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gonna talk about carp
baits now I've done a lot of videos on different carp baits and how to make different carp baits how to make boilies and pack baits and particle bass and I make videos in my channel tariq mairaj fishing want to see more details about any particular bait check out the my youtube channel .the list of my favorite baits in orderand explain why they're my favorite baits now number one on my list of favorite baits is my panco jello sweet corn pack bait now one of the reasons why I love this bait so much is it's so easy to find I've been all over the world fishing for carp and in pretty much any grocery store you can find breadcrumbs you can find some sort of gelatin dessert mix and you can find sweet corn now I like to use jello bran gel and I like the strawberry flavors but you can use just about any flavor you want whether it's grape or pineapple or cherry or strawberry but the red flavors the cherry and strawberry tend to be my favorite and if you are in a real pinch and you can't find gelatin you can use kool-aid or some sort of flavored drink mix and if you're in a place where you can't find breadcrumbs just stick a loaf of bread into a blender and it'll make a really fine mix of bread crumbs and that works just as well if it's fresh bread just use less moisture in the mix if it's dried bread that's pretty much panco to make the mix it's super easy you just take the dry ingredients and mix them all together and then add the wet grains typically I use sweet corn I drain off about half the water and add it to the mix and you mix it until its moist enough that it can form into a ball depending on how much jello and panko you use depends on how much of the corn juice you need to use in the mix but just put a little bit at a time until it forms a nice ball and then give it a few minutes to set up properly and you're off to the races this mix will last anywhere from a few days to a few weeks depending on whether or not you refrigerate it if you're in a place where you're not allowed to use corn you can use garbanzo beans or chickpeas you can use maple peas Canadian peas garden peas bird seed just about any grain will work pretty good you can even throw boilies in instead of corn if you'd like but corn works really well it's easy to find and it's cheap so that's my go-to additive into my panco o pack bait the panco packed bait is called a pack bait because you pack it into a ball you take the the ball of bait you smack it around the lead and then you stick the hook into it and you cast it out and it breaks up and acts as a little bit of a chump so that your hook bait is in this nice little pile of jell-o and bread and corn it's a great way to catch fish works great for carp at 23 pounds was caught on this bait I've caught hundreds and hundreds of carp all over the world on this bait and it works absolutely fabulous one of the nice things about it is because it's a packed bait you don't have to worry about chumming your air area every time you cast your coming additionally in some states you're not allowed to Chum bait but if you read the definition of Chum very carefully in some states Chum is defined as any bait that's not attached to your hook well if you pack a ball of Chum around your hook it's attached to the hook and therefore you're not technically chumming so pack .bait is a great way to get around some of the strict chumming laws we have here in the state well while I'm doing this for carp but I'm using my my favorite panco jello sweet corn pack mate but you know there's lots of different recipes you can use you can use instant oatmeal instead of panco you can use soy meal you can use grits and there's just a lot of options if it's made of grain it's probably going to work for carp. number two on my list of absolute favorite baits has to be corn both sweet corn and feed corn they're just great baits that have caught a lot of carp all over the world there are unfortunately a lot of myths about corn whether it harms fish or not of these myths and talking about some ofthe research behind it if you want to see that video check out my channel reasons why I like corn so much is it's easy to get a hold of sweet corn it can be found in just about any grocery store you go to you can put it in your bag and just have it there until you're ready to use it and it seems to work well in a lot of different places feed corn is about as cheap of a bait as you can ask for a 50-pound bag of dehydrated feed corn is about eight dollars in my area when you boil it up that makes about 200 pounds of carp bait for eight bucks that's my kind of budget I like feed corn better
than sweet corn if you're in a place we have a lot of bluegill or trout or little fish that you don't want to catch the larger kernels are harder for them to swallow and so only the carp and the catfish tend to mess around with the feed corn turtles tend to mess a lot with corn and so if you're in a place where you catch a lot of turtles make sure you use a hair rig otherwise you're gonna end up hooking a lot of turtles a hair rig is a special carp fishing rig where you put the bait on a bit of string that dangles off the shank as opposed to piercing the the corn with the point of the hook you'll get a much better hook set with a hair rig the fish have a harder time detecting the hook which is really important if you're fishing for shy carp and you won't hook bluegills and turtles which is a big plus in my area I like to boil the feed corn because it makes it larger it makes it easier to chew which I think it makes it more appealing I used to think that the feed cord would expand in the water or expand in the fish's stomachs but I did some experiments with this and feed corn actually expands very little if you put it in cold water even for days you have to boil it to get it to swell up substantially so you can use dried feed corn if you want for Chum and a lot of people do this and it works just fine but it's hard to get it on a hair rig if it's dried I just prefer to boil it sweet corn doesn't last very long once you take it out of a can it tends to almost immediately shrivel up unless you put some sort of brine or preservative in it I like to use one of the procure corn brines I think it's called like the kokanee corn kill or die or something like that did a video on it and it actually works really good in preserving your sweet corn so if you want to use the sweet corn and not have it shrivel up that's a great way to keep it preserved I also like to fish with imitation coir on my actual hook so I'll use real corn as Chum but I'll have a piece of fake plastic corn on my hook and that's really nice because the fish can't stealit you don't have to rebate your hook after each fit each fish and it's always just ready to go so I can just leave it in my garage with the fake plastic corn on it and then pull it out and fish with it whenever I'm ready when you boil up your feed corn you can add a lot of things like molasses and sugar jello flavors it helps a little bit I guess but I've never really noticed a big difference I know some people swear by it but it's just something that's never particularly worked well for me but it does make your your corn rot faster if you boil the corn with nothing on it and you put it in refrigerator it will last a month if you add sugar based additives it'll ferment very quickly and I find the carp prefer fresh corn over