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MAXIMIZING CATFISH and CARP BAITS - Stimulating Ingredients
Author: Tim Richardson
Article:
Do you have a problem with your present fishing bait or
recipe? Some catfish and carp baits are very limited in their
attraction and catch results, due to their high proportion of
insoluble ingredients. It is in fact, the soluble proportion
which truly stimulates the fish most effectively into eating
your bait and getting hooked!
For example, you may have a very basic homemade bait which
catches a few fish, perhaps a chicken meal based bait with added
garlic and honey, bound together by semolina. So what parts of
this bait are doing the real work of attracting the fish?
The chicken meal may be a course grade of unknown age and
quality. Adding water to it shows it will not dissolve very well
but gives off smells, oils and colours the water which also
indicates the leaching of amino acids and protein bait particles
suspended in the water.
The amount of water soluble amino acids are very important to
the effectiveness of your bait. The freshness and quality and
solubility of your protein ingredients such as chicken meal, are
very important too. Your stimulating amino acid providing, bait
protein content may be any of a variety of fish or shellfish
meals, meat meals, etc.
The effects of your baits amino acid leak off and ability to
pull fish into your swim and to your hook bait can be vastly
improved as this effect is one of the central ones required to
attract your fish quickly and effectively.
You might benefit by experimenting with dough and paste baits in
contrast to using boilies for instance and experience the
benefits of using more soluble baits and their advantages. The
advantage of using pre-soaked pellet baits or soaking such
pellet baits in amino acid based attractors need to be exploited
and expanded upon too!
There are very effective natural flavours which are highly and
actively stimulatory, as opposed to using esters and solvent
type flavours. Even using predigested fish protein in solution
with betaine hydrochloride and added salt, gives an interesting
'alternative' very effective flavour.
If your bait contains garlic, which is a very popular choice for
catfish and carp, you have a bait which contains actually
contains a stimulatory blood thinner with many other interesting
qualities and many which are still unknown. The type of
attraction or stimulation from the garlic can be enhanced and
added to by using other extracts and additives also with such
stimulatory properties. Even pineapple powder for instance.
Various mineral and vitamin supplements help here too and the
salt form plant extract betaine hydrochloride is another
example. You might wish to try celery extract alongside it with
yeast extract too. Salts are highly stimulatory too and these
have some involvement in to production and success of the
popular 'catfish soaps' used in the States. (In fact
fermentation of bait or bait ingredients is very effective.)
Your bait may contain honey, another very popular choice in
homemade baits for catfish or carp. Refined sweeteners and
energy sources such as honey, molasses and so on are very
effective in baits, although some modern sweeteners and
proprietary fishing bait sweeteners are extremely effective even
in tiny doses in bait.
You bait may be based on desiccated ground chicken liver for
instance. Chicken is a good protein for use in baits because its
sustainable production for example, being fed on corn. This is
in contrast to the use of fish and shellfish from the sea, or
farmed fish fed on fishmeal and not vegetable sources.
In this case, the rate of demand is far outstripping the supply
and using these ingredients for fishing bait may not seem that
responsible when sustainable and very effective alternatives can
be used as whole protein and amino acid sources in baits.
Many bait are severely limited in their fish attraction from
range and immediate fish feed triggering capacity! Ideally you
need that 'extra something' to get the carp and catfish etc far
more stimulated into taking your bait and on a far more regular
basis.
For example, all fish can actually sample and 'feed' on your
bait before eating it by 'filter' feeding and sensing its water
soluble elements in your bait. So in many ways they already
'feel' the effects of the bait before actually eating it. The
more you can stimulate the fish like this using their own
olfactory systems the better and especially at range too.
This way you are more likely to draw numbers of feeding
stimulated fish into your swim. Ideally you will have the
biggest fish competing between themselves for your bait. This
feeding behaviour makes it far easier to hook them of course!
Therefore the real secret of a great bait is to give the fish
amazing stimulation and benefits signals dissolved in the water
even before the fish are even in your swim or near the bait.
For example: many powerful plant extracts and ingredients can be
used, like betaine, chilli oil, salts, minerals, vitamins,
liquid amino acids and predigested soluble meals as bait
ingredients, all have this effect.
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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Tim Richardson is a carp and catfish bait-making expert, and a
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