| Think about it – how many times do you read | | | | profits – literally! Through my knowledge of |
| a fishing magazine only to be pounded with yet | | | | carp bait substances I can use various foods to |
| more biased nonsense about such and such a bait | | | | multiply my metabolism and maintain a healthy |
| and method the masses are using?! Here are | | | | level of metabolism-boosting type of muscle I can |
| some unbiased tips that do not promote any | | | | burn off far more sugar than most people |
| company that are highly innovative, extremely | | | | normally would. By comparison my brother is the |
| well proven for big fish - but will be new to your | | | | same height as me but is 5 stones heavier than |
| carp! Read on to multiply your big fish catches | | | | my 12 stone bodyweight. |
| right now! | | | | The link between substances exploited by the |
| If you use readymade boilies, pellets and pastes it | | | | food industry and ill-health is just not well known |
| is more than likely your carp will have been | | | | enough to be front page news as much as I |
| practicing avoiding these very recognisable baits | | | | would like to see, but some aspects of food |
| for years – if not decades. Despite claims of | | | | industry practices to make us eat more of |
| many bait companies a vast number of baits | | | | particular foods can be applied when putting |
| work to a great degree against your optimal | | | | together baits of many formats that have |
| success purely because they are so very | | | | proven to catch more carp! |
| recognisable as a potential threat. | | | | Watch out for food labelling - for instance in many |
| Carp associate danger or potential threats using all | | | | health food products that are stated as being all |
| kinds of cures. These may be the chemicals | | | | natural there is a very high level of refined sugar |
| issuing from a boilie, or the over-used | | | | added. More often than not, lactose, glucose, |
| components of many pellets for instance. Carp | | | | fructose and other additives are included – all |
| soon learn by association what foods have | | | | called natural but with very big impacts on senses |
| potential for danger – and develop behaviours | | | | and on actually genetically altering taste specific |
| to avoid getting hooked. Some carp have the | | | | preferences related to your human food buying |
| capacity for doing this far more than others | | | | behaviours! |
| because no carp is identical to another in terms of | | | | Beware if you are on a diet and trying to wean |
| individual experience combined with genetic needs | | | | yourself off crisps. For example some low fat |
| and preferences for example when detecting | | | | crisps contain much more salt or contain the toxin |
| potential food substances. | | | | MSG (it over-hydrates brain cells making them |
| But why keep on flogging baits that are far less | | | | explode – causing minor but progressive |
| effective than others? After all if you know that | | | | bleeding on the brain – yet another food |
| readymade boilies have standard characteristics | | | | industry cover-up! I do not recommend it to be |
| such as their shape, firmness and resilience and | | | | used in any food. Natural form glutamate found in |
| kinds of predictable movements in water in water | | | | protein-rich foods does not have ill effects! I |
| it would be stupid to pretend that such baits are | | | | recommend using things like L030, pre-digested |
| the peak of efficient objects to catch carp! What | | | | fish protein, fermented shrimp and other natural |
| about the fact that far too many ready made | | | | glutamate-rich substances instead to enhance |
| baits contain exactly the same standard binders | | | | your baits if you truly care about your carp |
| and protein ingredients - all of which act as | | | | health! |
| potential signals of danger? | | | | I tried buying lower fat crisps only to discover |
| Think about it – when soluble substances are | | | | that not only did they have a higher than normal |
| soon washed out of such baits they pretty much | | | | level of salt – they also contained dextrose! |
| will taste and smell the same; and so offer the | | | | You might learn what you like from this but do |
| same old nutritional reasons for carp to eat them. | | | | keep your bait head in gear because it is very |
| But these reasons may well be as good as | | | | important in its implications! You might think that |
| useless because so many baits like this are used | | | | carp syrups are new but nothing could be farther |
| all the time anyway and so carp will have | | | | from the truth – honey is the most |
| drastically less need of such nutrients – | | | | well-known carp attractor on record throughout |
| especially as heavy baiting leads to higher levels of | | | | history! |
| natural food availability in very many carp waters! | | | | If you are still in doubt about the fact that you |
| Why not think like a carp and use something | | | | can make your carp baits alter carp and their |
| different to really boost your catch rate instead | | | | preferences genetically, consider how the average |
| Rod Hutchinson did not get into using so-called | | | | height of humans in the western world has risen |
| particle baits just for the fun of it. He found that | | | | dramatically over the past 50 years. |
