Powerful Carp Fishing Bait Flavours and Fermentation Secrets!

Why not exploit these great bait, ground bait and other free baiting suggestions to multiply your catches of big fish and some of these will be new to almost everyone who reads this article, so read on...

Carp utilise fermentation a lot so what is it; why is this important, and how can we exploit it and its products in numerous ways to catch more fish? I know most of us carp anglers are familiar with fermentation from the point of our drinking beer, larger, spirits, wines and so on, but these things are all significant clues to improving your catches!

Most of us are very familiar with the age old scenario where we find an old bait from a trip a few months ago lost in the bottom of our fishing bag and for whatever reason decide to give it a try. Now this bait very probably looked and smelt rather different compared to when it was fresh even to point of being a bit unpleasant to the senses.

So you have cast out and proceed to set up your camp but suddenly, after only 5 minutes out, you get a take, and end up landing either the biggest fish of your trip, or maybe the only fish of your trip! So what is going on here and why might this have happened?

Bacteria abound in our environment and we ourselves are no exception, even though we have a digestive system much longer than that of a carp we utilise natural balances of beneficial bacteria (and fungi like yeasts) in our gut, which have a variety of impacts upon your body's abilities to most efficiently digest and assimilate food. This is especially in the case of food items that perhaps our natural digestive enzymes cannot fully handle entirely.

Anyone who has used enzymes in their baits will know they are effective feeding triggers, enhancers and attractors in their own right and most of us are using them without realising it. Bacteria and fungi build up in our baits and of course, given suitable conditions including moisture, air, an energy source such as the ingredients in your bait, they will activate their own enzymes to digest you bait and absorb its nutrients for themselves and also make various side products too.

We have even got the fashion of introducing so-called probiotic bacteria into our diets to improve our general health, improve digestion and even strengthen our immune systems. The most beneficial bacterial are a very specific range and not all bacteria are effective for this purpose and of course some are even harmful.

The live bacteria are what work as opposed to the pasteurised sort in the popular yogurts which are already dead! Use of live corn steep liquor is a great idea in baits and ground baits and microbial activity in baits is a good thing for so many reasons, but beware that rancid baits are not good!

Fermentation is basically the chemical reaction between the microbial enzymes breaking down substances into smaller units and of course alcohol and various naturally common acids are well known results. Every carp angler knows that alcohol and acids of various forms are very successful carp attractors, but some can be more than this and actually be serious feeding triggers themselves. Yeast and yeast products are very well proven carp feeding stimulants for very many great reasons...

Butyric acid is a very common flavour component and more recently known as a flavour used individually. It is an awful smelling substance though and I know it can put many anglers off using it because it is simply so potent and impacts on our own senses!

It is interesting in regards flavours than many successful carp bait flavours are highly volatile in air and many of the most familiar fruit, sweet and spice flavours for instance are highly noticeable to use. Some flavours are less volatile in air but are still extremely effective. When you go past a bakers, or a Chinese restaurant, or a carvery you will be noticing flavours and other substances in the air and this is actually exploited (frequently deliberately,) to get you into the shop!

Meats like hams are cured in order to produce further flavours and age them suitably and this goes for cheeses too. Both are highly successful carp baits, not simply for their protein and fat content either, but for the flavours they give off and the very significant salts that they contain.

Salting of meats is used for various reasons, but obviously it enhances taste. Apparently butyric acid can be produced in the right conditions from proteins not just carbohydrate sources and this is probably far more important than is realised in the attraction of many of our captures on mouldy old baits.

I'm certain the salts that are also formed are extremely important too, yet relatively few carp anglers apply specific salts and salt-like substances in order to enhance the taste of their baits and ground baits. Many of the more savvy carp bait companies offer bait enhancers, knowing it is bait taste that most promotes repeated feeding activity of the kind that multiplies your chances of takes the most.

Unfortunately most carp anglers have been focussed so much on flavours and smells rather than taste that taste has been relegated to a secondary position. Taste or bait palatability seems much more important than smell in achieving actually getting our hooks inside fishes mouths!

Think about it; you get a 5 brands of crisps, each with exactly the same flavour on the packet. Each probably smells pretty much the same, but what happens when you taste them? Some will certainly not match the flavours you smelt; in fact although you might have liked the smell of some of the brands, the taste of them did not match up to the promise of their smell! Perhaps only 1 brand was preferable to you and you could not get enough of them. Sometimes this is the brand from a lesser known company of crisp producer.

How often do you find salts and flavours together in snack foods, often with yeast extract? This is for no reason, after all each ingredients costs more money to put into the food. Well the foods you eat do condition your taste buds to a great degree and will get you into the habit of wanting to eat and buy more foods with these in. this also includes things like the taste enhancer monosodium glutamate.

Glutamic acid one of those things you will very likely find in your old baits alongside butyric acid and many other flavours and salts and sugars, predigested proteins, broken down oils and much more aside. Many baits contain soya flour and many of us are familiar with soya source as a flavour enhancer and product of fermentation of soya bean products etc.

Belachan or fermented shrimp paste as used oriental soup and other dish taste as a very distinctive flavour and taste improver used to be one very well kept secret bait additive in carp bait circles for years. How anglers do you know that deliberately exploit active fermentation within the materials they use within their PVA bags for instance that very powerfully pull fish to their hook baits? I'm not going to suggest how it can be done in various ways here but it is easily done.

Some of you might have noticed that many condiments which we use to enhance the flavour and palatability of our foods contain results of fermentations and crab, fish and shrimp sources are great examples. Even the most taken for granted tomato ketchups and vinegars are included here. You might not be so surprised now that a low pH flavour like pineapple that contains butyric acid, teamed with butyric acid itself in a winter bait is so universally successful...

All these things are highly attractive not just to us, but to carp which are highly sensitive to all of these substances; it any wonder that old baits work so well?! There are many substances from bait companies as well as things we can do ourselves to improve our boilies, pellets and particle baits and ground baits by exploiting fermentation and its products.

You can seriously multiply your catches when you know how to do this for yourself; even make your own unique flavours and active bait ingredients and ground baits. In fact many of the very best flavours and bait additives and ground bait liquids available today are products of fermentation. But it is not simply what you know about any individual bait additive for instance, but how you creatively use what you know to improve your catches. (There is great information available on this vital subject!)

So now you realise the enormous importance of fermentation and palatability in carp baits perhaps it's worth taking a lot more interest and give your catches a genuinely powerful boost...

By Tim Richardson

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Worm Fishing - Tips For Successful Angling

For me there has never been a better way to catch fish, especially in the current of small rivers and streams, than worm fishing. As you can probably tell this article isn't about the worm fishing that bass anglers engage in, but rather traditional worm fishing with as Hank Hill once called them good old American worms. As a matter of fact there have been some breakthroughs in technology and Berkley makes Powerbait and Gulp worms that are every bit as effective as real worms. This article is about worm fishing with either live or synthetic worms such as Gulp night crawlers.

