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I was using pedigree chum mixers 40yrs ago, before it became popular. A friend and I were fishing a lake near Oulton park where there was a carp fishing match. I was having a fish a chuck. Nobody else was catching, but I emptied the place. Two guys fishing the match came over and I gave them some of my bait, and they caught. I have to admit, I stole the idea from a friend who was using cat buiscuits, I only had dogs, so thought I would try the dog biscuits. At the time the chum mixers were chum mixers with gravy. I soaked the mixers in warm water to make them spongy, so it stayed on the hook, but the hook pulled straight out on the strike. I was fishing 8 to 12 feet from the bank ( actually it was a wall, about 3-4 feet deep.) It was the best day carp fishing I’ve ever had.

I am 55 years old, and I learned to fish with bamboo rods and how to float the cork. The best lures are the ones that are homemade. I use a lot of corn and bait. Grated cheese, honey, vanilla, strawberry syrup, banana, cherry, anise. This is in the summer. In winter I use worms, maggots, fish kibble and anchovy oil. The boiles? I'll leave them to those who don't know how to fish. 😅 Because the real fisherman must also know how to make bait

I love my tost paste. Get sliced fresh tost bread. Pour water and liquid smell of your choice (i use scopex) in bucket. Soak toast bread 3-4 seconds in spiced water, and then put slices in another empty bucket. When every slice is soaked, mash them with fingers, and sprinkle it with few handfull of groundbait until you get paste (depending how much groundbait you put, its stiffer or looser). I use paste around wire spiral 25-45g freerunning feeders. Because of bread, liquid, and groundbait smell combined, fish really like it😁. Hookbait can be anything (worms, pinkies, corn, pellet...)

Good video mate, i cant think of anyone else who can give such a good presentation as you do in all the videos, excellent all round

Great video Carl. My grandson has re-introduced me to fishing after more than 50 years thanks to your videos.

Brilliant video mate thank you. Only started fishing last year and your videos have help me massively!

Loving the vids always top quality and very helpful 👌🏽 👏🏽

Another awesome video carl with lots of great info .🎣👍👍

Wicked video Carl, most helpful! 🎣 All the best ….Smithy

love the videos soooo much and they have helped me a lot looking forvard to try one of your favorites😊

Great information, many thanks for sharing!

As a US carper, bullhead catfish and bluegill are the bane of my existence. Definitely going to try some fake corn along with my strawberry jello/panko bread crumb/sweetcorn mix and see if that helps keep bait on my rig!

Love your video Carl fished 4 50 years but u put information over lovely Happy New year

Sat on the bank and now a Carl video, lol thank you ❤

Just the video I needed Thanks carl 😁👍🏻

Thank you for the good tipps it helps a lot i love your videos

I've had good results with lupin seeds, which I understand are popular with French carp anglers. I prepare them much like other particles, 48-hour soak, followed by 40 minutes in a pressure cooker. You can mount two or three on a hair rig, but I've found just a single seed, hair-rigged, works best for me, regularly catching me commons to 17lb. on my local water.

I am 13 years old and just starting my own youtube channel, I love your videos and have inspired me so much!

Very useful and educational video. Thank you very much 👍👍

Great video showing the different kinds of bait its a minefield out their . However would like to just run back to spam i use it a lot on my local waters and have great success with meat screws they hold the bait well had a lot less falling off since using them they come in metal or plastic/nylon . Middy also do a range of pre tied hook to nylon with meat screws . Though i prefer to tie my own using the plastic screw as the point on the metal variety is a bit sharp and in my opinion could damage a fish if digs in while playing it

Great Video, thanks Karl

Very interesting videos thank you for sharing

Hi Carl, what is your opinion in mixing different flavours and brands in spod mix and different for hookbait. For example spod mix (nasbaits scopex squid, cell) and for hookbait sticky the krill?

Carl what is you favourite pop up and and rig to use with it?

Nice Video👍 Like always😉

Many years ago I used to use butter beans ,cheap and pretty effective at avoiding bream , short range only and did add molasses .to them .

Hi Carl I’m fishing a my syndicate is full of naturals zebra muscles snails the lot. It’s also full of weed. What a baits would you suggest? Hemp?

Thanks Carl this really helped I will be useing pepperoni on my next trip 👍

Whole corn works like a charm on carp and catfish - my buddies and I used to use this long ago and would catch tons of fish with this technique. Only thing is that your throw a whole can of corn out at near sunset and come back at the next sunrise and start reeling them in using a single piece of corn on the bottom on a number 6 or 8 hook - I liked the number 8 hook the best - yeah! really does work well

Great video

Great video - a host of information for all levels of experience! If you didn’t learn something, you weren’t listening!

Great video as usual. Just wanted some extra incite on how to avoid having turtle disturbance as they make it impossible to fish. I found this very slow moving river with a good stock of big wild carp but the turtles make it unfishable. What could I do other than rigging up the fake corn?

Hi. We use the powder bait and make balls. They snap of my line when I cast. Why does my line snap? Thanks.

great video

I agree that bread is the best bait. It's easily available everywhere, it's cheap as chips, I pay 75p for a large, thick sliced loaf. Best of all, carp and other fish all love it! It can be fished on the bottom or on the surface! I've even caught perch on bread. Best all round bait IMHO.

i use enterprise and ESP fake corn beacuse they work like a pop-up and it sits a little bit up from the bottom and i like to use it with groundetd particles in pva bagc with some goo

When I use luncheon meat I like to use a Parisien spoon or commonly known as a melon Baller. I’m a chef by trade and tried it one day and obviously it then presents itself just like boile And just rolls along the river bed thanks for all the advice that you give in you’re videos all the best

Nice video well interesting

Very nice ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@2:55 well done!!!!!! 😮😍

Can you use sweetcorn all year round?

