| glers have heard of the success of luncheon meat | | | | You can begin any way you like but maybe start |
| for specimen carp, catfish, barbel, chub and other | | | | with liquidising a can of Green Giant Sweetcorn. I |
| species but over-look many alternatives to the | | | | have an old food mixer-blender that takes the |
| obvious readymade baits and tinned meat baits. | | | | effort out of bait making and makes it far faster |
| This article describes different ways to exploit | | | | than most anglers ever imagine! |
| nutrient-rich meats in many different ways to | | | | If you must have a flavour to boost your |
| make cheaper homemade big fish baits! | | | | confidence you can add a flavour to your corn at |
| When carp, catfish, barbel and chub angler think | | | | any level you like. It is completely your choice to |
| of meat they all seem to immediately think of | | | | make your baits over-flavoured instant attractor |
| luncheon meat. But hold on a second, just what | | | | baits or low-flavour more natural baits for |
| are the ingredients and special additives that | | | | instance. These days there are endless |
| make it a nutritional and attractive food item to | | | | readymade fishing flavour liquids, palatants, |
| both humans a and fish, because this is extremely | | | | complexes etc you can exploit; but many of |
| important! In relation to luncheon meats what | | | | these tend to be quite expensive even in larger |
| about all those different brands and types of pork | | | | volumes. |
| products that we can also exploit for bait use in | | | | However it is true that certain flavours are well |
| diverse ways? There is Spam, Pork Grill, luncheon | | | | worth the money. Top flavours often cost far |
| meats, salamis, sausages and sausage meats and | | | | more than you might think to formulate, refine |
| even pork meat foods in tinned and frozen forms | | | | test and re-test, to source components, to bottle, |
| for pets like dogs too plus many other | | | | label, package, and transport to sell at a profit for |
| alternatives. | | | | both the wholesaler and retailer. |
| I have found that utilising the big pre-formed rolls | | | | I must admit I hate the cost of very many |
| of pork meats intended for pet consumption | | | | products sold in small bottles with expensive |
| make very good bulk protein bases for carp baits | | | | prices. It is horses for courses as they say and I |
| and baits for many other species too. Many | | | | have blown a fortune over the decades spent on |
| people know all about the success of using simpler | | | | testing and using such little bottles! Unfortunately |
| chunks of luncheon meat, or cylinders of | | | | some of the most stimulatory components of a |
| Pepperami, or Matterson sausage and so on, but | | | | bait bought from fishing shops as opposed to |
| far fewer realise all these can be formed into | | | | other sources can be very much more |
| even better unique baits in conjunction with many | | | | expensive, but you often do not need to use |
| other highly attractive ingredients, additives, | | | | very much to get the vital effects on fish senses |
| flavours etc. Big fish catches mean much more | | | | you absolutely depend on for success! |
| than some special meat punch tool or | | | | Just look out if you are on a budget for it is often |
| ready-flavoured tinned meat! | | | | far better to use a new flavour or slightly |
| Of course many anglers use tinned luncheon meat | | | | different version of a pure liquid extract than to |
| from the tackle and bait shop made specially as | | | | choose very cheap flavours or cheaper copies of |
| fishing bait with added coloured dyes and flavours; | | | | already legendary flavours for instance. I do not |
| like Strawberry and Scopex. But these are still | | | | consider that many of the newer generation of |
| come out of the tins in the familiar sizes and | | | | the corn steep liquor and syrup-flavour |
| shapes, textures and feel of standard tinned | | | | proprietary fishing concoctions really provide value |
| meats of this nature. Carp will often unfortunately | | | | for money, when compared to other options for |
| already be extremely familiar with these forms of | | | | your baits that may take a little thought to |
| baits, and they will be able to resist or pull baits | | | | source but which are massively more economical! |
| off rigs or consistently whittle down or mouth | | | | Warm mineral water and molasses or even white |
| hook baits without getting hooked! (All this goes | | | | granulated sugar form almost the equivalent of |
| on all the time often with anglers never | | | | the bulk of some of these types of products. A |
| comprehending the queue of fish that sample the | | | | small quantity of a leading flavour added to the |
| bait and never get hooked!) | | | | most active grade of CSL, (corn steep liquor) you |
| Of course you might use a cylinder of Pepperami | | | | can source plus an intense sweetener such as |
| or luncheon meat next to a pop-up boilie perhaps | | | | Talin plus a little betaine makes a good very basic |
| or combine a tiger nut or a pellet and a piece of | | | | homemade alternative. |
| meat together on a hook rig to try and do | | | | So now you have your sweetcorn or sweetcorn |
| something a little different. I have spent about 35 | | | | and added liquids prepared. Put this aside and now |
| plus years in carp fishing experimenting with all | | | | liquidise 2 cans of luncheon meat for example. |
| kinds of bait formats. I have obviously exploited | | | | This meat may have less or more meat content |
| the of out-side flavouring all kinds of meat baits | | | | and less or more fat and oil contents. You will find |
| and soaking them in all manner of substances in | | | | the cheaper brands usually contain higher |
| order to boost their performance. | | | | proportions of fats and water compared to meat |
| After all this I now prefer to utilise pork and | | | | protein content. I go for cheap high fat, high |
| many other meats different ways and forms of | | | | water highly solubility meats for free baits, and |
| baits that really are unique every time they are | | | | the highest protein meats for hook bait use. (This |
| used and of course, half of their success is their | | | | also saves money!) |