In this article you will learn some great tips for successful angling with worms. These tips were both taught to me by my fishing mentor (the best worm angler I've ever known) and learned through personal experience over the last 25 years of fishing. These tips are effective and they will make anyone a much more successful angler.

Most of these tips are best employed in the flowing waters of either small rivers or streams, although they can be easily modified for most any worm fishing situation. Remember there is no tip as effective as spending time on the water practicing your craft. Spending time fishing is the best way to learn to catch more fish, and these tips will most certainly help as well.

1. Deep Water Is Your Friend - In any small river or stream there will be a series of riffles (shallow water), runs (deeper flowing water), and pools(the deepest water with least current). Most fish will be found in deeper water most of the time. This isn't always the case, but it's a good rule to start with. The deeper flowing water of runs are a great place to fish with worms as bait.

2. Bottom Is Your Friend - When worm fishing you will have the most success when your worm is bouncing along the bottom naturally, with the current. The best way to accomplish this is to attach your hooks to your line using a small barrel swivel and use small slit shot sinkers as weight. Split shot are then added or removed depending on the depth of the water and current flow to keep your offering bouncing along the bottom.

3. Gang Hooks Are Your Friend - When worm fishing one of the most important points is that your bait look as natural as possible. You want your worm to look like, well a worm, and this is accomplished through the use of gang hooks. Gang hooks are simply a pair of small hooks tied in tandem which enable worms to be presented in an outstretched and natural manner.

4. Clean Hands Are Your Friend - Any scents that are on your hands will transfer to your worm and cost you bites. This is especially true with larger, more experienced fish. For this reason you want to make sure that your hands are free from any unnatural scents. This can be accomplished either by using odor neutralizing soap or by rubbing your hands in a handful of grass or dirt before baiting up. Clean hands make a difference when worm fishing.

Use one or all of these tips sooner rather than later and you will become a much more successful worm angler. Worm fishing is every bit the 'art form' that other forms of fishing have been proclaimed to be if you take it seriously. You can become a master worm fisherman, just like you can become a master painter. All that's necessary is practice and determination.

By Trevor Kugler

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Tips About Fishing Equipment

For some people, their fishing is just a way to pass the time gently but to others it is a very serious matter indeed. It is important to have the proper equipment no matter what sport you are participating in, and the same goes for fishing. There is some important tips that you are going to need to equip yourself before you go fishing.

1.Fishing Boat
As you are getting ready to start, the first consideration is how to reach the water. You make your way to the fishing dock dreaming you had the perfect fishing boat so you were landlocked no more. You can choose the boats with hulls for overnight stays and rough waters, or small boats for small lakes, the former are obviously more expensive than the latter. Before making a purchase, read and understand the warranties fully. Make sure the boat has proper certification and also, just like cars, boats must be registered.

2. Tackle Box
Make sure to know well the most common types of fishing tackle; lures, flies, hooks, floats and sinkers. Once we have covered these basic elements you will have a better idea of what is needed to fill up your fishing tackle box. Most anglers have at least three tackle boxes: one for the home (reserve), one left in the car and of course one for when they are in the boat. This enables you to be covered against any loss or accident. Getting all your fishing supplies in huge quantities towards the start of the season is a wise idea as this keeps you ready for fishing at night.

3.Dress for Fishing Trip
Wear a comfortable set of waders. These aren't your typical boots. They are made to keep your feet dry while you are fishing at the edge of a lake of river. Remember to pack your hat gloves and a waterproof jacket.

Finally , if you want to make the most of your time fishing then you really need to carefully consider whether all needed equipment are available.

By Iden Blacksmith

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Special Winter Carp Fishing Tackle and Bait Tips!

Winter carp fishing can very often be more productive in many ways with less anglers on the bank and more possibility of multiple catches of fish in a very short space of time. Prepare well for big rewards in winter and spring and some of the biggest fish can be yours now so read on!

When water temperatures drop to under about 16 degrees Celsius carp metabolism and feeding is markedly affected leading to changes in behaviours that differ to summer for example. We can exploit such changes and make winter catches much easier. For instance, the first winter I seriously winter fished almost no carp were caught during certain months, but the syndicate members on this lake were just getting started.

While at Agricultural College in the early and mid-eighties I recall using the UK meteorological office data from the previous 30 years on winter temperatures. I used this to help me chart winter temperatures and pressures and spot current patterns to exploit in terms of best probable fish feeding conditions.

In doing this I guess I may have been described as one of those who accidentally noticed the effects of global warming but the sudden rise of winter temperatures I noticed at that time and ever since that time really had me puzzled. When global warming was being discussed as an issue and not yet accepted as fact back in the early nineties I already knew a cover-up was taking place!

In fact as I worked outside for my living for majority of the past 30 years and rain patterns, dry spells, extremes of temperature and these effects on plants and animals just cannot be ignored. I began seeing the warmer seasons extending, starting earlier and ending later with some winters with such little frost that certain deciduous trees and shrubs actually kept some of their leaves on all the way from summer to late spring.

Much as I thought warmer winter temperatures for carp fishing was a good thing at the time, it has in fact meant for many that winter fishing has become harder due to various factors. At many waters, the traditional late autumn feed in preparation for the onset of winter seems now to be much less noticeable, or much earlier than before. September can be even more productive now and Late April and May are 2 periods I am especially keen to exploit now.

Everyone is now aware of altered migrations of birds now and to see roses in full bloom in the UK and geraniums lasting outside in sheltered microclimate positions for instance are now more common signs we are moving towards a more Mediterranean climate. Some common birds species are not even wasting energy by migrating for the winter and are remaining in various locations in the UK all winter!

The mass use of high oil highly nutritious fish meal boilies and marine halibut pellets for instance definitely has provided UK cap with far higher levels of stored energy reserves. This can mean reduced requirement for many fish to feed during the colder months. Despite the possibility of reduced feeding due to such enormous mass use of high energy pellets for instance at most carp waters, incredible winter catches are there to be had for everyone and every fish is an individual with different needs.

It is not uncommon to catch winter and spring carp covered in leeches and with leeches inside their mouths that have build-up as a result of very low carp activity levels. You will notice too that often the colour of winter carp are fantastic. It perhaps is no coincidence that antioxidant additives and substances that contain colour pigments that boost the immune system are very successful in winter time.

In winter you need bait that will not fill fish up prematurely and stop them feeding. What you need is food that is very highly digestible with excellent soluble nutritional attraction. (I include in the attraction of highly potent antioxidant substances.)

Spices and herbs and many other natural products packed with bioactive and antioxidant substances are really well proven in low temperatures, and a whole new generation of baits and bait and ground bait-making ingredients are now available and especially good for winter use.

Milk powders have always been great in winter and products like supermarket milk powders and also Vitamealo for example are great in hook baits and ground baits, spod and stick mixes and paste etc. Although many anglers discuss the advantages or disadvantages of milks in terms of how far carp digestion might actually deal with their elements, milk ingredients have been in use in most of the leading readymade carp baits for decades for very good reasons. (Some of these have nothing to do with nutrition at all!)