| on very rich waters fish were feeding in different | | | | In the same way a myriad of nutritional and other |
| modes and behaved in often quite different | | | | factors are growing carp to sizes that UK anglers |
| fashions to how most carp feed in well-stocked | | | | who began carp fishing in the seventies or earlier |
| lower water quality waters. In very rich waters | | | | never dreamt was ever possible! The average |
| the old standard high protein boilie approach can | | | | size of carp in most waters in the UK during the |
| easily be out-fished by using baits that replicate | | | | seventies was somewhere between single and |
| the items that carp browse on naturally on their | | | | double figures, yet in some UK waters today the |
| travels. It is very noticeable from my ebooks | | | | average can be as much as 35 pounds or more - |
| reader feedback that using pastes to initially get | | | | yet in the seventies and eighties, to catch even |
| fish onto a new bait is massively more successful | | | | one carp well over thirty pounds was nationally |
| – and very fast acting, compared to using | | | | significantly newsworthy! Today more and more |
| boilies. | | | | forty pound carp are being caught – yet most |
| It is an excellent idea to make up ground bait | | | | anglers forget that very many of these were the |
| based on your intended boilie base mix ingredients | | | | double figure so-called pasty or noddie fish that |
| or ready made base mix powders mixture. I | | | | no-one took any notice of during the eighties! |
| prefer to make my own because I can make | | | | In fact it is my certain belief that we humans |
| them far more potent – at much less cost | | | | have in the past been taller than we are today |
| than it would be to buy base mixes. I have yet to | | | | – by quite a margin. But the genetic evidence |
| find a boilie base mix that cannot be made far | | | | for this has been covered up because to |
| more potent – after all these are commercial | | | | conventional science this fact cannot yet be |
| compromises that have been produced to make | | | | explained. Just one aspect of this is plain to see |
| money. | | | | – at times in the past the atmosphere has |
| Such ready made baits potential for triggering | | | | been more beneficial to growth in all creatures. |
| feeding can always be more fully maximised in a | | | | At various epochs in history competition among |
| very wide range of ways. You might think of | | | | humans or between humans and other animals |
| flavours or dips or palatants for instance but you | | | | has been less important so capacity for growth |
| can exploit an incredible variety of properties, | | | | has been different. Many factors come into why |
| physiological impacts and even the ways baits and | | | | growth rates of animals can alter up or down |
| bait substances ionise the water, drop or raise | | | | through time but it is a fact that burial sites of |
| water pH, or pump out even more soluble | | | | races of humans such as indigenous Indians have |
| substances via diffusion and various simultaneous | | | | been found with skeletons well over 7 feet tall; |
| chemical reactions taking place. | | | | some races much taller still. |
| You might make your homemade readymade | | | | We take for granted that some African races are |
| base mixes far more potent than the standard | | | | particularly tall, yet low ceilings and 5 feet high |
| baits. One you get the know-how you can | | | | doorways of many medieval buildings in the UK |
| harness the massive fish-catching benefits of | | | | for instance show that humans have certainly |
| making your readymade base mixes extremely | | | | changed up and down in size over periods of time |
| potent. They can be made to be naturally highly | | | | for a wide range of combined reasons. Ultimately |
| bioactive in endless ways. You can make them | | | | all this change shows up in the genetic record and |
| enzyme-active and pre-digested in a vast number | | | | the fact is that carp are dynamically changing |
| of ways too. These things are not secrets – | | | | genetically even through their lifetimes in response |
| they are readily available for anyone to discover | | | | to factors such as the food substances they |
| right now but I have done my homework - to | | | | consume! |
| help you! | | | | We can harness this power yet most anglers |
| You can improve your baits by making them far | | | | seem to be completely oblivious to the potential |
| more beneficial to fish by improving their prebiotic | | | | impacts upon catches this really truly has! |
| and probiotic impacts on fish too but these things | | | | I could list very many substances I can guarantee |
| among many others are just the tips of the | | | | are never used in commercial carp baits and |
| ice-berg of what is potentially possible to do to | | | | probably never will be either but this does not |
| improve your catches right now – and more | | | | stop individuals like you and me exploiting |
| and more ways and means are being discovered | | | | substances that have the kinds of impacts on |
| all the time increment by increment. All it takes | | | | carp that literally drug them. I could put together |
| for you to improve your catches is the desire to | | | | a number of carp bait recipes that you could |
