Winter Milk Protein Carp Baits For Maximising Your Fishing Catches!
Posted: Saturday, February 28, 2009
by Tim Richardson
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Many valuable secrets for effective homemade carp bait making, can be gleaned from cold water carp aquaculture feed ingredients and koi feeds:
Carp digestive enzymes do not work in optimum ways on foods ingested when water temperatures become low, acting much more slowly as a result. Below water temperatures of around 10 degrees Celsius, carp metabolism can begin to slow down significantly and affect carp feeding behaviour.
Fish farmers feeds are specifically designed to give carp higher levels of very easily digested, improved energy-producing ingredients. Such ingredients include wheat germ, wheat bran, rice bran, rice and peas.
Increasing flavours attractor levels, like fruit, spice and sweet labels, to counteract lower water temperatures, has proved beneficial for colder periods in baits. This perhaps relates to these flavours' lower pH values, in relation to water conditions, temperature and ability of carp to detect them better in lower temperatures.
In winter, it can be a good time to soak your hook baits in concentrated flavour, like Tutti Fruiti, or other readily soluble flavours, to produce more bites. This method works very well with the single hook bait approach where no free bait is put in the lake. Don't worry, they'll find it!
In dietary terms, it's better to increase the benefits of milk protein baits by the addition of 3 to 4 ounces of wheat germ per pound mix as a prime example, in substitution for less digestible ingredients, like caseins. This is one of the elements of many commercial bait companies successful winter boilie baits base mixes.
Milk proteins are often improved by using sweet, creamy or fruity taste-enhancing appetite stimulators or even peppery ones.
A simple addition, like a teaspoon of turmeric, paprika, other red peppers, fresh ground black or white pepper, or crushed garlic, for example, make great, proven, naturally derived attractors, and help stimulate carp feeding and digestion, especially of proteins.
Very many natural plant extracts, of the leaves, stems, roots, seeds, beans, berries, rhizome, etc, make amazing carp attractors. They contain substances that have powerful effects on a carp's body in tiny amounts, like drugs. Like drugs, there are always effective, new attractors waiting to be discovered and there are many that are known to be very effective in carp baits but are not in the mainstream!
Most of these extracts give the carp a biological, nutritional or physiological reward for eating it too! Many of these foods are also used to promote health and well-being in commercial and pet bird foods.
Many bird foods are excellent easily digested carp bait ingredients, and are ideal for use in winter, cold water baits. They make great functional and nutritional additions to milk protein ingredients.
Milk protein ingredients often form a very dense texture, especially caseins, not being very water soluble; partly sealing in their own attractive properties to carp. Bird foods can greatly reverse this effect, making baits far more attractive.
Bird foods are usually of low to mid protein content. They are designed to promote maximum health in birds, but they are high in nutrients which carp find highly beneficial, like minerals. Salt, oils, amino acids, and simple carbohydrates. They also contain soluble fiber which helps speed digestion.
Bird foods are often used to open up the bait texture. This all helps carp sense attractors faster, and you to achieve more takes quicker. Carp digesting these combined baits receive more easily accessible energy too, a great edge in winter.
Bird foods ingredients effects mean more bait is able to be consumed by the carp, by making it more digestible, but it will pass through the fish faster. So carp will feed for longer periods, eat more bait, and consequently increase the chances of more takes.
They improve bait texture and attraction and attractor leak-off. Additionally, nutrition is more balanced, fulfilling more dietary deficiencies at a time when natural food may often be much less available. This increases baits' carp desirability as a regularly consumed nutritional carp food source.
One of the best methods of using milk protein baits in winter, is as dough or pastes to release the maximum amino acids attraction from them:
Hook baits made from various milk protein ingredients with added eggs are best boiled in water very quickly. These are then air-dried thoroughly.
I often prepare these baits by putting a length of hair rig line with a loop through them. These are then ready to tie to the hook. If I don't do this, many milk protein boilie baits can dry out and become as hard as rock!
These bags are sealed, attached to the hook rig and cast out. The bag melts, releasing a milky cloud of great carp attraction and flavours, pulling in carp from large distances. Adding vitamealo and Lactose B plus concentrate with a few drops of essential oils and dampened Robin Red for instance are just a few ideas that have proven work especially well in winter and cold springs.
There are many, many other bait edges in carp and catfishing that make all the difference between an average catch, a blank trip, and a red letter day, each time you go fishing. It pays handsomely to know them! This fishing bait secrets ebooks author has many more fishing and bait secrets to share though the most productive and most powerful are in his unique bait secrets volumes (being so very valuable,) however these are simple sample articles for you to benefit from...
By Tim Richardson.
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