7 irresistible carp bait edges perfected for winter, spring, and year-round fishing!
Revealed here are powerful ready-to-use homemade bait tricks and simple, powerful fishing edges that will catch many more fish in winter and spring, when fishing is more difficult any time of year! Take advantage of these expert ready-to-use, homemade bait secrets right now and get big fish rewards surprisingly fast!
This point may seem simple, but too many fishermen overlook it and it is that originally boilies were not used for carp fishing, but bait paste or pasta was used. In fact, there was a time when most of the larger carp caught by the most famous pioneer fishermen caught their carp not in boilies but in paste. When you use a mix of boilie base mixed with eggs in cold water, these baits easily last long enough in cold water without any heating and these soluble baits usually work instantly.
The best time to try any new bait is in the winter! If you simply test any new batch of baits in easy fish carp water, instant feedback will tell you right away if you only have one bait that works or a real winner. You might be surprised to learn that easy fish don’t respond to all carp baits the same way. In fact, in my own homemade bait tests using a commercial bait as a comparative control bait, so far I am able to catch up to 6 times as many carp using very small batches of homemade test bait that the pre-made commercial bait has caught. This shows a huge difference in success with the use of alternative bait paradigms and the real advantage is that a true winter winner will perform even better the rest of the year.
In winter and spring, one of the most effective ways to bite is not to use boilies, but to create baits made from decomposed boilies, mixed with flavors and liquid foods and enhancers like Talin, and liquid and powdered palatants and salty substances. like the dust of Belachan. You will definitely be surprised to see the difference for yourself if you try this tactic and its power is that your bait will really work from the center out, and not just from the surface like conventional egg-sealed boilies. This method means you can take advantage of your favorite pre-made boilie, but make it much more functionally effective in cold, dense water!
This may seem like a strange trick, but it is so well proven in my own fishing in the harshest of cold conditions that I must recommend this bait edge! Instead of using conventional stick mixes or shredded boilies in PVA straps or solid bags, make your own homemade mix from completely alternative materials and immerse them in pure flavors and liquid foods. For example, I soak crushed hemp seeds in liquid Robin Red and soak worms in CC Moore Red Venom, and I form your bag of PVA or fabric mix from very loose materials such as molasses flour, enzyme-treated liver, with powder of CC Moore Vanilla Extract which is rich in oleoresins, salts and sugars, all of which are absolutely ideal for cold water conditions!
CC Moore Sweet Fruit Enhancer is a natural ester and essential oil based product that has been enhanced with sweeteners and appetite stimulants and I use it in all of my baits along with any other liquids. I used to make my own versions for years, especially for cold water conditions and this is a ready-made version that I have used with great success in winter and indeed in the heat of summer as well. I use much higher levels in winter in summer than recommended.
Bait substances work by altering things like the hydrogen concentration in the water, and carp are so sensitive to such differences in the water that you should take advantage of this fact to make your baits much easier for carp to detect. A very effective method of doing this is as simple as increasing the flavor level in your bait. For example, mixing Scopex flavored butyric acid and doubling or tripling the recommended levels for your winter and spring baits and using them at different depths in the water column, not just the bottom! Try this kind of approach in calm water in winter using your standard ready-to-use bait as a control bait for comparison and you will see the difference in fish feedback, believe me!
I have always found that breaking the standard rules for recommended bait substances by using real fish feedback testing is exceptionally beneficial with new batches of homemade baits and adapted prepared baits because carp break our rules all the time and you can surprise them!
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By Tim Richardson.