Boilie Carp Bait Secrets Of Irresistible Sugars Minerals And Salts

Carp bait recipe secrets of addictive salts and minerals uses and feed-stimulatory sugars, potent alternative salts sources; recipe applications, and roles in nutritional homemade big carp baits! Salts are highly significant within carp bait ingredients as well as additives, extracts in liquid, powder and other forms, and can form the actual functional key core of a bait, the channels that enhance water ingress inside bait created with curing, and salts form a huge part of the nutritional and functional physical parts of baits designed to function best, exploiting to carp sensitivity to salinity and salts in solution…

This refers especially to salts and mineralised salts and traces in carp bait, as well as their impacts upon palatability, and stimulation, concentration, intensity, carp bait nutritional profile, speed and duration of efficiency of effectiveness on many levels etc. This also includes using and optimising salts within PVA bags, in pastes, ground baits particle mixtures , boilies and so on!

Salts, mineralised salts, bases, acids and more all improve your nutritionally-stimulating homemade carp bait (and readymade baits!)

Note: During the late nineties and on through to 2005 upon writing my first ebook onwards, I used salts in the bottom of my PVA bags and tubes I first bought tubes from Rod Hutchinson (my absolute hero,) while a field tester for him, having witnessed the impact of using PVA close proximity to hook bait free baits while winter fishing alongside Cliff Fox founder of Fox International. It began with using boilies then chopped boilies and pastes and particles on multiple PVA strings and circles attached to the hook and then the entire rig itself to increase free baiting directly around the hook baits.

This evolved very quickly as I really wanted to get ground bait as in boilie base mix including mineral-rich molasses meal and crushed bird seeds etc out fishing immediately around my hook baits. This kind of baiting was superior to fishing whole boilies because the fish couldn’t sort free baits from hook baits and anyway I wanted maximum ionising effects around the hook baits highlighting them and stimulating fish into feeding, especially in the depths of winter.

When I began using large PVA bags which was my obvious preference seeing as pest fish could easily wipe out free bait extremely quickly, and delivery of highly soluble ionising materials that formed a sedimented layer around the hook baits produced best fish, experimentation using powdered flavours, milk powders, crushed seeds, molasses meal and salts and more all came into play.

There were some surpring findings, in activating baits, for example discovering that semi-hydrated lactalbumin actually shoots about in the water very actively; seriously assisting in dispersal of everything else through the water column thus radically improving bait effects and results! Add top this the plumes of salty bait solution issuing from the bottom and the halo off the bottom dense carp bait materials gravitate, such as glycerine, tiger nut extract, and LO30, and more, and you’ll get the picture…

The refined result of this exploration and testing over some years was to place dense salts as the very first layer in my PVA bags, often with chopped and crushed seeds soaked in flavours oleoresins and essential soils. The salts added density and weight to often very light substances, but more importantly I exploited salts to help form a current in the water to disperse oils from crushed nuts birdfood pigments etc. I often used these substances as the second significant layer, below other layers and different forms of baits in there, which all worked synergistically so very well.

(I still use this approach to this day, the treatment of the bags and PVA itself is more refined than previously however as carp are too familiar with crude PVA !) But I also discovered that by mixing broken baits in sugars, and then fermenting them this improved performance, and then drying them out using salts had even more effect.

This resulted in the first instance in winter, in producing many more carp on egg and boiling type conventional food-type high protein or balanced nutritional homemade boilies. (I’ve always been a massive fan of highly-soluble high-protein winter carp bait, particularly when treated in many profound ways beyond just the normal defrost and soaking baits!)

(Note: If you’very not tried cured pastes as winter carp bait you’re missing out big-time…)

This drying out treatment also resulted in using salts more in winter and spring, and then using much higher levels of salts within carp bait recipes throughout the year as this definitely improved results!

This began with using Rod Hutchinson Sense Appeals, but also with Minamino liquid food from the chemist, homemade liquidised liver, and then Richworth liquid yeast and alcohol-based mineral tonics and more, including liquid Robin Red which I was and still am a huge fan of, though back in those days as a field tester, I bought from Rod Hutchinson, though in more recent times I’ve sourced this from CC Moore being a consultant for Ian Moore.

Salts used to be literally worth their weight in gold, as to humans they were known to be so vital to survival were they. Using carp essential minerals in your homemade baits to hook more carp is a very basic aspect, right back to very simply earliest homemade baits using Marmite which is composed of 10 percent sodium chloride!

The wide spectrum of mineralised salts within Himalayan rock salt make this so far superior in palatability and nutritional impacts compared to mere sodium chloride table salt that is cannot be ignored. However I have also used sea salt in carp bait and other uses for decades to very good effect.

Note: Boilies must have the ability absorb water fast as hydration is vital to both carp health and optimised bait function and maximum dispersal of soluble and other substances. Egg baits whether they contain egg powder, whole egg, egg albumin binder, seriously benefit from use of solvents and salts.

With egg-sealed boilies, the use of bait glugs containing solvents such as alcohols, propylene glycol, glycerol etc and salty substances including fortified yeast liquids, fish proteins etc, prove beyond any doubt that as a bait material egg is adverse in its practical non-water reactive self-limiting effects on bait performance.

Break away from old-fashioned adherence to egg and you will discover an eye-opening new world of surprising catch-results… Instead of egg, think milk albumin, or glutens, or alginates, gelatines etc, and still combine these with salts, salt form amino acids etc and make your baits much more like water and fish magnets… (There’s far more to this found in the bait Ebook-Course!)

The main minerals which have been detected in carp by scientific trials, the lack of which has been observed to cause signs of deficiency, are sodium chloride (sodium and chlorine,) phosphorus and calcium.

