cubzzz

February 27, 2010

I was just thinking of people here at CAG that I have read and learned from that I would like to fish with. I do not know Mr Big - Phone or Big Carphuna but they all like to teach other and give good advice and would be fun to fish with. I never miss the post they put up and I can always learn something new. I fish with Brid and he has taught me a lot about carp fishing but the best part is he is just fun to fish with. The best part about my dream team is they always have fun when they fish and make me laugh when I read the post on the forum.

Who is in your Dream team that you have not met but would like to fish with.

Jeff

February 17, 2010

Hi Newto:

I used to fish a running line for years but just switched to bolt rigs and I hook more carp. I was missing a lot of bites and Brid was hooking more carp with less bites with a bolt rig so I switched and I am never going back to the running rig. I use 10 lbs test and I do not have a problem with breaking of the line but I have the drag set loose.

Jeff

January 19, 2010

Hi 8

I just hand rolled the basic bait by hand with different flavors but I have not tried them yet ( waiting until spring) I am going to make some boilies out of calf manna and I hope that works for me also. I did make some boilies out of Old Roy dog food from Walmart and have had runs on the boilies but no fish yet.

Thanks for the help

Jeff

dont use fishmeal boilies in the winter they carry too much oil, and fish cant digest too much of this in the winter,just put some in a jar of cold water and see what happens, although you can get winterised oils to put in your baits,but dont go for a fishmeal boillie, tigernut flour is a good additive as are many others, from looking at your recipe which basicly looks like a 50/50, the flavour level is far too high,which is ok if you want an instant bait, but in wont work in the long term and would blow if you use it a lot, within 6months to a year, if we talk about bait in kilos, we only use around 1-2 ml of flavour per egg per kilo, if we go back to lbs in bait a good homemade mix would look summink like this, 70% semolina flour30% soya flour, flavour levels 4-8 ml per lb of bait, but it depends as certain flavours can be very bitter/bland in high dose, so a sweetner/emulsifier must be used, but some flavours have all this added to them already,a few pinches of egg albumin, maybe a colour of your choice, when you have made the dough roll it into a large sausage to fit the gun, but before you put it inside coat the sausage in your veg oil,but not too much just enough to coat it,this will stop it cracking and drying out, if it does just put more oil over it but you must be quick with the rolling proccess or it will dry and crack, with the correct size nozzle and rolling table,squeeze out the smaller sausages and cut them to the exact width of the rolling table, put one in then roll, if all goes well boil in saucepan for 90 seconds, you cant boil em all in one go, for all sorts of reasons but you get a groove going, while the first lot are on the boil, start rolling the next, say 30 baits at a time, leave them out to dry on a towell, once coolled place in a airtight bag then freeze, take them out the freezer the night before you wanna use em, but you must let em defrost in the airtight bag, so all the liquids go back into the bait, turn the bag over a couple of times to ensure even distribution of this, once completly defrosted etc, this is what your bait will taste like, taste it yourself,as from this you will be able to tell if its anygood, its all trial and error, i can reccomend a few books on this if you want, just ask me ok, anything else just ask...good luck phew!!

January 11, 2010

I wish I could get a guide for Lake Michigan in June. I am in charge of fishing for carp with 10 kids for the family and I have never fished lake Michigan. So this spring I will be looking to gets some information from the Michigan guys so I can catch a lot of carp. Kids are not that good at waiting.

Jeff

December 14, 2009

Brid you need to fix your thermometer the lake is colder than 50 and I am still catching carp. I think we need to fish the lake this week and check your thermometer.

Jeff

Well Bill -- at least you are consistent -- if slightly wrong occasionally Enjoy your FFF
Tight Lines,

Brid.

December 10, 2009

I already bought all the stuff to make boilies. I am just starting out so I wanted to keep it simple but I can always add new stuff later if this batch does not work

Jeff

December 8, 2009

Hi Eddie:

I fish with Brid and we love your boilies. I went to your website but I could not find the tables - can you please let me know how to find them on your website.

