Carp fishing can be a costly affair, both in time and money. With the somewhat highprice of fishing tackle markets taking top prices for anything and everything related to fishing, even the carp bait that we cannot do without, fishermen generally have to pay the going rate.
However, one area where money can actually be saved is with carp bait.
Some may argue that commercial carp baits are the better choice as these have been rigorously tested and proven and most probably have already caught big fish from the very same waters where you might fish.
Feeding a swim with ground bait or “chum” if this is allowed, at the start of a fishing session, is the universally used ‘method’ for the majority of carp anglers these days. However, much of this bait does not necessarily actually contribute to the capture of fish by any particular angler who has baited up at that time.…show more content… Timing and conditions play such a large part in fishing too. Carp cannot always be caught ‘to order’ as it were, so some anglers will certainly lose out as a result of fish being caught by other anglers.
In well stocked carp waters, almost any bait that has effective feeding triggers, appetite stimulators or other means of exciting carp into feeding, will work. Not only this, but it has been shown that even on many waters where the latest high protein or modern ‘nutritionally balanced’ boilie baits have been used for years, low quality carbohydrate baits can still dominate catches, when applied.
To some, this may seem like a strange occurrence given the theoretical “superiority” of balanced nutritional baits. However, there are variables of many kinds where carp fishing is concerned, aquatic situations and nutritional dynamics which most average anglers are not aware
