 'custom made' ground baits
are simply fantastic.
This might seem a lot of work, but pick the right time to fish
when the biggest fish are really active and you'll 'empty the
water!' (But you'll probably need A LOT of bait to 'build your
swim up' with competing fish!)
The results will be just fantastic providing you keep feeding
your swim, exploit your water's feeding times and prepare your
swim with very generous amounts of baits and or ground baits
feed in advance. I might put around 10 kilograms of this ground
bait mix in a big fish swim per 12 hours. However it is balanced
so that it is dissolving in the water immediately it is thrown
out.
Get yourself a big 20 kilogram sack of fine ground peanuts and
use this as the basis for your ground baits along with wild bird
food (containing hemp seed and other fine seeds.) It's the
cheapest way to bait up and is amazingly effective (how many
anglers bait up with these 2 together!)
Bind these with white flour, or "Vitalin" or any other cheap
binder you wish. If you wish to add cheap protein why not use
sausage meat mashed up and mixed in, for instance? Very big fish
can come cheap at the price!
The author has many more fishing and bait 'edges' up his sleeve.
Every single one can have a huge impact on catches. (Warning:
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By Tim Richardson.
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