Making Homemade Carp Baits Using Amazing Protein Ingredients!
Posted: Monday, January 19, 2009
by Tim Richardson
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Harness the exciting benefits of proteins in your carp baits, whether they are homemade or readymade ones. You'll be glad you did big-time! So read on and discover more!
Let us focus on a carp bait ingredient that is a very serious edge in your armoury against Mr Carps defences! Whey protein concentrate is an exceptionally high quality protein product and has a protein content of 80 percent. (The short name for this product is WPC80.)
If you use a typical low protein bait like the soya flour and semolina basic bait with added eggs and flavour, you will have noticed a nice improvement in your catches by adding a specially designed and stimulatory essential mineral and vitamin additive. One great example is Ccmoores Cyprivit. So if you really want to boost your cheap basic bait start with this edge and work forward from this as a basic bait! But do try adding as much whey protein concentrate to your bait as possible without it losing its ability to be rolled into baits, or having baits dissolving too fast to be used as functional boilies.
Usually you might only use whey protein concentrate at around 10 to 20 percent of a bait for instance, because it is so soluble it immediately breaks down when liquids are added, (but this is a great advantage and can be applied to many purposes too.) Of course, semolina is a great binder with many very opposite characteristics to whey protein on many levels. Semolina and soya act as a useful very basic carrier to begin with when experimenting with exploiting more complex bait recipes.
If you use readymade bait mixes you can boost them very nutritionally, again by adding a proportion of whey protein concentrate. (If you need a supplier, Ccmoore is used by numerous leading anglers today and when it comes to bait, quality and freshness count very seriously as huge edges of course.)
These days it is well recognised that carp baits do not need the high protein levels that were applied using milk protein baits for instance in earlier decades. We know much of this protein can potentially be a waste due to limiting effects and the inability of carp to actually digest and utilise so much protein in such baits. Many baits with estimated protein contents of over 80 percent for instance sound great but contain too high proportions of proteins of the quality of protein that is simply not biologically available once inside Mr carp.
But hey, I think I'm getting ahead of myself here. After all, what does biological value mean anyway and how does this improve my baits and catch results? In short you could say that carp have a set of essential building blocks they need to survive. It is said that life was first formed when 2 amino acids first combined to form the first protein. Maybe this is pretty telling in terms of the importance of amino acids!
In us humans and Mr carp, amino acids are used to basically keep us alive! It might seem odd but people lost and starving in rainforest for example often fantasise about beef burgers for similar reasons! In fact when you are really truly hungry do you go for the strawberry flavour ice-cream, the chocolate bar or the beef steak? (If you cannot answer this then you obviously have never been in a situation where you have been truly hungry!)
Anyhow, it is a fact that among the most stimulatory substances that get the hunger response and chomping juices flowing, the presence of amino acids make us and Mr carp eat things! Entire industries have sprung up due to the amazing power of amino acids; from pharmaceutical products to help patients recover far quicker, to dietary supplements, to body-building supplements and many others.
Whey protein concentrate is special because of the extremely high levels of essential amino acids it provides (which you might as well call quality protein.) It is even more special because of the exceptional proportion of these amino acids that can be digested, assimilated efficiently in Mr carp. They can be broken down and used for energy and converted into substances for growth and repair (as in the term biologically available.)
This is really the difference between an outstanding nutritionally stimulating bait and an average bait. Many lesser baits fail because they provide less vital reasons for carp to actually consume it not simply just once, but repeatedly and so potentially do not stimulate the feeding response required anywhere near as often! Now because carp are complex creatures that require many nutrients and are individuals with varying preferences for tastes and smells like us, we can use our bait to programme their feeding behaviours and to a degree their preferences.
It is well known that food companies pack high levels of sugars, salts and taste enhancers and other stimulatory substances into our foods to make us want more, buy more, eat more and make them more money! If you don't see lettuces advertised in cool Hollywood movies, then why would the majority of us even realise they contain all the essential minerals we essentially need to survive (nicotine and smoking certainly does the opposite of course; but this is still manipulated in this most powerful medium!)
In fact the carbohydrate, fat and sugar racket going on in the food industry today, promoted by endless specifically targeted advertising and marketing, means that unbelievably high numbers of people will be suffering from fatal obesity-related diseases completely needlessly. (But such is the power of these substances!) Of course all this is teamed with rather a big dose of psychological manipulation and a huge lack of really effective socially acceptable nutritional education in schools and communities.
But having said all this, our carp baits are no different! By manipulating the natural tastes, smells and other senses, we can manipulate and even programme carp into feeding on our baits to make them far more vulnerable to capture. Catching carp is hard enough these days; then this is certainly where the world of carp bait gets even more fascinating and powerful...
By Tim Richardson.
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