Ingredients
The composition of mixtures prepared independently and on an industrial scale is not much different. Both manufacturing methods usually use the following ingredients: rolled oats flakes, ground biscuit, sunflower cake, breadcrumbs, bran, dried bread, different types of cereals: millet, pearl barley, semolina, corn. The following flavorings are added: garlic, anise, unrefined vegetable oil, finely ground coffee.
Option for self-made bait. Contains a ready-made mixture of Dunaev, cake and porridge
Benefits of homemade bait
The difficulties of catching carp or common carp are associated with the fact that this fish is constantly moving in search of food and to a place of shelter. Therefore, only active fishing is suitable for it. In this case, you will have to feed not only the main place where hunting is carried out, but also several additional areas.
Important! Carp is distinguished by increased sensitivity and caution. Therefore, when fishing for it, be sure to maintain extreme silence.
You can buy bait or prepare it yourself. Each fisherman chooses which bait to use based on his preferences, beliefs, experience and capabilities. Among the purchased ones, we can recommend Dunaev Premium Carp Carp, Traper Big Carp, SENSAS 3000 Carp Extra Grosse.
- Homemade bait has a number of advantages, including:
- low cost - almost all components can be found in any kitchen;
- the ability to refine and supplement components in the field, depending on the tastes that the fish prefers;
- you can take into account the tastes of carp in a particular body of water;
- the uniqueness of the product, which increases the chances of attracting fish.
Ready-made purchased
"Carp - crucian carp" Rook
The bait is of medium viscosity, color and taste vary. This composition can be used as an independent active bait and thrown to the fishing spot by hand, rocket, spomb, slingshot and other methods. You can soak it and make feeder bait. Can be added dry to moistened groundbait as a coarse fraction. The mixture is aimed at fish of the carp family.
“Mad bite” Premium Dunaev
This is a medium-large fraction bait with a coarse grinding fraction to attract large fish. Due to its unique composition, it is suitable for fishing for carp , bream, and roach in different types of currents. In case of fast flow, weighting agents (clay, earth) are added to the mixture.
In stagnant bodies of water, on the contrary, they help disintegrate into fractions. These qualities of feeding, namely its coarse fractionation, have both its positive and negative properties. Large fractions can only be eaten by large fish; they will scare smaller fish.
"Cut" Premium Classic Baits
Fast-acting bait for feeder fishing. When it hits the water, it quickly attracts the fish's attention to the fishing point. The series includes a large number of baits with a variety of flavoring and aromatic additives, allowing you to quickly select the best option for certain conditions.
Due to its rapid solubility, the bait should be topped up frequently. This mixture is intended for use in summer
“For sport and amateur fishing” Dunaev Champion
This fine-grained mixture stands out among others for its catchability due to its absolute neutrality in odor, but amazingly smelling of the natural smells of copra and biscuit. The bait is very active under water, so it must be moistened before use.
Which bait is better: store-bought or homemade?
Modern bait for carp has a complex composition. Recipes for their preparation are developed by ichthyologists who work closely with experienced fishermen.
Store-bought baits always have a balanced composition, containing all the necessary ingredients for carp.
This fish, distinguished by its gluttony, often refuses such food, considering it suspicious. Moreover, it is very often poorly absorbed.
If you decide to use industrial baits while fishing, it is recommended to purchase them from well-known manufacturers. Only in this case there is a high probability of catching a trophy carp.
Many fishermen, in particular professionals in this field, prepare bait with their own hands. Moreover, their composition is selected for a specific body of water, well studied by fishermen.
Some types of bait are created dry, while others are prepared using cooked porridge.
In certain reservoirs, fishermen have long accustomed this fish to one type of food. Therefore, when going to a specific river or lake, it is best to consult a professional who knows the local peculiarities very well.
Homemade bait for carp will always help save money. It should be borne in mind that creating it requires at least knowledge and experience.
Therefore, a fisherman, especially if he is new to carp fishing, will definitely need time-tested recipes.
With your own hands
Economy Option
Take 1 kg of barley for a little more than half a bucket of water. Let it boil for 30 minutes. Then add millet. After 20 minutes of simmering, remove from heat, add corn grits, Carpomania corn groundbait mixture, mix well. We get the total mass of a full bucket. Now all the dressing can be divided into as many parts as we want to get aromas and we pour our own aroma into each part (plums, pineapple milas, strawberries).
add rolled oats flakes to each part (to glue the ingredients together). Stir and leave to swell. After cooling, we make cutlets and throw them into places upstream.