Soluble nutritional attraction is vital and the predigested additives and ingredients in winter baits can make all the difference. Summer boilies designs that are high in predigested protein ingredients that last just 3 hours on an immersed hair-rig in warm water, might well last 6 hours in winter conditions. A mixture of 50 percent whole egg powder with Vitamealo, and fermented shrimp powder (European) from Ccmoore for instance, makes a great bait especially with their Marine Amino Compound at the rate of 30 millilitres per kilogram of bait for instance.

Fish can move so slowly and so little in winter it is amazing we get any bites at all sometimes. Moving your baits every hours on a water searching out every possible spot, is often much better than casting out and waiting for bites from fish that may be in the vicinity, but just will not move!

Even 30 years ago it was common for me to catch fish in winter on rigs I knew were probably tangled (this was before the predominant usage of rig tubing, lead core leaders etc.) I was unwilling to move these rigs however, having cast them exactly onto known tight feeding spots. Many of these tangled rigs were effectively only 2 or 3 inches long at best but they more often than not caught fish.

It reminds me of the short length of the now popular so-called helicopter style chod rigs for example, where the hook link is very short. Years ago I used light leads mostly under 2 ounces in weight and I found the fluted flat-bottomed Arlesey bomb types of 2 ounces or under to be great fish hookers. These would end up in a tangled rig frequently, but would often not bury themselves deep in bottom silt and the short tangled rigs teamed with 5 bait stringers really worked!

I recall cutting special roller wheels for my Optonic bite alarms that had about 24 slender arms to trigger the light beam inside and indicate the least possible lime movement from very shy biting carp in winter. Using the higher vibration and sensitivity settings on modern digital alarms for example and exploiting new refined bite indicators with adjustable line pressures etc, all add up to more winter fish!

Location is of paramount importance and that is all about knowing your lake at all times of year and only personal experience can give you an instinct for this and sometimes you are right and other times wrong, perhaps due to changes in fishing pressure on a particular area, pre-baiting by other anglers, or slightly different prevalent autumn winds building-up silt and carp food items in different locations to previous years.

Fish location is an art form that requires extremely sharp senses sometimes but you can leverage bating and lines and bite alarms to locate your fish. Often in winter you might get not a single bite sound from your bite alarm. Casting around until you do get some kind of feedback is very useful indeed and from this you might locate fish, or fresh silk weed, green Canadian pond weed, or even bloodworm.

If you know your swims in very great detail and keep this knowledge very regularly up-dated, then you will also notice changes in the bottom silt and in leaf and other detritus or chod deposits. Use of a braided line and specially grooved feature-finding leads to feel for clay, gravel and silt characteristics that indicate positive changes made by carp activity are invaluable.

The lake bed hardness and textures and even depths and consistencies and smells of silts can very frequently be caused by feeding carp and be identified and exploited. Some of the changes in the bottom of a lake caused by carp activities can be far beyond the belief of the average angler! Location of certain of these features have lead to great breakthroughs in winter and early spring fishing results for me for sure.

One prominent example of the nature of winter fish location was while fishing an exposed and apparently featureless clay lined reservoir. I remember fishing 2 baits on a particular spot in a swim in early February following a period when there had not been a single carp caught for 5 weeks. This spot was only place discovered to produce fish on the whole lake for quite a while so it was kept very quiet! Using a knowledge of the food-rich thick weed beds that existed in warmer months, I could locate the edges and channels made by the old weed beds that fish used to navigate and feed along.

Much repeated casting was required to get the baited rigs tight up against the old dead weed on the bottom were the fish would feed. Often of 2 rigs cast out (less than 3 feet apart,) only 1 rod would consistently produce fish 99 percent of the time indicating the fish travelled to this spot from one angle and on a very tight path. On one occasion this spot produced 4 fish in just under an hour for me, which was a very rare winter achievement at this time on the water.

As an experiment a friend cast his rod into the spot from a different swim having blanked for days and had a take before even putting his rod in rests. Such is the nature of winter fishing!

Winter fish can feed like clockwork in various spots habitually, and inducing and exploiting this behaviour with pre-baiting is a massive edge if you have the discipline to do it regularly enough! Pre-baiting holding areas and areas that you have observed fish visiting and feeding in winter such as snags and reed beds, and swims that are warmed by afternoon sun for instance, can really make catches very much easier.

Using particle type baits and finer ground baits can be a great option in winter and you can soak them in all kinds of additives and liquids you would use for boilies. Some substances are ideally suited for maximum effective water dispersal and fish feeding stimulation in low water temperatures.

Using your own creative thinking is a very big edge most especially in regards to bait and its application at this time; when some of the biggest carp in your water are most vulnerable to capture...

By Tim Richardson.

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Crappie Fishing - The List You Can't Do Without!

Gear To Catch Crappie Amazing results!

If you are a active crappie fishing angler, you know they are a unusually smart and cunning fish species. If you were a crappie in the far south, like the southern Florida area of Lake Talquin Florida, you would be hiding from gators part of the day and water moccasin snakes the other part of the day.

This means the crappie species should definitely be classified as a sporting fish, and not every fisherman who picks up a fishing pole, buys some crappie fishing gear he thinks will catch crappie,and purchases a fishing license will go home with a stringer loaded with crappie.

And if you want to out smart them, and come home with your limit of crappie- it all starts with your gear. You gotta have the right stuff, and here's has got a quick list that's been tested through decades of fishing. if you use the crappie fishing gear suggestions shown on this list you will increase your crappie fishing success.

The Quick list of Crappie Catching Gear

Use a cane pole (or bamboo pole) that can also be made of fiberglass. We recommend one that is 10 to 16ft in length.( the beauty of the bamboo pole is that it allows you to "feel the slightest movement and actually decreases the response time)

Tie a number 4, gold Aberdeen hook

Put a small, 2inch bobber about 2 feet above the hook

Put a piece of spit shot (lead weight) the size of a BB on the line right beneath the bobber.

A bucket of "Missouri Minnows" (the smallest you can find)

Well, that does it for the oldfishinghole's recommendation of recommended crappie fishing gear.

By Mark Fleagle

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Live Bait Fishing - Tips For Catching More Fish

For many anglers live bait is the bait of choice for fishing. In most cases live bait is the best bait option for a variety of fish species such as: trout, small and largemouth bass, crappie, walleye, and even catfish to name a few. In this article I'm going to provide you with some time tested tips to help you catch more fish when live bait fishing.

It's also worth noting that the Berkley Company has made some incredible breakthroughs in synthetic baits. These baits are called Berkley "Gulp" and these baits perform as well, or better than live bait in many situations. "Gulp" baits come in every type of bait imaginable from minnows to earthworms and they are all quite effective. The "Gulp" products are so effective that I consider them another form of live bait. In any case the "Gulp" products are rigged in the exact same ways as any live bait, and the tips in this article are effective with either type of "bait".

