Soya Lecithins - Betaine Carp Bait Secrets and Feeding Triggers - Spod Mixes

Improving Your Baits And The Pulling-Power Of Lecithins!
Lecithins are an amazing super food and are proven carp feeding trigger shown to enhance health in many ways. Liquid lecithins are fantastic for improving your bait and ground bait performances all year round and especially in cold water conditions - so read on!
Most carp anglers probably have not even considered using lecithins in their baits and yet it can make a very serious difference especially when a bait contains oils. Oils can be made into an emulsion by lecithins. This helps your baits take on water better and so making your baits water soluble and liquid attractors disperse far more effectively into the water column and stimulating and drawing fish to your baits. (Adding Lecithins to your baits can make your baits more easily digested by carp; most especially in cold conditions!)
The first contact I had with these super foods was seeing the health supplement collection used as by a retired couple about 25 years ago. They were using a solid form then. (They were also taking odourless garlic too.) These days a number of carp bait companies sell a liquid from lecithins and although there is more to these than the basic lecithins from soya beans, they can be a vital component. The addition of liquid lecithins can turn a good bait into an outstanding bait.
As bait is really basically about energy and efficient energy supply in cold conditions especially, it is no surprise that lecithins are totally about energy and are a feeding trigger to carp. Without getting too scientific the most important ingredient in lecithins is phosphatidyl choline. This is an incredibly important compound to the body for many reasons. They improve the digestion of foods in various highly significant ways and of course, where carp are concerned this is just one outstanding benefit of using lecithins.
Phosphatidyl choline (or PC,) is the most significant material from which cell membranes are made. You might wonder where our food is actually burned for energy and this occurs in every cell in the body this occur in energy factories as it were called mitochondria; again composed from PC.
Choline itself is very important and is not the only substance vital to the body in making neurotransmitters that can be found in great carp bait ingredients! Lecithins are great in helping build energy and improve functions and roles of things in the body are to do with electrochemical activities and release of energy among other things essential to sustain life itself.
Soya lecithin products have evolved greatly and so various forms have much greater benefits and effects. Obviously if you can apply a liquid lecithin that has a higher than usual level of PC this is a great edge to have in your armoury. Using such premium quality lecithins is going to be great in helping your carp digest and break down that most efficient of energy sources, i.e. fats (such as fish oils) giving them even more reason to keep on eating your baits again and again!
Try a Google search for www.Carpfishingpellets.co.uk for one such truly outstanding product; this is a dark very thick viscous slow flowing liquid that has a subtle soya smell that carp, catfish, barbel and chub among others really love. Having tried this product in conjunction with the pure salmon oil product and predigested salmon protein product available, I can say without any doubt it is a winner in every sense! I used this liquid lecithin from 10 to 30 grams per kilogram rate with these additives, and the fish response to such treated baits has been outstanding!
If you need any further encouragement regarding lecithins, just consider the potential when used with liquid yeast or liquid fish protein (LO30) or predigested salmon protein for instance. You could also exploit Minamino - the legendary soluble protein liquid, or add liquid liver for example. B of these exciting substances are decades-proven additions to any bait; hooking fish with their outstanding nutritional stimulation and attraction! Used as part of a nutritionally stimulating boosting dips for pellets and boilies and even tiger nuts in winter, liquid lecithins are awesome!
Talin liquid sweetener and butyric acid are also great additions for colder temperatures. The pure grade of betaine available plus Talin, is a very productive bait additive combination for winter alongside your liquid lecithins! Why not try Talin at 1 or 2 millilitres per kilogram of boilie bait mix; and butyric acid used at 1 or 2 drops per kilogram of bait mix and 30 grammes of liquid lecithins per kilogramme of bait mix. These are very well proven to turn a cold bite-less day into a successful one!

There are many other exceptional edges you might use and every one can make a big difference to your catches, especially when competing against other angler's baits or at times fish need a little more encouragement to feed on an already established readymade bait for instance...

By Tim Richardson.

Now why not seize this moment to improve your catches for life with these unique fishing bibles: "BIG CARP FLAVOURS AND FEEDING TRIGGER SECRETS!" "BIG CARP AND CATFISH BAIT SECRETS!" And "BIG CARP BAIT SECRETS!" For much more now visit: http://www.baitbigfish.com Home of world-wide proven readymade and homemade bait success secrets bibles!