Thanks

I have 3 small (Long board) rollong tables 12mm, 16mm and a 22mm all for $30 + shipping.
Eddie

December 1, 2009

nice catch - I wish I could tell what I catch but they all look the same to me. How do you know it is a hybrid. I have seen a 3lb goldfish in my local lake.

November 28, 2009

Hi MM:

I did not catch any tench today at the lake but I did catch a 3lbs and a 10lbs common. Dave came over from San Jose and he did have 2 carp to 7lbs but he wanted to catch a tench. I was using the rock salt maze but I will go back Sunday and use sweet corn and bread to see if I can catch a tench. If you are going next week I can feed the ducks for you again.

Jeff

November 16, 2009

Nice tank MM - I took Brid to the lake and he caught 3 or 4 tenches and 3 or 4 carp - biggest 13lbs.

Jeff

November 3, 2009

Thanks you for the hint on powered egss and powdered milk - I want to keep the cost down - how much should I add to the recipe I am using.

Thanks

Jeff

I used to have rolling tables and the whole bit, but now I only make them by hand. It is a lot more work, but I don't make many.
My very favorite recipe is as follows:

1 cup semo

1 cup powdered fat free milk

1 tsp salt

1 tblsp hemp and/or peanut oil

Enough eggs to be pretty wet dough ( it gets a lot stiffer after a minute!)

Optional but good-

a few tsp of this ground up in food processor- hemp seed, pumpkin seed (shelled), pinch of cayenne pepper.

1/4 tsp betaine

drop of n buyteric acid

the result is very light in weight but not quite a pop up, and very pale in color so it accepts dye well too. I have always caught well on it. You can also get away with using only powdered milk and eggs if you really want! Milk and eggs are about as nutritious as you are going to get out of basic ingredients.

November 3, 2009

Do you use the kool-aid with the sugar in it or just the normal small packets with just flovoring.

Thanks

Jeff

If you dont have a rolling table its going to take a while, like you said that mix is going to make a lot of boilies and rolling them by hand it going to be a pain. When i make boilies i use 1/4 cup semolina, soy flour and corn meal mixed with a half packet of kool-aid and stir in an egg, that usually makes enough for a 4 hours session and i have yet to run out during a session.

November 3, 2009

I want to make bolies and I have a simple recipe from Hankster but I do not know much else. Do I need a bait table or a bait gun - what is easier? I want to make a lot so I can get the carp in the small lake healthy and happy. I have read that carp like boilies in the winter because it has protein(eggs in the recipe). I have been using maze but I want to feed the carp something new and healther. Can you let me know any tips or things not to do.

2 cups semolina flour

2 cups corn flour

1 cup rice flour

1/4 to 1/2 cup flavor - I want to use strawberry jello

6 to 8 eggs

1 tlbs veg. oil

I plan on using 4 times this amount and just adding eggs when I need to make a new batch

Please let me know what you have learned over the year that makes thing go smoother.

Thanks

Jeff

October 28, 2009

The maze still has a smell but with the salt it does not smell as bad and it still catches fish. I have tried sugar=smells bad - adding nothing=smells bad - but when Brid told me about the rock salt it just keeps a long time (2 months) but does not have the bad smell like the other maze I have made. The black corn was when I did not boil the corn but I did not use that maze to fish with. I am just learning all kinds of ways to catch carp and I am glad I found out about maze - much cheaper and I can chum a lot of it for $10. I have put 17 gallons of maze in a 10 acre lake and I think the carp are now feeding on the maze. I always put in a gallon of maze on each trip so they know that this is food.

Thanks again for all your help.

Jeff

October 27, 2009

Thanks for all the replies - I just used maze this past weekend and did not use any sweet corn on the hair rig or chumming and I caught 7 carp. The carp will eat the maze if they do not have a choice so I am just going to use maze from now on. Brid did help me when he taught me how to do the maze with 2 cups of rock salt for 5 gallons of maze - it works great and does not smell so bad.

