An introduction into making especially effective buoyant hook baits for catfish and carp: As you are rolling all your paste into balls before boiling as you would to make boiled carp or catfish baits, put aside, maybe 50 paste dough pieces, for use as ‘buoyant’ hook baits; these are excellent great for specially attractive purposes! They can be great fished on their own over weed or silt, or as a ‘snowman’ when used on the hair or hook with a normal sinking boilie, or used on a variety of hook rigs from the water surface, at mid – water, or on and just off the bottom etc; in fact ev...

Get the best out of your bait in winter and maximise the money you spend on it! These are a handful of very well proven expert tips to help you catch more winter and spring fish. Discover more now! Carp do not digest bait very well in colder conditions so it is extremely vital you design and select your baits and ground baits for exactly this situation to maximise your greatest chances of bites and literally in effect stop actually wasting good money on bait! Of course one way to do this is use as little bait as possible, but this is only part of the solution and does not maximise your ch...

Some big fish rigs and bait combinations are little known, or with a little adaptation, can bring fantastic rewards! Here are proven rigs and bait combinations to keep those big fish getting hooked! A great little known rig ‘edge’ for carp is the normal dog biscuit fished on the bottom! Side hook dog biscuits or slide them on a hair as normal, but fish the rig on the bottom, under free offerings on the surface. In summer it is often difficult to get ‘takes’ on pressured big fish waters on the surface, but many ‘free baits end up sinking and being eaten with confidence on the bottom. ...

Few anglers realise that fish can switch their modes of feeding and you can exploit these and manipulate these to catch more fish! In fact you can make fish feed in the specific way you want by the form and size of baits you introduce as ground bait or chum making it ideal for far more natural and confident feeding leading to more bites... It is well-known that jokers and blood worms have often been banned as baits from various fisheries because they impact upon the feeding behaviour of fish so much. Many species of fish and in particular the Cyprindae genus of fish, have many adaptations...

Particulate feeding: Many fish naturally filter feed. Carp are an excellent example that use this method and are even termed slow suction feeders, adjusting their gill rakers to most efficiently sieve the most abundant and nutritious natural food items like blood worms and water fleas etc. In the case of smaller hook baits and ground baits which consist of smaller items of ingredients such as crushed dried shrimps and fly larvae, small seeds and crushed nuts etc, fish can be easier to catch using these. The use of micro sized pellets or mixed sizes of pellets or crushed boilies mimic in many w...

When you think of fishing baits often meats and proteins come to mind. Worms and liver for example have their place, but what can you think of that can actually multiply the performance and catch rates of these baits? Why not turn your bait into a drug! Some of the most important health providing and ‘recreational’ drugs originally have plant origins although these days, many are cloned or copied using synthetic chemicals. Even the most basic of whole plant product baits like sweetcorn, maize, hempseed and ‘chufas’ or tiger nuts or peanuts have powerful effects on fish, having brought br...

* How to ensure your carp fishing baits are detected and treated as ‘food’ by carp immediately; by enhancing your baits using carps’ own 'senses!' * Protein and other food detection occurs in the olfactory organs, situated in various ‘external’ and internal carp locations. Carp flush water through their ‘peripheral olfactory organ’, the two nose openings above the mouth. The carp’s nose senses variations in the electrical fields surrounding them, as in the ‘ionization’ of the surrounding water. These changes show a miniscule, or strong variation in pH, that carp detect as possible ...

How to get more bites in winter is very much about exactly what your bait is made of, how they work and how you actually fish them! By finding out more about vital factors in your winter and spring carp fishing success instead of lazily thinking and doing what you always do really does reap big rewards. You never know how just one new edge or insight can make all the difference to your catches so read on right now! Often you read about successful carp anglers winter fishing using very little bait, but frankly this is often a very vague and misleading perception! Using less bait could well...

Plastic and rubber baits are well proven to catch even the biggest fish and many factors are involved in this success beyond the obvious. Just how can it be that a big wary carp can get hooked in the depths of the darkest night on a piece of rubber sweetcorn simply cast out at random? The explanations for this are many, and homemade and readymade fake bait options and uses are extremely diverse and these are very effective fish catchers so read on and find out more! Although fake baits have been around for decades in terms of luminescent or fluorescent sea and predator lures for instance,...

I’ve caught cats to over 110 pounds on homemade baits and over 25 above 60 pounds here in the UK so I know these baits work! Making your own homemade baits has massive advantages and I find the similarities between catfish and homemade big carp bait design has many very effective similarities. You have full control over just how unique and potentially powerfully attracting these baits can be. These baits may be very simple or complicated, but they all catch to varying degrees of success, some perhaps catching you more larger catfish! Catfish are very fast growing fish and are especi...