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There is a shocking increase in carp anglers asking why their ready-to-use baits just don’t live up to the hype in terms of promised catching results! There are many reasons for this, but you can control them all! How can you achieve better than average results when so many anglers are using the same or similar baits you are using? This is a big problem and a big challenge to solve for most of the big carp anglers out there today! Read on for answers and expert tips that will power you back right now!

Years ago, I reached a point where I realized it was obvious there was no point in trying to improve an underperforming baiting paradigm using lures and glugs. I am referring of course to the bait mass that is extruded, shaped and heated in one way or another into boilies that are used as free baits or as jig baits!

I’ve generally been short on time, so making baits for me has been about doing things faster than usual, rather than continuing the old-fashioned bait-making methods I’ve used since the late 1970s, which involved roll and boil the dough to create boilies.

The fact that it took so long influenced my decision to cut steps in the process that I found to be pointless. For example I started to stop heating baits and went back to using paste like when I started carp fishing in the 1970s when there were no bait companies that sold boiled baits and from a time when everyone made homemade baits.

Eliminating the step of boiling the baits gave me a huge immediate improvement in results. I started fishing when other anglers around me couldn’t catch. I also caught a wider diversity of carp, from syndicated water that I had fished in at that stage for about 8 years. I noticed that the fish behaved very differently than the baits that were not heated. The initial step towards this came from moving from high protein boilies to bird food and other bait themes as milk protein costs went up and up.

This inadvertently led me to use very thick, soluble, open baits that broke down easily in the water. I was still making boilies and heating baits that I formed from homemade bait dough shapes. But around 1992 I stopped using bait trolleys and handcrafted my homemade baits 3 or 4 times the normal size of other anglers. (The normal size for boilies at the time was about 14 millimeters.)

I made baits up to 40 millimeters or even larger. I still boiled these baits and dried them; but that’s where the similarities with normal homemade boilies and conventional ready-made ones ended. This is because I was making boilies that couldn’t possibly roll on a rolling table as they were very sticky or thick or sticky and thick in nature. I loved these baits and they really took my catches off the scale compared to the normal which are now conventional store bought types of boilies.

I had no time for bait rollers and also greatly disliked the similarities between homemade baits made with rolling tables and machine-wound pre-made baits; they were just too similar to give the edges that I knew I could take advantage of in my homemade baits by making them as different as possible. So I got rid of my bait rolls, even the very small micro boilie rolls I had.

He no longer wanted baits that looked like prepared baits. This is because I have found from very long experience over many years that fish feed very selectively, individually, using highly evolved defensive feeding behaviors when in the presence of boilies.

Homemade boilies and store bought boilies in conventional terms are very similar and the volumes used by the increasing number of anglers joining carp fishing over the years from the 1990s to the year 2000 really they showed me conclusively that making homemade rolled boilies was definitely not the way to maximize results.

I won’t go into how I started making my different boilies here, but the big step came in the early nineties when I was fishing on crumbled boilies instead of whole boilies all the time. At that time I also started using PVA stringers from boilies in circles, but using baits cut multiple times. I also used this method for my hooks because I noticed it produced faster bites and significantly more fish. These things, plus other observations, guided me to avoid the step of reeling in the bait entirely.

In a more recent time, I have discovered very different paradigms of bait design that maximize and optimize baits without heating the baits in any way and without making baits designed on top of the old HNV and BNV food type voucher paradigms.

I had used these paradigms to design and make my homemade baits for 25 years. But by becoming a writer I found myself in a position where I had to constantly question every aspect of baiting, strip it of its roots, and re-examine the logic, processes, and evolutions of thought that actually ended up conditioning thousands of anglers en masse. . to think that this is the way to design, manufacture and apply baits!

The fact that a large number of people think something does not automatically mean that this thought is correct and, more importantly, that it cannot be improved! By becoming a home bait specialist, constantly testing and researching original research, original testing, and breaking the old rules and status quo thinking, this revealed a number of very significant advances to improve my results.

In part, this came about in 2005 when I became the central information center for home bait anglers around the world and became a field tester and consultant to numerous bait companies. At certain periods in the last 10 years, I found that I was testing new versions of bait in multiple forms and making new ones, almost every day for months and months for years. The fish feedback from this reality bait test very seriously opened my eyes to new possibilities that are genuinely superior to the entire food bait paradigm.

Of course few bait makers will like to read this, and more especially if they are closed minded and stuck in catching up with outdated food bait thinking from years ago. Sometimes it takes a joy of inspiration to change. A couple of years ago I had a rather interesting conversation with John Holt, a fisherman who deserves enormous respect for his catch. It was with his Bait Barn that he started Mainline baits. He had a lot of friends who fished Little Grange in Essex, and later in the early nineties I fished Big Grange with him.

These were interesting times and many guys at the time sold leads as a part time income. He used to see Danny Fairbrass, founder of Korda, hanging around to see his mates at Little Grange. We were all strangers back then, though I might have bumped into Kevin Knight or Mainline’s Zenon Bojko or maybe fished with a guy who made baits at the nearby Nash factory, it was all just part of the scene.

I remember discussing baits on the way to Dream Lakes with Zenon several times and feeling like some of the ideas he was forming were a little different than normal. John Holt approached me at the Carp show at Sandown Park a couple of years ago when he was in a position doing my consulting work for CC Moore, explaining aspects of some of the liquids and their possibilities.

This exceptionally hot big fish angler (whose boilie recipe founded Mainline baits) enthusiastically quizzed me on many of my ideas and concepts that he had read about in my articles etc. and we chatted for a long time.

But one thing that seriously struck me was the look on her face when I asked her why she still used eggs. She responded to my question by saying “Because I always have.”

I could see the illogicality, emotional attachment, and shocking doubts in his mind about continuing to use eggs, which really hit him, the moment he said that! Revealed in my exclusive eBooks on Ready-Made Baits and Homemade Baits, Carp and Catfish Baits is much more powerful information. Look out for my unique website (Baitbigfish) and see my bio below for details of my eBook deals right now!

By Tim Richardson.