Tips On Catching Catfish In Ponds

So what's the best way to catch catfish in a pond? Sid is an expert catfisherman and has grown up fishing for catfish all of his life! Here Sid gives some great tips on catching catfish in ponds.

Catfishing in Ponds: Get The Frypan Hot!

Channel catfish is the smallest type out of the three main types of catfish that can found when catfishing in ponds. There are two others such as Flathead and the Blue Catfish. These two species grow in larger sizes while Channel catfish remain small and are most commonly found in ponds.
Flathead catfish can be easily caught due to the fact that their appetites are extreme; they readily pursue almost any food and that applies to bait as well as their usual prey, unlike the other two types. Blue catfish are more challenging to catch because of their size and eating habits. On the other hand, the smallest type which is the channel catfish is great for managed ponds. They actually eat a trash diet. Channel catfish eats dead forage fish and pick up bugs on the surface of the water. More so, the channel catfish' population does not have problems surviving after every catch, hence making it the easiest to catch in a pond.

For fishing in a pond that offers a variety of catfishes such as blues, flatheads and channel, take into consideration using a medium action rod that either has a spinning reel or a bait-casting reel. This is one of the recommended types of tackle to use. The fish will be able to easily eat the bait of a single point hook by using these treble hooks.

Another recommended option is to use an ultra-light fishing tackle. Spare rods should be taken, this way having more than one line soaked could increase the chances of being able to catch a greater number. Ensure that the drags on the reels are set loose in order to allow lines to soak. The fish will be able to swim with loose reels on the bait and in the process they will hook themselves. The rods should be tightened as soon as a change is noticed on the drag. This should be enough pressure to catch the fish.

Giving enough time for the bait to soak should generally make fishing in a pond a lot easier. There are other means as well such as tossing dog food, or tossing small specks of leftovers. This would enable the fish to swim near the location of the bait that could lead to an easy catch. It is also an advantage to go fishing in a pond during night time or whenever it is dark. The bigger ones are best caught during night time, plus putting on larger baits and more odorous baits could give better chances of a bigger catch.

On the other hand, noodling has become popular in fishing. It is a term for fishing catfish using bare hands. This may sound simple but is actually more complicated as it involves the hands. This may result from minor wounds to superficial cuts as a result of a bite as the process of noodling itself involves putting the hands in a hole and catching the fish with bare hands before removing it out from water. Although its concept sounds simple, securing the fish using bare hands is not that difficult but rather remains challenge and requires the skill of an experienced noodler.

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Here's a good article on how to fish for catfish in a lake

A brilliant article from Mark, on the complex makeup of the catfish, for instance, did you know that the channel catfish can actually taste your catfish bait from 15 feet away, or what the chemoreception of catfish is? A great read, enjoy :)

Catfish Bait - How Many Taste Buds Do Catfish Have? Details Here! 

Catfish are an amazing and adaptive game fish that are also excellent table fare. They can thrive in small pounds as well as the strong tail waters of some large river systems. They can eat day and night either animal mater or vegetable mater and you can you can learn to use either as a catfish bait. Catfish can live in water temperatures approaching 100 degrees or live comfortably under the ice, and continue feeding in either habitat condition. You are probably wondering how they can do that? Well we are going to discuss a few of the reasons in our article today.

In order for catfish to survive and adapt to such extreme habitat conditions they need to have a special anatomy. The catfish has a highly sensitive nervous system that includes a elaborate taste system. Many pro catfish anglers know and understand this fact about catfish and prepare their catfish bait that will stimulate the big and smaller catfish's tasting senses. Catfish also have good sight and great hearing. The catfish needs their sensitive nervous system to be able to adapt to so many different habitats.

Scientists have given the extremely sensitive senses a special name that combines all of their acute senses together. This unique name is called chemoreception, and includes a combination of the catfishes smell,taste,feel,vision, and hearing. The chemoreception of catfish is critical to the catfish if they are to survive by,avoiding predators, locating fish the species as them, and reproduction at spawning time.

