We fishermen pay lots of money for readymade fishing baits! The fact is that if they were so wonderful, companies would not have to keep on offering new baits all the time! Just the same number of fish or more, can be caught as a result of making your own unique baits and this will save you bags of money too!

Having a unique bait is one of the greatest competitive advantages in fishing. This is very often the factor which tips fish over from the state of just testing a bait, to actually taking it into its mouth along with your hook, and giving a very desirable run. There is no doubt in my mind after over 3 decades of making homemade fishing baits, that they can compete against commercial readymade baits on any water or venue.

You just need to fish sensibly and thoughtfully as you would normally for any big wary fish in order to be consistently successful. There is such a special and unique thrill and great sense of satisfaction when you catch fish, especially big fish like carp, catfish, bass, tench or even pike on your own homemade bait. One crucially important point about homemade baits is that you have no chance of anyone ruining your own chances by also fishing using your bait.

This is a point lost on most readymade bait users! The great edge of bait is being different to ones fish wary of already as a result of previous hooking and captures on it. So make your baits as unique as possible as frequently as you think your results indicate you may need to.

Homemade baits often succeed far longer than many readymade baits purely because you are the only one using that particular bait! Baits for carp are often termed ‘attractor baits’ or food baits depending on their nutritional value to the fish biologically speaking. High flavour levels and high concentrations if used are sometimes an indicator of a bait being more of an instant attractor type of bait much more than a food or nutritionally stimulating oriented bait.

Often just because a bait is new means it will achieve more success than established baits. Some bait makers use very economical ingredients for cheap mass baiting and their baits will usually contain high levels of flavors. Often these work well because the flavor pH affects the water in certain ways, which fish can easily detect, so drawing more attention to your bait, it being the source of the unusual signal.

Other homemade baits work by stimulating fish receptor cells very directly using very highly nutritionally stimulating ingredients. Some baits leverage naturally nutritionally stimulating ingredients to a far greater extent than any flavors. Protein based baits can often impact on fish receptor cells powerfully and induce a strong natural feeding response. The variations on homemade baits with both long term and instant properties are limitless; from the simplest to the most complex and these all catch fish with a variety of success!

It might sound hard, but making baits that work is easy and your baits do not need to be perfect like commercially produced machine rolled round or barrel shaped boilies or pellets shapes etc. There are obviously very many methods of making baits and you do not need to follow conventional steps at all, in fact there are many steps you can leave out completely. This makes things very much easier, saves hours of time and take the least effort possible!

You do not have to make individual baits in round shapes. Why not roll out a bait paste made of eggs, liquid additives and dry powders made into a dough and simply cut this into little odd shaped pieces? You could pop these into a pan of boiling water for about a minute or so to make boilies.

Making baits is very easy. You merely need a large container to mix your ingredients in and a knife or spoon to mix the materials to form a practical bait dough. First just get a handful of eggs and a teaspoonful of cake sweetener water mix together well.

Alcohol based flavors are better than propylene glycol solvent based ones for longer term baits. Add some dry powders bit by bit to form a your dough so it is not too sticky before it gets too stiff. The choice of powders, meals or crushed, milled, liquidised or other forms of ingredients you might wish to add to your bait for many various purposes number well into the thousands, but only 2 ingredients can get you catching!

Even wheat flour and water or bread and water is good enough at the very basic level. You can add a flavor and a sweetener and even an appetite stimulator if you wish but these are not essential to catch fish. In fact you will find these are integral parts of many food ingredients you might use in baits. Often using 5 to 20 drops of an essential oil is very effective and I rarely make baits without these natural substances.

When your dough is ready you can use it immediately, or put it labelled plastic bags for later use. Store baits in the fridge or freeze them. It is best to make a note of the ingredients and levels in each individual bait mix. To make around a kilogram of bait it takes about 6 eggs with your dry powders. But this is a very rough guide and every mix can vary widely depending on ingredients, their solubility etc.

What is the price of a bag of bait today and is it cheap or expensive? Well it is certainly not getting any cheaper. Having the knowledge to be able to consistently make homemade baits for a mere 3 pounds or 6 dollars per kilogram, instead of 12 pounds or 24 dollars is stunning. Just think of the saving on 10 kilograms costing 120 pounds or 220 dollars! (90 pounds or 180 dollars is a giant saving and is literally homemade made money!)

The best advantage of all is you can make your baits as different to normal as you like. Remember, being different is what really counts. Most frequently it is the most different and alternative baits which tempt the very biggest and wariest of fish and that means leading the fashion NOT following it! You can start off with the simple bait ideas here - but you might like to find out more if you really want to get cracking and hit the big-time!

By Tim Richardson.

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