The Power of Making your Own unique Baits (part 2)

The power of making your own unique baits using the
CC Moore range (PART 2)
Making unique homemade ground baits incorporating liquid food soaked pellets, crumbled boilies with base mix and
ground bait ingredients and even readymade method, stick, spod and ground bait mixes is a very effective method
indeed! Combining them with specially prepared particles to create a potently attractive bait carpet and cloud can
give you a bait that does all you could possibly require.
CC Moore Supernaturals, Dried Insect Meal, Molasses Meal, Crushed Hemp, Breadcrumbs, Vitamealo, Whey
Protein Concentrate, Red Venom, Feedstim XP, Liquid Super Slop and the awesome Carp Chum work together
beautifully to pull and hold highly stimulated fish in your swim. Alternatively you can use the various readymade
method or stick mixes as a base to work from that can be easily personalised to make them your own. For example,
you can seriously boost the potent, exploding Active Feast Method Mix or CSL Groundbait by adding such proven
attractors such as Feedstim XP Powder (and liquid), Squid, GLM or Fermented Shrimp Powders, prior to dousing it
with Liquid Bloodworm, Belachan, Mussel or Shrimp Extract.
N.B.: I have found that experimenting with your ingredients and liquids all adds to the excitement of achieving
excellent catches on your own unique homemade mixes. Not only this, but it will also seriously boost your personal
confidence in your baits and will really help improve your understanding of how ingredients combine together to
create great fish feeding responses. Again of course, confidence is absolutely vital, particularly for you to be able to
completely focus on your fishing without having any worries or concerns about your bait. This will then allow you to
fish to the best of your abilities and concentrate on the other factors that can affect our success rates!
Below is an active homemade ground bait based on CC Moore pellets, base mix and ground bait ingredients with
added liquid foods and flavours - in obvious fish intercepting mode!
Below is a highly effective homemade paste hook bait made solely from CC Moore products. It is designed and made
to be far more active in water than a conventional boilie hook bait.
Above is a picture of one of my most favourite styles of homemade baits. In the glass you can see the impacts of the
dissolved bait substances readily transforming the water into an irresistible feeding trigger and attractor-packed
solution. This is in addition to providing enticing clouds of suspended particles; such as those resulting from whey
protein concentrate, Spirulina powder, Green Lipped Mussel Extract and Liquid Super Slop etc, within the bait.
If you need a quick, hi-attract solution CCM Hellraisers or boosted natural hook baits are very effective for overweighted bottom-fishing, pop-up fishing, critically-balanced baits or zig-rig fishing confidence; they all really catch
fish, and with the Hellraisers now available in 10, 14 and 18mm round and 10x 14mm dumbells, they can be used in
many different ways.
One of the most impressive features of the ultra-potent Hellraiser pop ups is their soft pliability which not only allows
them to be trimmed into various shapes and sizes, but also allows you to side hook them for a devastatingly effective
floater bait that hides the hook beautifully.
Using the simply outstanding CC Moore range, literally all their products can be combined or adapted towards more
conventional or new creative uses to keep ahead of the game for endless fishing situations and applications. From
active homemade ground baits, slop, method and stick mixes, to pastes, homemade pellets and boilies or boosted
particle mixes, (or even for use in adapting and topping other companies’ readymade baits,) you can be sure of highly
effective products that can be relied upon to help you catch big fish!
CC Moore products have been sourced and selected scientifically for optimum impact upon highly refined fish
senses. (These fish senses create the crucial link between your bait, highly stimulated feeding and the resulting
hooked fish.) Because of what I have now learnt about carp sensory sensitivity in regards to many bait ingredients
and their key components I get an added extra feeling of confidence while making my homemade baits and ground
baits and while fishing with them in even the most unfavourable conditions. Incidentally, if you want to make shelf
life baits, the natural CCM Liquid Bait Preservative is absolutely ideal, easy to use and completely carp-senses
friendly!
This is one of my especially water-soluble active homemade PVA bag paste baits mixed with Active Feast and Sweet
Nut Cloud for instant impact. When you think about it, the more your baits make a naturally stimulating impact upon
the water column and carp senses the more highly stimulated you can keep your fish. This more frequently creates
favourable feeding situations and more competitive feeding where carp will in turn become more likely to make
mistakes by picking up your hook baits.
Should you choose to make extra-boosted potent Odyssey, Meteor or Live System baits from the proprietary base
mixes as hook baits remember all those great natural feeding trigger-rich additives and liquids already mentioned.
(I made some great extra-boosted Odyssey and Live System base mix pop-ups the other day, all glugged-up and
ready to go packed with Feedstim XP and many other carpy treats mmm!
