CONTENTS:
1. Big Carp and catfish secret baits that save you
a fortune in money and in fishing time and experience to get exceptional big results – how to make them cheaply, very fast and easily!
2. Just what are the most potent ways to exploit bait substances?
3. Making easy beginner baits for carp and
catfish - baits for both species or specific to carp or more designed for big catfish (unique!).
4. Easy instant steps to improved homemade baits and enhanced readymade baits.
5. Winter carp fishing - expert baits and
tactics.
6. Making homemade carp or cat fishing
baits – choosing ‘cool ingredients!’
7. Hot summer carp fishing baits – boilies
floaters and fake rubber and plastic baits like corn sweetcorn and pellets and surprising others and special hidden properties!
8. Homemade carp and catfish baits - how to
make them instantly attractive and enhancing and diferentiating 'fake'
baits like plastic corn, pellets etc and real maggots, meat and fish
baits etc.
9. Introduction to homemade catfish
baits - great beginner ingredients proven for consistant big fish...
10. Making the best of pelleted carp and
catfish baits!'
11. Making homemade baits - successful
mixing, rolling, binding and amounts in pastes, dough baits and boilies; essential tips.
12. Homemade carp fishing baits edges.
13. The ‘sting’ – very effective homemade
carp baits that catch more fish for less money…
14. Carp and catfish baits - proteins,
‘curing’ and enhancing baits using enzymes!
15. Cool carp and catfish fishing baits and
ingredients – catching summer surface cruisers.
16. Carp bait making secrets - ‘energy
ingredients’ that really catch big carp!
17. Testing homemade carp baits - how to absolutely guarantee
your newly enhanced baits are ‘irresistible’ and fish will go crazy for them and removing all doubt for 'super confidence on any bait homemade or readymade!'
18. Big fish carp baits - secrets for making nutritionally stimulating homemade baits.
19. Secret catfish baits - success with a
big ‘twist’ in the tail!
20. Carp and cat fishing secrets - the
advantage of using ‘extra sensory perception!’ (bonus big fish using a natural
‘gift’ everyone has...)
21. Big carp bait secrets - exploiting milk
protein ingredients in baits and great ground baits for tempting larger fish.
22. Insider carp baits secrets - effects of
sweeteners, peppers, garlic antioxidants, oleoresins etc and boosting 'fake' baits.
23. Crafty carp and catfish hook baits -
unusual combinations that catch big fish!
24. Catfish bait recipe formulation and commonalities between
carp and catfish chemoreception and ingredients and substances to
exploit these similarities in baits.
26. Carp fever strikes again - the well-proven big fish
amino acids ‘P.V.A.’ bag method!
27. Making powerful catfish and carp ground
baits that you won't find your fellow anglers using.
28. Effective fishing baits – more reasons
why baits really work!
29. Top secret carp baits – powerful
feeding triggers, attractors, internal gustatory and digestive
stimulators with high 'bioactivity' hidden in human super foods and
baits!
30. Cool carp catches - a very successful 6
months cold water carp catching.
31. Its alive – creating carp and catfish
active enzyme baits and flavors.
32. Exceptional carp baits and rigs - milk
protein bait and rig methods expanded.
33. Magnetic carp and catfish baits –
‘spod’ chum and ground bait mixes.
34. Cold water carp in un-fished Spanish
lakes– baits and conditions discussion.
35. Carp bait ingredients and energy
release – powerful human diabetes control/prevention and super bait ingredients.
36. New summer carp baits – hot weather
opportunities, risks and reminder of practical carp care, fishing deoxygenated waters and what to do and avoid *
37. Exciting big carp bait - exploiting
greed and pecking order to get under the biggest fish’s defenses!
38. Big fish bait ‘methyl donors’ - feeding
triggers, attractors, flavors and enhancing commercial readymade baits and homemade baits effects, life-span etc.
39. Irresistible catfish and carp - hook
bait tricks.