Others include magnesium and zinc, but there are possibly other deficiencies in carp which have not been observed yet through scientific study; e.g.: manganese, selenium, potassium, cobalt sulphur, iodine, chromium, and fluorine. Many of these helps repair and produce new cells, and repair damaged body tissues. Zinc helps in digestion, and magnesium has a role as an enzyme co-factor.

Fish absorb calcium from the water around them. They are rarely deficient in this important skeleton forming mineral, but the rate at which it is retained in the body is set by another important mineral; phosphorus. Increasing phosphorus in the diet is beneficial, as it will increase calcium retention. In common carp, the total body ratio in the body is 4 to 1 of phosphorus to calcium. Ash is often a component of feeds for many animals and fish.

Absorption of dietary phosphorus is not affected by calcium in the diet. Fish meals are rich in both. Plant-origin meals lack in calcium, and are high in phosphorus, but not in a readily digested form; animal sources are better absorbed to counter any possible deficiency in these. Meat and bone meals have their benefits, for example from fish silage. A typical soya meal has an intermediate phosphorus availability of 40 percent.

Phosphorus: The most commonly used phosphorus supplement in carp culture is dicalcium phosphate, with the highest level of availability of 80 percent. It is used at levels not under 0.7 percent of the dry meal.

Potassium: This may be provided through the potassium chloride and oxide salts in treated ash or potash (potassium carbonate), as also supplied in agricultural pig, cattle and horse feeds. (This aspect is very little known and underutilized in carp baits even in 2018…) My friends and I have caught many big carp using animal feeds as the bulk nutritional stimulation content and provision in our baits with totally instant results! Remember the ubiquitous ‘Cell’ yeast is just one form of so many ruminant feed predigest agents.)

Iron is supplied in blood meals, shellfish and crustacean meals derived from oysters and shrimps, prawns and krill; copper in oysters, crabs, lobsters; potassium in mussels, scallops, clams; iodine, phosphorus and selenium in sea foods in general.

An especially mineral rich sweet carp attractor molasses: Black Strap Molasses from second boiled sugar cane, are an extremely underestimated, scientifically proven set of feeding triggers and attractants, also inclusively high in iron and magnesium. The unsulphured grade is the finest, and sweet tasting, with higher sugar content. Normal grade is the bitter tasting, but most nutritious, as used in health supplements, and also used as animal supplements, like horse feed liquid molasses; a very economical source.

Sugar beet molasses are best in highly concentrated form almost in the same state a Marmite. I do not recommend liquid molasses for carp bait when that is mainly water! (Water is exactly what you do not want top put in your baits! (Keep your baits as hygroscopic and water-reactive in as many different ways as possible for maximum fish reaction and feeding stimulation!)

Molasses, with lower sugar content is relatively unpalatable, as with Minamino components without sugars and flavour added, but sugar beet molasses are high in calcium, potassium and chloride salts, and well worth mixing with cane molasses! These being calorific fuels are of course bait activators in their own right, similarly to honeys etc.

I have a reputation for doing things differently. One of these differences is making baits without egg, paste and fast-steamed or clingfilm-protected baits or low temperature baked baits (all avoiding boiling of water-reactive and highly biologically-active nutrients etc, and other solubles out of baits,) before any of this became better known, these having so many advantages.

I am in particular known for making no egg pastes and no-egg heated baits and resilient no-egg hook baits, but one aspect very few know of me is how much I really recommend using molasses as a base ‘glue’ instead of albumins from milk proteins or egg powders etc, for cold water late autumn, winter, and spring carp bait.

In low temperatures, water density is very different to warm water and it is vital that in dense heavy water your baits are as active as possible, instead of remaining as inocuous, insoluble, dense round blobs of insoluble egg. This is remedied very simply by using black strap molasses as the bait base. (There’s more on this huge edge in the course ebook.)

Quick tip: Mixing honey, with black strap molasses and Minamino with added soluble yeast is a non-fashionable yet very effective starting point liquid base for beginners… Even a concentration of 1 percent betaine in your bait coming from molasses makes a significant difference to feeding responses! The first treated grade of sugar beet molasses is 50 percent sugar. (Sucrose.)

A question of salt: An incredible carp attractor: One Japanese research paper stated that, in carp tests, in with various amino acids solutions and salt: sodium chloride gave the most extreme response. Interestingly, two of the amino acids tested were not essential amino acids to carp but the scientists obviously had a reason for testing them against salt! These were proline, and also taurine. (Incidentally, taurine in squid extracts (salts conjoined amino acids) have played a big role in one or two international bait companies ongoing success!)

Mineral salts: These have an interesting role in helping the carps own digestive bacteria to break down food, which is another good reason to use them in bait. When carp eat plant material, like water weeds, much energy is lost, as gut bacterial enzymes do the work of breaking down the cellulose cell walls to produce sugars. I feel that additional molasses in the bait help here too. Molasses are used worldwide for industrial fermentation, as it is a highly nutritional food for bacterial activity in production of alcohols…

Molasses are mainly sucrose, but is also highly attractive in bait as it is useful in assisiting in fueling bait activation by microorganisms; yeasts and beneficial bacteria. Even in carp bait not activated by enzymes, but dense in molasses in raw and black strap forms fulfil many of the dietary requirements of iron, magnesium, and essential vitamins and other essential minerals and traces which carp will respond very positively to.

When warmed up carp bait rich in molasses certainly do become actively-fermenting; a vital edge in coloured water in regards to bait disperal and solubilty in very dense coloured water!

Bakers and brewers yeasts are the highly nutritious active ingredients of fermentation. You can help bacteria to predigest your bait when using natural aging or curing methods in moderate or even ambient e.g. 20 degrees Celcius heat conditions, by adding high volumes of molasses to your bait mix.

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