Lecithins are an amazing super food and are proven carp feeding trigger shown to enhance health in many ways.

Liquid lecithins are fantastic for improving your bait and ground bait performances all year round and especially in cold water conditions - so add some today!

Betaine Carp Bait Secrets And Other Top Feeding Trigger Tips!

Why not exploit these great bait, ground bait and other free baiting suggestions to multiply your catches of big fish; some of these will be new to almost everyone who reads this article so read on...
Name one of the top carp feeding stimulators used universally throughout the world and you will immediately find betaine among those right at the top of the list. Many anglers have ignored it or not really known enough about it to truly exploit it; so this is written so you don't miss out big-time!
Betaine is a sweet-tasting amino acid that is naturally occurring in many areas of the animal, plant, and fungi kingdoms among others. It is very important in humans and other animals, fish and much aquatic animal life especially. It is found is fish flesh products, plus crustacean and mollusc products, and fungi (in yeasts for instance,) and in plants. The most exciting bit about betaine is on its way...
All of these are mostly composed of water, and all need osmolytes to regulate cell pressures and betaine is just one of a number of special osmolytes that are vital to survival in this role and in other vital respects. (Of course sugar cane and sugar beet are especially rich store-houses of betaine.)
Betaine impacts very highly upon carp primary and secondary receptors; so stimulating feeding naturally; so it is an additive very well worth including in all your baits, even to boost green lip mussel extract and those of lobster and clam for instance that are already very rich in betaine!
The form of betaine most used by anglers in the familiar sense is the so-called trimethylglycine or glycine form which happens to be a methyl donor (also highly significant in carp baits!) Although the betaine plus hydrochloric acid combination (betaine HCL) is very popular and well proven too, betaine in its nearest to pure form is an outstanding feeding trigger in its own right. Betaine hydrochloride is usually recommended at 2 grammes per pound or roughly 500 grammes of base mix powders.
Because betaine is very potent powerful stuff you might require some way to measure it more accurately for various applications. Electronic kitchen scales are cheap enough and better than using measuring spoons in part increments of grammes or in millilitres as different substances have different densities so 1 gram with not equal the same density across all ingredients and additives! (Usually measuring spoons are for measuring liquids and scales for dry ingredients but there are obviously cross-overs too!)
When you need to be accurate in your dosing of ingredients and additives electronic scales are a must; try looking up Marketplace-Brighton for instance for electronic scales costing under 10 pounds! For a great edge try mixing a 50: 50 percent mixture of green lipped mussel and betaine in your base mix and other baits of all kinds to really boost them naturally.
The fish response to quality betaine i.e. of 97 percent plus purity used in high levels (at least upon initial bait introduction,) can be extremely exciting to carp and to the angler watching proceedings! Betaine is known to over-power fish senses for some time when over-used far too much and I've experienced fantastic catches for perhaps the first 3 hours of a session on betaine - added far beyond low 3 to 5 gramme per kilogramme levels in boilies for instance! Betaine can induce intensive competitive feeding for limited periods and extended periods, when used at high or lower concentrations in baits of most kinds. This is why it is used very much universally in boilies and pellets today and has been used in aquaculture to promote the most cost-effective feeding of fish for decades! Betaine has enhancing properties that relate not simply to bait base mixes, or flavours, but also in special ways with amino acids in combination such as in Minamino liquid protein mineral and vitamin tonic among others. Betaine is found in significant levels in many surprising places, even in some spices! Green lipped mussel is rich in betaine naturally of course but additional betaine really multiplies its effects! However much betaine you add to your baits, additives, glugs, dips etc, remember it is immediately water soluble so will disperse rapidly and very quickly impact upon any fish in the vicinity to promote feeding; it is best used with amino acid-rich liquids and powders! Betaine is a very highly hygroscopic substance - try making your own very effective budget liquid betaine solution dip by adding about 20 grammes of betaine crystals to 150 millilitres of water.
Betaine is a useful product to pull fish down onto baits when you really want to make an impact. Try adding it to baits boosted with more acidic flavours plus amino acid products and Talin to provide a much stronger more concentrated signal in very rich weedy perhaps more alkaline pH waters, or for more acidic winter conditions!
Often anglers will glug baits in oil based attractors for much of the year and them move over to betaine and much more amino acid based glugs for the later autumn, winter to mid-spring periods while temperatures are low and oils much less effective by comparison.