Shall we get down to business and reveal the tips for live bait fishing?

1. Always Clean Your Hands - When fish are considering eating something, they smell it first. If the fish detect any unnatural odors such as nicotine, gasoline, or humans they will tend not to bite. This is especially true with larger and more experienced fish. For this reason you always want to clean your hands and make sure that your hands are free from unnatural scents. The easiest way to accomplish this task is to grab a handful of grass or dirt and rub it into your hands before baiting up. This will effectively "wash" your hands of any unnatural scents.

2. Use Sharp Hooks - This is accomplished by either changing hooks frequently or sharpening your hooks often. Hooks become dull fairly easily, and the sharper your hooks are the more hook ups you will see. Either sharpen or change your hooks when live bait fishing after you catch a couple of fish, get snagged, or just fish for an hour or so. The sharper your hooks are the less "misses" you'll have to deal with.

3. Use Gang Hooks - When live bait fishing, gang hooks are always a great idea. This is especially true in the case of worms (either live or synthetic). Gang hooks are simply a pair of small hooks tied in tandem that enable bait to be presented in a completely natural and realistic manner. Gang hooks are a "must have item when live bait fishing. Gang hooks are effective for many different types of bait from worms to minnows to crayfish. Gang hooks and bait fishing go together like a hand and a glove.

Begin using one or all of these tips when live bait fishing and you will almost immediately begin catching more fish. Samuel Johnson once said, "A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other". The tips in this article will help you avoid the "fool" part of this very funny quote.

By Trevor Kugler

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country.....Montana!

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Fishing With Worms

In this article I'm going to outline some tips and techniques for fishing with worms. By the way I'm referring to both live or synthetic worms and not the multi-colored plastic worms that largemouth bass fisherman are so enamored with. Worms are probably the most popular fishing bait on the planet, yet most anglers don't understand the simple nuances of fishing with them.
After reading this quick article you will understand the simple nuances of fishing with worms that will make you a much more effective angler. I learned these tips more than 25 years ago and have been using then successfully ever since. Most of these tips for fishing with worms were taught to me be a man I considered to be a "worm fishing master" (if there is such a thing) and the rest have been learned though my own fishing experience.

In any case, learn these fishing tips, use them, and find out for yourself just how effective they are. Let's get down to business, shall we?

1. Use Light Line - When using worms as bait for fishing the lighter you fishing line is the more bites you will receive, it's as simple as that. This is especially true in cold, clear water where your line is highly visible to the fish. Most anglers use fishing line that's much too heavy for the fish they are trying to catch anyway. When fishing with worms use light fishing line.

2. Clean Your Hands - When fishing with worms (either live or synthetic) it is amazingly important that your hands are free of unnatural scents. Any unnatural scents that are present on your hands will transfer to your bait and cost you bites. The easiest way to accomplish this task is to wash your hands with odor neutralizing soap, or simply rub your hands in a handful of grass before baiting up. Either of these solutions will clean your hands of any unnatural scents that might be present.

3. Always Use Gang Hooks - Gang hooks are the only way to present worms in a completely natural manner, outstretched the way God intended. A worm should look like a worm when being used as bait and gang hooks are the only way to truly accomplish this task. Fishing With Worms and gang hooks go together like a hand and a glove. A worm (either live or synthetic) rigged on a set of gang hooks and allowed to flow naturally with the current of a river or stream is a deadly fishing tactic.

Steven Wright once said of anglers, "there's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot". No truer words may have ever been spoken, and these tips for fishing with worms will help you avoid the latter part of that wonderful quote.

By Trevor Kugler

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country.....Montana!

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Homemade Carp Bait Recipes For Fishing Beginners!

Carp fishing is so addictive! Many carp fishing beginners would love to make their own homemade baits so here are a few proven carp bait recipes and some solid advice to give you a big fish start; from a bait maker of 30 years experience!
When you quickly realise as a beginner that carp will at least sample almost anything used as bait to a degree, even inedible items like a cork ball or a rubber fake piece of sweetcorn, you might wonder where to begin. There may appear to be no definitive answer except probably beginning with thinking like a fish and not like an angler! You will find that doing this will give you huge advantages over your fish and very many competitive advantages over fellow anglers who do not appreciate this vital aspect of carp fishing so much!

It is very true that most foods humans eat will usually be fine as carp baits with many being outstanding having a long proven record of success. When you are thinking of making a homemade bait for carp, the popular baits used for decades make a great point to start from. I will get back to thinking like a carp in a moment.

Most new anglers know worms catch fish. But there is more power in this statement than most carp anglers will appreciate! Famous UK carp angler Kevin Maddocks used very many bait formulas on the road to becoming successful. His success is also well known to be attributable very much to his outstanding ability and competitiveness as an angler. He did many trials of bait substances on captive carp in a tank in his house.

But by probably at the zenith of his fame (upon the publication of his Carp Fever book,) he was very keen to promote worm extracts in particular... It might seem that he went full circle and actually ended up using basically the same bait a complete novice fisherman would use logically to guarantee success?

Perhaps he realised that those substances carp that carp are naturally familiar with and most confidently feed upon, that have highly stimulating nutritional benefits to carp, providing essential dietary requirements too, are one of the most logical avenues of bait substances to exploit?

Many bait enthusiasts have seriously gone down the route of researching proteins sources, amino acids and peptides, how they are detected by carp, and how they are digested even. However, under actual fishing conditions, despite years of trials, relatively few absolute conclusions about what is actually top of the list of substances to be used in carp baits have been reached. But why is there almost a fixation among most carp anglers with protein levels in particular, used in their baits.

If farming for profit is your goal, then things are much simpler, and a balanced complete pelleted diet food source with a biologically digestible protein content usually ranging from above 25 to 45 percent, for example, is well proven to produce profitable carp growth rates for fish farmers.

Carp have a basic essential dietary requirement for nitrogen and a variety of amino acids of various forms and carp need these rather than whole proteins per se according to many leading fish science sources. Carp are very sensitive to the water soluble elements of proteins and many other substances in solution, such as mineral salts. These and others certainly induce various intensities of feeding behaviours, and differing rates of feeding, or at least bring carp into range of your carp bait, in an excited mode of behaviour. The more you can get your carp to actually at least mouth your baits, the higher your chances of hooking one!

Many anglers get confused about protein in attracting carp and the ideal protein type of bait profiles used to feed carp, using a modern balanced diet in farming for profit. The 2 are not identical, and in fact there are many other substances that induce intense feeding responses in carp. The amino acids from whole protein ingredients in carp baits, such as caseins or fish meals for example are very significant indeed in the evolution of carp baits, especially in the UK for instance. (In this example a whole protein is one that is yet to be part or fully broken down by any process, such as enzyme treatment.)

Free form water soluble amino acids do not appear to be as well utilised as whole proteins in trial carp diets for example, that test growth rates, mass and protein content of growing farmed carp under test conditions.

