Fast forward this winter with these unusual and insightful tips based on 30 years of winter fishing experiences and big carp catches and make your ready-to-go baits and homemade baits catch many more big fish!
Very viscous and extremely soluble substances are very effective in catching more carp in cold conditions. Obviously, highly soluble substances such as alcoholic flavors are highly effective in winter, however other substances that are less soluble are also very useful for achieving pitting, more especially if they are emulsified or partially emulsified using liquid lecithins. Terpenes, oleoresins, and essential oils, etc., are all proven winners of the winter.
Glycerol or glycerin is a very useful substance because it mixes 100 percent with water, and many successful flavors are based on it. Alcohol flavors are also highly soluble in water, so they will easily travel from your bait, forming a concentration gradient that carp can focus on. Personally, I find that mixing glycerol and alcohol based flavors with ones based primarily on natural esters or others, natural or identical to nature, or types of diacetin, is very successful.
You can even boost a propylene glycol-based flavor by cutting it up with vodka (preferably at home, not at the bank). Many things can be used to alter conventional concentrated flavors, including natural raspberry puree and a probiotic agent like kettle.
The kettle is very rich in flavor-enhancing factors, for example slats and glutamine. Adding Talin as an electrostatic carrier and also more soluble sweeteners, flavor enhancers and palatants etc, helps to produce unique homemade flavors, but this aspect is so great that I have written a book about it. I’ve been doing this kind of experimentation with my baits, both homemade and pre-made, since the 1970s because it works incredibly well, especially in cold water conditions.
But, of course, concentrated flavors are not the only useful substances; and some substances can be too soluble and actually leach out of baits too quickly, as they have infinite solubility, as in the case of glycerol-dominated flavors, for example. It is advisable to try mixing flavors and other substances so that all the flavors filter at different rates, leaving some concentrated attraction in the vicinity of the bait. Using pure glycerin, vodka, and a mix of concentrated sweetener and molasses and kettle, soluble fish protein, and lactose, for example, is a bit of an alternative and produces different effects and impacts at different ranges.
For an easy homemade method or stick-type mixes, simply make a fluffy mix of breadcrumbs moistened with your unique liquids to produce a ground bait mix that will disperse easily, releasing the soluble attraction and food particles in the column of water and it will attract carp like crazy! Using anything from hemp oil, essential oils, and fruit oils etc. in your mix will make the particles lower the fish from the upper layers better as the oil will tend to rise in the water. Maybe add ground tigernuts (tigernuts) as well, as this will leave an oily coating on the bottom that will easily lift up when disturbed by the fish and excite them even more.
An easy way to create a flavorful alternative area for winter fishing is to mix breadcrumbs with Nesquick’s old-time favorite dry milk shake. I really like to use extra sweetened oils in many ways, as long as they are mixed with liquid lecithins, but I advise you to avoid bulk fish and marine oils that just solidify at low temperatures; test in the refrigerator or outdoors overnight with a thermometer if unsure.
While fishing and testing oils, I found that a thermometer placed in oil in a pot in water is quite enlightening! This is especially since I made my bait cooking video for CC Moore TV and did more research on my hands-on fishing for my exclusive Crafty Carper Carp Food Column magazine.
Fruit oils are readily available online and it is not always necessary to go to fishing bait companies for something slightly different or alternative; After all, that’s one of the biggest proven advantages in carp fishing! In addition to using any oil, I highly recommend using Phil’s High PC Liquid Lecithin at CW Baits (online) as this will dramatically improve bait performance and increase bait digestion as well as adding more triggers. feed and nutrition to your baits.
Test any oil you use in your winter baits to verify that it does not solidify in the water temperatures of the lake you will be fishing in. This may sound very obvious, after all, how much more difficult is it for a fish to detect a bait that is simply a ball of grease, compared to finding a bait that releases oils that can easily disperse in water? For example, in cold water, avoid using salmon oil and use very viscous hemp oil, perhaps with added liquid lecithins and perhaps clove, cinnamon, or chili-based essential oils, for example.
In really low winter temperatures, solubility is really a huge factor to take advantage of, and in such conditions it often makes no sense to use a conventional boiled bait covered in pasta, when you can use pasta in the tackle and know every part of your bait. it’s really working for you (and it doesn’t become ineffective due to being sealed within the coagulated protein formed by heating the bait!)
I won’t go into what bait products to use here because there are so many great ones for winter and spring fishing to choose from, but a key aspect when choosing the substance is how well they will disperse in water, and especially cold water! To find out, just get samples and mix them with cold water. In a way, it’s like testing salt against betaine crystals or whole milk powder against various caseins, semolina, or cornmeal, or malt extract, for example.
Just one example of a really good winter hack is making a paste with CC Moore Feedstim XP Liquid, their Feedstim XP powder, their Belachan powder, pure betaine, and liquid Red Venom, hardened with whole wheat flour. Note that no egg is used in this paste as you would to make boilies, as this bait can be as water soluble as you like and will last longer in very cold winter temperatures. Add powdered milk to this bait to enhance nutritional stimulation.
The milky baits break down and cloud the water, stimulating the feeding behaviors of the fish on sight. It is cheaper to use Vitamealo and Five Pints milk powder than caseins, whey proteins and caseinates; however, remember that using higher quality protein can be cost effective, especially for larger fish. Revealed in my unique ready-to-use bait e-books and homemade carp and catfish bait secrets, there is much more powerful information, please search my unique website (Baitbigfish) and see my bio below for details of my special offers! e-books right now!
By Tim Richardson.
