| * Milk protein paste baits, CARP hook bait 'wraps,' | | | | fantastic fish drawing 'hotspot', which carp are |
| and brilliant 'PVA' bag methods: * | | | | drawn to very quickly. |
| Using milk proteins as baits in dough or paste | | | | Other protein filled morsels like maggots can be |
| form hook baits, instead of boilies, is the most | | | | deposited around your hook baits in the same |
| efficient method of delivering these amazing | | | | way, and with repeated refilling and casting, can |
| ingredients extremely high nutritional signals. | | | | really feed up your swim, making it irresistible to |
| With a dough or paste bait as opposed to a boilie | | | | wary carp. Even milk powders and your bait 'base |
| type carp or catfish bait, there is no coagulated | | | | mix' can be deposited by your hook to stimulate |
| protein barrier on the surface of the bait to | | | | fish to feed. |
| restrict the incredibly fish attractive amino acid | | | | The unseen benefit of using this technique is that |
| leak-off. | | | | it causes the water to become cloudy, with an |
| Boiling prepared dough baits to make 'boilies' with | | | | attractive mixture of flavours, smells, tastes and |
| a protective durable tough 'skin' around them, is a | | | | colors, and particles held in suspension. This |
| common practice. But this destroys many | | | | attractive cloud travels for long distances in the |
| attractive and nutritional qualities. This applies to all | | | | water pulling carp towards your bait like a moving |
| water boiled or steamed types of 'boilie baits!' | | | | sign post. Carp love this effect and it is a stunning |
| There are many ways to avoid or reduce the | | | | carp catcher. |
| detrimental effects of boiling your dough baits in | | | | For those of you who still don't fully appreciate |
| water. The first is to very much reduce the time | | | | the benefit of maximizing the attraction of dough |
| you actually boil your baits. | | | | or paste baits, and insist on using boilies, you |
| You can 'surface skin' your baits, for example, by | | | | might choose to wrap your baits in a layer of |
| boiling them for perhaps a maximum of 10 | | | | dough before casting out. Doing this really has |
| seconds. You could be a 'rebel,' and use 'skinned' | | | | proven benefits, especially on 'hard fished' waters. |
| baits and air-dried dough or paste baits as 'free | | | | This will draw extra soluble attention to your |
| offering' baits, or on the hook, or in 'PVA' bags in | | | | hook bait. My favorite method is to put a 'just |
| combination. This would be far more productive to | | | | boiled' bait on the hair attached to the hook, but |
| catches than purely using just boilies. | | | | then mould soft dough around to hook and partly |
| I like to use a more selective 'method', by using | | | | round the 'boilie.' Now when a fish picks up the |
| fresh paste, plus air-dried dough or paste baits for | | | | bait it takes the entire rig into its mouth because |
| free baits and use 'skinned' or very quickly boiled | | | | it cannot separate the boilie from the hook and |
| baits on the hook or bait 'hair rig.' | | | | test the boilie without being hooked! |
| My baits are always previously soaked in liquid | | | | For a very unusual method, try wrapping your |
| extracts like amino acids, molasses, corn steep | | | | hook baits in more than one type of base mix |
| liquor, etc. To tempt fish nearer the hook bait, | | | | dough. How about using 3 types of dough or |
| my 'free offering baits' are sealed in a special | | | | paste instead of one! A carp may prefer one |
| water soluble 'poly vinyl acetate' bag. | | | | type of dough or paste to another, but it then |
| This bag gets cast out attached to the rig at the | | | | has no choice but to pick all the bait up. This is |
| hook, or the lead. This bag is a brilliant attraction | | | | great where 'free offerings of fish meal boilies, |
| concept, as it is so versatile, and can contain so | | | | for example are being eaten by wary carp, but |
| many various carp attractors and ingredients. | | | | hook baits are being ignored. |
| 'PVA' bags can be filled with carp pulling hemp oil | | | | This certainly gets around the challenge of carp |
| or another nutritional oil! This leaves a small flat | | | | being preferential for different types of bait! I |
| spot on the water surface, which acts as a handy | | | | love to use this kind of effective homemade |
| marker to catapult more paste baits very | | | | 'edge,' its results are outstanding! |
| accurately to. This allows you to create a | | | | |