| * You want BIG CATCHES? Predigested ingredients | | | | might 'spook' the fish. These paste baits were very |
| in 'dough' baits and pastes are awesome! * | | | | quickly dissolved, but the smell of bait was constantly in |
| Used as free baits or even as a 'paste wrap' around | | | | the water, drawing in competing big fish. |
| your hook and bait, they give off incredibly attractive | | | | Some commercial bait companies also sell baits that |
| leak-off signals; catching very impressive numbers of | | | | dissolve like this. You can soak them in your own |
| catfish and carp. | | | | attractors thus attracting instant attention to your hook |
| Here is an example of a predigested ingredients paste | | | | baits. You can alter the time of 'free bait' total |
| recipe I've caught very well on: | | | | breakdown, for example, from 1 to 3 hours. |
| * 4 Ounces of predigested liver extract. | | | | The aim is to achieve a smell and 'sedimentation' of |
| * 4 Ounces of predigested fish protein. | | | | bait in the water, but offer no 'free baits' to eat except |
| * 4 Ounces of fish meal. | | | | your hook baits. This really forces the fish to eat your |
| * 4 Ounces of sodium caseinate. | | | | stimulated fish into eating your hook baits; it is an |
| * 15 Milliliters of pure salmon oil. | | | | extremely effective technique! |
| * 4 Eggs. | | | | You can mix and match using attractor-soaked fish |
| Mix up the dough until it is a firm but pliable consistency, | | | | meal pellets with hemp pellets, for example. Or make |
| split up your dough for various uses. Use some as | | | | 'ground bait' pastes using your boilie base mix or in |
| hook baits; try rolling many pieces baits into 10 millimeter | | | | conjunction with various prepared bird foods and |
| sized baits and 'air dry' them until they are firm. | | | | proprietary bread crumb based 'ground baits,' with your |
| Try regularly feeding your swim with these paste | | | | added attractors. |
| offerings; they can often work wonders for great | | | | The other advantage of these methods, are that the |
| results! | | | | fish get used to the specific flavours, smells and tastes |
| You could keep some for use as paste hook baits, | | | | of your bait mix and your attractors in the water. And |
| some for hook bait paste 'wraps,' and some for free | | | | on a very 'angling pressured' water, no-one can take |
| offering bait balls. Paste baits are very productive fed | | | | advantage of your bait after you leave, as someone |
| into the swim near your hook baits, inside water soluble | | | | could do, had you baited up with whole boilies! |
| poly vinyl alcohol ('PVA') bags attached to your hook | | | | Someone could, in effect, be 'blowing' your bait much |
| rig, or on 'stringers' made from the same soluble | | | | faster than you realized, if you use conventional whole |
| substance. | | | | boilies, by catching fish attracted to your bait, and |
| (You can freeze any bait you don't use short-term.) | | | | 'sabotaging' all your hard work by regularly baiting up |
| On a very angling pressured fishery, I've had three 40 | | | | your swim! (Even if only 'inadvertently.') |
| pound carp in 3 days using baits made on this principle. | | | | The author has many more fishing and bait 'edges' up |
| I've had fish feeding on them as I catapulted them in at | | | | his sleeve. Every single one can have a huge impact |
| 1, 2 or 3 or 5 baits at a time. (So as to not spook the | | | | on catches. (Warning: This article is protected by |
| fish!) I fed baits in every 10 to 20 minutes. | | | | copyright, but reprints with a link are OK.) |
| There was never any splashing of the surface as bait | | | | By Tim Richardson. 'The thinking angler's fishing author |
| was thrown in and no 'bed' of baits on the bottom that | | | | and expert bait making guru. |