Secret Cheap Baits to Use For Fishing

Secret Cheap Baits to Use For Fishing

Fishing can be a very expensive hobby. Buying all the rods, lines, nets and many other things that you need for fishing can be very expensive! So whenever possible, it is best to save money on fishing equipment as much as you can! One of the best ways to save money is saving money on baits! Baits can be very expensive, especially if you fish a lot or for long hours! Here are 3 secret baits to use which is effective and cheap!

1. Snails and slugs!

Snails and slugs are one of the best baits that you will ever use! They are plentiful in your back garden and very easy to find! If you don't have a garden, it is easy to ask your neighbor or farmer to get some as they are considered pests! Snails and slugs make great baits as they are easy to put on the hooks and are plentiful to get!

2. Chicken meat

If you are a person who likes to eat chicken a lot, you can use your left over chicken as bait! You just need a few pieces of meat and then you can simply add them on your hook! Freshwater fish tend to like chicken meat a lot, so catching fish with chicken meat is quite easy!

3. Bread

Bread is the cheapest bait that you can ever buy! You don't need new fresh bread, old bread will just do fine! You can catch any fish with bread and if you want to save money, just ask your local supermarket or baker if they got old bread. They will most likely sell it to you at a low price!
Making Cheap Carp Fishing Boilies Pastes and Pellets Based on Potent Yeast Powders!

So many carp anglers are getting into making their own baits and reacting against the ridiculous costs of carp fishing today. Here is a bait of the kind I and many of my generation made 3 decades ago before the extreme commercialisation of carp fishing - these kind of nutritionally-boosted homemade baits will save you a fortune and versions of it have caught me many thirties and forties out-fishing many popular readymade baits over the years!

Some of you older more aware carp anglers will probably recall a pet supplement called Phillips Yeast Mixture (PYM.) Now the formulation is different today compared to years ago and the original version applied in carp baits inspired a huge degree of confidence! Basically it supplied many of the essential amino acids, minerals, vitamins and trace elements carp vitally need to survive, but it also does hidden things like carry other feeding triggers, enhance other flavours and ingredients, boost the carp immune system and many other things besides!

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Looking at the modern version of it appears to be basically deactivated brewers yeast powder and minerals. Bearing in mind this modern product is not designed specifically for carp of course means it can easily be improved to be a very much better baits and the basis or a contributing part of all kinds of other forms of carp boilies, pellets, dough and paste baits and PVA mixes etc.

However, Phillips Yeast Mixture is expensive and the aim is to use products that undercut the high costs of regularly having to pay for ready made baits. After all just 20 pop-up baits from Solar can cost over 6 pounds and a kilogram of ready made frozen boilies from shops can even cost over 12 pounds.

Multiply this bait cost up for every weekly trip over a season added to things like PVA, hooks, leads, hook lengths, boilie stops, swivels and a myriad of other exorbitantly-priced items, you can see why making your own baits is going to save you a fortune and provide you with loads of extra money you simply would have blown completely unnecessarily! Of course bait companies hate to lose customers but frankly they make their money by making bait - so why not copy them in your own way so you spend whatever budget you decide to spend on bait instead of allowing them to set prices?!

Getting hold of deactivated yeast powders is no problem on the web and many bait companies sell these. I will use Ccmoore yeast powder as I know personally it is dependable in quality, supply and it really works!

So to make your own PYM type bait in a modern way, there are so many variations you can choose from but here are just a few recipe ideas to get you started - in fact I have regularly used yeast powders since the Seventies when I added them to my ground baits when the average carp in all my then local Essex lakes were only in double figures!

For a simple effective ground bait simply mix white and brown bread crumb with yeast powders, enzyme-treated yeast or something like own brand yeast extract (cheaper than Marmite) and liquid yeast plus a few mixed pellets - it works all year round and can be applied in many ways from PVA bags, spods, method feeders, or even as cheap paste or as boilies with added eggs. (I recommend boosting it with Ccmoore crunchy kelp meal, Ccmoore Cyprivit and Ccmoore Blue Cheese powder for instance - these really will make all the difference!)

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There are very seriously boosted versions you can make that have incredibly levitated nutritional attraction for the biggest fish, but these will cost you far more due to the quantities and higher prices of the grades and quality of ingredients, additives and liquid extracts required. But as you will discover when you use it, the kind of yeast bait mix previously mentioned will most often catch fish right away; for even more potent certified big fish baits read on! (For more information see my website and biography right now!)