Packaging perfection
Incidentally, I am really pleased to see that CC Moore products now have a resealable strip incorporated into their
bags so you can keep your bait powders as fresh as possible once opened! (The freshness of bait products is directly
linked to bait performance through their levels and quality of nutrients so this feature is far more important than it
first appears!) This is very good in helping your confidence when using diverse ingredients and additives to make
unique homemade baits from your own recipes.
Essential Oils, Flavours and Liquids
Some essential oils are especially effective all year round and the following is just a sample of those that CC Moore
have sourced to help create great catches in all water temperatures: Thyme oil, Cinnamon oil, Clove oil, Geranium
oil, Aniseed oil and Black Pepper oil. These can be used at a level of up to about 2 ml per kg of bait mix, however I
have occasionally used them neat as bait dips, and this can prove instant in some circumstances; early spring and
winter especially, although in summer I often pack my ground baits with them too and believe me they work
wonders!
Thyme oil and its most bioactive components are used in flavour blending for some of the most successful flavours
ever known so do not overlook this rarely used oil. Although Black Pepper oil is well known and widely used, it is
not often used with clove oil or in conjunction with cinnamon oil for instance Around 30 years ago I remember
cleaning up in January fishing with luncheon meat soaked in neat aniseed oil so don’t be afraid experiment. You may
just stumble on a combination that changes your angling life!
Above is a very pleasing early spring mid-thirty. It was hooked on a neat essential oils-based bait glug that produced
the only take on the lake for the duration of a 3 day session.
Flavours are a subject on their own of course but one aspect that is very significant is that the taste of a flavour
actually matches the taste; it is far more satisfying and encourages far more bait consumption. CC Moore flavours
have been chosen with exactly this vitally important aspect in mind and the superb flavours they offer show this
attribute is very special! There are genuine winners that you must try including the rather more unusual Ultra
Belachan Essence, Ultra Green Lipped Mussel Essence, Ultra Bloodworm Essence, the new Ultra Pear Drop Essence,
the new Ultra Honey Essence, and many more; from their unique Tutti Fruitti, Pineapple, Scopex, Crab, and the lipsmacking Frankfurter Essence! (Mixing flavours together is a great thing to experiment with too!) In fact the proven
Meteor combination of Scopex and Frankfurter adds a great new dimension to either essence.
Modern carp bait liquids, extracts and complexes are designed to maximise the triggering of the carp feeding
response and are often termed liquid foods. They do much more than just trigger feeding via taste however, due to
their vital nutritionally stimulating contents and potent biological values they directly impacts upon other of the fish’s
sensory systems. Above all, liquid foods end up conditioning carp to come looking for an energy-efficient meal and
the substances in liquid foods and their combinations can be unique to the bait you put together and when introduced
regularly to a water can seriously multiply your success as fish associate your bait more and more with nutritionally
valuable food items.
Last year I had a letter from a guy who had struggled on a South-West syndicate lake and ended up making his own
baits using a formula he created with a little help from his friends. Within 3 months the baits he had been making
using CC Moore ingredients had resulted in his best season ever topped by the biggest carp in the lake – a mirror
weighing over forty pounds. This is why making your own bait is such a massive buzz!
I vividly recall my first capture of a forty pound common in the UK, 4 years ago now, which was followed up by a
mirror also over forty pounds (just 2 hours later - and followed by another forty 2 days later during the same session.)
All these fish were caught on homemade baits fished over about 18 kilograms of pastes and tiny disc-shaped and tiny
un-uniform shaped par-boiled baits; it was awesome stuff! Note: Sure some waters are much easier than others, but
then catches like this did not happen to carp anglers on this water previously, even though certain brands of
readymade boilies had been used. (The trick was to use the bait to constantly pump the water full of liquid triggers.)
A June forty mirror from a fairly easy UK water – still, 2 forties in 2 hours on homemade baits is not exactly
common!
Having your own bait-testers is very handy – but nothing beats actually fishing for the most accurate feedback!
Forget tank tests and theory based analysis; getting out there doing it is the only real answer.
A homemade nut ground bait – very productive!
A stunned look from me, (probably sunstroke) with a cracking June specimen. Regular testing of your homemade
baits against competing anglers’ ‘ready-mades’ can seriously give you confidence in your homemade baits and payoff for you big-time! This fish was caught on 3 tiny rock-hard UFO-shaped balanced baits.
Consider this; it is much easier to catch carp when their guards are down in the maelstrom of well-clouded water
brimming with competitively feeding fish. In all honesty, the universal use of tiny bags of stick mix does not impress
me very much compared to the use of this much more effective approach wherever appropriate – which is far more
applicable to many more fishing situations that ‘Mr Average’ carp angler seems to comprehend. The more loose feed
that is introduced, the more the visibility is reduced and the attraction is increased-simple really. If you think fish are
seeing your rigs and line then this must surely be an option worth trying.
Hard work of constant baiting with tiny homemade paste baits resulted in this July forty.
