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Article #125: CARP FISHING BAIT DIGESTION -- Protein Nutrition and Energy Exploitation in your baits!

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* Giving carp the energy and nutritional atoms are arranged in different
requirements they need in your fishing structural ways in fatty acids, oils,
baits to make them irresistible! * esters, sugars, alcohols and other
Carp have an extremely developed and similar carp attractive groups. These
efficient metabolism of amino acids from groups definitely appear to enhance one
protein foods and natural sources; and so another when used in combination in carp
this indicates amino acids are probably baits.
among the most important essential The beneficial replication of natural
nutrients in the healthy carp diet, and fermentation processes:
our carp fishing baits too! Carp seem especially naturally attracted
In carp bait making, you need to provide to fermentation processes, and these need
the maximum digestible levels of amino to be utilised in bait to produce sugars
acids from protein ingredients to attract and alcohols and 'side effects'. The
carp most efficiently and effectively, curing and effective pre-digesting of
using various methods. such baits that produce easy to absorb,
Sugars used in bait are perhaps most simple sugars like glucose, make energy
effective not for their energy content, source absorption in the gut faster and
but because carp prefer a bait that has more efficient.
been sweetened over an unsweetened one, 'Vanillin' of the synthetic 'Vanilla
even when all dietary needs have been met flavour' fame, belongs to the same
in an unsweetened bait! This has been functional group as the alcohols and has
proven in exhaustive fish feeding trials. similar attractive effects on carp! The
Carp are 'omnivorous' and can digest fair synthetic 'Vanilla' used as flavour in
amounts of carbohydrates at well over 20 chocolate, (rather than the expensive
% of a bait content. natural vanillin extract), was an
Many other 'Cyprindae' fish can also live 'isomer' of eugenol of clove oil extract
on such a mixed diet, such as roach, fame.
rudd, bream, chub. Our practice of More recently 'vanilla' as a flavour is
offering 'free' baits into the swim being made from the fermentation of wood
fished helps attract carp feeding extract lignin called 'Talin' which gives
attention, not only by the bait a 'richer' flavour, than oil based
attraction itself, but also by the flavours. I prefer to use pure natural
activity of smaller fish bigger ones like extracts, in combination with other
catfish or tench. natural flavours like iso-eugenol from
It is a scientifically proven fact, that cloves as natural baits have better
natural sweeteners like: glucose, sucrose nutrition and 'feel-good' effects.
fructose, milk sugars, (lactose,) I believe that the more artificially
molasses, brown sugar, honey, liquorice processed an ingredient is, the less
root extract, thaumatin etc, and value to the carp it usually has, as in
artificial sweeteners like sodium the case of wheat or maize flours which
saccharin and aspartame, are carp truly are often simply a carrier for an
scientifically and catch proven feeding attractor or flavors combination.
triggers! Really attractive long-term carp baits
Like salt and amino acids, sweeteners may have everything to do with maximising
work by ionizing the water in ways that nutritional value within your bait!
carp especially prefer and can easily The author has many more fishing and bait
detect. Flavours affect the pH of carp 'edges' up his sleeve. Every single one
baits and may also ionize the water can have a huge impact on catches.
surrounding carp baits, so making them (Warning: This article is protected by
enticing to carp. copyright, but reprints with a link are
It's also possible that alcohols OK.)
flavours, with the addition of sweeteners By Tim Richardson. 'The thinking angler's
in baits make baits far more effective. fishing author and expert bait making
So why is this? Well, this area of guru.
chemistry is pretty involved, but similar






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