40. Feed-Triggering ground baits proven for
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ORIENTED SECTIONS
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"Catfish are a major sport fish due to their
widespread distribution across the world. Baits made and designed for fish
belonging to the order called ‘siluriformes’ have many basic similarities
regarding nutritional attraction as for ‘Cyprindae’ (Carp).
The sizes catfish can grow to and their
often exciting and challenging fighting performance are irresistible to
fishermen. Siluriformes include the European wels, Channel
catfish, blue catfish, flathead catfish and a variety of bullhead catfish for
example and includes many table fish and are significant food source in
countries like the States. Making dough or paste baits, boilies or pellet type
baits for catfish requires a useful starting point, where you know your bait
will trigger the fish into feeding providing conditions are within reasonable catfish
feeding temperature pH and salinity regimes.
As with carp, commercial aquaculture feeds
for catfish make interesting reading for their nutritional values to attempt to
discern the nutritional attraction of feed elements when applied to catfish
baits but more importantly to look at ingredients that are the most attractive
to catfish and to understand why. So you can make some useful conclusions about
what to basically use in catfish baits from what these feeds contain, but it is
just a starting point and as with carp baits, any one bait ingredient or its
effect will be enough to hook fish. Of cause sweetcorn or fermented maize can
be used. However, it may be preferable to take baits a bit further in order to
have more control over your bait’s selectivity for example. Why not use bait
ingredients to maximise your bait’s power of attraction, effects on all the
fish sensory systems (especially catfish taste buds in cloudy water for
catfish) and have more control over the range of attraction up close and from a
distance that your baits potentially offer in different fishing situations.
For example, things may need changing in a
river situation where more durable bait with slower leak-off stimulants may be
desired rather than a still water pond situation where fast release and highly
soluble ingredients may be preferred. Myriad baits catch catfish and so many
big catfish get caught on boilies intended for carp (and vice versa) that the 2
fish are drawn by similar stimulatory nutritional essential requirements
supplied by baits of a wide variety from meat and cereal baits to purely fish
meal based pellets, for example.
Much research has been carried out on
channel catfish, being an important table fish in the States. To start with, channel
catfish aquaculture feeds appear to have about 28 to 32% protein content for
optimum feed digestion and biological conversion for profitable weight gain.
This figure is very similar to carp feeds and surely you want your bait
digested not wasted using economical ingredients as much as is practical. Catfish
need nitrogen and particular essential amino acids and not simply ‘protein.’
They also need an energy source at the
correct balance to the nitrogen and amino acids, in a similar way to carp.
Fatty acids (oils and fats) apply here, but digestible carbohydrates are a
practical part of many catfish baits too. (Distillery ferment and corn steep liquor
with grain flours are a good combination.) Soy bean meal and cottonseed meals
are considered protein ingredients in catfish aquaculture feeds, and although
attractive to carp and catfish are nowhere near the best ‘bulk ingredient’ to
use that’s for sure. Certainly when catfish mature their dietary needs change.
When small they may feed mostly on aquatic insects and larvae and be more drawn
to small live maggots and worm baits.
Adult channel catfish have quite a broad
diet taking advantage of more protein us foods supplemented by mineral and
vitamin loaded plants for instance. These catfish may feed on fish, crawfish,
crayfish, insects, seeds and even aquatic plants. Green algae has been noted as
a very nutritional food too… I have personally watched ducks and other wildfowl
being taken by large catfish. Adult catfish fish diets may constitute 70% fish.
This has implications for making successful baits with a higher level of amino
acid and nitrogen.
So baits with a good energy source and
higher digestible protein levels seem like a better bet to use when targeting much
larger specimens consistently. The incredible success big catfish catches using
pellets with these characteristics bears out this point well and baits made
with powders of such pellets are an easy and reliable starting point. Catfish
baits with added vitamins will be more stimulatory than many lower nutritional
value cereal based bait mixes without added vitamins, certainly vitamins added
to carp baits benefit catches. As with carp, many minerals are absorbed from
the water.
