| its like worms add life and movement besides | | | | effect is boosting the active’ or even |
| extra soluble amino acids and other amines and | | | | more water reactive components of the flavour. |
| acids to attract many big fish. Using a worm or | | | | The fish are so highly sensitive that they will |
| maggots in conjunction with a meat, pellet or boilie | | | | detect the individual components of your flavor. |
| bait is an excellent tactic for wary feeding fish | | | | It’s incredible really what they can do. But |
| and will tempt all kinds of fish from big carp, big | | | | you can use this sensitivity to beat them. For |
| catfish, big tench, bream, barbel, specimen roach, | | | | instance, you might be using a readymade bait |
| salmon, trout, big eels, big sturgeon, and specimen | | | | flavoured with a maple flavour which has been |
| perch and crucian carp; in fact so many big fish, | | | | successful in the past but has slowed |
| I’ve lost count! | | | | down’. To beat the fish, all you need to do |
| I remember fishing a carp lake which had big fish | | | | is make up your own bait dip to create a slightly |
| and was a very rich lake. Before I got a boilie bait | | | | alternative bait. The fish will certainly recognise the |
| established on there, the first carp I landed from | | | | original base mix the bait is made from, but a |
| there was on worms. You get to discover a | | | | slight difference to smell and probably more |
| whole lot more about the life in your fishery when | | | | importantly in taste can get the fish mouthing |
| you try worms! For instance, one lake appeared | | | | your baits and getting hooked far more than your |
| to just hold high double figure’ carp, | | | | fellow anglers’ baits straight from the |
| with no smaller ones. But using worms for the | | | | bag.’ Here’s a few ideas for doing |
| perch there resulted in a succession of | | | | this, but there are very potent methods beyond |
| single-figure and smaller, double-figure’ carp | | | | this incorporating much more secret chemicals: |
| in good numbers, when none of this size were | | | | Make a homemade dip using: |
| being caught on any other conventional carp baits. | | | | 5 parts liquid molasses. |
| The giant legendary 50 pound plus common carp | | | | 5 parts natural maple syrup. |
| from Warmwell’ in Dorset UK has been | | | | 1 part betaine hydrochloride. |
| landed on worm despite very heavy pressure to | | | | 1 part fine sea or rock salt. |
| catch him from anglers using conventional carp | | | | Or make up a natural boosted worm based dip |
| bait recipes. When the readymades’ | | | | using: |
| have done their job and caught a few fish, if too | | | | 5 parts bloodworm extract. |
| many anglers exploit the same ones of a similar | | | | 5 part liquid yeast extract. |
| dietary content and physical nature and format, | | | | 5 part liquid liver extract. |
| the fish can easily change their feeding habits. | | | | 1 part betaine HCL |
| They might start eating baits washed-out of | | | | 1 part talin or Thaumatin B or other intense |
| flavours as old baits like this are mostly safe to | | | | sweetener, with a bit of added salt if desired. |
| eat. Or they might still eat them fresh but have | | | | You might wish to use a synthetic worm dip |
| learned to avoid conventional rigs used by the | | | | using: |
| majority of anglers. | | | | 1 part synthetic bloodworm flavor. |
| Even though you may only go fishing for a day, | | | | 1 part synthetic worm extract additive. |
| or a day and night, or even a week or 3, | | | | 1 part consisting of equal amounts of lecithins and |
| remember that fish have 24 hours a day, 7 days | | | | fish oils with added betaine HCL and salt if desired |
| and nights a week to practice avoiding hooks! This | | | | (Preferable!) |
| bigger picture’ is so important in | | | | Millions of dips and alternative dips and bait soaks |
| revealing how fish get trained or conditioned by | | | | are possible to keep ahead of the fish and your |
| angling activities, rigs and baits etc and knowing | | | | fellow anglers, and don’t forget you can |
| how to get round this conditioning!’ | | | | impregnate various plastic and rubber |
| There is a craze for bloodworm and their | | | | fake’ baits like fake corn with any of |
| extracts for use in many baits for various species | | | | the above, or rubber maggots, with scopex |
| in the UK and rightly so. The amino acid profiles of | | | | flavour or n-butyric acid for instance, or plastic |
| bloodworm, tubifex and worms and insect larvae | | | | pellet with strawberry oil based flavour or coat it |
| in general are very attractive to fish. Fish have | | | | with marine halibut oil fish meal paste. |
| adapted to detect the major essential dietary | | | | When you think about it, worms are at their best |
| substances issuing from such natural foods in the | | | | when freshly leaking attractive substances from |
| water. Not surprisingly, fish receptor cells and sites | | | | their bodies and bites can be very soon after |
