When you want a carp bait that will catch big fish but find that your readymade baits are not doing so well, why not try making very these easy homemade boilies made with natural flavours not synthetic ones?! The fish will enjoy them in winter or summer and they will be more easily digested being naturally prebiotic – so read on now and catch more big fish now! Many anglers who aim to catch big wary carp use different boilies to normal that work without any artificial flavours. Much of the success of new boilies is that they are new and different and anyone can make such baits. Sometimes ...

So many carp anglers are getting into making their own baits and reacting against the ridiculous costs of carp fishing today. Here is a bait of the kind I and many of my generation made 3 decades ago before the extreme commercialisation of carp fishing – these kind of nutritionally-boosted homemade baits will save you a fortune and versions of it have caught me many thirties and forties out-fishing many popular readymade baits over the years! Some of you older more aware carp anglers will probably recall a pet supplement called Phillips Yeast Mixture (PYM.) Now the formulation is differen...

I’m going to introduce to you some extremely effective bait suggestions for both summer and winter use and will be simple to make. If you have experience of making homemade boilies, that’s great; you’ll be able to create far more alternative ones for sure, to keep you ahead of the game! The world of paste and dough baits is ripe with possibilities to keep you catching and they’re very easy and quick to make. Many paste and dough baits will out-fish boiled baits if used creatively in many fishing situations. Boilies, pellets and ‘fake’ plastic baits are fashionable at the moment but any fi...

* You may not have considered making your own successful ‘homemade’ fishing bait, before – but there is a very simple and easy ‘short-cut’ that ANYONE can use! * Many fishing bait companies especially here in the UK, supply proprietary bait ‘base mixes.’ These are just a combination of dry powders that by testing and fishing trials have been proven to catch fish very well and consistently. When mixed with simply water or eggs, they will bind together and roll into bait balls well, and are designed to make highly productive boilies too. These ‘base mixes’ are absolutely ideal for a ...

There is much made of amino acids and protein in carp baits but is truly over-blown when you consider how many cheap fantastic classic carp baits succeed with barely any protein content, including sweetcorn, bread and tiger nuts. Here are some alternative low protein cheap bait recipe suggestions to give you the edge and to save a fortune in expensive readymade baits! Certain magazine bait writers are incredibly snobbish about bait design because they are stuck in a rut of adhering to old-school protein and amino acids ideas from the seventies and want to ignore baits that inconveniently ...

A vast number of carp baits have been improved by the many impacts of spices. Some spices are better known than others, but a great number of lesser known spices are brilliant carp catchers. Here are some effective short-cuts and recipe ideas for making beginner homemade spicy boilie and pellet baits! You can begin with choosing spices individually or choose products containing numbers of them already combined. From chilli pepper powders and hot and mild curry powders, to Chinese 5 Spice and Thai 7 Spice, Garam Masala and others, the choice is huge! Certain commercial bait companies use C...

There are countless baits you can make to give you complete confidence when winter carp fishing. Many of them include highly digestible ingredients additives and liquids that easily travel through water to trigger feeding in the lowest temperatures. Here are some very well proven ideas for winter boilies, pellets and paste recipe formulations! Liver in its many forms have been a traditional part of carp baits and offer carp an enormous list of powerful reasons to consume it. This does not simply mean that carp are triggered into feeding by it but it offer carp very valuable essential dige...

Get the best out of your bait in winter and maximise the money you spend on it! These are a handful of very well proven expert tips to help you catch more winter and spring fish. Discover more now! Carp do not digest bait very well in colder conditions so it is extremely vital you design and select your baits and ground baits for exactly this situation to maximise your greatest chances of bites and literally in effect stop actually wasting good money on bait! Of course one way to do this is use as little bait as possible, but this is only part of the solution and does not maximise your ch...

Using milk proteins as pastes instead of boilies, is the most efficient method of delivering these type of baits carp come and eat me signals! There is no damaging heating of the proteins in the boiling process and no coagulated protein barrier on the surface of dough or paste baits to affect and slow down attractors, smells and carp feeding triggering amino acids leaking-off. This affects all coagulated egg skinned boilies! There are many ways to avoid or reduce this effect. (Like using a binder other than conventional eggs.) Or like skinning the baits for e.g. a maximum of 10 seco...

Robin Red is a carp bait additive that has had an incredible effect on carp catches for decades, but its recipe and how it works is surrounded by controversy and relatively few carp anglers use it to its full potential. Discover some clues about it and its very effective use here... Robin Red is an original formula from Haiths based in Cleethorpes UK. Included in their best-selling items are these well-known bait ingredients: Hempseed, Carpticle Mix, Multi Mix, Super Red, Prosecto Insectivorous, Robin Red, Red Factor, Nectarblend, soft Bill and Red Band. Having many years in producing lea...