| complete uniqueness of both bait characteristics | | | | Now pour in your sweetcorn liquid and blend the |
| of shape feel, shapes, taste and smells, colours, | | | | meat and corn together. You can either add an |
| densities and buoyancies, nutritional profiles and so | | | | equal volume of eggs to this mixture to bind or |
| on. | | | | not use eggs to produce the most water-soluble |
| Now in these days of recession it is certainly | | | | baits. You do not need to use many eggs to bind |
| cheaper to get pork and often many other | | | | liquids and other ingredients together anyway. |
| meats in larger quantities for much less money | | | | Many anglers avoid the use of whole eggs |
| from pet food outlets and even wholesalers | | | | altogether because they although they contain all |
| wherever possible. If you want a more lazy | | | | kinds of essential nutritional components fish are |
| method the raw sausage meat from | | | | obviously going to recognise them from previous |
| supermarkets is a good well proven fishing bait | | | | egg-containing baits plus eggs affect digestion in |
| protein source! The tinned stuff in conventional | | | | various ways. You can just throw out the yolk or |
| sizes in supermarkets is obviously probably the | | | | yellow part of the egg and just use the egg white |
| most expensive way to buy meats but they are | | | | instead. Some anglers will be familiar with the use |
| instantly available to most people. | | | | of many other binders to use including the familiar |
| Using the tinned brands gives you a chance to try | | | | whole egg powder used in baking. |
| out various brands in straight from the tin form | | | | Now you have your liquid meat and eggs mixed |
| to find the most productive ones for your species | | | | together you need a dry meal or powder or |
| of fish (which often turn out to be one particular | | | | combination of these to bind the liquid. The |
| brand and product just like the super sweet | | | | choices for this a vast but their different |
| sweetcorn specially grown for Green Giant for | | | | functional and stimulatory effects (and not just |
| example! In my carp fishing I have found that the | | | | nutritional ones when used in combination) come |
| concentration of natural sugars in this specific | | | | into play; and are most significant here.) |
| tinned version has very often out-fished many | | | | If you were using sausage meat you might find |
| other cheaper brands and even lesser strains of | | | | your bait requires less binder as this might already |
| fresh sweetcorn too. | | | | contain sticky added wheat flour or corn or other |
| Now this might seem obvious to some of you, | | | | starch fillers and other binders. I often use whole |
| but what if you combined such attractive | | | | wheat flour and maize flour or gram flour (chick |
| sweetcorn with the most productive or cheapest | | | | pea flour) for instance and add other binders and |
| but still productive pork meat (or other meats) to | | | | ingredients to seriously boost stimulatory impacts |
| make very economical homemade baits? Strictly | | | | and for various other less obvious bait |
| speaking ideally you will do your homework on | | | | performance and structural reasons etc. Soya |
| bait substances and fish senses that most | | | | flour and hard durum wheat semolina is so |
| stimulate them before choosing ingredients first. | | | | over-used do be different because it will pay you |
| As the saying goes think like a carp — not | | | | big dividends! |
| an angler and success is sure to follow! | | | | Simply add your binder or binders already mixed |
| Ideally you will find out the essential nutritional | | | | together in whatever ratios your homework and |
| aspects of the daily dietary requirements of carp | | | | practical bait-making experience leads you to use |
| or wels or even blue or channel catfish for | | | | and get the old food blender or liquidiser going |
| example. Each species has great lessons in | | | | again. I often start my mixes like this and finish |
| nutritional requirements and substance-specific | | | | my bait dough by hand to achieve refined levels |
| sensitivity that can also be applied and exploited | | | | of hardness or wetness because I often let |
| for different species. This is exactly what I did in | | | | mixes sit for some hours in the fridge so the |
| terms of designing unique homemade baits to | | | | liquids and dry powders etc truly soak together |
| target for big carp. I then moved onto designing | | | | before finishing the bait. |
| unique homemade baits for catfish. | | | | When you have a firm dough your bait is ready. |
| Because I studied the 2 species in great depth | | | | Making even more potent and unique paste, |
| and detail I could extract specific parts of their | | | | pellets, boilies and unique particle baits from such |
| sensitivities and dietary requirements; and | | | | simple and cheap ingredients is another step. |
| discover levels of substances needed to produce | | | | Again, this can all be done in ways to achieve far |
| intense and prolonged feeding. This was all put into | | | | better than average big fish results for big carp, |
| practice in my fishing and led my captures of | | | | catfish plus specimen barbel and chub. This is |
| over thirty sixty to one hundred and ten pound | | | | where doing your bait homework really pays off! |
| catfish caught in the UK, plus to fifteen of my | | | | Getting the best bait information, doing rigorous |
| twenty captures of forty-plus pound carp in the | | | | fishing testing practice plus refinements based on |
| UK too. | | | | your catches feedback will make all the |
| OK, so here is a very quick taste of a just one | | | | difference. Why waste all your valuable time and |
| very simple method and approach to a | | | | money making and fishing baits that merely catch |
| homemade bait that will catch carp and catfish. It | | | | any carp or catfish big or small when you can |
| makes a small quantity and this is a lesson in | | | | have an economical bait that catches big fish very |
| taking a measured recordable approach so that | | | | consistently that even out-fishes competing baits |
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