| code’ for these substances and this | | | | casting out. I’m sure their movement and |
| coding and stimulation reflect the most | | | | sound in the water also make them more |
| feed-stimulatory of the amino acids especially. | | | | stimulating and easier to find. Some of the most |
| These amino acids are usually the most abundant | | | | stimulatory of the amino acids in various |
| in these worms and fish use the detection of | | | | worms’ extracts mixtures include valine, |
| them in order to locate and consume natural | | | | alanine, cystine, methionine, leucine and |
| foods in their aquatic environment, highly | | | | phenylalanine. When worms eat they consume |
| efficiently, even when their heads are completely | | | | whole micro-ecosystems. In the case of |
| buried under black silt for hours on end. (Many | | | | earthworms, consumed bacteria populations are |
| carp have darkened colouration in and around the | | | | among the main sources of their essential amino |
| mouth as a result of such behaviour, and some | | | | acids and even humans and carp use healthy |
| examples of very natural feeding’ fish | | | | bacterial enzymes to fully digest our food! |
| can appear literally black in colour.) | | | | You can exploit many worm-like ingredients in |
| So what are the key stimulatory substances in an | | | | baits as well as exploiting fake an real ones on |
| earthworm or maggot, or bloodworm for | | | | your rig. Anyone using a fake rubber maggot |
| instance? Fish feeding on tubifex have an | | | | covered hook with a real worm or 2 maggots |
| amino-rich diet, but their essential fatty-acid intake | | | | attached with a worm paste wrap is going to |
| will be low as a result; so don’t despair if | | | | catch something sooner or later and the chances |
| your fish have turned into bloodworm addicts and | | | | are it will either be a pesky tiny but big-mouthed |
| don’t appear catchable! All you need to do | | | | perch, or a big carp, bass, trout, catfish, barbel or |
| is supply substances in their diet which may | | | | bream for instance. |
| possibly be lacking; so giving them a potent | | | | Mealworms, dendrobaena, lobworms, brandlings, |
| essential dietary reason for eating your bait! | | | | red worms of many kinds, caddis fly larvae, |
| Incidentally, in fishing, you may well agree, that | | | | bloodworm (the larvae of a kind of fly) and |
| any bait that fish are naturally eating is probably | | | | tubifex, silkworm pupae and even daphnia, mini |
| the best one to use if you’re sure of | | | | crayfish, shrimps, water fleas, algae can all be |
| ideas, but the trick here is not to offer them a | | | | combined and used very creatively to keep you |
| needle in a haystack bait. In other words give | | | | ahead. You might use it in a homemade dissolving |
| them a big worm or a bunch of small worms if | | | | method ground bait with items to give it more |
| they are feeding on tiny bloodworms, or give | | | | activity in the water, perhaps with crushed hemp |
| them a boilie or pellet bait absolutely packed with | | | | and wheat or barley bran, or layers mash chicken |
| freely soluble amino acids as a result of the | | | | feed and Vitalin’ cereal and meat |
| bloodworm extract concentrate you might have | | | | extracts based dog food which is a good ground |
| loaded it with. | | | | bait binder, etc. Loose maggots sprayed with |
| Talking to many fishermen from all kinds of | | | | flavours and soaked in edible dyes are a popular |
| trades even shell fish and crab fisherman, they all | | | | method used in soluble polyvinyl alcohol bags for |
| insist when you get the nutritional profile of the | | | | carp, but this is just the simplest method in this |
| bait right, it’s like magic and the fish, crabs | | | | category and far more effective methods can be |
| and shellfish all come running in numbers. Get it | | | | created with a little imagination... |
| slightly wrong and there could be absolutely no | | | | The thing about using worms is, although you |
| response. The easy way to ensure you always | | | | may be focussed on one big species, you might |
| have a bait that is right’ is to fish more | | | | get many other bonuses as well. For instance, on |
| than one kind of bait on your hook or rig, or | | | | 2 big carp waters, Darenth big lake and Rainbow |
| more than one kind of bait on different rods. The | | | | lake in France I tempted big tench, big pike and |
| same goes for flavours. Often you might find one | | | | even a big eel besides hooking some |
| flavour is better on one day in one swim, than a | | | | extraordinarily large carp. Never under-estimate |
| flavour that had been your favourite on a | | | | the humble worm - you simply never know what |
| different venue where it was highly successful. | | | | you might hook next especially if you make your |
| For instance, you might use a mixture of essential | | | | own baits and ground baits exploiting their |
| oils and proprietary fishing flavors together to | | | | irrestible magic! |
| create a new flavour. What you are doing in | | | | |