Ingredients: 1 kg of pearl barley, 200 g of millet, 200 g of corn, 2 * 500 g of rolled oats flakes, 1 kg of carpomania corn bait
Simple but very catchy
Mash the potatoes, add a little warm water, ground seeds, semolina (we choose the quantity ourselves, depending on the required hardness of the bait). Mix, you get something like dough or plasticine.
Ingredients: 1 medium-sized boiled potato, ground fried seeds 15 g, semolina.
The mass can be used not only as bait , but also as a bait.
The bait stays in the feeder for a very long time, almost the entire fishing trip. If it becomes too little, then we simply add a new one to the remaining one, again turning it into a bun. From time to time, the hook also needs to be lubricated with bait or dipped in it.
How to make bait for carp
Compositions of carp bait, prepared at home, are focused on carp methods for preparing mixed bait. Therefore, their use in catching both close relatives is not something extraordinary. There are a number of recipes for complementary foods that are not distinguished by the complexity of production, but are close to universalism under many fishing conditions. It is these composition options that we want to present to the reader, after familiarizing himself with which he will have the opportunity to prepare an effective mixture in different seasons of the year.
Salapinka
Salapinka was originally a bream bait, but it perfectly suited the conditions for catching carp in strong currents. The food is prepared on the basis of a porridge brew mixed from pearl barley and millet. After cooking, barley or corn flour is added to the porridge to loosen it. The composition is mixed to a thick and plastic consistency, which helps keep the ball of complementary food at the bottom in fast-moving water for a long time. Already near the reservoir, an animal component in the form of crushed bloodworms, chopped worms or shells is added to the home-brewed mix, and the mixture is also saturated with an attractant. This recipe for bait for carp with large quantities of animal components is used in the spring when the water is not yet warmed up enough.
Sweet summer bait
The presented type of bait for carp is prepared with your own hands for summer fishing in reservoirs with stagnant or weakly flowing water. Crushed cereals, corn, barley or buckwheat, are mixed with breadcrumbs and milk powder. The mixture is poured with boiling water, allowing it to brew for two hours. Once cooled, canned sweet crushed corn is added to the mixture. After feeding the point, fishing is carried out using whole corn grain.
Paste for method
Anglers developed this recipe as a variant of feeder bait for carp, intended for feeding into fishing zones in method and spring feeders. To prepare the paste you need fresh halva and semolina. These ingredients are mixed together and lightly steamed in a water bath. As a result, they receive complementary food in the form of a plastic dense mass that rests securely on the ribs of the open feeder.
Autumn recipe
The recipe for autumn carp bait is quite simple in its composition and does not require preliminary preparation at home. This mix is mixed right on the shore of the reservoir. For the mixture you will need breadcrumbs, milk powder and strong-smelling fresh sunflower cake. An impressive amount of worm is prepared from the animal component, which is cut into pieces of 2-3 cm. The basis of the bait will be soil taken directly on the shore of the reservoir. The ingredients are mixed, adding water from the reservoir and bringing the complementary food to the consistency required for the fishing conditions.
Winter bait for carp
From mid-autumn, carp significantly lose their activity, showing less interest in food. Only high quality food can attract fish to the point. Increasing the animal component helps to achieve the desired attractiveness of the mixture. In its basics, cold water food is similar to complementary feeding options used in the summer, only now they introduce at least a quarter of the weight of the animal component and do not add any attractant. The role of the animal component is played by crushed bloodworms, maggots in live and canned form, chopped dung worms and crushed shells. Recently, shrimp or squid meat has been increasingly used as a supplement, which is good for attracting passive carp.
Bait recipes for carp
Each fisherman has his own little secrets in preparing bait, which he willingly shares with friends, or, conversely, keeps secret. However, the results of these recipes work and here are some basic carp bait recipes.
Recipe No. 1 spring
To prepare the recipe you will need:
- Semolina, pearl barley and rolled oats - 150 grams .
- Cake – 100 grams .
- Honey – 1 tablespoon .
- Breadcrumbs – 200 grams .
- Sugar – 2 tablespoons .
- Popped popcorn – 50 grams .
- Powdered milk – 100 grams .
Pearl barley and rolled oats must be boiled until tender. Then add semolina and mix everything. The semolina will infuse, and the whole porridge will have a viscous consistency. You need to add breadcrumbs, cake and milk powder to the resulting mass. Next, add sugar and honey and mix everything.
Recipe No. 2 for autumn
This bait recipe will act as a magnet for fish. If you periodically feed carp in a reservoir while fishing, then it will practically never leave the given place and the chance of catching it by fishermen will increase significantly. This bait consists of the following components:
- Pearl barley – 200 grams .
- Bran – 200-300 gr .
- Honey – 2 tablespoons.
- Raisins or crushed peanuts – 50-70 g .
- Anise flavouring.