Thanks

Jeff

October 26, 2009

Went fishing my little lake and caught 7 carp - none bigger than 7lbs but a lot of fun. The last time I posted I wanted to know why sweet corn worked better than my maze. Phone told me not to put any sweet corn on the hair rig and do not chum any sweet corn and that did the trick. Brid told me how to make maze that does not stink to bad - 2 cups of rock salt for 5 gallons of maze. It has been 2 months and the corn has not gone bad yet. Brid also showed me his sling shot that I can use to shoot my maze with and the duck to not come over and eat all the corn. I just sit in the chair and use the sling shot and the duck do not see me pitch the corn in the lake so I can fish again with ouy the ducks. Thanks guys for all your help.

Jeff

October 15, 2009

Welcome to the CAG - I have learn a lot and all the people on this site have helped me become a better carp fisherman. I do not have a lot of the carp gear but I can say that I have learn to catch carp on the cheap - thanks to the help of all the people that answer all my questions. Some day I hope I will be the person that can answer the questions.

Jeff

October 14, 2009

I have 2 poles that are the same and I have fished them both for the last 4 trips so I do not keep track of what one I use with sweet corn. Both poles are about 15 ft apart and I change the place I cast them all the time - sweet corn just catches more but I like to use the maze more - stays on the hair rig much better. When I take Brid to my little lake and he has all kinds of carp gear and I will learn all kind of stuff. I do boil my maze after a 24 hr soak and it does catch carp just not as many.

Thanks

Jeff

I don't mean to chime in with a stupid post here... but do you always put the sweet corn on the same pole?
I usually always fish with field corn and fish the same flavor on both poles on any given day. For some reason one pole has more than a 3-1 hook up ratio than the other. I don't know why but since I started Carp fishing 3/4ths of my fish have all come on one pole despite the fact that everything else is the same.

Food for thought haha.

October 13, 2009

Thanks Phone - I will try to just fish with maze this weekend and let you know how it works for me. I have chummed between 15 and 20 gallons of maze in this small lake but only about 7 cans of corn. I fish one pole with corn and one with maze and I catch 3 carp on sweet corn for 1 on maze. I will try the fake corn and not chum the sweet corn for the first few hours.

Thanks for the pointers.

Jeff

cub,
The reason fishing sweet corn is different from field corn (maize) is YOU. Confidence is a huge part of bait selection and I would bet you fish sweet corn in nearly an exact preportion, percentage wise, to your catch rate. If you fish sweet corn 3 to 1 you will catch 3 times more carp on sweet corn. Thus, you could say, "sweet corn is better".

Ohh, don't get me wrong. There are differences in sweet corn and field corn. Mostly those differences have to do with sugar content, as sugar, and starch carbohydrates. Shape, when you are fishing them, may have an influance also. Since the leak rate of sweet corn may be accelarated by the removal of the nib and the fact it was/is harvested in the milk stage, the sugar flavors may dispurse a little quicker too.

In the long run the difference is going to be YOU and your confidence in what you are offering. Carp are not smart, in fact, they are very stupid eating machines. You must supply the "intellectual" reasons for one out preforming the other.

If you continue to "condition" the carp to the shape of a "whole kernel" of field corn I suspect eventually on a small lake you will find field corn will start to out preform sweet corn. Carp can be conditioned (taught about) to certain shapes. This conditioning doesn't last to long but it does occur.

I elected to comment on your question after reading Louis' comment. I disagree with him nearly 100%. He suggests (based on his experience), "flavor, color and, texture are an influance. None of these three things influence a carp's selection. I do agree with Louis that artifical plastic corn shaped like field corn will catch fish although you need not add the sweet corn. Artifical corn is especially effective if the target carp are conditioned, even briefly, to the shape of the bait. Color, flavor, and texture will not have a bearing of effectiveness.

Phone

Let me give you an example of "the fisherman out thinking the bait". I have no proof, except what I want to believe, that field corn produces "larger" carp than sweet corn. I suppose one day I either on purpose or accidently caught a big fish on field corn - - then did it again. Now, I always notice when I catch a big fish on field corn and say - - - "yep" - - - field corn. I disregard (or forget) in my mind the number of times I catch big fish of sweet corn and say to myself it was just an accident. Now, a lot of guys do this in the back of their minds. Soon, we have confidence in one bait over another that is actually, in fact, irrational. One of the great things about carp fishing is you have a lot of time to "think" !