Phosphorus is one important mineral that is
supplied only in low levels in most plant ingredients used. However, possibly
one of the other attractions of sweetcorn for catfish (which love it!) is high
levels of phosphorus in it. If you are baiting up with chum, you want your bait
to turn the fish on for more, not fill them up before you can catch them! Baits
with digestible proteins do more often produce excellent catches for carp and
catfish and many anglers experiment with ways to make their baits more
digestible and release more attractive amino acids. The classic method is to
‘mature cut’ type baits, from blood and meat based ones to squid, fish and shellfish
based ones.
Fermenting cereals like corn and wheat
really turns on many species of fish. Obviously the alcohols, sugars and more
digestible nutrition make a big difference. This is pretty useful when
targeting catfish. The smaller food fish can congregate and feed on the cereals
while the catfish sneak up on them and then take your higher protein hook bait!
Apparently in contrast to carp feeds, cereal based feeds can replace whole fish
based feeds after catfish reach about 7 inches long (in the case of channel
catfish.) Oilseed type ingredients form the base for many aquaculture feeds for
catfish, including cottonseed, soy bean meal, and peanut meal. Significantly,
these are attractive to carp too.
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Non-protein food sources are also used and
these are not only added for binding effects but provide a very important
energy source so that the protein foods in feeds can be maximized for growth
and repair and so on (and not ‘wasted’ by used for energy by the fish. Protein
foods and ingredients cost more, so it’s good to be able to ‘bulk-up’ your
baits with other more economical ingredients. Examples are: Corn, wheat
middlings, rice bran, and fish oil, animal fat (spray dried) corn screenings
and milo (and soy bean and cottonseed meals too.)
The proportions of different ingredients in
feeds are important to the fish farmer, and in respect of the health and growth
maximization of farmed fish with little other supplemental food. But wild
catfish can supplement their diets with anything from algae up to the biggest
prey fish, and all the anglers’ free baits too. So the main aspect of catfish
bait that is of concern generally is ‘instant’ and nutritional attractiveness.
Aquaculture feed ingredients also need to be attractive and nutritious to a
degree, to maximise returns on feed costs; here are a few examples:
* Soy bean meal.
(Attractive to catfish and a bulk protein
provider having around 35- 48% plus protein content.)
* Cottonseed meal.
Again an attractive protein provider, but
used in much lower levels than soya at maybe 10% in a feed mix.
* Peanut meal.
A protein provider having about 25% to up
to 60% protein for defatted versions. Only used at 10 or 12% in feeds. This
meal and its roasted versions are very effective for carp too.
* Fish meal.
Great for digestible energy and the closest
ti ideal nutritional profile especially of essential and feed stimulatory amino
acids. Many types available for bait use, some are very economical and much
less attractive having less digestible protein, and poorer quality unsaturated
essential fatty acid content. They have attractive amino acids, soluble and
insoluble proteins, phosphorus and ideal amino profiles for attraction of carp
too. A feed and bait mainstay.
* Meat and bone meal.
Great especially for phosphorus and calcium
content. These are essential for both carp and catfish good health.
* Blood meal.
Very significant as it is a great source of
lysine which carp (and ourselves) are normally deficient in due to diet. Most
foods and bait ingredients are low or very deficient in lysine and its
supplementation on its own or using blood meal for example can make all the
difference to catches. The addition of blood meal and various blood components
have great attraction effects and are well proven for carp and catfish.
(Fermented shrimp ‘Belechan’ has significant lysine plus glutamic acid too and
being 70 percent protein with 20 percent salt plus 3 percent palm oil is
excellent.)
* Poultry by-products.
Poultry products are very attractive to
catfish. They have a good proportion of digestible protein and lots of
attractive oils and fats and other goodies.
* Hydrolyzed feather meal.
Significantly high in methionine and
cystine and well proven in carp baits. Methionine especially is an extremely
important amino acid in catfish and carp baits and many other species besides,
like bass and trout for example. Although it is deficient in lysine putting
blood meal with it helps ‘balance’ things out for attraction and nutritional
purposes. The phosphates are significant too.
* Canola meal.