Liquid sweeteners are also great at any time of year with added betaine; Talin is another protein version that is well proven with added betaine. A unique homemade mixture of tiger nut extract and corn steep liquor is very potent with added sweeteners and betaine too. Keep the sweetener levels on the conservative side at perhaps 1 to 3 millilitres per kilogramme of base mix and the betaine CSL and tiger nut extracts on the very generous side!
Try adding betaine to blood powder, predigested fish protein, hydrolysed salmon protein, corn steep liquor meal and liquid, brewers yeast, ground hemp, poultry protein meal (very high protein,) or fish meal in your hook baits and pastes and ground baits. Just glugging your free baits in a homemade betaine liquid solution will make a big difference; even more so with your chosen liquid protein additives.
Examples to add betaine to include: liquid hydrolysed salmon protein, CSL, liquid yeast, liquid liver, liquid fish protein L-Zero-30, all Minamino based dips and so on. As an additional bonus, you will discover that most such liquids do not melt PVA at least very quickly so you can trial adding liquids to your PVA product related and baits and ground bait formats etc, (great stuff!)
Of course, adding such liquids to your PVA will better cover any PVA taste and create nice water clouding and really improve concentrations of natural chemical attraction in the vicinity of your hook baits! (Betaine is very good in enhancing taste of flavours and palatants among other substances so give it a trail!)
Nature identical flavour essences and natural flavour extracts used as fishing flavours are very much the preferred form of flavour used by a huge number of more experienced anglers. These can avoid the well-known past negative associations most carp will very often have when concentrated solvent based flavours have predominantly been used.
Here are some other quick tips for betaine use that will make all the difference; but there are many other very potent ones also:
Immediately after boiling your homemade boilie baits, sprinkle betaine onto them so it is absorbed into them as they dry...
Immediately after freezing your homemade baits sprinkle betaine onto your baits and well distribute it so it is absorbed into baits as they defrost.
In the case of readymade baits, simply freeze them and treat them as in B.
For an even better feeding response once defrosted, cut or crush your baits and then re-sprinkle them with betaine and re-freeze them.
Add betaine to your particles after they have been boiled and cooling-off but still warm, and stir it into the liquid left to distribute it well and leave to soak into your bait.
You can re-hydrate air-dried boilies in a water and betaine solution, perhaps with added drops of Talin protein sweetener and butyric acid, to really boost your baits;
you might care to try this with flavoured sweetcorn (very effective!) To liven-up pellets and readymade dry boilies such as the CW Red and Supreme baits. Even if you wish to add nothing else, do try adding a homemade betaine solution, (hydrating dry boilies with liquid betaine is an extremely very well proven edge!)
Just sprinkle your solution thoroughly over your dry shelf life boilies and dry pellets in advance of baiting-up. (Or add betaine crystals to wet or defrosting freezer boilies.) When such baits are introduced as free baits for example, they will immediately disperse betaine plus their own unique attraction (already pre-wetted,) when they hit the water column!
For unique floating baits try pre-wetting high nutrition floating koi pellets with betaine solution too. (Try mixing the sizes and grades to really fool them when they come across your hook bait! Try this too with expander pellets, flavoured and coloured carp pellets, catfish baits, halibut pellets, (Skrettings pellets,) marine pellets, spirulina pellets (for really instant high impact,) red halibut pellets and any others including pellets hook baits; to boost their attraction big-time!
Mix any liquid food (such as liquid liver, liquid yeast, Minamino etc,) with betaine and use this as a bait soak or dip for anything from pellets, to boilies to canned or prepared particles. Try it; it's well proven even for canned sweetcorn, prepared hemp seed and chick peas and many others.
Sprinkle additional betaine onto your pastes before applying them to your hook baits and see what happens when you cast out...
One thing you can do to make your baits that little bit different is to squeeze the juice from beetroot (highly rich in betaine,) and beta-carotenes (and much more,) and dissolve your betaine in it, a an intense liquid sweetener at perhaps 1 millilitre to 10 millilitres of juice, to make a great richly stimulating red-dye clouding bait dip, glug or stick mix additive!
Also perhaps try this unique tip: re-hydrated Carpfishingpellets dried shrimps with a betaine solution made from the following: Betaine, salt, Minamino, hydrolysed salmon protein, (with a generous helping of potent liquid soya lecithin feeding trigger plus pure Scottish salmon oil,) plus added L030 fish protein too. Add this to your PVA, method, spod, stick, and boilie mixes; and watch those indicators fly!