The catfish's sense of taste is incredible. For example the channel catfish can actually taste your catfish bait from 15 feet away! Catfish have openings on both sides of there nose and they are called "nares" These nares lead to small channels inside the catfish called folds. Catfish have more then 140 folds which enable them to taste foods from such long distances. Many catfish anglers use this to their advantage when they are concocting their special secret catfish baits. Also chumming is a very successful way to attract catfish to your area because of the catfishes exception taste buds.
The catfish is built for taste. On their head they have 7 taste buds per square millimeter. On their barbells (whiskers) they have 25 taste buds per square millimeter, On their lips they have 10 taste buds per square millimeter. On their mouth the catfish has 5 to 25 taste buds per square millimeter. On their gills they have 7 taste buds per square millimeter with some areas as high as 50 taste buds per square millimeter. Over all the catfish has 20,000 internal taste buds, and externally they have 175,000 taste buds. The bottom line this fish species is flat built for taste!

Well folks that concludes my article about catfish bait and the catfishes senses. I wish the best of luck on your next fishing trip. Have a great day!

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Catfish Bait Tips To Catch The Monsters!

Peopel will give many different answers when you ask what's the best baits for catfish? Here, Jeremy reveals a few of his own catfish bait tips, but the only way to really know, is to go try yourself and one day soon you will have all the catfish bait secrets :)

Use The Best Catfishing Bait And Catch Huge Catfish

Different types of catfishing baits are available in fish bait stores, or if you prefer you could just make them at home. If you are trying to get the best out of your fishing, you need to have a good idea of what type of bait to use. After all, the bait is the most important thing while fishing.

About catfish
Catfish are bottom feeders. This means that they tend to stay at the bottom-most level of the water hole. Catfish are generally carnivorous. They will eat any live animal, so it is best to use that type of bait to catch them. The difference between which bait you should use depends on what type of area you are fishing. Fresh water catfish are more abundant and easier to catch than other salt water, coastal catfish.

What's the water look like?
The water environment, whether there are rough waves or the water is calm, also affects your decision about which bait to use. If you plan on fishing in calm lake water, using bobbers, then your best catfishing bait choice would be using cut bait.

Different types of catfishing bait
Cut bait is simply meat or fish cut in small chunks to prepare as bait. It could be anything, starting from bologna to salami or any other type of meat. Catfish love them and you can catch them easily. Moreover, this bait tends to cling to the hook, making drift fishing easier. These types of catfishing bait are easily available, comfortable to use, and tend to have great results.
Catfish are also suckers for Crawdads and prawn. Crawdads are one of catfish's favorite foods. They go wild for them. They are the best bait except for one simple problem. You use the tail end of the Crawdads after separating it from the shells and the meat inside is soft and easily breakable. The tissues are delicate and, after you put it on a hook, they don't stay very long. This disadvantage makes the use of these baits limited to calm waters for certain times. You cannot use them for drift fishing. Otherwise, they are perfect bait for catfish.

Some anglers prefer prawns to crawdads for baits because prawns are more abundant in bait and tackle stores than Crawdads. They both smell kind of the same, at least to the Catfish. So, the fish normally mistake them for Crawdads. That is why you could switch between the two anytime.
If you are trying to catch catfish from low-level streams that are running a bit rapid, you might consider using worms as bait. Garden worms are perfect. You can either dig them up or buy them from the store, fresh or frozen. They work great.
With average sizes ranging up to and well over ten pounds, it is easy to see why catfish are considered a good catch from any lake or stream. Try out different variations in your catfishing baits and you'll be sure to catch some great fish.

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Here's another good article with some catfish bait tips

Night Catfishing Tips Land The Trophy Catfish

Mark has some great night catfishing tips here, we all want to know the best way to catch catfish at night. Many people love catfishing at night, this article covers boat setup, rigs and good catfish bait to use.

Night Fishing For Catfish - Enticing Trophy Catfish Into A Feeding Frenzy!

Equipment you will need:

• Boat
• Boat Anchors
• Separate 12v Battery To run lights
• Night Lights
• Submerged Lighting
• Live Bait Keeper
• Chum bag Rod Holders
• Heavy Bait Casting Or Spinning Rig
• Insect Repellent

Night fishing for catfish can be a very rewarding fishing trip. Trust me If you do it correctly you will catch fish, not only will you catch fish but some will be lunkers! Catfish feed at night and are very active, and when they get into a feeding frenzy fishing action can be incredible! Catfish are attracted to submerged lighting And have a very keen sense of smell. So If you can locate their nightly haunts you can entice them on to your hook with some simple methods I will explain here. But first you must be setup and prepared for night fishing it is totally different at night then in the day. Things you take for granted during the day, don't apply at night.

