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21 Big Catfish And
Carp Fish Meal Bait Fishing Secrets
By Tim Richardson
If you want to catch big carp or
catfish consistently, few baits and ingredients match fish meals. But how
do you make them work best in all conditions and enhance them of them to
keep big fish coming - here's a few tips
1. Tinned fish make excellent baits. Putting them in a liquidiser and
adding ordinary wholemeal flour and eggs is one of the simplest ways to
make a fish meal bait!
2. Even using tinned tuna or salmon flakes or chunks in natural oil used
in ground baits or one of the new round plastic hollow hook bait holders;
both work effectively.
3. Many fish meal fishing baits can taste sour or bitter and benefit from
use of ingredients to improve taste, (and smell) and most importantly;
‘palatability’ which can cause fish to ingest baits more repeatedly to
create more chances of a hook bait being taken.
4. It takes roughly 4 to 5 tonnes of live fish in order to process and
produce 1 tonne of fish meal, (fish have a high water content like us
humans among many other similarities!)
5. Due to world-wide over-fishing, certain fish species used for human
consumption and in fish meals, especially of the north Atlantic white lean
fish like cod, haddock, whiting and pollack are more in short supply these
days but their place is filled by smaller still very valuable fish
species.
6. You can mix various fish oils together or with vegetable oils, to
create your own personalised ‘fish feed inducing’ oil.
7. Lecithin's improve the beneficial dispersal of fish oils from baits
when in water; making them far more ‘semi-soluble’ and easier for fish
receptor cells to ‘detect.’
8. Use of fish oils in low temperatures can severely inhibit fish bait
digestion and even ‘lock-up’ other less soluble ingredients which could
sit in the gut and go rancid.
9. Often when fishing a fishery containing large catfish, having baited a
swim with fish meal type baits can produce a ‘slick’ of oil on the waters
surface which can take some time to reduce depending on the oil content of
the baits.
10. Often a fish oil induced ‘oil slick’ can be confused with the large
‘slicks’ which large catfish produce, (and the reverse is also true!)
11. Putting together a fish meal bait is very easy at the beginners level
and gets more in-depth at the levels of optimising the digestive
biological value and nutritional profiles of substances in the baits
(especially involving first and second ‘limiting amino acids,’ for
instance.)
12. Ideal fish meal boilies and pellets and pastes should contain much
reduced oil levels and exploit lecithin's (like the commercial carp bait
“Trigger Ice” for example.)
13. A good fish meal bait in winter (in contrast to summer) needs to have
an open texture which allows soluble components to leach-out more
effectively.
14. Using crushed egg-shells or crushed cockle shells adds much more than
just more effective open bait texture.
15. The use of wheat germ, wheat and barley bran and milk proteins, are
all beneficial digestive ingredients in cold temperatures either helping
other ingredients to be absorbed or helping further natural bacterial
enzyme of proteins for example.
16. When your simple straight fish meal bait loses some of its ‘edge’ you
can add to its nutritional profile by using various milk proteins, yeast
powders, ‘Robin Red’ additive type products ,or kelp powder for instance.
(But there are thousands of choices and combinations to exploit while
keeping a very favourable stimulatory nutritional value of your bait!)
17. You can rejuvenate the fish response to an already established fish
meal bait, by adding various herbs and spices (which also aid more
effective digestion and raise fish metabolism.)
18. Many simple baits based on cat foods and dog foods containing
fishmeals and cereals make highly successful carp and catfish baits which
are enzyme active and in the case of dogs, are most often than not,
sweetened for added palatability!
19. Fish ‘oils’ are liquid at room temperature but can solidify in cold
temperatures so making normal summer type fish meal baits very
ineffective.
20. You can test some of the ‘functional effectiveness’ of your fish meal
baits and pellets, by placing samples in a glass of cold water and
assessing the time it takes for baits to ‘colour’ the water in the glass
and release soluble attractors you can smell.
21. The marine stocks of smaller fish used in ‘brown’ fishmeals especially
have stabilised and are claimed to be ‘sustainable’ so it looks like these
fishing bait ingredients are here to stay!
Although there are thousands of other bait variations, additives,
attractors, enhancers, feeding triggering ingredients and substances etc,
the basic fish meal bait and its nutritional profile is a proven winner
for consistent big fish results!
By Tim Richardson
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