Most carp anglers are now familiar with the fact that most carp baits provide carp with at least a minimal quantity of amino acids or these essential natural protein building blocks. Even baits made from very low protein ingredients such as many plant sources, like wheat or maize flour have proved very successful, and bread rates as one of the best of all time, despite a relatively poor protein content compared to so many other baits.

Now you might be getting to see that although amino acids, nitrogen and protein are important, they are not solely the only thing on the planet that catches carp very well, so you can open your mind and relax again! You can catch carp on bits of rubber, or wood, and these obviously work on more carp senses than simply chemical orientated curiosity of carp.

A long list of simple baits can be made for carp going back centuries, from wasp grubs, slugs and snails, to honey bread paste, and many exotic baits most anglers would never even dream of. When you consider that partly boiled potatoes were once rated highly as carp bait on a rig consisting of a hook to line, with nothing else added, you can see how things have changed in the present day. In fact this bait and rig was recommended by a nationally honoured carp fishing pioneer by the name of Fred J. Taylor, and his recommendations were among some of my first introductions to carp fishing and baits, early in the seventies.

But do not get me wrong, fishing like anything evolves as carp habits do in response to carp angler's hooks and baits. It was Fred who really started the popularisation of using sweetcorn for carp fishing in the UK. There have been many occasions when modern baits have required some previous introduction into a carp water, before good results can be expected and so-called pre-baiting is a valuable tool in carp angling. But if your want to keep everything simple, then trying a natural bait in a slightly changed form can reap instant catch results.

But using natural live baits, like worms, maggots, or even at times, hemp seed or sweetcorn, can end up catching you lots of smaller fish instead of the bigger ones you are so keen to catch, at least initially.

So what you might like to use is a bait that will remain intact long enough to be selective much more for carp to a higher degree. Most carp anglers have heard of dough or pastes being used for carp bait, but more often today, baits produced as boilies are most common and these dissolve and break down in water far less quickly than dough or paste baits. Protein has been mentioned as a carp diet essential, but this needs to be balanced by a proportion of energy providing carbohydrate food too.

Luckily for us, there are very many carbohydrate foods easily within our grasp at very little cost that we can use for effective baits. Starch is one of the energy store forms of carbohydrates and like sugar, is soluble in water, so it is well detectable by carp. In nature, starch is the natural energy source of many things. Starch is found in fruits, tubers and rhizomes (think potatoes or tiger nuts,) grasses like wheat and oats, buckwheat, and hulled cereals like groats, to seeds like maize, sweetcorn, sesame seed, rice and hempseed, to beans and peas for example.

We are taught that carbohydrates are great for humans, cereals, rice and tubers are the sources of the staple energy and minimal nutrient providing foods of most cultures around the world (corn, wheat, potatoes and rice.) Starch is a form of glucose (long chains of glucose molecules,) and both humans and carp digest and use starches to form glucose in the bloodstream for the fuel to live. But carp do differ to humans in regards to carbohydrate and protein needs for instance, but I won't go into that here.

Although starch is a stiffening agent used in many foods, it is the high protein gluten part conjoined with starch that glues carbohydrate foods and ingredients together. This mixture of soluble starch and gluey high protein gluten is ideal for making baits. All you have to think of is a basic ingredient like semolina or soya bean meal or flour. Semolina is a sticky very hard particle form of wheat flour ideal for use as a bait binding ingredient and as a flavour carrier. Soya flour like wheat flour has a long history in cheap carp bait making.

Soya has provides carp and humans with a far better nutritional profile compared to wheat, especially in regards protein content and the stimulatory as well as and essential amino acid profile it offers. Together they offer a very simple basic carp bait that carp recognise as edible which you can use as a basis to develop into many other bait recipe forms and experiments.

The fifty percent semolina and fifty percent soya flour type bait recipe, with an added attractor such as a flavour or sweetener substance that has started off so many carp bait makers, world-wide. As the basic combination of soya flour and semolina is able to be recognised and utilised as food by carp, you can work on adding other ingredients, additives, liquids etc, to boost attraction and bait success and prolonged longevity. You can make paste or dough using this mixture and use it straight away. Adding sugar and salt in moderation as you might in making bread for example obviously adds more for fish to get excited about.

Beginners can use a recipe like this one below to successfully make a simple dough or paste mixture, that can also be boiled in water after making marble size balls out of it for example, to produce boiles:

8 ounces (or around 500 grammes) of semolina.
8 ounces (or around 500 grammes) of soya flour.
4 to 6 large hen eggs to help bind the mix and boost nutritional attraction (Preferably as fresh as possible; this is very significant.)
2 to 5 millilitres of a proprietary concentrated carp fishing flavour.
1 to 2 millilitres of a proprietary liquid intense sweetener.

Perhaps add a table spoon of blackstrap molasses or yeast extract or both to help nutritional attraction or even a proprietary vitamin and mineral compound, or Minamino for instance.

Add a heaped teaspoon of edible proprietary bait dye.

Usually the best thing to do is clear a table or work surface where you will not contaminate your own foods with bait nor get any contamination in your baits from your working environment! You might choose to use a round mixing bowl and fork specifically set aside for your bait making use. But if you can, do this initial mixing part at least using a kitchen mixing or blending machine for quicker easier results.

First crack your eggs into your container, your egg protein will help bind your mix and help to produce skinned resilient boilies or more durable paste. Add your liquids next, i.e. your flavour (or flavours,) sweetener, and molasses and (or) yeast extract. You can add your dye to the liquids or add it to your dry flour powders, it's your choice. This mix must be very thorough to efficiently disperse your liquid components evenly as possible.

The simplest way to mix a small amount of flours together is to weigh out your flours and put them into a strong plastic bag. Next tighten the top of the bag and blow into it like you would when blowing up a balloon. Now proceed to really shake those powders until they are very well evenly mixed.

This is all standard stuff and to be honest, there are very many alternative methods and much faster and labour removing options that can be used these days, but anyway, this route is proven to work by hundreds of thousands of carp anglers. All you do now is transfer your flour gradually while still mixing it into the liquid all the time, until a firm dough is formed. Like anything, you will soon speed up and getting the consistency correct for any mix takes a little practice and experience in actually doing it, just like making bread dough does.

If your mix is not pliable enough to be moulded because it is too dry, carefully add a mixture of the liquids you have already put together. If your mix is too wet, add more dry powders. Now your bait is ready. If you want to make boilies, usually you would roll your baits into small balls or random pieces and boil them in water for a few minutes a handful at a time, then dry on paper or towels, then bag-up to store in the fridge or freezer.

This recipe and bait making procedure is about as simple as you can get but by definition is the most labour intensive way and there are many short-cuts you can make! Also such carbohydrate baits are a very long way from maximum of carp bait design by exploiting those vital fish senses, but they work on most waters in most carp fishing situations. Often when used in larger quantities these cheap baits can be very effective, usually for limited periods of time, for carp of all sizes.