October 13, 2009

Hi Brid:

I have fed them 15 gallons of maze but the sweet corn just works better. I have a new place to fish the lake - a small dock - I chum with maze before I leave so they have had a lot of freebies. I do not have your phone # - I can not find it. I will let you know the next time I am going fishing at the lake. I have been doing a lot of saltwater fishing but with this storm I think I will fish the lake this weekend.

Give me a call.

Jeff

Jeffry - glad my salt tip is working for you. As for the maize/sweetcorn question, -- that's not really easily answered. Sweetcorn has a been a 'go to' bait for Carpers Worldwide for donkeys years - and, it never really gets old -- just remains a huge frustration because it is so soft - just like bread!!
As for just chumming maize - that's something you'll have to try over a period of time. Remember - the Carp have clearly got some natural food in there - or they would die. Getting them to readily accept just one type of bait (other than bread/swetcorn) generally takes a while - and, you have to be putting it in there every day. Sometimes, it might take just chumming and not fishing at the same time -- so they get confidence in the 'freebies'. I'm assuming - because it's a small lake there isn't a big head of Carp in there? If this is the case, they will also start getting very shy the more times they are caught. That's the time to start introducing colour/flavour changes to your baits. Properly prepared maize is possibly one of the most underrated baits out there (Worldwide), will accept a wide variety of flavours/colouring, is relatively hard for 'nuisance fish' to get off the hair -- AND --- is pretty darned cheap!!

Glad you're still catching mate!! Give me a call one of these fine times, and I'll come over and have a few hours on there with you.

Tight Lines,

Brid.

October 12, 2009

I fish a local lake that is about 10 acres and is 5 ft deep at the deepest part. I have been fishing this lake for 6 months and most of the fish come on sweet corn. I chum both sweet corn and maze but I catch most of the fish on sweet corn. I like to use maze better because it stays on the hair rig much better. If I just chumed maze and did not chum or fish with sweet corn do you think that I would catch as many carp. I have been catching around 5 carp a day with the biggest about 15lbs but most are under 5lbs. Brid told me to put salt in the maze and now it does not stink at all after 1 month in a 5 gal bucket in the back yard. I think I may try to boil some maze with just sugar to see if will work as good as sweet corn.

Thanks for all the CAG members that have made me a better carp fisherman - you guys have been a big help.

Jeff

September 23, 2009

Went fishing at Lake Shasta in California for a week on a houseboat and caught this carp but the Zebco scale only goes to 28lbs. We caught this carp on sweet corn. We also caught catfish - trout - salmon- bass but the carp are the best thing going as far as fun to catch. Can you please help me with a quess of how big the carp is.

Thanks

Jeff

September 8, 2009

Thanks Paul - I will try this - thanks for your help - I will let you know how it works.

Jeff

Add it just before starting the boil.

September 8, 2009

I just ordered some 10-SESH from waker baits but I do not know when to add it to the maze - 10-SESH is going to keep the maze from spoiling. Do I add it before the 24 hr soak - during the 1 hr boiling or after it cools. I am going on a houseboat on Sept 12th so I need to know soon. I did a 2 day shipping to I hope I get it in time to do the maze in my 5 gallon bucket. I have made maze that smell like feet - maze the smells like whiskey and maze that molded - so I hope I get it right this time. I will not add sugar this time but I want it to smell and taste like sweet corn but I do not want it to go bad in the 90 degree heat for a week. Last year we caught carp on sweet corn but it is hard to keep it on the hair rig so I want to use maze. I will be on the house boat for a week so the maze has last that long.

Thanks for all your help - CAG has been a lot of help with all the info.

Jeff

September 6, 2009

I am going fishing for a week on a houseboat for a week and have no way to keep it cool all week. I will try salt but I hope it keeps for a few weeks with no fridge. Brid do you keep your in the freezer or do you just leave it in the bucket for 2 weeks with no fridge. I will try to make some with salt and not sugar.

I have a whole batch in a bucket now that stinks so I hope I save it with some salt. I am soaking a new batch not and I hope salt works.

Thanks

Jeff

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