By Tim Richardson.
Now why not seize this moment to improve your catches for life with these unique fishing bibles: "BIG CARP FLAVOURS AND FEEDING TRIGGER SECRETS!" "BIG CARP AND CATFISH BAIT SECRETS!" And "BIG CARP BAIT SECRETS!" For much more now visit: http://www.baitbigfish.com Home of world-wide proven readymade and homemade bait success secrets bibles!

Spod Mixes
Spring is on the way, time to pick up some early rewards
Now the water temperatures are on the up, the fish will be starting to stir from their semi dormant phase. Now is the time the fish will be starting to look for food to give them an energy boost to kick start their immune systems and get them ready for spawning once the summer arrives. The Spring is the perfect time to use the spod to create a carpet of tiny paticles attracting the fish into your swim where, they will then encounter your hookbait and free offerings.
At this time of year you do not want to overload the swim with big beds of baits that will quickly fill the fish up so, keep the spod mix as light as possible. Incorporate loads of water soluble attractors available from www.carpfishingpellets.co.uk, like L030 fish protein liquid, Hydrolysed Salmon Protein, Liquid Molasses, Minamino, Milk Powders, Betaine HCL etc. All the high grade liquid fish proteins will create a massive trail of amino acid rich attraction pulling the fish in from far and wide, this is what makes this type of mix work so well. All the fish encounter is a bed of tiny particles and loads of liquid attraction to really get them grubbing around for a suitable sized meal. Present your hookbait either in the middle of the baited area or to one side and it will stand a very good chance of a take.
Another good method at this time of year is to use the zig rig with the spod mix. For those new to the zig rig it is a way of presenting a buoyant bait higher in the water to catch a fish swimming mid water. By using your spod mix with various food items like crushed hemp, crushed particles etc you can create a cloud of attraction which some pieces will gradually fall to the lake bed, others will hang around mid water and some will float. This will attract the carp to the higher water levels to feed on the tiny bait particles. Place a small bait on a long fluorocarbon hook length so it settles up in the higher water level and it will stand a good chance of being eaten while the carp frantically pick off the small bait items.
Many hookbaits are suitable for this approach ranging from small pop-ups, plastic corn to small pieces of foam cut into various shapes. As the fish become pre-occupied on the small particles falling through the water they appear to loose suspicion and eat anything that is in the falling cloud of carp goodies. The key is to present the hookbait at the correct depth, where the fish are feeding most confidently. This level will vary so a little experimenting may be needed. Fish can be caught just below the surface and on other occasions in mid water.
The zig rig can, on its day be a deadly method which will land you some good fish when all other methods seam to fail.
The ingredients which go into a spod mix can vary quite considerably depending on time of year and target fish. The idea being, you want to put a nice bed of tiny particles out with varying densities and loads of water soluble attraction liquids. Crushed particles like hemp, maize, corn, wheat, oats, tigernuts, maples etc make perfect spod mix ingredients. Soaked in lake water and liquid fish protein, salt and betaine will really give you a great spod mix. You can add spices like chilli powder, turmeric, fenugreek and chilli flakes along with black pepper essential oil or the ever successful Robin Red additive. If you like sweet mixes then try soaking rolled oats and crushed tigernuts in lake water with a couple of table spoons of milk powder and some Talin and Tigernut extract and molasses.
Various combinations can be used and on any theme, kelp and ground hemp, micro carp pellets mixed with Robin Red, breadcrumbs, tinned tuna in brine and some sea salt for example.

A typical spod mix, including ground hemp and robin red.	Ingredients after going through the grinding mill. A mass of tiny particles ready to be soaked.	A selection of water soluble liquid additives: L030 Fish Protein, Minamino, Salmon Extract Liquid.
Liquids added to the spod mix	Poor on boiled water and leave to soak.	Spod mix now ready to go. Packed full of lovely carp attracting goodies and water soluble additives.

Various ready made spod mixes are available to buy which are very handy, just add boiled water and some liquid additives the night before and away you go, get spodding.
Take a look at the spod mixes section on the website for some great mixes supplied with 200ml liquid attractor pack. Click here for more info.

By Phil Stockwell
CW Baits
www.cwbaits.co.uk

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