Boat Setup for night fishing
Before you even think about going night fishing for catfish you need to have the following items:, lights for inside the boat,either battery or Coleman fuel type lanterns with two mantles. Set up your lights so they distribute light evenly inside the boat. I personally fish from a 20 foot pontoon and I have 3 halogen battery powered lights hung 2in the front, left and right and one hanging from my canopy in the rear. (I have used my Colemans but they attract a huge amount of insects)
You also will need a secondary light on your person. This light is used for re-rigging your fishing poles. Trust me, no matter how prepared you are before your trip you will loose some tackle, from line crossovers, or snags, or fish snapping your line. (you can limit this by using heavy tackle and making sure your line is fresh) I personally use a led light that clips to the visor on my ball cap.
You also will need a light to illuminate the water surface I recommend 12v halogen light that can be directed outside the boat. Mount it on the side of your boat, in the center. I personally use and adjustable halogen that I can clip to the railing on my pontoon. Direct the light at a 60 degree angle from boat to water. This will illuminate the surface.

You will need a submerged light source. You are probably asking your self right now why do I need submerged lighting? The submerged lights will generate plankton swirls that will attract bait fish. Once the bait fish start schooling The big cats will come. attract schools Submerged lighting rigs come in a variety of sizes and shapes, the one I use is 36" long about 4" in diameter. Center the submerged light in the illumination pattern of the surface water lighting you just set up. Anchor your submerged lighting about 12 " off the bottom, (without an anchor they will float on top of the water).. make sure the light completely submerged under the water. I recommend you use a 5lb weight as an anchor. If possible, anchor the submerged light about 2 to 3 ft from the boat.

You will need a secondary power source for the submerged light, the water illumination light and to operate your aerator pump for your live bait or live well."do not use your boats power source" This will drain your battery."you don't want to get stuck on the lake at night right? If you take a well charged 12v marine battery as your second source it will last through the night.
You will need all Your poles pre-rigged If you have the rigs I would set up 3 poles, per person in advance of getting on the water. The reason I suggest this is because it's real pain the "blank" To re-rig at night. You will end up doing it anyway, but if you have spare poles already set up, use them first before you have waist valuable time with poles out of the water.

Locating the cat's nightly haunts
It has been my experience the bigger cat's roam the shore lines or back waters in search of food at night. Every body of water will be different. I highly recommend you do some research on the body of water you intend to night fish for catfish on. At Minimum Get a topographical map of the area before you attempt your trip. These can be attained at any of the local bait and tackle shops in the area. (I recommend you visit one of these shops to get the local scoop anyway, if you dig deep enough these guys can pin point on the map Where to start fishing. This will save you lots of time.)

Enticing the Cats to your boat.
Once you have your water surface lights and your submerged lights set up and ready to go you don't even need to do the next step, you are ready to start fishing. The submerged lighting will get the schools of bait fish coming, but I take it step one step further because if you play on the catfish's extra sensitive sense of smell you can drive the Big cats into a feeding frenzy! OK You say how?
Well the answer is by introducing "chumming". Chumming releases a slick of dead fish smells and fish guts that the small bait fish and catfish feed on. There are many commercial chumming systems you can purchase and they work very well, but I use a simple very inexpensive method that anyone can set up. First you will need a nylon netted bag that you can close tight. (a good example would the netted bags that you put golf balls in that have a string closure adjustment) This is what I use, works perfect, very inexpensive. Next, get some good size freezer bags, 3 should do for one nights trip.

Next, Purchase about 2 dozen good size chubs and cut them in 1" to 2" slices, make sure you do this in a pan that will not drain all the juices. Fill the freezer bags pieces and juice all together, and let them sit outside in the sun all day long. Yes it will stink to high heaven by the end of the day, but that is what you want! Now stick the freezer bag in side the meshed bag that can close. Close the bag tight and tie a line at the bottom of the bag about 2 feet long. Attach about a 2lb anchor to get the bag to the bottom. Now tie a line at the top of the bag with enough lead line to get the bag on the bottom. Now before you lower the chum bag to the bottom take an ice pick, or something sharp that will puncture the bag, but not tear the plastic. Punch the freezer bag numerous times, then lower to the bottom an tie it off on the side of the boat.

Now its time to fish! But before we go there lets re-visit Your catfish rigs. There are many catfish rigs you can use, and they all work in situations they are designed for. When you are fishing at night and you have submerged a lighting setup,you want get your line about 2 ft away from the light source, approximated on the outer edges of the source's beam.
You will be fishing only a short distance from the boat, so your rigs need to be set up to fish in close proximity to the boat. You could fish tight line with a basic catfish hook and a small sinker. Or use a slip bobber system. I prefer to use the slip bobber system.
I use the single hook rig. Both rigs shown in the illustration work fine but I just have preference for the single hook rig. I do use the double hook rig when fishing for other types of fish. I use all heavy duty, open face, and spin cast rod and reels with 30lb test. When you do get a lunker on your line you want the tackle set up to handle the fight. You miss some smaller cats, but it's well worth it when you catch your first 10lb plus catfish.