This is a bait that can get you some big-time beginners luck in your carp fishing, and even get you thinking just how much better you can make your baits; and I know you will be extremely surprised! It will cost you very little to multiply your catches for life when you find and utilise the right bait information (just look a little further...)

By Tim Richardson

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Homemade Carp Bait Recipes and Ingredients - Secrets of Making Pop Up Baits!

Most carp bait mixes are cooked in a microwave oven to enable them to float, but there are many methods to achieve floating and so-called pop-up carp baits, in order to present your bait as suitably as possible for the highest chances of a bite from wary carp... So read on and discover more!

Bicarbonate of soda and other carbonates work to open up the dense structure for dense baits like milk proteins for instance. But these baits still need baking or micro-waving to get their structure to heat up and expand and dehydrate as a stable structured bait that is durable, consistently buoyant and resilient in water. Milk protein based pop-up baits have proven their pedigree for carp for decades and many leading bait companies still use milk ingredients despite their high price today with very good reason...

The list of ingredients and ratios used for pure milk protein pop-up baits is varied but include quite a number of extracts and milk derivatives and fractions which are often 75 to 95 percent protein or more. The relatively insoluble framework structure in baits formed by extremely high protein milk caseins and their long chain molecules for instance, have been a reliable and productively proven basis of pop-up baits historically, for decades.

Cooking baits by microwave method is one of the easiest methods to make buoyant and pop-up baits for sure and most formulas of baits will float after treatment for varying lengths of time if they have a suitable protein structure for instance (inclusion of eggs guarantee this.)

Each bait mix needs their cooking times refined. Your cooking process needs to be stopped often well before actual burning point as baits carry on cooking for a period of time after the cooker is turned off! Adding extra liquid additives while cooked baits are still warm has proven to be very effective as these penetrate the baits very well and are ideal in particular for single baits fishing at range.

If your cooked buoyant baits have already cooled, you can add extra liquid additives and freeze these into baits instead, but this will affect bait durability and duration of buoyancy among other things. However, such soaked baits have more pulling power generally than un-soaked baits and have proven to work very well (and very quickly) even on giant waters for me. It is often possible to produce buoyant and pop-up baits by cooking ordinary readymade boilie baits in a microwave oven, but this can take some experimentation!

Adding extra wheat gluten and egg albumin can reduce effects of expansion and water soaking into many formulas of boiled or steamed carp baits. In many buoyant baits it is simply the ratio of more buoyant ingredients that is altered between the sinking or bottom bait version recipe, and the pop-up bait recipe version, although many include milk proteins far more in this particular instance.

Many leading commercially made carp bait companies use or have used micro-waving (or grilling) as their preferred pop-up bait making method. This including Richworth and Rod Hutchinson; again these baits work better with attractive liquids added while baits are still warm from cooking although these can of course be added at any other time too in order to boost bait performance.

Many anglers try to get as high a protein content as possible in their pop-ups. Often this is achieved using high levels of acid casein combined with rennet casein. To this is often added other ingredients offering more food massage stimuli especially in regards amino acids and add other forms of bait attraction too. Baked pop-up baits can be made to be rock hard, very durable and attractive to big fish in particular.

Milk proteins are interesting as so few carp anglers use them as pure milk protein ingredients baits today. They make rock hard baits which carp experience very little today and which are often sucked well back to the back of the mouth swiftly in order to crush them in the pharyngeal teeth in the throat. Many softer baits get pressed between the lips and played with in many less productive ways for the angler as these are often used and often more easily dealt-with by carp familiar with these hook baits.

You can make pop-up baits using a wealth of ingredients, some will produce much softer, or much harder sinking and pop-up baits and all have a role to play to present baits best in different situations or to fulfil various nutritional or stimulatory specific needs or requirements.

I have made some baits float by accident; by adding too much egg biscuit plus
wheat gluten to a milk and bird food ingredients bait (and boiling these baits.)

Note, casein and wheat gluten in a bait have high levels of opiate peptides... You might like to try fine pure chocolate powder too which also include similar peptides. (Chocolate is extremely rich in stimulatory antioxidants too and this is an extremely important aspect of bait and few anglers appreciate the true power of these...)

I have obviously used things like cork balls, polystyrene balls, foam inserts and foam discs and cork granules or cork dust, very successfully, but each method has its advantages compared to others.

The use of use of micro-balloons used in filler composites and the like is an ideal material to ensure your baits stay buoyant. These sustain their buoyancy indefinitely as water does not eventually penetrate nor dissolve into air-filled glass! Heated water dissolved glass spheres form small bubbles which when cooled as tiny or even microscopic sized glass air-filled bubbles, are referred to as micro-balloons. These are an excellent additive ingredient in formulas for making pop-up or critically balanced baits.

Pop-up baits that include these balloons retain the original recipe and nutrition of the bait as close as possible to sinking baits made from the same base mix, additives and flavours etc. This is an advantage as it makes it more difficult for carp to identify your hook bait from among a number of similar free offerings. This is quite unlike baked or microwave baits, or those containing cork dust or with different ratios of more buoyant ingredients etc.

I know for a fact that even if you have an incredibly successful bait recipe, if you do not get your bait and rig presentation right for the fish feeding behaviours that are often displayed by very wary fish, then you will fail to maximise the true catch potential of your bait. Buoyant and pop-up baits are very important to this end! To seriously improve your big carp catches your own ability to keep ahead of the herd is of vital importance (especially in regards to bait,) so read on and find out as much as you can...

By Tim Richardson.

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When to Fish

Fishing is an interesting entertainment, most people like this sport. If you choose a good time to go fishing, you get much more happiness. Here we will teach you the best time to go fishing.

Spring/Early Morning
Fish aren't biting. The water is cold and doesn't heat up because the sun is low and the rays bounce off the water. But don't go home yet, because winter is over and fish are hungry and spawning. Best to wait until a week or so after thaw, as spring turnover takes time for the water temperature to even out to 39.2 degrees.

Spring/Late Morning-Early Afternoon
Fish are biting off and on. The water begins to warm up because rays begin to penetrate the water. Remember to fish the downwind shoreline, as the winds will push the warmer surface water along with surface food into that area.

Spring/Afternoon-Early Evening
Fish are eating a lot because their metabolism and digestion are cranked. Water is warm because the sun is directly overhead.

Summer/Early Morning-Late Afternoon
Fishing is excellent from before sunup to just before mid-morning. At this time of year there is abundant food and cover for fish, so finding hungry fish can be a challenge.

Summer/Late Morning-Early Afternoon
Fishing is poor for most of the day. Fish move to deep water to cool off.

Summer/Afternoon-Early Evening
Fishing is excellent from early sundown until dark as the waters cool and fish rise up from the depths.

Fall/Early Morning
Fish aren't biting much from sunup to early morning. The water is cool because the sun is too low to penetrate the water.

Fall/Late Morning-Noon
Fish are biting off and on in warmer, shallow water. The water is generally cool due to the season.

