A beginner always starts from scratches. They have no prior experience, no expensive equipment, even the knowledge they have is pretty shortfall compared to an expert. So, an angling beginner will have similar traits like any other noob in any other domain. For them, having a fishing rod with a moderate quality spinning reel and any random fishing line is everything. Who cares about an action rod or baits. None worries about braided or monofilament fishing lines. It’s just the fun quotient that counts for a long time for beginners.
Knowing The Right Bait for Carps
Only after a little while, the beginner starts taking the angling more seriously when he has actually tasted the blood and feels to invest in better tools, gear, and even baits. Before that, all are fun and not worthy of investment. The carp bait, which is the most crucial part of alluring a fish, is always some random insect, worm, at best, perhaps smaller fishes.
The only good part of those random fishing baits is that they are live baits, and a good amount of chances are there that some specimen will take that bait. But if it’s a carp fish, a game fish of that level, which has its own mind and is tough to hold and catch till the end, a random live bait is hardly going to work. You have to prepare the lure in a certain way to entice and hold the interest of a carp fish.
Bait Recipes
Keeping the beginners’ plight and lack of knowledge in mind, we have come up with delicious bait recipes for carp fishes. Delicious because these baits are tried and tested, carp fishes love them. One can make these baits at home with easily available ingredients, at a huge quantity, spending way less money. Yes, we understood you are already intrigued. Let’s not waste any more time and share the homemade carp bait recipes for fishing beginners we have.
Homemade Carp Bait Recipes for Fishing Beginners
Homemade Corn Baits Are the Best
Carp fishes eat everything, from waste to meat to plant to everything sweet and well-flavored. So they are easy to bait. But when you make bait at home, you know what you are using and what amount. You can add the best ingredients, perhaps at a higher quantity that, you know, will attract even the big carps quickly.
There will be no preservatives in the baits. No amount of harsh chemicals will be in it to harm the water body or fishes in it. So, you are taking care of the environment and the fishes as well. Preparing a perfect bait recipe giving 20-30 minutes prior might save you hours of sitting to hook a carp fish in your fishing rod using corn.
Everything Corny
For us, corn is the best and the most affordable ingredient of all. Buying canned corn or any other baits will cost an amount, with which you can make quadruple the amount of sweet corn bait. So, we have two recipes with sweet corn, a simple one, and a comparatively lavish one.
Recipe #1 – Basic Sweet Corn Bait
You can make this with canned sweet corn, but we don’t think you need to spend that much. We, rather, prefer the regular corn. It is easily available and way too affordable.
Ingredients
Feed Corn, Water, Garlic, Salt, Sugar/Honey
Preparing The Bait
Before you start the cooking process, you must soak the feed corn for 12 hours. The more you soak it in water, the less time the cooking process will take. Soak the corn in a good quantity of water, say you want to cook a cup of corn. Then soak one cup of corn in two-three cups of water the day before cooking.
It might require only 15 minutes for the soaked corn to cook. It must be soft but shouldn’t break or crumble. You will need solid pieces of corn. When it is almost cooked, add some garlic. Garlic paste, a teaspoon, will be the better option than chopped garlic.
Now, make sure it’s soft and well-cooked but solid from outside. Solid enough to pin in the fishing hook, or throw in the body of water for prebaiting. Take the pan off from the stove and add two teaspoons of sugar or honey to the corn. You have delicious sweet corn ready for carp fishing.
Recipe #2 – Lavish Boilies
Boilies are best for fishing Bigmouth carps. Large carp fishes require large baits to lure. Just imagine how much extra you will have to pay if you get the large-sized bait from random shops. Do we need any other reason not to love homemade bait recipes? You can either use the feed corn or use cornmeal. We are on a saving spree, so we will share how to make it with feed corn. But, as we need many ingredients here, it’s not as affordable as the previous one.
Ingredients
Feed Corn, Water, Salt, Sugar, Heavy Cream, Milk, Cornstarch, Flour, Crumbs
Preparing The Bait
First, soak and cook the boilies, adding salt. The process we already know from the previous recipe. We are using four cups of corn here. A teaspoon or a bit more salt will do. The corn has to be mashed; we are making boilies, remember? So, cook it until it is prepared to be mashed easily.
Add two tablespoons of sugar and cornstarch in the mashed corn. Stir it thoroughly and keep the flame low. Now add two tablespoons of flour, half a cup of heavy cream, and a cup of milk in it. If mama is not approving heavy cream from her possession, chuck it. Instead, use a bit of more milk, cost-cutting, all right. By continuously stirring the corn in cream and milk, you will get the desired paste consistency.
If you want, you can directly add a can of creamed corn. But to save some bucks adding milk and heavy cream will do. The flavor will be pretty much on point.
When you have the corn paste and all the moisture vapored well after thorough cooking, let the corn cool down. When it’s cool enough to be swirled in hands to make boilies, add crumbs. Cornflakes crumbs or use bread crumbs, the choice is yours.
Make the boilies of the size depending on the targeted carp fishes. You can opt for random sizes, big, medium, and small so that you have it with you and can use it when needed.
Everyone knows how corny carp fishes are about sweet corn. You can buy the random, bland, uninteresting, corn can from the super shop and bait a carp fish with that. Imagine if you prepare the corn bait with proper ingredients, how many you will get to angle, and how quickly.