Baits To Use
both Channel and Blue catfish will eat just about any small fish like Suckers, small shad, or bluegills both live or dead. I use both live bait and dead "cut bait" I will normally set one pole up with a small live gill no more that 3inches in length. My other poles will be baited with cut bait, normally LARGE suckers 6" or longer cut in 1" to 2" chunks.
Now Bait your rigs,Get Your Boat Setup and get ready for an exciting Night fishing for Catfish Trip! Once you catch a lunker 10 pounder + You will be Hooked for life! So have fun and good luck!

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Catfish Fishing Advice

 Here's some nice catfish fishing tips from Abhishek

Advice for Catfish Fishers - 5 Simple Tips To A Successful Trip

Catfish are one of the most diverse species of fish on the planet! They range in size at maturity from 1/2 inch to giants of 8 feet. They thrive all over the world, in both fresh and salt water. Most catfish live near the bottom of rivers and lakes, but some live in the open ocean. They are bony fish that tend to sink rather than float. Named for the thin, whisker-like tactile organ (barbel) near their mouths, the catfish's "whiskers" contain its taste buds.

Catfish are a source of food for cultures all over the world, though people differ as to their taste and appeal. Because adult catfish do not have scales, they are not considered Kosher in Jewish culture. In the United States, the channel and blue catfish are a favorite food.
Catching catfish is different from catching many other species of fish. Effective methods differ depending on the type of waters fished, and different baits are used to catch different targets. Here are some simple, but proven, methods used to catch the humble catfish.

Rigging Your Line for Catfish
Depending on the bait, you should loop the bait holder or hook from your line at the preferred distance, from 18-24". Because you don't want your bait to move, you should use a weight to keep the bait still.

You can also use a slipweight to keep the bait still. For slipweight, the weight itself is not as important as long as it slides in the line. The catfish won't be able to feel the weight until they've been hooked.

The multi-bait technique will let you catch several catfish at the same time. To do this, attach a three-way swivel on your line. It will draw more strikes as you hook your catfish.

Best Bait for Catfish
Experience catfishers use chicken livers or medium dead shrimp. Remember that catfish are more attracted to bait that doesn't move. If you use shrimp, you should remove the tail and shell. The chicken liver is a bit more difficult because you have to use something to tie it to the like (one example is a piece of pantyhose). When using chicken liver, wrap a piece about the size of a quarter and wrap it in the piece of pantyhose. Leave a bit of the material at the end and attach it to the treble hook. Other good bait include dough bait, catfish paste, minnows or bloodworms, snails, and small fish. The best bait to use to catch catfish is natural. You won't have much luck with lures.
Chum for Shark - and Catfish!

Experienced catfishers have good results using chum. You'll find many different recipes for catfish chum on the internet. Basically, you prepare balls or bars of chum and then throw them into the area where you think you'll find the catfish. Use a hook to catch the fish, attaching the same chum mixture for bait. Remember to clean the water of the chum after you've finished.

Tackling with a Rod and Reel
This is the easiest way to catch catfish, but it still requires the same types of bait we've discussed. Use 6-foot long tackle with a spinning reel equipped with heavier line that will bear the weight and fight of the lively catfish. You don't have to spend a lot of money on your line. Just make sure it's heavy enough for catfish.

What Do You do With It when You Catch a Catfish
Once you've landed your catfish, make sure you grip it securely and remove the hook with pliers. Some catfish have poisonous fins that can cause a bit of damage. Grip it by sliding your hand from its tail to the belly, placing your fingers on one side and your thumb on the other. Be careful not to hurt yourself! The catfish will enjoy knowing it has caused some damage by its sacrifice!

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Catfishing At Night Some Night Catfishing Tips

People love catfishing at night, but you need to know the tips and techniques on how to catch catfish at night. Here is a great article from Mark where he reveals some great night catfishing tips.

Night Fishing For Catfish - Tips on How to Select the Right Catfish Baits at Night! 