Fall/Afternoon-Early Evening
Fishing is excellent. Sun is directly overhead for several hours and the water gets more comfortable near the surface. This makes for seasonally good fishing because fish are putting on weight for the winter. Look for bait schools where bigger fish are more likely to be.

By Daquan Smith

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Trout Fishing For the Beginner

This article is for the novice trout angler. If you're new to trout fishing, catching trout with consistency can be a challenge if you don't know where to start. After reading this quick article you will have a much better idea of where to start. I've personally been trout fishing for more than 25 years, and was taught by a man I've always considered a "trout fishing master". This man was able to catch trophy trout out of heavily fished rivers and streams in central Pennsylvania where other anglers thought trout of that size didn't swim in.

Let's begin with your hands. Trout fishing beginners don't give any attention to their hands, or more importantly the scents that are on their hands. Any scents that are on your hands will transfer to your bait or lure and cost you bites while trout fishing. This is actually true with most fish, but especially trout. They have a very sensitive sense of smell and can easily detect unnatural odors on their potential food. And guess what happens if the trout detect any unnatural scents? Yep, they are much less apt to bite your offering. For this reason, you need to make sure that your hands are free of any unnatural scents.

The next thing the beginning trout angler (or dummy) needs to understand is that your fishing line needs to be as light as possible. My mentor always used 4-pound test mono filament, which is what I use to this day, but 6-pound test is passable as well. Trout fishing is almost always undertaken in cold, clear water so you line needs to be as undetectable as possible to the trout. The lighter you fishing line, the more bites you will receive, it's as simple as that.

The next thing the novice trout angler needs to know is the best way to present their bait. Live bait, especially live worms, are one of the most effective baits for trout fishing, and the way to present live bait is with a set of gang hooks. Gang hooks are simply a pair of small hooks tied in tandem that allow live bait to be presented in a completely natural manner. This makes a huge difference in the number of bite you'll receive while trout fishing.

The final thing to keep in mind with regards to trout fishing is to be patient and spend as much time as possible practicing your craft. The more you fish, the better angler you will become. The tips contained in this article will save you a ton of time and wasted effort. Be thirsty for knowledge; learn as much as you can, then put that knowledge into practice. This will move you quickly from the ranks of a trout fishing dummy, to a seasoned and successful trout angler.

By Trevor Kugler

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 25 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country.....Montana!

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Carp Fishing Bait Secrets of Using Robin Red!

Robin Red is part of the range of bird foods from a company called Haiths of Cleethorpes England. At present their top ten selling products include the following: Robin Red, Red Factor, Nectarblend, Red Band, Prosecto Insectivores, Soft Bill, Multi Mix, and Carpticle Mix, Super Red and hempseed. This company have many decades of experience formulating specialised foods for birds for all stages of development and for enhancing plumage, growth, health and so on and these products ideally fit the bill as it were for carp!

Anyone in the bait business will be familiar with Robin Red as has a track record that stands out a mile but of course the other products mentioned are in many ways superb in their own right and all have taken their place in the hall of carp fame today. There are other bird food products that this company and other companies sell which are also very well proven and Hinders is another company to investigate products from. In fact, many carp bait companies have refined and adapted and even blended formulations and recipes of extremely successful and new bird food products with huge success proven by their customers catches and Ccmoore is a shining example with 12 generations of animal feed and nutrition experience behind them.

Robin Red has been used by most commercial bait companies at some time or another and is so prevalent that in some cases it might be your unique homemade bait perhaps is the only boilie bait that does not contain it on your water! Beware that any successful ingredient, additive or flavour etc, when over-used, can conversely act as a marker for danger and it might be a bonus to use very little of it in your bait sometimes. You might choose to use a component of it instead, perhaps just the red chilli peppers part instead, or add these to boost a proportion of Robin Red perhaps for a winter and spring bait.

Ways to incorporate Robin Red and apply it in homemade baits, spod, method, particles, pellets and boilies mixes are legion. Just dampen your boilies using a mixture of liquid foods and Robin Red... Or try pre-soaking your pellets in any liquids you like and add Robin Red to produce super ground baits, method mixes or spod mixes for example for both winter and summer use.

So exactly what is Robin Red; after all it certainly colours up the water attractively and even stains your hands a distinctive red?! The recipe of Robin Red is shrouded in mystery, controversy and endless speculation, and perhaps all you can say for certain, is that is does not contain Carophyll Red, (but this does not exclude it containing cantaxanthin perhaps...) Robin Red certainly does contain many bioactive components and substances, including antioxidant pigments (plumage colour enhancing agents highly stimulatory to carp!)

In making homemade boilies just using an ounce of Robin Red per pound of dry mix will certainly boost the effectiveness of very many base mixes and especially when you use a very cheap mix based on crushed Red Band, semolina and soya flour for instance. One combination from Haiths that is particularly outstanding is their Super Red which is a mix of the following and can be used dry in PVA bags:

Robin Red, crushed tiger nuts, crushed Carpticle, peanut granules, crushed hemp seed, Red Factor, teasel seed, and aniseed oil. You can apply this as a paste bait, method mix or ground bait and many bait companies have their own unique versions so do investigate them and get catching big-time, (for more secrets read on...)

By Tim Richardson.

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Top Water Lures For Bass

Most lures designed to be worked on the surface can be divided into sub-groups, including Chuggers (has a concave mouth that spits water when chugged), Splash Baits (plain, cigar shaped lures for dog walking), Prop-Baits (usually with propellers fore and aft), Twitch Baits (slender minnow-shaped lures with a small diving lip) and BuzzBaits (has a churning blade over a skirted body).

Except for Buzzbaits, topwater lures are designed to imitate an injured baitfish. A Buzzbait is an exciter or agitator lure. Surface baits have the potential of catching bass anytime the water temperature is above the mid-50's. Topwater lures are also effective anytime bass are in shallow water or when bass are shadowing baitfish schools near the surface over deep water. Personally, my favorite topwater lures are the Chugger, a Splashbait and a buzzbait.

JerkBaits

Hard-bodied jerkbaits also imitate injured baitfish, only they do it a few feet under the water surface. They are similar in body style as a twitch bait, jerkbaits have a slightly large lip so it can dive 4 to 8 feet and are often weighted to suspend during pauses in the retrieve.

Jerkbaits are directed at moderately active bass that can be teased into striking. Deep jerkbaits are very effective in water temperatures as low as 45 degrees using a slow pull-pause retrieve. I carry ones with a baitfish pattern.

CrankBaits

These hard-bodied lures with a diving-swimming lip are designed to be retrieved steadily. How deep it runs depends on the size and shape of the lip. Shallow crankbaits are a good choice when the water is around 60 degrees in the spring. Deep crankbaits work good in early summer when bass are moving to deeper offshore structure like weedlines, midlake humps and drop offs. I have a couple shallow divers ( less than 5 feet ) and a couple deep divers ( 10 to 14 feet ). I carry the basic colors in each category - a shad pattern for clear to dingy water and a bluegill/sunfish pattern with chartreuse on it.

