Carp Bait Recipes
The quickest and best bait for carp is a can opener and a can
of whole kernel corn,been catching them for years.Throw a
handfull in area your going to fish then bait a long shanked
hook(6 or bigger) with as many kernals as you can get
on.Sinker on the bottom,hook a few inches above,don’t leave
your rod unattended unless it’s secure.
Ah, but for breakfast they like some shredded wheat. Take the
large biscuits and dip in the water for just a second. Mash by
hand until turns into a stiff dough. Make doughballs and place
on your hook.
I have a award winning Carp bait recipe:
:start off my putting some Bisquick or ?Crusteaze? in a bowl
:Then you mix in a some water with a couple drops of Garlic
Juice or a lot of Vanilla flavorings, you add just enough water
to make the dough it forms a little sticky, then you add some
sugar.
:Put your dough in a ziplock bag, with a cup of sugar in the bottom
of the bag!!
: when you are ready to use the bait roll it into a ball, but first,
keep a little jar of the bisquick with you so you can dip the
sticky balls into this makes it smooth so you can put it onto a
hook, (Preferable a smaller hook), plus this disperses throughout
the water better.
This is a effective and easy carp dough bait recipe, easily
made right on the water.
(Warning: I have never measured the ingredients.)
1Cup. Bisquick baking mix. You can also use Krusteaze or
something similiar but it does not hold quite as good.
1Cup. Water (Enough water to make a slightly sticky dough.
1/2 C. Sugar
Flavorings. I have used Garlic Juice and also Vanilla. I prefer
artificial vanilla because it does not give me a headache like
Garlic Juice does.
(CAUTION: It is a lot better to underdo the flavorings than to
overdue!!)
If you are using liquid flavorings, just mix it in with the water
before you use the water. I have found out about one capfull
is a good amount. Form a dough with the water and mix. The
dough should be slightly sticky, that is good. Then add as
much sugar as you deem worhty. I like about 1/4-1/2 Cup.
Iput the rest of the sugar in the bag or bowl that I store the
dough in. I set the dough in the fridge for one night. Take a
small tupperware bowl or something that has a cover, and put
some of the baking mix in it. Right before you use the bait roll
a small portion in the mix so it is not so sticky on the outside.
This makes it a lot easier to use, plus it makes a scent trail on
the way to the water. This mix sort of disperses rapidly so do
not move your bait once it is setting on the bottom. Everytime
you move it you will have to rebait.
If it is legal in your area chum the fish with some dough or one
day old corn in a sugar/Vanilla solution and chum by your bait.
(Use the same flavorings as the dough) Then when you run
out of dough use the effective corn!!
I have used frozen corn and it worked great in Shasta Lake.
I caught about 7 in 30 minutes or so. Just a couple kernels on
a #10 hook and a small splitshot.
I’m not surprised that white bread balls work okay for carp. I
use Dunkin Donuts (glazed), myself. Very similar to white
bread, but smellier, I would think.
You were looking for good carp baits, my favorite is use wheaties
and work it in to a ball using strawberry soda. This drives
the carp Crazy
This is a recipe I’ve used. I assume that’s what
you’re after.
1/4 cup flour
1 egg
1 squirt chocolate syrup
1/8 cup loose corn
1/8 cup corn syrup
Mix it together, adding more flour until it gets really really
sticky. Take your favorite size hook and twirl it in the batter until
you have the size ball you want. Drop the hook with the batter
on it into some boiling water in a small pot. Wait 2-3 minutes
until the batter is
hardened, or until the hook starts floating. Use your needle
nose pliers or your hemostat from your tackle box to get the
hooks out of the water. (Use obvious caution retriving hooks
from the boiling water.) Refridgerate until ready to use.
These can be fished off the bottom, with or without a float.
They are quite durable and will last up to 30 minutes before
getting soft and gooey. Plus they are totally weedless. I’ve
used them in a fast river where the rocks on the bottom tend to
snag just about any other tackle.
Carp Bait Recipes
Carp Cornmeal Recipe
Cornmeal baits *always* work here in NJ for carp.
My recipe: Put a couple cups of cornmeal in a pot, add just
enough water to moisten it, and cook it down over low heat.
While cooking, add some cherry jello mix (dry) for scent *and*
color (carp do see color, I swear!), plus - I’m not kidding - a
tiny bit of aftershave lotion, any kind, AFTER it’s off the stove.
Brings ‘em out of the woodwork. Just be sure to cook it down
enough so that it’s firm enough to stay on your hook.
This carp bait has unlimited flavor combinations.
•2 Cups of Instant Potatoes •2 Cups of Instant Grits - Must be
instant not quick grits! •1/2 Bottle of Flavor or Jello Flavor of
Your Choice (use only small amount)
Take all the dry ingredients and mix them very well in an appropriate
size container. When all ingredients are mixed add
small amounts of water at a time, mix well, add more water
until you get a mixture that will pack into a nice golf ball size.
The mixture will feel slightly spongy when it's correct. To test
the bait make a small ball and throw it into the water where
you can see if it breaks apart in 3 to 5 minutes. You have the
correct mixture if bait is tight and does not break apart. Add
small amounts of potatoes and grits until proper consistency is
reached.