Attractive to catfish and carp. A
nutritional replacement for fish meal. Perhaps it would be good in a bait with
spirulina powder too as its nutrition is not as well suited as fish meal.
Canola oil is a good additive.
* Corn, corn flour, cracked corn, corn
flakes, corn syrup and corn steep liquor.
Corn is high is phosphates which may be
part of its attraction. Corn has low nutritional value and is best when
fermented to release its nutritional attraction as many fishermen have
discovered. Corn or maize flour is a useful binding ingredient and makes a bait
harder. It has a bland taste. Adding wheat middlings improves nutritional value
in economy baits.
* Corn and wheat gluten.
Good nutritional protein content, binding
too. Corn gluten can be used up to 50% of a bait or feed with no harm to the
fish according to the Mississippi State University extension service.
* Fish oil.
A very well known energy source used in
baits and highly attractive. Different grades of quality are available. The
most attractive are often both fresh and pure. Examples are tuna oil and
salmon. Cod liver oil is an old favorite.
* Animal fat.
(Spray dried.) An excellent and attractive
energy source used in feeds and baits. Chicken fat is one example. Only use at
low levels from 2 to 5%.
* Distillers ferment grains.
As with corn and wheat offering better
attraction and nutrition when fermented. This is the distillers ferment residue
left after the alcohol is removed from the fermentation of yeast using cereals.
These are proven nutritional fish attractors. In fact enzymes in the ferment
residue are highly attractive in themselves. Barley malt and other such by-products
like yeast extracts e.g. (‘Vegemite’ and ‘Marmite’) are great for carp and
catfish alike as is ‘corn steep liquor or ‘CSL.’
Significantly, the feeds generated from
such processes and ingredients are highly nutritious and attractive. Very importantly
they are soluble and highly digestible and these factors are proven in making
great baits. The above ingredients list is based on examples of catfish
aquaculture feeds and is limited by cost factors. But it is a short
introductory guide to some of the effects and nutritional attraction that a
good catfish bait often has. The overlap between carp and catfish bait
ingredients is massive and so many ingredients made famous for carp are
seriously effective in stimulating feeding response in baits made for catfish
too. The bulk protein providing ingredients in feeds tend to be around 30 to 40%
protein and this protein figure is reduced by additional use of other
ingredients with less protein but other necessary nutritional content and or
practical function.
According to research done on channel
catfish from the University of Mississippi, catfish eat less feed with 18% protein compared to one with 28%
protein. Not only this, but the higher protein containing feed was digested
more fully and converted into body tissue more efficiently too. Carp appear to
be similar in these things. The high content of predigested fish protein in
halibut pellets and halibut pellet powder in part explains its attraction and
effectiveness with catfish and carp alike. The high level of quality fatty
acids in the pellets must be very significant in the attraction too. The
olfactory organ’s role in catfish food detection by ‘smell’ is perhaps not as
important as smell (as shown in channel catfish) although eyesight is important
at close range and in cleaner water environments.
Movement in the water and electrical
discharge from prey and baits too has some part to play (as with carp) and
barbels are extremely delicate parts covered in taste buds and pare pretty much
essential for catfish survival. Care when handling these is essential and it
has been noted with wels catfish that their health can decline rapidly if these food
detection parts are both damaged. The role of food detection is mostly by taste
buds which are all over the body of a catfish. Most fishermen are familiar with
taste buds in the mouth (and the ‘smell’ olfactory glands in the nose) but like
carp, there are also taste buds on the external body too and are more
concentrated in various locations such as the face, pharynx and fronts of the
pectoral fins.
Again, like carp taste buds are extremely
concentrated on the barbels and gill arches and these can be exploited by how
your bait performs in the water in a variety of ways. In regards to amino acids
in triggering catfish, like carp, ingredients, supplements and additives that
especially provide methionine and lysine make baits that much more attractive!
There is an important relationship between methionine and cystine and similar relationships
between other pairs of amino acids that are significant too (e.g. regarding
first and second limiting amino acids for example) but especially in the way
pairs of amino acids excite olfactory receptors for example.
