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How To Catch Big Carp & Catfish
Fast!
by: Tim Richardson
Many species of carp
and even the wels, channel and big blue catfish have many extremely
significant common nutritional, biological and behavioural features which
can be exploited to make catching them much easier! So read on...
Most species of catfish and carp in Europe and the States have similar
nutrients they essentially need to survive and if you know what these and
how to make sure they are on your hook, you will always find catching big
catfish easy!
I repeat, if your bait is made from those ingredients which offer
nutrients that catfish or carp need, your unique bait will be pretty much
irresistible to them...
Many species of carp and even the Wels, channel and big blue catfish have
many extremely significant commonalities which can make catching them much
easier even if their feeding habits may differ!
I have spent a long time researching and making baits for big carp and
catfish for over 3 decades and one thing is clear. That bigger catfish and
carp can avoid capture on baits they have been hooked on previously and
that they definitely learn by association, in fact this can equally apply
to many old smaller fish too! In one UK catfish water this became a
salutary lesson in logical sense when catches were at an all-time low.
This particular water had been stocked with catfish many decades
previously and had experienced being hooked on many varied conventional
baits. The key to the capture of these fish was simple; exploit baits the
catfish had no reason to fear. It’s simple really; catfish and fish like
carp can detect certain substances to over one part in a billion in water,
much like a shark can detect just one drop of blood from over a mile away
and beyond.
They know a familiar bait recipe or format like a conventional squid or
meat or over-used boilie or pellet bait, and can easily react out of fear
or with confidence or at least in a lowered state of nervous anxiety!
Let’s face it, a fish’s basic need is to stay alive and this is the thing
we need to over-come as it is really our greatest barrier. (This is apart
from being prevented from being able to some fish spots that hold the
desired big fish for various reasons, like out of bounds areas, swims
monopolised by bailiffs or full-time anglers and mobile-phoned
swim-hogging cliques etc!)
Catfish and carp use the specialised cells on the surface of its body and
internally to detect potential food substances by biochemical interactions
with specialised nerves and cells. These fish are obviously expert at
detecting movement as in vibrations from prey fish and other moving
natural foods and potential other predators in the water. These senses are
extremely sensitive and it is possible for a Wels catfish to die of
starvation if one of its long detector cell-packed whiskers is damaged. In
fact koi carp once had 3 pairs of barbels before they were bread out of
them which shows how important these structures really are.
What I’m getting to here is that we can use these more familiar structures
and others which are internal to catch more catfish and other big fish
like carp. In fact both species have a very interesting concentration of
sensory cells on their faces further enabling them to home in on chemicals
in the water maybe also picked up in specialised cells along the lateral
line along with tell-tale electrical activity in the water too. The
mechanisms of fish olfaction and chemoreception are well worth discovering
much more about in terms of bait designed to exploit them; it will make
catching fish so much easier for the rest of your life (compared to not
knowing!)
The receptor cells on the face are just one area to exploit and another
are those situated in the nose which are stimulated by chemicals in
similar but not identical ways that we can smell in air. In fact taste is
very important in carp and catfish but in the case of carp the
palatability of food is more important leading to actual food consumption,
whereas the distance location of food is more important than taste in many
catfish species.
Catfish and carp can often feed in binges rapidly exploiting an abundance
of food when available and then having a period of digestion and
inactivity although with the correct bait design you can keep carp feeding
far more than Wels catfish for instance, which tend to have more inactive
spells naturally. Catfish digestion, metabolism and activity levels
respond even more than carp to a rise or fall in water temperatures,
although this does not mean that the bigger specimens will not feed hard
in colder water temperatures.
I have caught a 68 pound Wels in late November and a 42 pound Wels catfish
in the last week of March with Northerly winds and snow at 3 o’clock in
the morning; so be prepared for a few surprises! In the UK many of the
biggest carp which are not caught perhaps for a few seasons may well get
caught in January or February and again, this is a very significant time
to exploit well designed baits! I remember fishing on a particular water
the day Jon Pack landed the famous old British record carp called two-tone
from Conningbrook in Kent UK, and when I met him we both commented on just
how cold the water temperatures were that day!
The fact that big catfish and carp can binge feed makes things easier in
many respects in regards setting them up for capture by leveraging ground
bait techniques. (Many a British record carp has fallen to a well-designed
nutritional bait that was introduced for at least a season or more before
its final capture.) It is often the case that catfish will spend much of
their time hunting live bait prey fish but ground bait of various kinds
can be used to concentrate the attentions of these predators and other
fish too including their prey species.
However you will find that after a period of regular pre-baiting with
ground bait of whatever form you choose, often the larger fish will
habitually displace the smaller fish so you become very much more likely
to catch the biggest first. This phenomenon is referred as the baiting
triangle effect and it can actually happen in just a day although a few
days or weeks is often more common for most carp and catfish anglers using
conventional baits.
Personally I regard fishing with a live fish as bait as ignorant and just
an example of how man conditions himself to the suffering of other life
just for his pleasure. There are a selection of naturally irresistible
prime feeding triggering substances easily available to us all, and within
many potential fishing bait ingredients; and these will do the job of
getting your quarry reliably on your hook! (The same goes for carp and
other fish species,) but each species differ slightly in their specific
triggers, however all fish need the same 10 essential amino acids.
Just for instance, you might use a simple fishmeal based boilie bait with
added fish oil to provide a regular supply of food to feed-up a deeper
fish-holding spot you choose to fish. Fishmeal is a good ingredient for
many reasons not least because it contains the correct balance of
nutrients other fish essential need and as such are packed with naturally
potent fish feeding triggers. It also contains some known and unknown
palatability enhancers which improve the amount of food consumed. One such
abundant example is glutamic acid. (Think monosodium glutamate familiar in
many Chinese take-away meals making us want to eat more!)
There are many substances to exploit to keep ahead of fish and other
fishermen and making your own unique homemade baits will save you simply
shocking amounts of money even in the short-term. You can also adapt and
enhance many readymade baits of all kinds to make them different to the
norm and to exploit your fish’s natural senses vastly in your favour to
stimulate them to feed more confidently and intensively. Once you get a
handle on fish feeding triggers (and other things like metabolism
stimulators and even brain hormone-altering substances and in what food
they are found in you will be in a fine position of power over your fish,
and hold fantastic edges over anglers dependant on readymade baits!
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By Tim Richardson.
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