subject: Winter Carp Fishing Bait Flavours And Boilie Tips To Give You The Edge Part 2! [print this page] Catching winter fish takes a special approach so here are some more alternative and unique practical bait tips refined from years of winter fishing and winter bait making. These include unique tips on potent stimulants and flavours and their components, and on nutritional liquid additives and their uses and applications. Apply all these tips and insights creatively to your homemade and readymade baits and catch more winter fish now!
Concentrated flavours are not the only useful bait substances to boost baits of many formats for improved winter success. In fact in some fishing situations some substances can be too soluble and actually leach out of baits too fast as they have infinite solubility, as in the case of glycerol dominated flavours, for example. It is wise to try mixing flavours and other substances so your flavours all leach out at different rates, leaving some concentrated attraction in the proximity of the bait. Using pure glycerine, vodka, and a mixture of concentrated sweetener and molasses and marmite, soluble fish protein and lactose, for instance, is a little bit alternative and produces different effects and impacts at different ranges.
For an easy homemade method or stick-type mixes, just make a breadcrumb based fluffy mixture dampened with your unique liquids to produce a ground bait mixture that will disperse easily, releasing soluble attraction and food particles into the water column and attract carp like mad! Using anything, from hemp oil to olive oil, and fruit oils etc in your mix, will get particles to pull fish down from upper layers better as the oil will tend to rise in water.
An easy way to make an alternative, highly over-flavoured area for winter fishing is to mix breadcrumbs with the old favourite Nesquick powdered milk shake. I really like using extra sweetened oils of many forms, provided they are mixed with liquid lecithins, but I advise you to avoid bulk fish and marine oils that simply solidify in low temperatures - test in the fridge or outside overnight using a thermometer if you are unsure. While actually fishing and testing oils, I have found a thermometer placed in oils in a pot in the water is quite enlightening!
Fruit oils are quite easily available online, and you do not always have to go to fishing bait companies for something slightly different or alternative after all, that is one of the greatest proven edges in carp fishing! With your oils, I recommend using the high PC liquid lecithin from Phil at CW Baits (online.)
Using oils in PVA products such as PVA bag and PVA netting etc lessens the chances of your PVA melting. If in doubt try some of the PVA-friendly products available from bait companies, such as CC Moore who have designed their products with this feature beneficially in mind.
In really low winter temperatures, solubility really is a great factor that can be leveraged, and in such conditions it is often pointless using a conventional boiled bait coated in paste, when you can use paste on the rig and know every part of your bait really is working for you (and is not rendered ineffective due to being sealed inside coagulated protein formed by heating of the bait!)
I will not go into which bait products to use here because there are so many excellent ones for winter and spring fishing to choose from but one key aspect in choosing substance is how well they will disperse in water - and most especially in cold water! To find this out just get samples and mix them with cold water. In a way it is like testing salt against betaine crystals or whole milk powders against various caseins, semolina or maize flour - or against malt extract, for instance.
If you want a more resilient paste (or make different homemade boilies), just add a small proportion of whole egg powder in your powder mixture or even use whey gel, if you are into that kind of bait texture and feel and effect etc. Ultimately, you can make baits that do not need to be sealed by loads and loads of whole liquid egg, and if you use egg, one tip is to reduce its content in baits by adding water in the same volume as half the eggs you might normally use in a summer bait, for example.
It is a little known fact that winter carp baits do not require a protein content of even 30 percent to be very effective indeed. In fact, anyone who is a little snobbish about using a winter bait based on breadcrumbs needs to make some homemade baits with them, adding some liquid foods, perhaps some flavour components, and highly soluble protein extracts (in high levels) as you would for a more costlier boilie recipes, and use these baits as paste, with total confidence!
A great little tip I have used with lots of success in low temperature conditions is to place next to a paste or steamed or boiled bait a piece of luncheon meat soaked in a neat essential oil (or mixtures of oils, palatants, enhancers, liquid proteins, flavours etc). The cheaper brands of luncheon meat tends to contain less protein, less fat and more water and more salt; these are far more water soluble, which is very useful in winter time!
High PC liquid lecithin is an essential component of cold water baits for me, as a proven feeding trigger, emulsifying oils and improving bait digestion and substance hydration and dispersal among other benefits!
The meat eventually softens and provides another very attractive reason for Mr Carp to suck in your rig! Providing carp with a rig that has an odd shaped meat bait and an odd shaped homemade boiled or steamed bait is an idea I recommend you try for winter and also to trip up more wary fish! 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!
