By Tim F. Richardson
One of the most little used baits these days in carp and catfish fishing is paste due to the predominance of commercially produced carp and catfish boilies and pellets and other forms of baits. But the basic point of a bait is to give you an advantageous edge against the suspicions of fish previously caught on your bait so using something different literally has massive fish catching benefits! Pellets and boilies are in many ways limited by their physical characteristics and both are heated and compressed during their formation leading to common features which wiser fish can recognise and therefore easily avoid if such baits are associated with previous danger!
The training of goldfish to perform tricks dispels forever the myth of a fish's 3 second memory. But many fisherman know fish have long memories and can avoid baits they have been hooked on in the past. The advantages and use of dough and paste bait are very little known compared to general knowledge of fishermen regarding many other baits.
Paste and dough type baits often have great solubility, which is a key factor in their major effectiveness. But practically all their characteristics can be manipulated or adapted to suit fishing needs and situations. Why use baits that any other fisherman may already have hooked your target fish with when such fish can be far easier to catch on original and unique new baits which only you can exploit to its full potential!?
For example, both carp and catfish have certain essential nutritional requirements which means you can exploit these things in your baits so basically forcing your fish to eat your bait as it contains what they need to survive. Many species of catfish like the channel catfish can thrive on a diet high in carbohydrate if it is soya based for instance. But carp are different; they are basically diabetic in the way they deal with carbohydrates and the energy from carbohydrates as a result of food digestion is not fully transferred into the fish and in fact carp fed on purely high carbohydrate feeds can easily drop in weight and lose health.
Both carp and catfish have increased metabolism (rate of oxygen consumption) as temperatures increase. The fishes need for more food is raised as a result of increased metabolism as more energy is required. One of the best ways to pull fish into your swim in an excited state is to use soluble protein based paste baits packed with fish essential amino acids and you can use your paste bait fresh, or use it in hard air-dried form and your fish will consume these with great enthusiasm!
The ingredients, additives, flavors and other ingredients you can make paste or adapt commercial ready made baits to make them new and unique are legion. I cannot recommend the homemade adaptation of ready made baits enough and this does not simply start and end with simply soaking them in a favourite flavour or in dips. In fact, you can top commercial baits very easily by exploiting using the commercial base mix used in the ready made baits you like to use, but use your own personally chosen secret additives, flavours - or whatever you like; this really is very effective and in the UK the best fish on such a bait I've had was a 46 pound leather carp back in 1999...
Of course using a ready made base mix of dry powders as your paste or dough bait is one way to quickly make a bait without any knowledge of bait making, but then just consider just for a moment just how satisfying it is to be able to catch every new personal best fish on your own personalised secret bait! I've been making baits for over 30 years for carp and catfish and one thing is clear; you can easily compete with any commercial baits using homemade ones and with a gigantic saving of 75 percent of the cost of expensive ready made baits! In fact I have noticed that anglers who use ready made baits spend a fortune on them and largely waste their potential because they do not realise they are fishing using a bait fish are more often than not already pre-conditioned to be very wary about; hence so many anglers get disappointing results on them which is a big downer!
The possibilities you have with paste and dough baits to provide highly irresistible bait features to boost and enhance and differentiate your baits from any others the fish may have regularly experienced are endless. One of the top benefits is that you can put much higher levels of the most effective ingredients into your baits; far more than commercial bait companies can afford to include! It takes a bit of knowledge to select which ingredients to use, but the results on such baits are just amazing compared to ordinary ready made baits - and the best part is that you can make baits with ease that can out-fish your ready made baits using friends!
By Tim Richardson.
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Thanks for the tip. I was thinking of going out after cats tonight and now I'll have something new to try. Nice Blog.
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