Fly Dye
The numbers and diversity of ready made carp baits now available makes your head spin, so here are some particularly good new ideas to ensure you keep ahead of those crafty carp and keep catching more than your fair share of bigger fish!
Using readymade baits in making your own unique bait mixtures for even more impact is easy. These days it is almost impossible to separate match fishing baits from carp fishing baits now that match carp fishing is so predominant and spurring bait companies into supplying carp baits for carp of all sizes! Many match size carp are reaching the upper double figures and such fish easily chomp down bigger baits like 20 millimetre boilies intended for the real specimen fish!
But scaling baits down as well as using larger baits is a very effective method for bigger fish. I recall catching my first 30 pound carp after a very frustrating morning of catching one single figure fish after another. On many waters you never know what you are going to hook next despite perhaps the vast majority of fish caught being small. Very pressured carp lakes respond well to all kinds of smaller baits and particles such as small soft pellets and baits like sweetcorn, maize and hemp and tiger nuts for instance.
I have used ground baits for decades for carp and designed my own to use way back in the mid-Seventies. More awake specimen carp anglers will have noticed far more emphasis has been placed on carp ground bait products in recent years and with very good reason. Such ground bait and particle type products are being made available in far more diverse and innovative forms as supplied by bait companies that traditionally have just catered for match men.
Using pellets as part of your ground baiting attack is potent as they release their attraction quickly and break down fast doing their job of pulling fishing into the swim in excited modes of behaviours without actually filling them up so much before they find your hook baits. Particle baits are all the rage all the more too now as readymade baits besides boilies, paste, pellet and meat type baits for instance. Dynamite Baits have a good range of pre-cooked particles and Sonu Baits have gone into this area more. They now offer tins of particles in mixes such as hemp and tiger nuts, sweetcorn and hemp and maize and hemp.
Personally I find liquidising cooked particles and mixing them in boilie mixes very effective as well as using liquidised particles to make pastes with pellets and as liquid additives for soaking pellets and all kinds of ground bait, method and stick mixes and so on. As ground baits whole and part-liquidised particles are very productive.
One of the more interesting baits is their paste pellets that are basically like the more traditional soft hookable pellets but are designed to suit the specimen carp market. What this really means is that the flavours and names of the products are chosen perceived to be even more suitable for specimen carp anglers as opposed to purely match anglers. The cat meat paste pellet is an obvious development of the success of cat meats used in match carp fishing and there are many other popular flavours including pineapple.
Sonu Baits offer unique sprays that will dye your pellets, sweetcorn, boilies, maggots and so on different colours. This means you can achieve more success using different baits, such as black sweetcorn, and white luncheon meat and so on. Of course you can use dye powders powder to make your own dips and soaks. A nice easy tip I have used for years is soaking baits in Robin Red additive (rich in attractive natural red pigment.)
Match men are well used to fishing for small carp using small baits and fine tackle. Many carp match men have become masters of speed carp fishing. The development to a very high degree of skill in the arts of free baiting is a massive advantage between one carp angler and another.
This art of free baiting is something that is not really well understood by most carp anglers though. The truth is that carp move through various stages of stimulated excitement and your bait substances dissolved in the water around your hook baits directly leverage the sensitivities of carp senses to bait substances to different degrees.
Ensuring your swim has enough concentrations of these stimulatory substances is a big advantage is catching carp and even leads to multiple catches of the very biggest carp in a fishery as the most effective free baiting makes them compete against each other to the degree they make far more mistakes on hook baits! Most consistently achieving this situation takes quite a degree of skill, experience and knowledge of how baits substances really work! (For much more information see my website link and biography now!)
By Tim Richardson.
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