Many of the best known carp anglers truly appreciate the power of this approach and bait up accordingly, but it is far
from simply being just a matter of chucking out 10 kilograms of boilies upon arrival at your swim; fishing with
sufficient ability to consistently catch is a highly developed skill/art. Fishing experience and talent are vital pieces of
the angling jigsaw and are just as important as bait. Fishing with even the most proven baits in the wrong way will
end in failure; being able to capitalise on a highly effective bait means that other angling skills and methods must of
course be implemented to apply the bait in the most effective manner.
Carp pellet crumb and boilie crumb. – Why not try incorporating the superior CC Moore de-fatted Green Lipped
Mussel Extract; and be as generous as possible with it! Baits with a high level inclusion can be devastating.
A repeat capture of one of my favourite eighties fish, caught on a yeast-based, spiced herbal bait – was that really me
20 years ago – and how come I recall bait from that long ago? (I made notes and records of baits and recipes made;
like you do...they really help accelerate your bait learning process, and can seriously improve your results and
confidence!)
Mixed, pre-soaked chopped boilies and air-dried and fresh pastes will break down and leak off attraction in different
ways and at different rates over time – carp love it and will be stimulated whenever they approach the baited area as it
is constantly changing and leaking off attractors!
I often attempt to design and make my own homemade baits in many formats and styles to induce progressively more
intensive competitive feeding between visiting carp. Getting a larger stamp of fish to compete amongst themselves is
obviously a huge edge if you are aiming to make truly outstanding big fish captures far more achievable. Presenting
high quality washed out baits can also be a very successful tactic if fishing for pressured fish on pressured waters, and
if you haven’t tried it before then I suggest you do. If designing baits for this approach it is important that you use a
combination of soluble and insoluble ingredients to retain some of the vital attractors in the bait even after the bait
has been completely washed out. Consideration should also be given to your hookbaits to make sure they are durable
enough even after being washed out. For a great edge, try washing out baits in a salt/water and Feedstim XP solution.
Awesome!!!
A lovely Nineties Essex Upper thirty, eventually caught 3 times from an Essex water – my nutritional bait theory in
action!
A big fat mid-thirty from the late nineties – something told me he liked his boilies!
Natural carp feeding triggers are substances that carp detect extremely efficiently through a long process of evolution
in the aquatic environment. This also gives them the ability to source and utilise a diverse range of animal and
inanimate nutrient sources in order to survive. To date, the feeding response to all the intrinsically natural carp
feeding trigger-based CC Moore products I have trialled have been fantastic; i.e. honestly, them all!
Note: It is not just what you use but also learning how best to exploit it in various situations. It’s vital to keep on
experimenting to find the best methods of bait production and application, and do take notes; they’re worth their
weight in gold in the long term, and can reduce the time it takes to overcome long term fishing challenges and
problems!
So for literally turning your baits into carp pulling magnets, here is a short-list of a few of the CC Moore liquids
which are literally manifest themselves as confidence in a bottle for both real and fake baits and which many carp
anglers have been longing for but many never even knew existed-until now! (Just awesome!)
OK here they are:
Feedstim XP
Liquid Super Slop.
Salmon & Krill Extract.
Marine Amino Compound.
Red Venom.
Liquid Mussel Extract.
Liquid Bloodworm Extract.
Liquid Shrimp Extract.
Liquid Belachan Extract.
Liquid Chilli Extract.
Liver Amino Compound.
Liquid Liver Compound.
Meat Amino Compound.
Crayfish Extract.
Anchovy Extract.
Corn Sweet Syrup.
Trout/Halibut Pellet Oil.
Liquid Kelp Complex.
Super Cherry Amino.
Cod Liver Oil.
Pure Salmon Oil.
Corn Steep Liquor.
Liquid Betaine.
Talin.
Liquid Molasses.
Liquid Yeast.
Tiger Nut Extract.
Tiger Nut Oil.
Hemp Oil.
Minamino.
Etc etc; the list is far bigger than just these - and expanding fast!
Note: Many of these products have been formulated with properties that enable them to be used with PVA products.
Among the serious advantages this provides is the ability to maximise their potency and feed-triggering effects just
where they are most needed in drawing the most attention - closest to your hook baits!
Pure confidence in a bag - boosting a PVA bag mix with Liquid Mussel, Bloodworm, Salmon & Krill Extracts,
Feedstim XP and Liquid Super Slop!
A pristine summer evening-caught thirty – a repeat capture of this fish on an established homemade bait – very nice
indeed, and more proof that top quality nutritional baits give you the edge big-time. This can give you that vital
confidence whenever you’re sitting behind your rods!!!
CC Moore homemade baits; do yourself a big favour, fish well because with these baits you will have made all the
luck you will ever need!
By Tim Richardson.