Lipless Rattle Lures

These vibrating lures have a internal rattle that produces a lot of noise. Sinking rattle baits can be fish at almost any depth. In cold water, bump the bottom during the retrieve like a jig. I've also fish these lures over submerged weedbeds during the late spring and summer or cast them to surface schooling bass. I carry a chrome/blue colored lure.

Spinnerbaits

Spinnerbaits feature a Y shaped wire with a skirted leadhead and revolving blades. The hook is protected by the overhead wire which makes it rather snag-resistant lure that can be fished through vegetation, wood and rock cover.

Spinnerbaits can be slow-rolled at middepths or used as a bottom bumper. Depending on how and where it is presented, a spinnerbait can produce in any water temperature. Spinnerbaits are so versatile, anglers tend to acquire large numbers of them. A couple basic spinnerbaits will take care of most fishing situations. I recommend choosing a spinnerbait with a Colorado-blade model for maximum vibration and a willow-leaf model for maximum flash.

By Lester Paul Roberts

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Basic Tips For Bass Fishing

Fishing for me is a thing of leisure as well as skill. In fact the amount of knowledge one gathers from experience is vast in this field. A veteran always has tricks up his sleeve which he has mostly learnt through trial and error. If you are beginner or have had a few initial experience I would suggest that you get into the mode of experimentation to learn more rapidly about the various tricks involved in catching the bass.

About The Bass:

Mostly a fresh water fish which has its prominent existence in moderately cold waters, you are unlikely to find a bass in warm water. If there are traces of pollution in the water it would be difficult for find any live bass there since they are very sensitive to any pollutants in the water. Bass can be found need thick foliage where several worms and insects as well as small fish take refuge since this habitant provides for a good food source. Bass being a predator fish would be found closer to areas where the population of small fish is high. You can use these as tips to locate the region where you are more likely to find Bass. Several varieties of Bass exist usually along the North American coastal lines, the most prominent ones being the largemouth Bass and the spotted Bass.

The largemouth Bass is of course the largest weighing close to 25 pounds. If you end up in certain fishing locations on holiday do put in a word with the locals to determine the exact areas where Bass can be found.

The Fishing Lures:

Fishing lures or baits as they are popularly known are the mainstay of any fishing expedition. If you are good with your baits then its cinch that you will catch the fish if it is present around the location. Choosing your bait is usually a matter of experience and depends on the type of water terrain you are on. If you are beginner get in a word of advice from the experience fishermen in that area to determine what kind of baits are best suitable. Most of the fishermen swear by the plastic worms as the best bait for the Bass.

This is true especially for closed water or a smaller water region. The advantage you get out of plastic worms is that it is effective in catch Bass existing in submerged areas, but it might get a bit slow around large waters when you need to cover a larger area.

The other baits to consider would be the spinner bait and the lipless crank bait. The spinner bait is effective when a very large area needs to be covered quickly. In shallow waters the spinner bait can also be used to lure Bass by bouncing it off the bottom surface in quick succession. Most of the spinners have a tangle free design enabling them to be used effective in thick foliage where Bass like to hang out.

Hone Your Angler Skills:

As I had mentioned previously it is important to keep practicing as you learn most of the tricks only through experience. You would need to choose the right kind of a reel to make your fishing experience better. Baitcaster reels work out pretty well and they have an ease of operation. Moreover they don't twist the line allowing for less snags during the fishing. You can buy a decent rod and reel combination nowadays for a fair price. Most of the rods are very lightweight and make for comfortable fishing experience. I personally prefer using a light tackle which fishing for Bass and would suggest the same.

By Marcus Peter

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Big Carp Fishing Bait - Cold Water Tips!

Why not find out more how to maximise the money you spend on your baits in winter and spring and achieve better catches?! See these expert tips proven to work for more cold water carp again and again and save you money! Use these tips to help you right now!

Carp get filled by boilies and other potentially more difficult to digest baits, and it is well known that feeding too many of them in winter is not only often the kiss of death of a swim, but a big waste of money too which certainly does not maximize your chances of bites! Many methods have evolved to provide attraction near your hook bait without over-filling carp. Boilies threaded onto a water soluble PVA stringer next to the hook is very effective and this kind of idea has also spawned countless variations on the theme and really helps maximize bites, while minimizing bait costs and usage.

In ground baiting for winter and spring carp it is wise to pre-bait if at all possible and then apply minimal bait while actually fishing, perhaps using soluble pellets, stick or method or spod mixes incorporating broken boilies as opposed to whole boilies at this time. You choice of what to ground bait with and how to do it is a skill and art form that very many carp anglers really need to develop far more as it is vital in manipulating suitable carp feeding behavioural responses to your hook baits! Ground bait using bread is a very reliable method and almost anything excluding indigestible oils can be added; for example boilie base mix and homemade boilie liquid additives and foods.

Bread is often and over-looked ground bait base and it is soluble and digestible enough to really be ideal for the job at this time, and it is very well known not to be just a small fish bait! Fishing over all kinds of forms of bread-based ground baits in winter and spring has proven successful time and again. You can always fish reliable boilies on your hooks and these will of course always remain successful.

Anything you do to raise the likelihood of a curious or hungry carp sampling your hook baits in winter and spring in particular are of vital significance. Solubility and digestibility of your free baits in extremely important so choose very carefully; winterised boilies and carp pellets low in oil are good examples. Low oil pellets designed specifically for carp (as opposed to halibut pellets for instance,) are far more preferable at this time and many great boilie recipes and pellets contain high levels of ingredients ideal for low water temperatures; such as betaine, and Robin Red.

If you find you struggle by still sticking with your usual halibut pellets for winter and spring ground baiting try something like CSL or hemp pellets instead! Cold water-soluble attraction is so vitally important to fish attraction at this time! Soluble attraction dispersing easily from bait through the water column is really the name of the game at this time. Adding Vitamealo from Ccmoore for instance to your ground baits and particles will really boost water clouding and add loads of water soluble milky carp attraction...

Glugs and soaks and dips based on liquid proteins, spleen and liver extracts, and things like herb and spice terpenes and flavour components like butyric acid and so on, really can help catches now. Extra liquid foods and boosting attraction substances will multiply the performance and catch rates on hook baits and ground baits ranging from bread to boilies, pellets, particles and even maggots and fake baits. Thinking far more about your winter and spring hook baits and ground baits, and their incredibly important method and rate of application is so underestimated by very many carp anglers; try to stimulate carp senses as much as possible and build on your knowledge of tips and edges to draw on!

When the huge importance of the relationships between carp senses and your effective (or ineffective) choices of hook baits and ground baits become cornerstones of your fishing attack, you will not stop until you have read as much as possible on this subject and gathered an extremely effective arsenal to stop you wasting as much money on blanks and wasted bait as possible; so keep reading on...

By Tim Richardson.

By Tim F. Richardson

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