| Sorry but I have to laugh when I hear about | | | | too (liquid proteins are invaluable too.) Very often |
| homemade corn or maize flour type baits actually | | | | so many anglers are still fixated by attraction by |
| being used for competition carp fishing! (Fishing | | | | solvent-based flavours instead of stimulation by |
| matches or tournaments are not the limit of | | | | natural feed-triggering additives and ingredients |
| competing as we are all fishing against fish | | | | carp are especially sensitive to and feed |
| instincts - which is why you need to exploit them | | | | extremely intensively on. Maize contains no |
| by using better baits!) Corn or maize baits are | | | | vitamin B12 and B12 is one of the most important |
| about the least nutritionally attractive of any baits | | | | vitamins required in regards actual vitality and |
| you can possibly choose as competitive baits! You | | | | metabolism. (There are a few exceptional sources |
| can do a quantum level better than this - so read | | | | of natural water-soluble vitamin B12 however!) |
| on now and benefit from being much more | | | | Maize is famous for having a low protein |
| open-minded about winning homemade baits! | | | | concentration of only around 7 to 11 percent of |
| Although maize or corn baits have good | | | | the kernel weight. Its protein quality is limited by |
| palatability, comparatively-speaking they offer | | | | deficiencies in some essential amino acids and |
| carp laughable levels of vital nutritional stimulation. | | | | most significantly for carp lysine and tryptophan. |
| So it is no surprise if you cannot win competitions, | | | | But what is less well known is that maize like |
| are catching less big carp or cannot get bites on | | | | many cereals grains contain an excess of certain |
| such baits - while other fishermen fishing next to | | | | essential amino acids that influence the efficiency |
| you are using superior baits going on to win | | | | of protein utilization. For instance maize has an |
| instead. | | | | excess of leucine that limits the uptake of other |
| You might or might not use cheap maize baits or | | | | amino acids. In fact the levels of protein and |
| basic semolina and soya flavoured baits. You | | | | limiting amino acids in maize can be influenced in |
| often find that many bigger fish start avoiding | | | | negative ways by the use of nitrogen fertilisers. |
| such baits when more nutritionally stimulating baits | | | | If you look at the nutritionally-stimulating benefits |
| are fished on the same water! Why do carp | | | | of maize, apart from the starch and sugars, most |
| anglers keep on thinking like carp anglers instead | | | | of them are found in the part of the grain that |
| of seeing things completely from the perspective | | | | contains the potent live components that actually |
| of all carp senses combined? When your bait | | | | germinate to form a new plant (so this part is |
| stimulates all the known carp senses | | | | what you really will benefit far more by using!) |
| simultaneously you can be sure not only they will | | | | Also the seed coat contains things like carotenoids |
| be very aware of your baits in terms of actually | | | | and soluble fibre maize protein products based on |
| detecting it, finding it and treating it as food very | | | | the endosperm part of maize is so useful it is |
| good to eat but they will want more and more of | | | | now an extremely useful protein food in human |
| it. | | | | nutritional terms as well as a far more sustainable |
| With cheap low nutritional value baits it really is | | | | protein source than things like fish and marine |
| very often the case that unless you are using | | | | meals for instance. |
| absolutely tonnes of the stuff to try and | | | | I would much rather fish a bait rich in maize |
| dominate a water, then more highly | | | | protein such as Super Gold 60, plus a high content |
| nutritionally-stimulating baits will dominate catches | | | | of liquidised liver or better still concentrated or |
| and big fish captures. This effect can be truly to | | | | enzyme-treated liver powder bound by yellow |
| the degree that the low nutritional baits fail | | | | maize meal in a bait with no flavour, than simply |
| completely to get bites. (Many of you reading this | | | | use flavoured corn dough balls! Nutritional |
| will be aware of this from personal experience.) | | | | stimulation works big-time and has genuinely made |
| If you want to catch more fish and numbers of | | | | all the difference between failing to get any bites |
| them then using maize protein alongside any of a | | | | at all and winning competitions! (For much more |
| multitude of protein dense ingredients will certainly | | | | information see my biography and website right |
| help you especially if you include soluble proteins | | | | now! |