{"id":15856,"date":"2015-09-28T03:07:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T02:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=15856"},"modified":"2016-05-04T10:22:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T09:22:32","slug":"sorting-the-bait-as-we-approach-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/sorting-the-bait-as-we-approach-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorting the Bait as we Approach Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shaun Harrison, owner of Quest Baits, gives us a heads up on his winter baiting tactics…<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the cooler weather is now starting to set in it is time for my annual autumn sort out of my tackle and bait but particularly the bait. From past experience I know that some of the baits that catch me a lot of summer fish will now stop working as effectively with the lowering of the water temperature. Yes, the carp will still eat them but certainly not with the same gusto as they did a month back. There are many reasons for this but on the whole they won\u2019t be seeping out anything like same sort of attraction or stimulation to the fish that they did before the drop in temperature.<\/p>\n

Now this\u00a0really\u00a0isn\u2019t<\/b>\u00a0an issue to me as I have several baits which all have an incredibly long track record in their attractiveness to carp in the winter.<\/p>\n

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Naked Hemp<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

It really does bemuse me why some anglers make life difficult for themselves by stubbornly continuing to use bait with little thought as to whether that bait is actually as attractive to a carp in the winter as it perhaps was in the summer.<\/i><\/p>\n

More importantly this selfish behaviour can also stop so many other anglers enjoying sport for a lot of the highly effective summer baits can become almost impossible for carp to digest in the winter,\u00a0due to the carps cold blooded make up, which gives them a much reduced metabolism, brought on by the cooling water.<\/p>\n

Put in simple terms, the carp will eat them if they stumble across them (some baits give out little in the way of food signals in the cold months) but once they have eaten them their bodies struggle to cope with and to digest them so the carp remain full with less need to feed again for what can be a considerable period of time. This actually moves a stage further and can become very harmful to the fish, eventually making them ill and again less likely to want to feed with bait being stuck inside them.<\/p>\n

So, for my own angling, the mixed pellet that has been diluted with Maximum Action Pellets will now become just Maximum Action Pellet mixed 50\/50 with Micro Feed, a touch of Naked Hemp and a bit of broken (not crushed) boilie. This will form my small stick mixes and a tub of glug\u00a0will be beaded to the bag to ring the changes and give the stick mix a quick dunk before casting.<\/p>\n

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Micro Feed<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Boilie wise I will be carrying just Magnum White\/Magnum Duo as my main bait with a selection of alternative hook baits. These will be the baits that have also caught me so many cold water fish over the years and will be\u00a0Fruity Trifle\u00a0(I have caught more winter carp on this over the years than any other bait),\u00a0Rahja Spice\u00a0and Ghurkka Spice (several sizes and a mix of colour in each tub). I have found so many times in the past that a re-cast with something totally different on the hair will often lead to a much quicker take.<\/p>\n

Baiting wise, I will be keeping it in small amounts definitely preferring the little and often approach rather than the commonly seen, dump it in and sit on it. Most of this will be done with a Mini Spomb to beat the gulls.<\/p>\n

So, there you have it. No secrets that is exactly what I will be carrying. Then again I might just blend a few Chilli Chocolate boilies in with the Magnum\u2019s and of course I almost forgot to mention the essential tub of paste. I use this in mesh bags as well as giving baits a paste wrap at times.<\/p>\n

If in doubt with your bait, take it out of your bag. Feeding wrong at this time of the year can affect your angling as well as that of others for weeks to come. You don\u2019t need much bait so now could be the time to try something with a proven cold water track record. All bait is cheap when you aren\u2019t needing to pile it in.<\/p>\n

Best fishes
\nShaun Harrison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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