Category Bait Shed

A lot of anglers treat bait storage and post-production handling as an afterthought. It is not. What Freezing, Drying, and Rehydration Really Do to Bait…

Most bait talk is about chemistry. Amino acids. Hydrolysates. Flavours. Solubility. Leakage. Very little attention gets paid to texture, even though it is often one…

Essential oils have been part of fishing bait for far longer than most anglers realise. But the question is do essential oils really work in…

Are nucleotides in carp bait a useful feeding signal or is it just more carp hype thar has evolved over the years. A lot of…

Milk Proteins in Carp Bait: Digestibility, Solubility, and Food Value Milk proteins have a long history in carp bait. They appear in old-school high-nutritional-value boilies,…

Every bait has a lifespan once it hits the water.This article will explain why some carp baits break down faster than others. Some hold together…

A lot of bait talk sounds right until you stop and ask what the bait is actually doing in the water. That is exactly where…

Few additives in carp fishing have been used as widely as betaine in carp bait. It turns up in boilies, pellets, stick mixes, glugs, hookbait…

Rolling looks simple until you try to do it properly. A lot of anglers blame the paste when their baits come out oval, flat-sided, hollow,…