| improve your catches – to resist group | | | | easily say are simply a list of substances with |
| mentality (of most magazine readers for instance) | | | | actual drug or drug-related impacts on fish. |
| and think more like a fish – like an individual | | | | Think about it – we are what we eat right? |
| and not like a fashion-following angler chained-up | | | | OK so consider this; not all the substances in |
| by a limiting conventional stereotypical mindset | | | | foods get excreted or detoxified from our cells |
| conditioned by popular thought! | | | | and tissues whether they are bad or good for us; |
| It astounds me just how far behind most carp | | | | this is the same for carp. The body is an incredible |
| anglers on the bank really are when it comes to | | | | storage vehicle but it really is what it is made of. |
| discussing details of their baits and how to truly | | | | Over time the impacts of consuming certain |
| maximise their baits impacts on fish. Just soaking | | | | substances will build-up – for instance the |
| or dipping or glugging baits is about as far as it | | | | positive antioxidant impacts of carp consuming a |
| gets from maximising baits because you need to | | | | higher than normal consumption of carotenes and |
| really harness the basic ways substances behave | | | | carotenoids. |
| in the water and how fish sense changes in the | | | | A range of potent naturally derived pigments are |
| water. Anyone can discover these things. | | | | well known to be beneficial to carp in both the |
| It is far from true that everything is known about | | | | short and longer term. Consider those in |
| carp baits. To say that there is nothing new in | | | | sweetcorn, maize and eggs, or shrimps or spices |
| carp baits is obviously completely ignorant and | | | | for instance! Such impacts can induce changes in |
| downright misleading! The leading fish scientists in | | | | specific carp sensitivities that make them alter |
| the world have not even discovered all there is to | | | | their behaviours so that when regularly introduced |
| know about very major aspects of how fish | | | | substances within baits change carp feeding |
| detect various vitally important substances and | | | | behaviours in your unique favour. This principle has |
| water changes - so it is totally ignorant and very | | | | been proven again and again for particular bait |
| arrogant of someone to bluntly state that | | | | substances and combinations over the years but |
| everything about carp baits is already known! | | | | the list is growing as more substances are being |
| This is quite apart from the fact that carp, like us | | | | utilised by creative forward-thinking individuals |
| humans are constantly evolving beings, whose | | | | – like you perhaps! |
| DNA changes not just from one generation to | | | | You might think that hemp is a prime example of |
| another but actually within individuals while they | | | | a classical carp bait and it is true it has many |
| are growing and maturing. Just ask yourself for | | | | potent characteristics and nutritional and bioactive |
| example why it is that we can adapt our palate, | | | | features etc that influence carp feeding and |
| improve our eyesight, re-sensitise our nose and | | | | associated carp behaviours. But the active |
| tongue to a whole new range of substances – | | | | compounds that are presently known on hemp |
| and how this can alter our preferences and | | | | seed can be found in different strengths in other |
| behaviours. | | | | natural products if you bother to look! |
| This kind of thing is a major cornerstone of the | | | | The same is true of many forms of compounds |
| profitability of the food industry and their tricks to | | | | found in herbs and spices. Chilli is a very |
| make you buy more food by genetically altering | | | | fashionable word in carp fishing right now but the |
| our senses by keeping us ignorant to the impacts | | | | variety of active compounds associated with |
| of all kinds of substances and their effects. | | | | many forms of hot spicy compound-containing |
| Countless food products contain added | | | | plants is huge and impact on carp in many ways |
| substances that will genetically alter your and your | | | | that make them easier to catch including |
| preferences in various ways. | | | | stimulating increased protein-feeding for example. |
| Part of the obesity and diabetes epidemics are | | | | One major point of make about certain bait |
| related to vast volumes of refined sugar added | | | | substances and ignorance of them on the bank is |
| to foods and drink that effectively make them | | | | that some can prevent other baits from catching |
| more palatable and habit-forming – but the | | | | fish. This is no joke because once this effect is |
| more you eat the higher the risk of diabetes for | | | | witnessed – and you are the one who knows |
| instance. I had a curry the other night and it | | | | which substances and effects on carp have |
| contained an added 5 grams of sugar. | | | | produced this highly advantageous effect your will |
| Added to all the other subtly added sugar in other | | | | never think about carp baits in the same way |
| foods my sugar intake is far higher than is healthy | | | | again! |
| yet all this is just so food companies make fat | | | | |