- Bloodworms and maggots.
Pour boiling water over the pearl barley and let it brew for about two hours. The bran should also be poured with boiling water and after about half an hour add raisins, crushed peanuts and honey. Mix all this thoroughly and, just like barley, leave to brew.
Pour a few pinches of bloodworms and maggots into the prepared steamed pearl It is very important not to overdo it with the proportion of drops, otherwise the bait, due to the very strong smell of all the components, will not attract, but rather scare away the carp.
After all the preparations, the bran with raisins and peanuts must be mixed with the pearl barley mass. You can also add a small pinch of cinnamon, which will give the whole bait a sweet aroma.
Recipe No. 3 feeder
This recipe for bait for carp has proven itself well when there is a weak current in the reservoir. This bait is most often stuffed into special feeders, from where the current gradually washes it out at the bottom of the reservoir, thereby carrying the smell downstream and luring carp from the lower reaches of the reservoir to the fishing spot. To make this bait you will need the following ingredients:
- Breadcrumbs – 200 gr .
- Ground mixture of pearl barley and rolled oats - 500 grams .
- Honey – 2 or 3 tablespoons.
- Gelatin – 1 teaspoon.
- Cake – 100 grams .
- Crushed dried worms or food for aquarium fish.
- Cat or dog food.
Rusks and cereals must be mixed and poured with a small amount of warm water. The water should be poured gradually so that the mixture is slightly moistened. After this, cake, gelatin, honey and crushed dog or cat food are added to the mass. The bait is ready.
At the pond, slightly moistened bait is hammered into the feeder and sent to the bottom. Also, this bait has proven itself well when fishing for carp on a feeder and anglers willingly use it throughout the summer season.
Recipe No. 4 simplified, spring-summer
This recipe for bait for carp is one of the simplest and most effective, which does not require any special skills or preparation tricks from the angler.
Most often it is used from late spring to early summer, when carp have just come out of hibernation and are actively feeding. Preparing such bait does not take much time and you can even prepare it on the shore of a reservoir if you have the necessary ingredients, a fire and a metal container. For this you will need:
- Half dried peas – 200 grams .
- Pearl barley – 200 gr .
- Millet cereal – 100 grams .
- Anise or hemp oil flavoring.
- Breadcrumbs – 100 grams .
Groundbait components
Bait for carp and carp can be divided into several components, which are usually used together.
1. Base mixture (loose ingredients). Carp bait is based on a loose mixture. It consists of a dozen components, including:
- flour and cereals;
- crushed seeds;
- powdered milk;
- dry flavors.
Granules (pellets) are often used in carp bait
2. Granules or pellets. Despite the fact that each manufacturer makes granules according to its own recipe, the basic composition is largely the same. The basis of pellets are:
- wheat and fish flour;
- corn gluten;
- powdered milk;
- Brewer's yeast;
- hemp;
- flax, sunflower, soybean oil;
- vitamins and mineral supplements.
3. Boilies. This classic bait for carp and carp is added in large quantities to the bait. The large size of boilies protects them from hungry schools of small fish. This bait is made from
- wheat, soy, corn flour;
- sugar or salt;
- flavorings (hemp, honey, garlic, strawberry, tutti-frutti).
4. Flavorings and animal components. These ingredients are added to stimulate the fish's appetite. In summer, the smells of anise, vanilla, fruit and berry additives, natural extracts and essential oils work well. In cold water, carp and carp respond better to the addition of bloodworms, maggots and worms.
Buy or make it yourself?
Often, an angler is faced with a choice: buy a ready-made mixture and not worry about it, or make bait for carp at home. Let's look at the pros and cons of both options.
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The advantages of purchased bait include the following factors:
- balanced in nutritional composition and flavoring;
- the ability to choose depending on fishing conditions;
- can be used as a base mixture;
- No time is wasted on selecting ingredients and culinary research.
At the same time, there are also negative aspects of branded baits:
- high cost of truly working mixtures;
- Often there is abundant aromatization, which has a bad effect on the bite in cool water;
- There are reservoirs where the fish are accustomed to a certain composition of bait, and consider everything new to be foreign and not suitable.
Homemade
There is no doubt that the best argument in favor of homemade bait is its low cost. Sometimes even waste from our usual food successfully attracts carp to the fishing point. It can be:
- various cereals;
- pasta;
- mashed potatoes;
- pea mash.
In addition, you can make bait from various food products purchased at markets or supermarkets. When composing different mixtures, it is necessary to take into account the time of year and water temperature, as well as local fishing conditions.
The disadvantages of homemade baits include:
- production time costs;
- difficulty in dosing aromatization;
- possible absence of particularly valuable bait components.
