It's a fact; your own uniquely potent homemade baits really can out-compete Any popular expensive readymade bait! If the point of bait is to out-smart fishes' suspicions of fishing bait, why try and compete using baits that other anglers have blown to a degree already?!!!!!!! You can make your own baits and never have your baits blow! (And at a fraction of the price of readymade baits but to tremendously more impactful effect!) 

Actually, great baits do not necessarily 'blow' as such; it just means that once hooked, or hooked a number of times on any particular bait, fish instincts and bait-related experiences make fish feed far more cautiously so become much harder to hook even to the point of permanently avoiding that recipe or combination!You need to keep ahead of that situation by always having a change ready Before the results start to slow down - and that's where bait secrets really pay off!.....

Certainly, fish are very capable of totally rejecting baits outright if they have enough reason! For instance, I applied what I learnt from my many years of catching big catfish to designing carp baits, as very many commonalities exist in substance sensitivities and essential dietary needs, but both species can become very hard to hook on certain baits if hooked too much on them. In fact, catfish can easily avoid feeding on obvious baits such as squid and liver, if hooked previously on them, despite such baits having great nutritional value! If you doubt my own experiences of this, read about Kevin Maddocks and his similar problems with bait rejection and solutions to this challenge!

3 upper twenties hooked at the same time (retaining sacks were literally ruled-out) - this rare catch is a prime example of getting everything right!

The anglers who insist that nutritionally valuable baits just keep on working year on year, with the same successful results, are misleading because they fail to mention and factor in certain variables! These include that although fish may continue to consume such baits, these baits certainly do have a reduced capacity for encouraging maximised, confident feeding due to fish recognising aspects of these baits and fearing them due to this recognition!!!

New baits that offer fish unusual unique experiences and pleasurable sensations whether nutritionallly or by other methods and means, tend to achieve more success - before the fish have had a chance to respond to them with a heightened degree of suspicion and fear!

Of course individual fish will simply respond more warily to familiar and previously dangerous bait recipes and forms that they recognise. Fish are not clones but are individuals with varied genetics, slightly differing essential requirements over time and different taste and smell preferences etc that may be true to an individual and stay constant or change over time for many reasons. The way fish deal with our hook baits and free baits is very interesting to watch, as you will soon realise that certain fish are leaders and some are followers, some are shoal fish and some are loners, some are used a guinea pigs to test baits for others, and some copy the warier older feeding fish, or they might copy the younger, more adaptable, wary feeding fish.

Physical sensitivity, chemical sensitivities, spatial awareness and ability to communicate with others are intelligences that can be very easily applied to fish in terms of their success at survival and are just a few of the factors that can make catching fish harder, or that can be exploited and maximised deliberately to make catching fish easier. Fish are like dogs and humans because they can be conditioned in many ways. Did you know that dogs prefer sweetened foods and one of the more exotic sweet ingredients in some dog foods are pecan nuts? I hope this makes you think! Carp are the same in their attraction to sweet food items and the reasons for this are both obvious and extremely complex.

However, glucose is a very basic energy source in fish and humans when in the bloodstream. How many anglers utilise liquid glucose in their baits to give fish a sudden energy spike?

Ultimately nutritional baits and low value attractor baits are about stimulating feeding which infers the utilisation and release of energy! A bait may produce a spurt in energy when it is eaten, or even before it is eaten because fish can assimilate substances in water that can have this effect well before a bait is even mouthed or tasted with the lips and barbels close up.

Human adipose fat of the type made famous by the modern obesity epidemic (which in the bulk of cases is an excess of fat) is composed of 87 percent lipids. I hate catching fat carp because they are obviously not particularly healthy and will have a sluggish metabolism compared to leaner fish of far greater age and size! The use of high oil pellets is a crime robbing many fish of health and potential lifespan. All those fish feed on high oil baits through the warmer months are hardly likely to be much easier to catch through colder months having built up deposits of fat that dispose with the need to feed for long periods.

How many anglers have noticed how bad winter and spring carp fishing has been in the years since mass use of high oil pellets have been used in incredible volumes by ever more multitudes of anglers entering carp fishing?! The effects of these has far exceeded the impacts of milder winters that provided higher natural food levels – natural foods are predominantly easy to digest compared to most modern fishing baits.

Salmonids have quite a lot higher essential need for lipids for energy compared to carp so high oil salmon and trout pellets are far from ideal. Catfish have a much higher metabolic rate compared to carp per 5 degree in temperature increase so high lipid levels in catfish baits are not such a problem and obviously very beneficial in high temperatures in summer. Fatty baits for catfish have obviously proved their value but do notice that such baits tend to be rich in proteins the digestion and processing of which burns up high amounts of energy!

All kinds of stimulatory secrets can be exploited by literally any angler when you have gained a better understanding of various aspects of baits and will enable your homemade boilie, pellets, paste and ground baits etc of many diverse designs and formats to very successfully out-fish popular expensive and under-optimised profit-focussed not truly ultimate performance focussed readymade baits! (Note ANY bait that has been heated is an under-performing extrmely under-optimised bait!...)

By Tim Richardson. 

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