Like carp feeds, the balance of calcium and
phosphorus are critical and so are supplemented by the addition of dicalcium
phosphate. But other ingredients can be used like bone meal. Many vitamins,
minerals and trace elements are important as feeding triggers and like carp
these are also supplemented in feeds too. Like carp, many are essential, for
example vitamins B6, B12 and niacin. Even these few are significant in your
bait, but a well designed bait will contain most of these requirements and then
some anyway, but it is wise to cover these requirements for added bait
attraction to provide for and exploit any deficiencies and perhaps achieve more
takes.
Carotenes have a role in vitamin A
provision and certainly are good carp feeding ‘triggers,’ creatine ethyl ester
is very much more potent in this regard to vitamin A. In feeds, xanthophylls
are added. Personally I find I catch more carp than catfish when using the
additive “Robin Red” but that has only been my individual experience. As with
carp feeds and baits, crude fiber is a dietary necessity. In feeds this is at about 7% using rice bran
in catfish feeds. Vegetable fiber is often composed of cellulose which carp and
catfish find difficult to digest so this amount needs to be kept to a minimum.
Some courser fishmeals offer a different source of fiber but from superior
nutritional type ingredients to vegetable based ones.
In colder water catfish feed much less
frequently, apparently carp metabolism can at least double with every 20ºC rise
in temperature whereas catfish metabolism can double for the same 10 degrees. Feeding
activity increases with a raising of metabolic rate. Channel catfish growth is
optimal at around 30ºC (continued…)
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EXTRACT 2.
2. EXTRACT FROM A CARP ORIENTED SECTION
IN
THIS VOLUME:
'Carp bait fever strikes again' - the big fish soluble
amino acids PVA bag method!
When the guy fishing next to you is
catching over double the number of BIG fish you are; you really want to know
why - and how he does it; here's a few suggestions!
Well, the last fish caught by the author on
the following baits and methods were a 42 pound carp and a 56 pound catfish; a
lake record at the time and part of a whole string of very big fish captures.
Such is the power of the kind of baits and methods described below. There are
many specialized techniques for delivering extremely powerful catfish and carp
attractors specifically from the area of your hook baits. These methods can
particularly leverage concentrated and powerful forms of amino acids; these are
easily available from health food, chemist or drug stores or in prepared
commerical preparations from bait companies.
‘Liquid protein’ amino acids supplements
are use used for body building. Also used are vitamin/mineral supplements;
these are excellent nutritional attractors too. Carp and catfish for example
are especially ‘sensitive’ to the presence of amino acids in their watery
environment; so let’s exploit this to the ‘max!’ The power this bait method has
is that the bait itself acts purely as a ‘carrier’ for carp search and feeding
response triggers. These especially affect ‘olfactory receptor sites’ by using
ingredients acting as commonly called ‘stimulators and ‘attractors.’ Amino
acids and mineral salts are two of the most effective fish stimulators of them
all and have been proven by tank tests by American and Japanese scientists for
example.
These 2 attractors among other very special
attractor / fish ‘olfactory’ receptor site stimulators / potentiators (like
betaine) are ideally concentrated in a tight area around your hook bait and but
gradually spread out through the water creating paths of attraction and
attractor clouds in surrounding water layers and currents.
Special ingredients to use: Quite in
contrast to the usual maize/fish meals/grits/oats/or soya bean meals etc, you
may be familiar with this type of bait is far more powerful; with good reason. This bait mix uses many extraordinary
predigested extracts to draw stimulated fish into your bait vicinity. These are
extremely attractive owing to their high levels and broad profiles of
‘biologically digestible’ available amino acids, which are very water soluble. (As
opposed to ‘whole’ protein food ingredients, like standard cheaper fish meal;
with much less water solubility and digestibility.)
