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Making Homemade Carp
Baits And Essential Nutritional Fishing bait Ingredients!
by: Tim Richardson
So-called food baits are very effective for modern carp fishing;
especially where extreme fishing pressure on many waters means that using
quality nutritional bait equals success instead of failure! But how would
you make an effective homemade carp bait by using the optimal proven
nutritional protein food ingredients levels? What is the starting point
for working out what ideal bait protein levels are?
Carp have essential carp dietary requirements for proteins, and the aim is
to provide a balanced profile of amino acids in your bait. This sounds
technical, so a scoring system is used to measure the nutritional
biological value of an individual ingredient.
It is best to notice that this value is based on digestion by humans.
There is little data of this type from directly testing carp baits in carp
digestion.
However the latest and most accurate method of measuring biological
nutritional value, and most importantly for carp baits, food protein
nutritional value is the new American measurement called:
The fixed dietary protein percentage:
When we mention protein carp baits it’s often misunderstood that the
amount of protein type ingredients we use in our baits need to be in very
high levels to be effective, as in the old high protein baits. Such
protein baits were estimated to have a carp biological convertible protein
content as high as 75 % protein or even as high as 95% protein.
This content was often achieved by using milk protein extractions and
derivatives such as casein, lactalbumin and sodium caseinate, among
others, mostly having a protein value, in human consumption of over 70%
protein.
Since those times it has been observed that carp baits with much lower
protein values are very effective in both the long and short-term. Today
baits are often made with an estimated carp convertible protein content of
just 30%, but are still termed high nutritional baits and in fact are
superior in design to the old high protein baits because their nutritional
properties are more balanced and efficiently used by carp while
maintaining very high attraction.
The dietary protein a carp essentially needs, can be tested
scientifically, using a mixture of high quality casein and gelatin,
supplemented with crystalline amino acids. This is fed to the carp in
graded levels, and over time, the carp are measured for optimum growth per
graded protein level.
All this can be shown on a graph with Growth Response (vertical line), and
Dietary Protein Level (horizontal line).
There will be a Maximum Growth Response at the point where the Optimum
Dietary Protein Level is reached.
In carp nutrition tests, it’s called the Break Point and allows for the
fixed dietary protein percentage to be calculated; as a percentage of the
carp’s essential diet. This is the type of figure that is used to design
specific proprietary, carp and koi dietary feeds.
Please notice, in the tests, food fat content was always supplemented when
not present in sufficient levels in the protein and carbohydrate sources.
These provide essential fatty acid groups, needed especially for cell wall
structure and maximal protein synthesis, among other uses.
Fat levels never read over 5 % to 10 % and averaging 2.5 to 5 % of the
total dry feed.
There are health consequences for fish as a result of excess fat in bait,
for example Vitamin E deficiency.
The protein to carbohydrate to fat ratio is extremely important in
producing the healthiest carp; resulting in optimum protein digestion and
assimilation. This converts to the fastest carp growth and weight gains.
More energy is released in digestion when the protein, carbohydrate and
fat levels are in optimum levels. This balance has proven to catch more
big fish in the long-term.
Anglers have found they caught as many carp on baits of only mid-low
protein, for example: 40 % to 60 % protein, as a bait of very high,
protein 85 % for example. However, much below 30% protein, (for example 25
%,) and the catch rates started to drop by comparison to higher protein
baits.
The subject carp bait nutritional value bait success, hinges around the
carps essential daily dietary requirements and key dietary deficiencies.
If a carp water is very rich and carp have very few dietary deficiencies,
then the bait that offers the best nutritional value at the least energy
in digestive cost would most likely achieve the most success long-term as
the carp will instinctively gain benefits from the bait an this encourages
them to keep eating it.
This would be a big advantage over using low nutritional value bait on the
same rich water. A great diversity of carp baits are being fed to the fish
on many carp waters today. And in amounts that were unheard of 25 years
ago. There are many more carp anglers feeding up the fish with free baits
these days.
Consequently, the fish in different waters respond differently to this
free food. This reaction may depend more on the water quality, or
availability of natural food, or on the consistent level of fishing
pressure or on high or low stock levels. Some waters will still produce
bigger fish, regularly on poorer quality baits or instant attractor
flavoured carbohydrate based baits.
By far the majority of big fish waters, certainly the pressured ones in
the UK and in Europe, produce the very biggest fish more and more
consistently on nutritional food baits.
This is no coincidence and relates back to carp essential dietary
requirements that must be met for basic survival. This does lead to many
big fish treating nutritional baits as an essential ‘naturalized food
supply’ since they are fed them permanently 24 hours a day on many hard
pressured waters!
So in remembering that a low protein, carbohydrate based bait may only
contain: 6 % to 14 % protein, as in the case of a semolina based bait for
example. This is not enough to sustain a big carp healthily without
supplementation with other nutrients and natural foods sources.
This is compared to fish meal based bait for example, with high levels of
pre-digested protein ingredients incorporated. Such bait is far superior
nutritionally and big fish will tend to eat this preferentially,
especially in a highly stocked fishery.
So, by providing carp with the optimum ratios of nutrients at the least
digestive energy cost, gives more energy to the carp to eat more food,
therefore giving you more opportunity for more takes and more fish!
Arnold Schwarzenegger built his body using the principle of a high
nutritional value diet with an intense exercise regime. He regularly
consumed the highest muscle convertible biological value proteins, like
whey and caseins. Such dietary supplements represented the very highest
quality available to body builders in the world, at that time.
He consumed high levels of carbohydrates, only for extra energy, while he
trained, so that his protein nutrition was maximized and converted for
repair and growth and building of those huge muscles to win his Mr
Universe Titles!
A very high profile UK fisherman, Julian Cundiff, achieved outstanding and
very consistent big carp catch results for years, by regularly feeding his
waters with high nutritional value food bait.
This approach was used extremely successfully, and the bait he used
remained basically unchanged for years. It was designed using the balanced
protein food and amino acid profile bait principles, derived from
scientifically proven carp dietary requirements.
The appliance of scientific research may sometimes be hit and miss and
there are certainly few proven absolutes in carp bait making and
nutrition, due to lack of direct scientific testing.
However, nutritional carp baits have proven themselves by their catches
over the decades, and the ability to understand, make and correctly apply
these baits, is a massive edge in big carp fishing indeed! This fishing
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