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