Another great advantage of these
ingredients is that far more of your bait when consumed is absorbed straight
through the fish gut, and the fish get the benefits of their food much quicker
than with whole foods which may take many hours and days to ‘digest’ for fish
to gain and ‘feel useful benefits and energy. (Just like we ‘feel’ different
effects and benefits from our individual foods; some drain our energy after
eating and make us feel lethargic, others give us a ‘buzz’ some short-term and
others longer term. Proven examples of carp stimulating ingredients are:
* Green and blue lipped mussel extracts.
* Predigested fishmeal.
* Predigested lobster extract.
* Predigested fish protein.
There are many others such as hemp protein
powder for instance and keratin powder etc.
Plus many others available from premier
specialist carp bait suppliers. (New ones are being developed and ‘discovered’
by fishermen all the time!) It is both interesting and very important to notice
that these kinds of bait extracts and ingredients are high in digestible
proteins/soluble amino acids and are also often very high in betaine. (Not
betaine hydrochloride - that is the ‘salt form.’ Amino acids, with betaine and
mineral salts and vitamins in combination are extremely potent carp and catfish
attractors/feeding stimulators. (Please note; do not be confused – betaine is
not an amino acid and is far more heat resistant to denaturing than them.) A
few other examples of powerful ingredients used mixed in damp powder form in
PVA bags, or in combinations in dough/pastes: (listed – extract continued:)
I prefer to use damp powders and fresh
paste/dough baits in PVA bags or similar bait delivery methods close to hook
baits rather than conventional boilies in such a situation, because you have
great control over their pulling power and different effects like speed of
distribution in the water column etc. These release all kinds of ‘attractors’
and feeding triggers into the water extremely effectively, whereas with boilies
this effect is partially ‘locked-up’ owing to the boiling process. I will not
go much into the amazing stimulatory benefits, deep effects, and
inter-relationships secrets between many of the above ingredients listed here!
They work!
All of the above used in different
combinations and quantities provide a great base for a mixed ‘free’ bait dough
or paste bait especially and especially effective when used in water soluble
‘free bait ‘ delivering poly vinyl alcohol bags (‘PVA’). However; this mixture
can be bound together using anything from corn flour to breadcrumbs, whole meal
flour and oats, to a carp boilie base mix etc. This can then be used as ‘ground
bait’ or chum for amazing results. It can also be made as a ‘damp powder to
fill-up PVA bags or in PVA bags with paste/doughs of different types.’ Or as an
added attractor powder using whole or chopped boilies, or with pellets of
different types in a bag.
There are so many powerful ingredients and
stimulators to exploit in you efforts to draw maximum attention to your hook
baits and utilising water soluble ground bait delivery methods and products and
so on… I sometimes like to make a dough paste from the above list including
milk powders and predigested fish protein, and brewers yeast powders and liver
powders, for example (preferably predigested) bound by whole meal flour with
added liquid amino acids compound. (But not using water, or eggs.) I add a
small amount of cod liver oil, sesame seed oil, pure salmon oil, hemp oil, or
crushed nut oil too. Add yeast extract and then add a small amount of tinned
mackerel finely chopped up and juice from tinned salmon and even address some
tinned tuna.
If fish loving predators like pike or gars
etc are a problem, cut down on the tinned fish and add more milk powders etc.
For carp for example add perhaps some more “Robin Red” powder, curry or chili
powders. I leave this ‘wet paste/dough mix’ to soak up the liquid attractors
overnight in a plastic sealed tub in the fridge. Then I may add extra milks of
various kind like evaporated milk, coconut milk and tiger nut milk, liver and
yeast powders, until the mix has a firm moldable consistency. Ideally it would
feel oily on the surface!
This paste or dough is specifically for the
purpose of fast maximal attraction to your hook baits. This dough will be used
in PVA bags, and as hook baits and even ‘free baits.’ (Very effective!)
I prefer to use a heavy lead rig with a
short length of about 4 to 5 inches. On the ‘hair rig’ I use 2 baits; one a
sinking bait, the other a ‘pop-up’ buoyant bait on the same short hair. (It
could be a special pellet shaped bait or a disc, triangle or square or odd
shape.)
