| You might think that carp baits like boilies and tiger nuts | | | | One of the oldest known carp bait additives is honey. |
| have little in common in terms of massive potential for | | | | You might think this sweet stuff is just sugar food for |
| improved and new different preparations - but you | | | | the bees but it is far more than this and science has |
| would be wrong. Sure tiger nut is used in some boilies, | | | | yet to uncover many of its secrets! One of its effects |
| but there is plenty you can exploit in terms of boilie | | | | is to promote relaxation. Many carp substances or |
| ingredients and liquids to make your tiger nuts, boilies | | | | potential carp substances do this. Think about it; a |
| and pellets catch loads more fish so read on now! | | | | more relaxed carp is easier to catch than an anxious |
| Many carp anglers I meet have the idea that tiger nuts | | | | nervous carp that is very much more on the alert in |
| are great baits that do not need any adaptation or | | | | sensing suspect baits with hooks! |
| boosting in totally unique new ways to catch out many | | | | Honey is one of those substances that can make you |
| more really wary carp. The truth is that carp being | | | | want more of it for very specific reasons, but this |
| such constantly adaptive creatures can easily get | | | | feel-good factor is certainly well-proven with carp. I |
| progressively much harder to catch where they | | | | remember using it in my bread paste fishing for carp in |
| become all too familiar with conventionally prepared | | | | the seventies and the difference in catches using it |
| tiger nut hook baits for example. | | | | and not using it was dramatic. The reason for is very |
| Just as in the case with using boilies and the need to | | | | complex and far-reaching too. One part of its success |
| balance their buoyancy to negate hook weight to try | | | | is the unique aroma compounds released into the |
| to avoid carp detection of suspect baits, tiger nuts | | | | water column from honey. It is highly water-soluble and |
| baits and catches are improved by the same means. | | | | is effective all year round even in temperatures around |
| Of course tiger nuts are oily and the very high fibre | | | | freezing point. It is a nutritional food due to the special |
| content teamed with its carbohydrate absorbent | | | | substances it contains apart from its sugars, minerals |
| capacity holds liquids extremely well. Such features | | | | etc. |
| and characteristics make re-hydrated tiger nuts very | | | | OK now just how many guys have you met who use |
| light in water compared to very many dense machine | | | | tiger nuts prepared without Talin but high potency |
| extruded rolled, shaped and heated boilies and pellets | | | | honey and CC Moore Ultrasweet intense sweetener |
| etc. | | | | for instance? I am putting in this particular intense |
| This means they can take on all kinds of liquids and be | | | | sweetener because it is a different form to those |
| very effective carriers. They are also easily found by | | | | used for many decades and is extremely effective |
| carp due to their low density in comparison to water | | | | even as the only enhancer or sweetener in a bait. In |
| (i.e. their comparative light-weight in water,) and their | | | | this case it enhances the honey in various ways and |
| attractive movement in water disturbed by carp | | | | as a result it prolongs the richness and power of |
| moving near them. In fact this kind of density | | | | impacts on carp senses – so making carp desire |
| compared to water resembles very many of the | | | | your baits even more. |
| natural carp food items that are also high in water and | | | | By getting creative you can begin by simply looking at |
| other liquid contents. | | | | the features and characteristics of a substances and |
| Now the fact is that if a new or adapted bait does not | | | | boost it. In simple terms of sugars, some minerals and |
| resemble a form of bait a fish has good reason from | | | | forms of soluble fibre and their positive effects for |
| previous experience to fear or resembles a natural | | | | instance, tiger nuts have similarities to bananas and |
| food item it has no suspicion of, then it is far more likely | | | | many other fruits and vegetables. Just one example of |
| to feed with added confidence, make a mistake with | | | | creativity born of frustration with times of merely |
| that bait – and get hooked! | | | | average catches on ready-prepared tiger nuts was to |
| Plenty of carp around the world have been hooked on | | | | prepare my tiger nuts using liquidised over-ripe banana |
| ordinary cooked sweetened tiger nuts. Of course | | | | and clay purchased for modelling purposes (I used to |
| there are many forms tiger nuts might take, from | | | | make miniature carp models as a hobby in clay and |
| mini-sized 6 millimetre ones to giant sized tubers over | | | | carved plaster of Paris.) I also added very significant |
| 16 millimetres long. You can get mixtures of sizes, | | | | levels of a very rich health tonic and a special nut |
| graded sizes and even naturally black not brown tiger | | | | extract (for more on this see my ebooks!) |
| nuts. But instead of dealing with the inner secrets of | | | | Maybe this is new to some anglers but carp ingest the |
| tiger nuts and why they can be addictive in effect to | | | | base rock called clay that naturally line many waters |
| carp (see my ebooks,) I will discuss ways to make | | | | because not only is it extremely rich in essential |
| them different to normal by adopting a few | | | | minerals and other related factors, but it is rich in very |
| substances and ideas I use in a few of my boilie, | | | | beneficial bacteria and other micro-organisms. You |
| pellets and ground bait and bean, nuts and seeds | | | | might think that soil or as some call it dirt, or pure clay is |
| particle preparations. | | | | dead and devoid of life. Well clays are formed in many |
| One of the easiest ways to make tiger nuts different | | | | cases from fine alluvial and water-course deposits; |
| is to soak them and cook them in a solution that | | | | some of which have formed the basis of some of the |
| contains substances not commonly or ever before | | | | richest waters on the planet. |
| used for this purpose. The old use of betaine and Talin | | | | The top koi breeders know all about the powder of |
| plus other sweeteners for example is over-used in my | | | | clay in promoting fish health and vigour and boosting |
| opinion. After all similar tiger nuts prepared like this are | | | | not only scale colours but fish immunity and even |
| pumped into carp waters all over the place all year | | | | naturally cleaning and balancing water. Obviously some |
| round. Although these things enhance and compliment | | | | clays are much richer in certain components than |
| many aspects tiger nuts naturally offer in various | | | | others or contain different ratios of them. Clay offered |
| ways on different levels far more can be exploited; in | | | | for sale to enrich koi ponds is ideal but you would be |
| fact the list is massive! | | | | surprised how easy it is to mix clay in re-hydrated |
| However in choosing what to use it seriously helps to | | | | form. |
| appreciate exactly what those substances will do | | | | Such secrets can make all the difference to your |
| when mixed together, what happens to them in water | | | | results when fishing against competing baits and wary |
| when you nuts are cast out and what occurs when | | | | big carp. Today it is normal for the biggest fish most |
| fish sense them and consume them. | | | | anglers want to catch to be among the most very |
| Just adding a single substance to tiger nuts when | | | | wary so being able to use the kinds of edges and |
| soaking them or even at the cooking stage is not | | | | information that average anglers do not have is |
| rocket science. What can be more involved is | | | | essential. |
| uncovering and exploiting the internal effects that any | | | | Whether you choose to be dependant on readymade |
| particular substance can have possibly in very | | | | baits or want to make just as potent and more |
| beneficial ways within carp that seriously multiplies your | | | | economical homemade ones of any kind from boilies |
| catches compared to normal! Some of you might be | | | | to ground baits to particles etc you can always |
| thinking about amino acids or the oleic acid or vitamins | | | | improve your catches by getting the kinds of secrets |
| already present in tiger nuts or impacts of its soluble | | | | 99 percent of anglers overlook or are ignorant of. (For |
| fibre, enzymes or sugars. You can easily boost | | | | even more information on making, adapting, designing |
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