fermented corn also feed corn is a great catfish bait I've caught a lot of catfishs. favorite carp baits has to be pigeon feed I like the pigeon feed that doesn't have sunflower seeds in it it's just tons of small little particles that the carp can just sit there and pick out and eat and there's a little bit of everything so the carp boys have something that they like the biggest downside to pigeon feed is it doesn't usually have big bits in it something that you can put on your hook well so I like to take boiled feed corn and mix a little bit of it in with the pigeon feed and Chum it out the the main purpose for using pigeon feed versus feed corn is that the smaller particles take longer for the carp to find so if you want to draw a carp in and keep them rooting around and searching for food longer use smaller particles like pigeon feed another advantage of pigeon feed is you don't have to boil it you can just put it in a five gallon bucket cover it with water let it soak for overnight and that'll be just fine and the only reason you need to soak it at all it's because if you throw dry pigeon feet in the water about 20 percent of it will float to the surface and it just doesn't sink very fast so I like to soak it just so it hits the bottom properly number four on my list of favorite carp baits has to be bread man I've had some real fun catching carp on bread particularly when your site casting or you fishing on the surface and you want to have a carp come up and grab that food off the surface you get in a place where people feed ducks and throw bread in the water like a little Park pond that's often a really good place to do it but it seems like no matter where you go carp always love bread the biggest downside to bread and the reason why it is it at higher on my list is that it falls off the hook so easily and everything else likes to steal it if you have bluegill they'll strip the bread off they're so quick the carp won't get a chance and if you're anywhere near ducks you should not be fishing bread on the surface otherwise you're gonna be catching yourself a lot of ducks and that's not fun one of the things that you can do to keep small fish from stealing the bread off your hook is to use fake bread use a piece of white foam it looks like a shredded up piece of white bread and put hat on your hook and you can throw out real pieces of bread to kind of Chum it get the fish rising and then throw out your foam and if a bluegill hits it it's not gonna take it when I'm fishing for bread I'm usually site casting at the carp so you have to be really stealthy and I like to free line the bread which means I don't have anything on my line other than a hook and usually I'm using clear fluorocarbon or a very clear subtle monofilament something as thin as I can because those carp can see that line and see that hook and and they'll be scared away if you have trouble casting just a bare hook with a little piece of white bread on it one thing you can do is dunk the bread and a little bit of water and I'll give it a little bit extra weight so that you can cast a little bit further I'll tell you what sight casting for carp on the surface is just amazing it's one of the funnest ways to catch a fish just watching a big old carp come up and suck that bread right off the surface it blows your mind it's just a hoot. Number 5 on my list of favorite car baits isn't actually technically a bait it's a lure but it's a zig rig ok Zig rigs is a class of lures that are used to catch carp they're just little bits of foam usually but they're all buoyant and what you do is you take a lead usually a fixed lead and then you have some floating leader and then this buoyant hook on the end and your fishing lure that floats off the bottom and it can anywhere from a few inches to 20 feet off the bottom and what it is is the way of fishing the carpet whatever depth they're at so if the carp aren't eating on the bottom you don't fish on the bottom you fish at whatever depth they're eating at and these little zig rigs look like little boat men or floating snails or insects or tadpoles a variety of things and the carp have them right in front of their nose and they just come up meet them you don't have any scent or bait you you don't have to Chum anything just using a piece of black foam sometimes can be amazing and the funny thing about this is it works in murky water and it works at the dead of night I have caught some amazing fish using black foam on a moonless night and it just blows my mind how the carp even ever saw the lure but it works really really well and one of the nice things is there's no chumming involved and you don't have to worry about baiting up a spot so if you want to try to find fish and move around a bunch as igg rigs perfect if you just cast it let it sit don't get a bite pick up cast it somewhere else why not right there's no Chum over there so there's no commitment to that spot additionally if you're in a place that doesn't allow Chum use a zig rig when you're fishing in the middle of the day often you'll see carp cruising around the surface and they're just not interested in anything that's when you use a zig rig that's the perfect time to use a zig rig the main thing with zig rigs is just making sure you put them at the right depth and to do that you can use things like a marker float and if you don't know what a marker float is check out this video and I'll have a lot more information on that but use the marker float to figure out your depth and then you can tie up a leader that puts your zig rig at the right depth well those are my top five carp baits but there's some honorable mentions that didn't make the list earthworms is a great one carp love earthworms the biggest reason why I usually don't use earthworms though is everything loves earthworms and you end up catching bull heads in catfish and bluegill and trout and everything but carp because all the little stuff want to eat your earthworms first but if you're in a spot where you have just carp and not a lot of little fish earthworms are really awesome especially if it is a place where the carp aren't used to being fished it's a nice natural eight boilies are also a really classic car bait over in the UK most fishermen are fishing for big carp using boilies here in the US the carp aren't used to seeing boilies and you kind of have to train them that boilies are food but if you have the money and the inclination and you don't mind catching catfish like me then boy these are great bait there's also things like spam chicken liver
pepperoni
that are also decent carp baits over the UK floating dog biscuits are really popular but it's a brand of dog biscuits we don't have here in the US and I've tried them here in the US and they don't work particularly well at least my experience I'd rather just use bread there's also things like Tiger nuts which have nothing to do with male Tigers there are a little grassy bulb that's common over in Europe and North Africa that are used a lot in Europe for fishing for carp they have to be imported here in the u.s. they're very pricey and there's just cheaper things that we can use instead here in the US so that's why they merely get an honorable mention in my book but any rate hopefully enjoy this video hopefully you'll get out and catch some more carp if you want to see all of our playlist about different carp fishing techniques and carp rigs and all that check out our playlists and don't forget