If you have not been catfishing at night you are missing out on some intense fishing action! It is not uncommon for me to come home with 20 to 30 2lb plus ready to fillet catfish. If you love to eat catfish you know this size of fish makes a mighty tasty meal. Catfish will eat just about anything at night but I found out through experience that some baits work better then others and I would like to share those with you in my article today.

1.0 My #1 favorite fishing at night catfish bait is the horned chub.
There are many different types of chubs that are local throughout the united states that work well for catching catfish. A chub is any one of a number of ray-finned fishes in several families. For my article today I will concentrate on chubs that are commonly found in small creeks and rivers. I am referring to the creak chub which is of the family of Cyprinidae (Minnows and Carps). The creek chub is also commonly called chub or horned chub. Creek chubs have a thick body and a broad head. Their mouth is large with the back end of the upper jaw extending beyond the front edge of the eye. They also have a small flap-like barbel that is often hidden in the grove between the upper jaw and the rest of the head. The best size chubs to use for bait are the ones that are 3 to 6 inches in length. The best way to fish with creek chubs is to cut them in 2 to three inch strips, and use a 1/0 bait holder hook. You can use the fish guts after you cut them up for a very good active chum, so do not throw the guts away.

2.0 My number two favorite night fishing catfish bait is the bluegill.
Make sure you check with your states department of natural resources to make sure it is legal to fish with the bluegill. The bluegill is also common referred to as the sunfish, and bream. The blue gill is actually classified in the family of sunfish. If you want to catch larger catfish, I have found that the bluegill are the best bait to use. I always set up one heavy duty catfish rig with a blue gill for bait. The best size gills to use are small 3 to 4" in size. I will push a 4/0 bait holder hook just under the dorsal fin, so the blue can swim freely. I Use a slip bobber set so the blue gill can roam just off the bottom. You won't catch a lot of catfish with blue gill but the ones you do catch will be of the large variety. I have caught many 10lb plus catfish using gills. You can also use them to catch smaller catfish cut up in strips just like fishing for chubs.

3.0 My #3 favorite catfish live bait is the gizzard shad.
When I use shad as a night fishing bait my preference is the threadfin shad because they are small and you can use the entire fish with a 1/0 bait holder hook. The threadfin shad is normally only 3 to 6 inches in length and a perfect size for fishing for catfish. The other shad I will use is called the gizzard shad. They are much larger in size normally 6 to 15inches in length and must be cut into to strips from 3 to 6 inches in length. For larger catfish you can use much larger strips to fit on a 4/0 bait holder hook. You can catch your own shad with a minnow seine, or you can purchase them from a local bait store.
Well folks that concludes my article on night fishing for catfish,catfish live bait,catfish baits,fishing with gizzard shad for catfish,catch catfish with bluegills,catch catfish with chubs,catch catfish with horned chubs,catch catfish with creek chubs. Stay tuned for more articles on the subject of night fishing. May your next fishing trip be a success!

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Here's some more great information on how to catch catfish at night

Catfish Bait Tips

Tim covers reveals some catfish bait tips here, also bass and carp. So what is the best bait for catfish fishing?

Making Your Fishing Bait For Catfish, Carp Or Bass Work! 

When you smell or taste food you generally eat what you like and reject what you don't like. In many ways fish are just the same with our fishing baits. In fact the palatability of your bait is often the deciding factor in whether you get a bite or not at all!

But what makes a fish bite at a bait and get near enough you hook to get caught anyway? There are very many reasons a fish will investigate and sample a bait or common object. Fish are very highly attuned to their aquatic environment having lots of specialised cells inside and outside the body to detect things like electric fields, sounds and pressure waves, light, movement, smells and tastes of things in the water giving-off myriad signals for the fish to detect.

It is any wonder that we get bites at all with all the aquatic clutter of distracting signals that fish experience all the time. But fish do respond to many things in very tiny levels. Many fish can detect the movements of tiny food items like water fleas swimming around them, and detect their size and density in order to decide whether they are worth the energy expenditure of feeding on. Many omnivorous fish are also opportunistic predators and many is the time carp have been caught on spinners and plugs.

Worms are a very successful bait for many species like catfish and tench, not least because of the movements they make in the water, and any angler who has ever used live bait will agree it works better when it is still actually moving and active! (Dead maggots on the hook do not match-up to fresh live ones for example.) In the case of worms and maggots it is obvious that many species will reliably instantly chomp on them with no need whatsoever of introducing any free baits into your swim beforehand and this might pose a good question.

