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In making a ground bait for winter and spring use, why not investigate the multitudes of substances available? Do not simply use those in favour in the adverts right now. For instance, try using pistachio flavour or hazelnut flavour with a ground bait mix (spod, stick, method, slop mixes etc), incorporating chopped and crushed brazil nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts and pine nuts, plus sesame seeds and pumpkin seeds, all freshly crushed.
Such a bait can avoid all those more familiar things like tiger nuts, peanut meal, crushed hemp, and familiar flavours and additives etc like Scopex or Chocolate Malt, chilli, L030, Minamino and so on. An alternative example of a liquid food is a 50:50 mixture of CC Moore liquid Mussel Extract and CC Moore Liquid Betaine, or a 50:50 mixture of CC Moore liquid Super Slop and CC Moore Feedstim XP, with added CC Moore Ultra Sweet taste enhancing sweetener.
All this kind of thing is an aspect of bait I am very keen on linking with regards to finer details of fish sensitivities with very good reason, because offering alternative nutritionally-stimulating taste and other palatial experiences really works to catch more fish!
Naturally, I have my own favourite versions I keep to myself but I am finding new combinations all the time, some of which I have not had time to use yet. However, literally anyone can create their own unique mixes that wary fish will never have experienced ever before! Believe me when I say you do not have to use the en vogue pineapple, banana, or Chocolate Malt creations; stay ahead of the fish (and competing baits) by creating your own unique versions. Remember that fish do not interpret flavours like you!
Your mind mapping and encoding of flavours is very different to fish, and fish are highly flavour and taste specific anyway. They will enthusiastically consume food items that westernised humans would not be able to stomach!
We adult humans code for 10,000 to 12,000 flavours but it is likely fish do not perceive a strawberry flavour like us, as their brains are wired in many different ways for a start. Think about it; fish receive information from specialised cells on their body surfaces such as their lateral lines, fins, lips, face and in the gills, as well as internally in the mouth and throat etc. All this information is fed to the brain and combined in the brain in various different ways to humans - so causing a biofeedback loop that initiates feeding or rejection responses and different levels of excitement and various modes of behaviours etc.
Even well-known anglers may say that carp enjoy the crunch factor of tiger nut meal in a bait, but not know it is not the texture alone that matters. Sure, the texture creates vibrations and sounds that are stimulating, and promote passage of food through the gut, but many other vital things matter even more.
Just for example like the primary essential amino lysine present in tiger nuts that is detected, or the vital energy-boosting profile of the oils in digestible tiger nuts, and the metabolism-boosting and thermochemical heating factors present that boost rates of digestion. Plus the forms of natural sugars enhancing tastes and flavours etc and also providing an addictive instant energy-boost!
The last thing a carp will associate with strawberry or banana concentrated bait flavour (even if natural or nature-identical) is a ripe strawberry or a ripened banana. But a quality flavour made to provide suitable levels of fermented sugars, organic acids and bioactive substances - they will not think visually or logically like us.
It might sound strange but using actual acai berries in cold water works, yet in the adverts that promote acai berry for slimming or getting a ripped toned muscular body acai lowers appetite; something anglers may not think is a good thing of course!
But acai has 10 times the levels of metabolism-boosting anthocyanins that blueberries contain and fish instinctively certainly know about these babies, as metabolism is exceptionally important to energy efficiency in carp where carbohydrate food is relatively low in abundance compared to natural protein sources in the natural aquatic environment!
Many flavours you may think are weird work extremely well, such as a mixture of marmite, sesame seed oil, liquid lecithins and honey, or liquid yeast and cream flavours, and with squid flavours and extracts for instance. Crab and cream is an obvious alternative flavour, but spicy orange may not seem so obvious, just like cheese and garlic flavours with black pepper oil, for instance.
As carp detect certain substances down to as little as 6 parts in a million in water, never overlook the fact that trace odours and taste factors of each and every dry powder or additive included in your baits can have a synergistic effect and really make a difference to your bait's impact and performance when in active combination in solution (i.e. when water penetrates your bait).
Think laterally! Why not make a homemade meat-bait soak mixture with fennel essential oil and mint essential oil, and attract carp to your hook using a bait that is completely new, and unique, and very effective! If you must use aniseed essential oil, why not cut it with fennel oil or even garlic oil, or many of hundreds of others that are available and not used by the masses of fashion-conscious anglers?! Revealed in my unique readymade bait and homemade bait carp and catfish bait secrets ebooks is far more powerful information look up my unique website (Baitbigfish) and see my biography below for details of my ebooks deals right now!
By Tim Richardson.
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