Carp Fishing Bait Success With Cheap Unique Recipes!

Here is an account of my latest carp fishing exploits and catches by refining my cheap homemade baits and includes details of natural flavours, feeding triggers, nutritional attraction, enhancers, essential oils, new attractors (and much more besides) to boost my catches!

I have not been fishing recently although last time I fished the local pond with some of my homemade baits and hooked 3 out of the ponds estimated 6 residents - in just 2 and a half hours! Having previously hooked just 5 of them in total in 10 visits shows I did something very right regarding the baits used, rig preparation and actual fishing and baiting approach this time because these fish are very clued-up and constantly fished for by anglers often using very fine tackle and tiny baits.

I was using a bait based on premium grade koi carp pellet powders. To this was added lots of herbs (such as borage, nettle and mint) and various spices and spice extracts. I also included Carpfishingpellets premium Scottish salmon oil, their liquid lecithins and salmon protein, plus liquid pig protein, powdered palatants and glycerine and mineral and vitamin supplements. I also added ground up Ccmoore Milkimin pellets, Amino Green 365 pellets, betaine HCL and some abalone powder at about 10 percent of the mix, plus seaweed (local bladderwrack) pieces and granules.

Personally I consider that a bait oriented around purely abalone and rich seaweeds and yeast will work if only for the huge amount of glutamine such a bait contains; regardless of other nutritional attraction, palatability enhancing capabilities and so on! (And glutamine is a great carp feeding trigger.)

I have gradually been making diverse batches of baits for future trips this autumn. I am working on the theory that if I make each batch different even if only slightly then it will make it harder for fish to identify hook baits (actually it is not a theory because I use this trick a lot and it really works wonders.) Therefore some of my baits have lots of betaine HCL, some loads of salmon protein, some loads of robin Red, some contain liquid flavours, some contain powdered flavours only, some have lots of cheap mixed nut oil, and some have lots of salmon oil and lecithins, or have corn steep liquor and cheap milk powders etc.

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Some of the boilies contain high levels of pearl barley, cracked corn and hemp, some have lots of rolled oats and mini pellets, some have lots of bird seeds like those in Trill and others have more CLO etc. Some baits Phillips Yeast Mixture (yes it is still available,) plus bacterial enzymes and a proportion of whey protein and extra high quality fish protein too.

Some of the baits have various different forms of chilli powders and black pepper powders and oils. Some have lots of blue cheese powder and garlic concentrate and have mint and eucalyptus essential oils added; others have menthol added.

Some have more seaweed and have added kelp granules and spirulina powder are green in colour. Various of the baits are red in colour while others are yellow or paler in colour. Some have been dyed black with edible dye. The density of the baits vary considerably as does their buoyancies too and their actual weights as some have more limestone powder and screened sterilised smooth sand to add weight; conversely some baits contain lots of egg biscuit krill meal and dehydrated shrimps and insects.

Some baits have been rolled into balls and dried and cut in half, others have been rolled into sausages and chopped into pellets or odd shapes.

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Various of the baits have simply been air-dried and not boiled. Some baits have merely been scaled, and some boiled for 1-3 minutes. Some have been dried in milk powders, others in betaine HCL or icing sugar or Feedstim XP powder or fermented shrimp powder or Belachan among other things. It is not merely what you put together with what and at what levels and ratios, but how literally everything acts all together in the water, at carp receptors and actually within the carp, that makes all the difference to your catches!

I'm hoping to do a 5 day long session somewhere in late September (just where is the question at the moment!

I really rate ground baits summer and in fact all year round and I am not a great fan of just fishing over a bed of pellets for instance, but mixing it up and breaking up the carp reference points to make things as difficult as possible for them to identify hook baits!

If you are aiming to make cheap baits I have had decades of years of practice - I reckon the very cheapest attractor baits only need 1 potent ingredient to do the major work in a bait; whatever the bulk carrier binding ingredients are! A simple example is using lots of kelp powder in a maize meal and semolina based bait. Adding a natural flavour packed with natural esters is a nice edge too!

For boosting my cheapest homemade baits I find natural cream flavours used on their own or mixed with perhaps a crab or a smoked flavour for example are very effective - in summer and winter too! (For much more information see my website and biography right now!)

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