Apart from movement there are other things going on. Many fish species have good eyesight up close to things even if they do have an area directly in front of them that might be blind. As long as there is sufficient light then various colours and shades of bait can improve your catch rate and at night luminous glowing baits can make a difference.

Many fish depend on movement instead of sight at night but other signals are used such as reception of minute electrical fields issuing from live creatures for example. Carp depend predominantly upon chemical stimuli along with detection of tiny electrical fields and pressure waves for instance, which all enable these fish to orientate themselves in the water and to locate food. Fish can orient their preferred location by sensing the level of dissolved carbon dioxide (carbonic acid) present in the water, and they are very sensitive to water pH changes. (Fishing bait substances that can elicit pH changes when realised into the water column certainly impact upon fish nearby.)

In the case of bass for instance, they utilise whatever ambient light there is the atmosphere by sitting in dark shady position in the water and waiting for prey fish to silhouette themselves so giving themselves away to the predatory bass. Some fish have more highly developed radar which is similar to the side-scan radar of a submarine. Although dolphins are mammals, you might wonder how they detect sand eels hidden underneath the sand!

Hormones are secreted by fish to identify themselves, to find a mate, to enable tight shoaling behaviour essential for survival, as in young big mouth bass for instance.

But 2 of the most significant aspects of how fish experience their world which we can use to exploit in order to catch, are the olfaction and chemoreception systems. They sound complicated, but basically olfaction is the smell sense and chemoreception is the taste sense and although there is far more to this simplistic description, when combined together, the taste and smell of your bait can truly determine if you will catch or not.
Fish have special receptor cells both externally and internally which electrochemically interact with water-born chemical stimuli. It may not come as a surprise that you can sniff and taste a beef burger and love it one minute, then when you've had 10, a biofeedback mechanism from your stomach to your brain tells you no more please.

Fish have many biofeedback mechanisms and rhythms related to feeding habits and efficient food digestion. Like humans, they regulate how fish get turned on by food, in this case our bits.
What if you could get inside their heads and influence their behaviour from there, that would be cool right!? Well we can easily make baits impact upon fish senses and on their brain chemical and hormones to incite a favourable feeding behaviour response to our baits and hugely improve our chances of catching fish. Just consider this; when you drink plain water why do you prefer a sweet fruit juice or can of Cola. That is the principle I'm talking about.

In carp fishing, there is an over-used phrase that supposedly describes what baits fish prefer: "Sometimes they want ice-cream instead of roast beef." But why is this an interesting phrase? Well fish can be stimulated into feeding by at least 6 obvious types of stimuli, from sound and movement to hormones and electrical fields, to sight, and others too, but more specifically these.
Fish feeding is stimulated by substances which approximate or mimic substances found naturally in their environment and also those that are not. So teamed with the substances they naturally respond as in their natural diet for instance, there is a gigantic range of substances you can use in your baits.
The trick in many respects in making fishing bait more exciting to fish is to match the stimulating substances found within their specific natural foods and use these perhaps in more refined and much more concentrated form. For example, when fish are processed one stage produces the water soluble fraction which is often high in quality easily digestible fish protein and fish oils. These 2 substances when used together in a dough or paste, pellet or boilie fishing bait work wonders as they are such naturally potent fish feeding triggers. Other aspects of fishmeal can be analysed to see what turns your fish on. Betaine is used very frequently in carp and catfish fishing baits for the same reason.
But do not forget that flavours substances impact upon and enhance the mass of flavours already inherent in a bait. These flavours and their individual components can be detected by the fish in various concentrations and depending on the fish species. One of the most important substances both flavours and betaine interact with and enhance are the amino acids.

If you add gravy or black pepper or salt to a steak it helps you enjoy it just as much as real ice-cream with that rich Tutti Frutti favour that makes you want more and more. The funny thing is that there is far more vitally essential nutrition in the steak and if you were lost in a jungle you would choose to eat a steak rather than eat an ice-cream as soon as you got out. Why you prefer the steak over the ice-cream is because a steak has nutrition you essentially need to stay alive and without the amino acids and trace minerals needed you body would start to rapidly deteriorate.
The fact that over the decades countless big fish from carp and catfish, to bass, trout, pike and even sharks, have fallen to protein based baits rich in fish essential nutrients means that this is a proven basis for big-fish baits. Add to this the benefits of flavours from natural to synthetic, nature-identical to mixtures of many forms, fishing baits can be made to be constantly unique to keep ahead of the fish and keep you catching!
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By Tim Richardson.
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