| Pellets are great carp catchers. Period.
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| | produce preoccupied confident feeding has
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| Most anglers have used the usual trout,
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| | always been popular over the years. There
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| salmon halibut, betaine or corn steep
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| | have been many massive hauls of big carp
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| liquor pellets in the past, but there's
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| | over maize or sweetcorn all over the
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| far more to pellets than meets the eye!
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| | world for generations. Where results
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| The great boilie revolution in carp
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| | begin to reduce new colours, flavours and
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| fishing meant that in Europe, carp became
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| | stimulants are used to bring them back to
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| very used to being caught over large beds
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| | life very effectively.
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| of boilies as their use became almost
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| | You may wonder what easy way of making
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| universally accepted. However, those who
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| | boilies like particle baits. Best to make
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| have been individual enough to do their
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| | up your base mix dough as usual, roll it
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| own thing have always had the edge over
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| | flat and simply chop it up into tiny
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| fishing boilies conventionally.
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| | pieces on a chopping board with a sharp
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| This may be down to a realisation that
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| | knife. These can be air dried and used as
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| carp love to feed intensively upon small
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| | paste which is excellent, or boilied if
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| food items which is what they do
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| | you want longer lasting baits. These can
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| naturally so efficiently. The advantage
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| | have extra attractor dips or soaks added
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| of providing a bed of smaller food items
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| | and anything from betaine to liquid
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| for carp is that you get different type
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| | liver, to beetroot juice works.
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| of feeding compared to using normal 14 to
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| | Carp can definitely relate danger with
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| 18 millimetre boilies.
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| | anything in their surrounding. So any way
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| In fact most anglers who have fished over
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| | to break up this relationship between
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| mini boilies, or particle baits like
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| | baits and danger produces better results.
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| baits have rally benefited in achieving
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| | I you have seen carp ignore sweetcorn
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| better catches than just using boilies
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| | due to angling pressure then you can see
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| alone on many waters. For example when
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| | what you're up against on some waters.
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| fishing boilie hook baits over peanuts,
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| | But this is not a problem. The nature of
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| hemp or chopped meats, or over beds of
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| | a bait can be changed radically. For
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| ground bait or even crumbled boilies (or
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| | example introducing liquidized sweetcorn
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| combinations of these for example.)
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| | in a slurry or slop type ground bait is
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| The idea of fishing over masses of paste
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| | extremely effective.
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| baits never seems to occur to most
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| | These days many carp anglers just don't
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| anglers these days either. The idea of
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| | bother with trying different approaches
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| utilising dissolving attractor baits that
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| | and slavishly go to the fishing shop and
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| usually carry the same additives or
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| | buy conventional boilies or halibut
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| flavour combination as the boilie fished
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| | pellets off the shelf never realising the
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| over the top or them has produced many
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| | improved results they're missing out on.
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| great catches. This is especially on hard
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| | Even though using a mixture of various
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| fished waters and in winter where the
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| | pellets and boilies of different base
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| advantage is plain to see.
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| | mixes is an edge to confuse the fish.
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| After a period of time only the hook
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| | Using different baits in a swim in terms
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| baits are left, the attractor baits
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| | of protein content, digestibility,
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| having dissolved and leaving a great
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| | permeability and porosity, oil, enzyme,
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| trail of carp pulling particles and
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| | vitamin and mineral contents have the
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| stimulants in the swim. The chances of
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| | edge over just using the one type.
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| hooking a fish where just your hook baits
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| | Usually there are different baits of
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| are available are the best of all. When
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| | various descriptions in a lake at one
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| you're fishing over 30 or 300 boilie
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| | time, and using a variety can tap into
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| baits your chances get much lower
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| | fish's preferences at any period of time.
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| especially with the risk that the fish
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| | Most carp anglers realise carp and indeed
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| will only eat a few baits and possibly
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| | individual carp can display bait
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| stop feeding.
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| | preferences which when exploited make
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| The idea of fishing over bread based
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| | them easier to catch, so why not improve
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| ground bait is having a renaissance in
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| | your chances?
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| the UK but its simply that anglers'
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| | Next time you go buy bait try doing the
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| preferences and fashions that change not
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| | opposite of what most anglers did last
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| necessarily the effectiveness of the
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| | week on your water and see the
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| chumming method. It is obvious that any
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| | difference, maybe using a mass chum bait
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| method of pulling fish into your swim in
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| | with a different buoyancy and behaviour
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| a feeding mood without arising undue
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| | like stimulant soaked hemp flakes and
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| caution is beneficial to results. Many
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| | corn flakes perhaps...
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| times anglers have seen carp rolling over
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| | The author has many more fishing and bait
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| beds of boilies not to get a 'take.' But
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| | 'edges' up his sleeve. Every single one
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| fish can and do avoid swims with big beds
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| | can have a huge impact on catches.
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| of boilies on many hard fished waters
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| | (Warning: This article is protected by
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| where masses of boilies are applied, even
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| | copyright.)
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| fleeing the area.
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| | By Tim Richardson.
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| Using particles instead of boilies to
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