In reply to Post #40
Let's be fair carp will eat anything infront of them if they are hungry???
True, once caught one years ago and I coughed up some old rotten reed shoots!
All this quality bait and they won't touch it, I wonder why
Let's be fair carp will eat anything infront of them if they are hungry???
True, once caught one years ago and I coughed up some old rotten reed shoots!
All this quality bait and they won't touch it, I wonder why
In reply to Post #40
There are many waters where carp are at inflated levels, overstocked, waters which carp need to eat absolutely everything to survive.
The 'survive' instinct being stronger than the risk of being caught, and the low nutritional value of the food item.
Then there are waters where the level of natural food is easily enough to support the fish present, and carp can quite literally choose what they eat.
You have smell, in some foods, admittedly mostly desserts, but some other foods as well I can smell ingredients. I can smell the banana in the Banoffee pie, and know to avoid it. I can smell when onions are in the burger patty.
If I go past a burger van, greasy spoon or fish and chip shop, and I can smell rancid fat I know not to eat there.
Carp can avoid foods, and the high flavour level repellent is not necessarily true when it is used as an individual single bait. The single bait may be investigated, and since carp do not have hands, they use their mouth.
However fish that flavour in a food source, or even within a few baits and it can repel, or create another effect of fish trying to feed where the flavour level is acceptable.
There are many waters where carp are at inflated levels, overstocked, waters which carp need to eat absolutely everything to survive.
The 'survive' instinct being stronger than the risk of being caught, and the low nutritional value of the food item.
Then there are waters where the level of natural food is easily enough to support the fish present, and carp can quite literally choose what they eat.
You have smell, in some foods, admittedly mostly desserts, but some other foods as well I can smell ingredients. I can smell the banana in the Banoffee pie, and know to avoid it. I can smell when onions are in the burger patty.
If I go past a burger van, greasy spoon or fish and chip shop, and I can smell rancid fat I know not to eat there.
Carp can avoid foods, and the high flavour level repellent is not necessarily true when it is used as an individual single bait. The single bait may be investigated, and since carp do not have hands, they use their mouth.
However fish that flavour in a food source, or even within a few baits and it can repel, or create another effect of fish trying to feed where the flavour level is acceptable.
In reply to Post #46
True, once caught one years ago and I coughed up some old rotten reed shoots
That's a strange reaction. Don't you catch many?
True, once caught one years ago and I coughed up some old rotten reed shoots
That's a strange reaction. Don't you catch many?
In reply to Post #47
You must have a strange diet if only some foods have smells?
You must have a strange diet if only some foods have smells?
In reply to Post #48
In reply to Post #50
This is a recurring theme i have been seeing for two years
Anglers using various baits and not sponsored, results are poor or at best, average!
You give them something that you know is good and bang, those same anglers see a huge upturn in results on all the different waters at all times of the year.
Is the bait better or did all of those anglers suddenly get better at angling and it's a fluke they all caught more on average?
I can name one boilie (but I won't) that dozens and dozens of customers ring me complaining about week in week out.
Like I have always said, not all baits are equal
I can tell that just by feeding them to carp!
This is a recurring theme i have been seeing for two years
Anglers using various baits and not sponsored, results are poor or at best, average!
You give them something that you know is good and bang, those same anglers see a huge upturn in results on all the different waters at all times of the year.
Is the bait better or did all of those anglers suddenly get better at angling and it's a fluke they all caught more on average?
I can name one boilie (but I won't) that dozens and dozens of customers ring me complaining about week in week out.
Like I have always said, not all baits are equal
I can tell that just by feeding them to carp!
In reply to Post #51
Does it rhyme with cell?
Does it rhyme with cell?
In reply to Post #52
😂😂😂no it's not cell
I hear quite positive things about cell normally 😍
😂😂😂no it's not cell
I hear quite positive things about cell normally 😍