I severely sharpen my hooks to almost past
‘needle’ sharp – but not too much! (I have lost fish where the hook point has
actually bent outwards out of the fish! Doing this definitely multiplies your
number of ‘takes!’ The above paste/dough/examples of ‘packbait’ make excellent
hook and bait ‘wraps.’ This is where dough is wrapped onto the bait and or
hook, to multiply the pulling power of the hook bait and obscures the hook
except the point (for pressured waters this is exceptional and very effective
for the ‘wiser’ more rig shy big carp – and big catfish too!
Alternative ways to use dough paste in PVA
bags:
* Use ‘air dried’ paste/dough balls of 10 millimeter
diameter for example; these dissolve fast releasing very fast acting attraction
– fantastic!) * Use fresh or defrosted paste/dough balls used as 30 millimeter
balls or pieces on their own or with other sizes/shapes mixed – this IS
different; used in conjunction with a ‘dry mixture’ made from the above list of
ingredients, the varied attractor leak-off and power is just awesome and has
accounted for many of my most memorable catches!
* Use a single large ball of paste/dough
the size of a mandarin or small apple. Used on its own or in combination with a
‘dry mixture’ this is a completely different method of attraction. This also
has produced some incredible big fish for me catches; I believe it gives more
time for the bigger fish to compete and inspect it before taking the hook bait!
All these paste/doughs can be semi ‘air-dried’ or rolled in powders to make
them dry enough not to prematurely melt the PVA bags. I often roll these pastes
in dry powders ingredients mixture until the exterior is completely covered. I
prepare hook baits like this in advance in advance but use added amino acid and
mineral/vitamin soaks. I air dry these baits, then re-hydrate them in the soak
and coat them with a mixture of attractive powders.
When using the PVA bags:
First I put a layer of powders into the base
of the PVA bag. Then put a single paste / dough ball / or fresh 20 millimeter
balls or / 25 small 10 millimeter air-dried balls or a mixture of fresh and
air-dried baits together in a PVA bag. I keep adding dry powder with a spoon as
I do it from a tub (over a tub and preferably out of the wind!)
I spoon the powders into the bag until it
is nearly full, then the fix hook to the bag, either by putting the hook into
it or tying the hook to it using fine PVA string. I then put extra dough over
line above the hook and onto hook bait mould until everything is aligned so
that the hook point is ‘proud’ and hook and bait is mostly obscured by paste
and not able to tangle with the rig after casting out when the bag melts.
(Sometimes it is useful to put one bag inside another to begin with, if it is
raining or very damp or you want to fish very deep water, or like to ‘pull your
rig back’ after casting.)
With this dry mix, paste / dough, PVA bag
method, I use seriously sharpened hooks; and hook lengths normally of about 4
inches from hook to lead. Very sharp hooks tend to penetrate much deeper
quicker upon first contact with the fish’s mouth. (I also prefer a hook with a
long slim point that is curved back in towards the hook’s shank.) I will use a
heavy lead if I can to set the hook upon fish picking up the bait. I use a
‘line clip’ on the rod at the reel to help ‘jolt’ the hook into position and
sometimes use two with an initial ‘slack line’ specialist set-up. Often I use a
with a tight line set-up with a very sensitive bite alarm setting. Fish can
pick a rig up at many unexpected and angles and especially wise fish will often
move parallel to your or towards you while trying to shake the hook.
Many ‘tight line’ takes with this set-up
have simply been two bleeps or one bleep with a ‘rod knock’ but this is
exciting and keeps you on your toes! On big fish waters where takes are not
very frequent, a single bleep could often be a big fish! By keeping your eyes
on the rod tip not the indicator on the line or ‘bobbin’ or swinger etc you will
definitely hit more big fish – be alert and quick It takes practice, but once
you are used to it you will enjoy fishing much more as this is exciting and
‘interactive’ stuff! I always strike on rod knocks on this method. I’ve found
during most sessions, it is very worth the effort. These are often the much
bigger old wary fish playing their games of ‘get off the hook fast!’ (continued...)
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