Addictive Carp Fishing Bait Secrets Of Highly Irresistible Sugars!
Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2009
by Tim Richardson
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Sugars are addictive! But is this true; how is this really possible? Is this some kind of secret hidden within our human foods and carp fishing baits; and why is this so incredibly important to your fishing catches? Find out more and harness the genuinely proven power of sugars to catch you loads more big carp!
As the saying goes; we really are what we eat, but to what extent can this influence carp feeding behaviours and preferences? What I mean is, after all, ancient teleost fish like carp are our distant ancestors and we share so many similar biological, chemical and even genetic characteristics. In humans when we eat a high sugar snack or meal our genes remember this sugar hit for as long as 2 weeks. Over a significant prolonged period of repetitive exposure to sugar hits genes themselves are actually altered in response!
But how does this translate into better carp catches? It is said that genes have no intelligence and are merely information storage devices, but this is not true when you consider what intelligence is in all its forms!
Carp are like humans in that they use the blood sugar called glucose as a direct energy fuel for survival and glucose is converted very often in nature from the simple and naturally abundantly occurring sugar called sucrose. Both carp and humans can utilise white sugar as an instant energy source and it can be converted to glucose as blood sugar. Carp are proven to respond to a very wide variety of sugars as feeding triggers and attractors to various degrees of response.
Everyone knows that honey has been used with bread carp baits for centuries with great success. We are what we eat and honey although sucrose is not simply sweet; it is relatively rich in other dietary essentials such as minerals. Minerals and sugars are both palatability and taste enhancers for both us humans and carp. Carp bait palatability is extremely important because specialist cells in the interior of the mouth, top of the palate and throat of carp all play major roles in deciding if and how much a food is actually swallowed by a carp and thus how many chances you might potentially get of takes on your hook baits...
The Greek work meli means honey, and on this note sugar cane black strap molasses in particular, is another legendary sucrose packed nutritional mineral and vitamin rich carp attractor used in carp baits for decades. Imagine all those blackberry bushes dropping berries into lakes all over the world; mulberries are a favourite of carp in the states and appear addictive when ripe and freely dropping into the mouths of carp from overhanging bushes! (The Rod Hutchinson mulberry flavours are also legendary!)
It should be no surprise that fruit sugar (also sucrose,) is a great carp attractor and is also very cheap; it is called fructose and sold in many supermarkets. (More recently I've used it very often in large amounts in my ground baits to outstanding effect.)
The fact is that using ordinary white sugar, brown sugar, or even icing sugar for instance all positively enhance your bait and one sugar packed nutritional additive I have not mentioned really does stand out. Corn steep liquor had been one of those secrets that the lucky few carp angler in the know would whisper about. For those who wish to know more (see the end), the success of more than a few bait companies has been founded on this and very much related products and their effects.
The popularised use of protein based sweeteners in carp seems a modern thing but Rod Hutchinson has been offering such a product for decades, and this was mostly recommended for use with particles to seriously enhance their pulling power. Talin and Thaumatin B are obviously very well proven but their effects can be enhanced in many ways. Like betaine, it certainly works even better in synergistic ways with other substances.
(It probably should be noted that carp do not come across pure substances in their aquatic environment; they detect amino acids as combinations and really respond to these even though they can detect levels of individual essential and non-essential amino acids too.)
Studies have shown that combining a protein sweetener and a sucrose sweetener prolong the exciting effects of the intensity of sweetness and its longevity of experience. This certainly encourages further consumption of foods and baits utilising this combination!
It seems that the make-up of protein based sweeteners replicates in some way various natural nervous biochemical responses in both us and carp. This obviously will trigger significant responses in us and carp too. This is why you may only use one millilitre of Thaumatin B in a kilogram of bait mix while you might use a volume comparative to say 300 millilitres of white sugar in a kilogram of bait base mix, without repelling carp!
One aspect often completely over-looked is that of the impact of the interaction of sugars in baits and yeasts and bacteria. Foods go off because of microbial activity, but at various stages this can be extremely beneficial to us and carp, and even vital to survival. Both humans and carp harness a natural beneficial combination of beneficial and yeasts to help our bodies digest our foods as completely as possible so it is as energy-efficient and as nutritionally valuable and utilisable to our bodies as possible.
Carp are well-known to not possess a stomach (a receptive sac yes,) and really do exploit the action of enzymes and fermentation by microbes to fully be able to digest foods efficiently enough to be able to absorb them into their bodies in forms that actually can be used and not wasted. Many modern carp baits exploit this and even the use of pre and post biotic leveraging is now being used in commercial (and homemade baits by some...)
For instance, the use of pepsin from strains of bacteria help break down proteins into usable peptides and amino acids in the gut thus enabling these to pass through the gut wall into the blood to be assimilated for various essential roles and functions, such as production of vital digestive enzymes and enzymes required for cellular respiration.
Sugars have enormous impacts upon the production of yeasts and their potent impacts in baits. As a finishing secret, how many of you have tried combining liquid yeast products, black strap molasses and corn steep liquor in their baits and letting finished boiled baits be heated for a period before use? (For powerful bait secrets ebooks read on...)
By Tim Richardson.
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