I started carp fishing in 2001 when i was 18 . My rigs were very simple and mainly used natural or small baits . Now i have all the latest gear and baits but sometimes you can't beat using a float and a worm for bait 😂

I used brown seeded bread float fishing. I caught Tench and Crusian 💪🏻❤️ They clearly loved the seeds 🤣🤣

Great Video! I actually catch most of my carp with cheese. And sturgeon bite too (which is not really a challenge because sturgeon eat everything).

I am Curious to know whats your favourite bait to use. I go with my dad and he has like 50 different types of boilies with different oils and liquids and he changes his baits so often. Also is it better to fish the same baits for all 3 rods or should you try different baits and hookbaits?

1st comment love you videos and they Definately help

Are the fish with carl bags available to public or is it a one of the type thing ? Ide love one of those

Your videos are so cool Carl I think I should do some more like vidioes

We're do I go to order this stuff from America? I want boilies and that feed bait I can throw out..

Hey carl good video are you coming to carp den bosh 2024?

If you cut your Spam into slices then fry it on two sides until it goes very light brown it puts a nice surface on it. Then you can cut it into chunks and it stays on your hook or hair for a long time

Also worth noting. The use of tiger nuts are banned on many waters because people dont know how to prepare them correctly so just double check with where ever you are going before you do use them and learn how to prepare them properly. I think you had to boil them and leave them soaking in water for a long time to get them safe for the carp to eat.

Carl what do you think is the best carp bait for big waters in the USA 😁

Great vid once again

In the match world majority of us use warburtons toastie loaf thick cause it’s more gluten so it’s stickier for the small hooks for the pole

hey! crayfish also **LOVE** corn, thats the only way i catch them, other that hand picking them 7 in each hand while diving!

DID YOU TRY canned green peas in water FOR CARP WE DO IT SOUTH AFRICA it work

How about a video lure fishing for carp?

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I believe using frozen shrimp from the grocery store as bait is illegal where I live, supposedly due to risk of imported farm raised shrimp introducing viruses that could harm crawfish and other local crustaceans.

Yogurt powder is ausum to add to your mix cheap too here in oz we have to be inventive as we can’t get what you guy get in tackle shops in the uk we can get some baits but it’s very expensive my go to mix is 500 gr of bread crims 1 can of sweet corn 1 packet of yogurt mix for method feeders bait cukk corn , wafters, tiger nuts

My best dip IV tried is port soaked cell Yep bit off port just missing the cheese lol

What’s that website called for your particles

Fry the spam in some salt goes abit tougher

Carl, I've got a question you may be able to answer. Ok, Without being too graphic, we as humans eat sweetcorn, and it passes through our bodies undigested, it comes out whole, ok. So, as we know, fish love sweetcorn and we catch them on it all the time. My question is, do they digest it and break it up inside their bodies? I can't imagine they would be physically able to pass a whole grain so I'm thinking their stomachs contain acids which digest it/break it up. Would you agree with this?

Was that your pond!!!?

Magicarp!!!

When are you doing your next video?

I never go anywhere without my worms :)

Try use chip shop chips nearly caught a carp off one somehow

Do you ever fish in Surrey..

Why aren't you adding the option for Turkish subtitles? 😔Please add Turkish subtitles to your previous and future videos. Your videos are valuable to me.🥰

2 Carl can u make a catfish rig tortilla

Bait boat tutorial next?

Wih ikan nya besar tuan apakah itu ikan Koi ???

In my opinion bakers meaty meals dog biscuits are the best surface bait by far only if people knew the power the bakers has

Come to mexico, where carp live in rivers on the side of corn farms lol

Hi

From my experience: Corn - Cheap, colorful, but attractive to small fishes Rape - More expensive than corn, not much visible, very attractive and can be very smelly. Big carps love this. Its very soluble Boilies - Small boilies for fast catch, bigger boilies for big carps Pellets - Soluble, very attractive for fast takes pop up boilies - attractive, but some big fishes find it suspicious

Hi Carl,How do you have so much time to respond to these comments?

Mushing , mashing.

1:31 Those are Carl Baits xD

Carp also known as water chicken, eats absolutely everything that can be eaten

Fresh white 🥖

Come to Cameroon. Let's fish some river giants

Has anybody ever tried using strawberries or blueberries as bait ? Before I go and waste my time trying them! I can't see how they can hurt carp if corn is ok .

I caught a grass carp in summer using peas

go carp fishing in australia its so easy we catch hundreds down here, but they are an invasive species so you cant release them.

Wot about pva bags

Des taylor frys the luncheon meat so that it does not fall off so easily.

Bacon grill is better than spam and stays on the hook alot better. Sliced bread is just wrong get an uncut fresh loaf

If u baiting is more economic boil animal feed corn whit some sugar

Saving for a boat?

Boris Johnson definitely eats green Pepperami

In my defence I use plastics in rivers otherwise baits become way too expensive

U could use anything to catch carp they will mouth absolutely anything just make sure your hooks in there lol

Every time I try prawns I catch ell, and I hate them 😅

The video production value here is mental. A* mate 😅

Tigernuts are banned on many waters, so be careful Noobies