That Little Edge

[Flipper_Al 1,012]

This article has been in Carp World magazine, and was written by a mate of mine....

 

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED DO NOT DO THIS INDOORS

 

Fill up a large bucket with dry hemp. Take two whole large garlic bulbs, cut them in half so that every segment inside is opened up to the water. Put them at the bottom of bucket under the dry hemp and fill the bucket up with cold water. Once the hemp has 'sunk' after few hours, top up with water put the lid on sealed tight and place bucket in a place where it will get the Sun for most of the day. This time of year it could take up to four weeks (maybe a touch longer). Once it warms up (when you want to be using this anyway) it will take a couple of weeks to soak. Don't remove the lid of the bucket to 'look' at it everyday, leave it sealed up tight in the Sun for a minimum of two weeks before removing the lid. When you do take lid off you should see a thick white foamy scum on the top, the water should be milky white. Wear a mask or cover your face or you will be sick from the putrid smell of rotten garlic when you pop the lid. Boil it up outside, NOT indoors EVER or you will NEVER get rid of the hideous smell. When you boil it, just bring it to the boil and then remove from the heat straight away. (You do not want to kill all of the lovely enzymes you have created). Put back into bucket with lid sealed up and leave it for a few hours to cool. When cooled, drain off all of the water (in an appropriate place), fish out the garlic and bin it.

Now add 250-500g of 'value' table salt, and a good slug of hemp or nut oil (4-5 tablespoons). Mix it all up thoroughly top to bottom... The oil and salt will coat the outside of the hemp locking the moisture inside, stopping air from getting to the enzymes inside the shell. Both will help preserve what you have 'created' and will ultimately spread it around the pond, pulling them from incredible distances.

Don't add anything else in the way of food items to it. Fish a small hook bait, on a short hook link, with a big lead. Hard spots, July-September. It will not have anywhere near the same effect at other times of the year.

Get ready to absolutely smash them, it drives them proper wild.

[hutch6 550]

Will a size 16 Wickam's work just as well as a small hook bait?

[Flipper_Al 1,012]

I use 10mm boilie, you can use whatever you want...make sure you use a strong hook and check the point, mine were coming back blunt

[northern lad 2,292]

I don't doubt you can catch over it Al,but its all a bit emperors new clothes if you ask me,not so long ago baiting a swim was that critical it was fed in via roach pole/boat so as to get it in a tight area,now the latest is do something different and spread it over a large area via spods etc,we went from trying ti achieve total preoccupation with a particular bait ,be it boilie or particle,to basically tipping anything you have into a bucket and stirring it up...cant for the life of me understand adding salt...it would be so diluted by the water I don't for a minute believe it makes the slightest bit of difference.Im sure plenty of carp will fall to these tactics but I have to say I think its more in spite of them than because of them If any of the new methods give the angler confidence then crack on,no matter what bait /method you use location,watercraft will win every time JMO

[billybaltic 308]

You can't beat location, if they are already there, well half your job is done, i can't be arsed with all these new idea's and gizmo's, i keep it simple and do ok, make my own boilies, which dont't end up costing me much, about £3-50 a kg when the ingredient's are bought in bulk, i use a bit of hemp and tiger's, they do ok aswell, try nashy's new bait, the key, i think it's £15 for about 30 boilies, must be brilliant at that price.