Again, any kind of Jello flavoring will work. Another tip is that
here in Georgia we use sugar corn pop cereal on the hook first
to give the bait something to pack around so it is easier to cast.
Happy Fishing, Hold 'Em Hook! Ousley
Usually purchase premium bates from a local bait store, but
on occasion I have concocted my own mixtures, and they have
worked very well. The old classic is a simple wheatie-ball mix:
crush up Wheaties cereal, add some water and form into small
balls. The trouble with these is that they soften in the water
and fall apart, but this is the case with all dough-type baits. The
Wheatie mixture can be sweetened with honey, syrup, etc. I
prefer not to sweeten mine as I believe that too strong a scent
or taste may discourage the fish. You can make productive
baits from any manner of cereal or grain: ground corn, instant
potato flakes, alfalfa, etc. shredded cotton balls added to the
gooey mixture helps to keep the balls together and on the
hook. Good
mixtures can also be made using a mash of boiled yams.
You can also sour corn by boiling and placing in a barrel and
leaving it out in the sun for a few days, covered. Carp love this,
and this is the prefered bait of English carp anglers. Regular
corn works fine, though. I’ve taken nice carp on cubes of raw
potato, cherry tomatos (believe it or not), and good-old nightcrawler
gobs. Good luck with your own mixtures; it’s fun to
experiment.
Open up a can of Del Monte whole kernal sweet corn( the
cheap brands don‘t seem to work as well.) Put that on your
hook and give it a try.
What you need Is Italian bread
Rip off a piece of skin about 2inches by2 Fold it in half skin to
skin,press it fold it again so you get kind of a square which you
press a little again so it stays together and just put it on hook
with ground weights and the carp is yours.
Got a better idea, swing by McDonalds on the way fishing,
grab a super size order of fries, then catch channel cats all
night long. Used it many times, if you don’t get decent sized
cats, you’ll get lots of big carp.
Buy some maize (feed corn). Boil it, add strawberry flavoring,
vanilla,etc. You must boil the maize for about an hour, or the
carp will not be able to digest it. You can use the maize as a
cheap chum (if it is legal in your
state). It is very effective. Or if you don’t want to go through the
bother, just use canned green giant corn, mix some strawberry
jello, or real strawberries into the can.
Ingredients:
A 50 pound bag of wheat
3 cups of sugar
Water
Fill three 5 gallon buckets 2/3 of the way full with the wheat.
Add one cup of sugar to each bucket. Add the water until it is
a few inches above the grain. Allow this mixture to set covered
for a few days. Re-add somemore water until it is again a few
inches above the water. Let it ferment for at least 5 days at
a temp. no less than 75 degrees. Then go catch a lot of fish.
Only use one bucket at a time. This may sound crazy, and
sound like it takes a long time to fix, but the results are worth
it.
The best bait that I have found for carp is strawberry jello.
What you do is cook the jello and add cornmeal till you boil it
dry. As you are doing that shread 3 or 4 cotton balls and put
them in it to help hold it together. After it has boiled dry you will
end up w/ a big ball of jello stuff then you pinch off a piece and
put it on your hook and you are good to go.
Try making a ball with Bread,Cream Cheese and water. Squish
it all up with your fingers and make it into a ball.
Mix cornflakes and Big Red together.
One great bait is dog biscuits ! The best ones are the rough
round ones with a hole in the middle.
I make a dough with cubed boiled potatoes (soft but drained)
and flour. The final kneeding is done with breadcrumbs. The
dough is refrigerated overnite.
Form a doughball over a small hook and cast with a sinker.
Still fish and use a small bobber place between two eyes on
the rod so that the line can pass through.Remember that the
line should be tight so thatthe bobber will react to the carp taking
the bait. The bobber will hang 3-4 inches below your rod.
When the carp takes the doughball the bobber will rise and hit
the rod at which time, set the hook hard. and hold on!!
•1/2 Cup of cooked oatmeal •Mix the oatmeal with equal
amounts of cornmeal and flour with some Big Red Soda until
a stiff dough is created. •Mix separately a quarter cup each of
sugar, salt and garlic powder and set aside.
When ready to fish, roll a pinched off dough ball in the container
of sugar, salt and garlic.
STINKING CORN. Mix 10 pounds of mais with 10 pounds of
sugar and put in a tub. Cover completely with boiling water and
stir well. Leave for a couple of months to give time for the reaction
to take place. When it is ready it should smell really bad
but it is a deadly carp bait.
1 jar concord grape jelly.
1 loaf whole wheat bread. Small bag yellow corn meal. Mix all
contents in a large bowl, use cornmeal to thicken to consistency
of dough bait. Sometimes I add a handful of flour to help
make it a little thicker. Portion into ziplocks and refrigerate until
needed. I have also left it in the sun and let it sour a little and it
works just as well.
You take a box of minute rice (28 ounces), 32 ounces
ketchup, a little salt, about a palm full of brown sugar, any kind
of flavoring you would like if is butter rum or mint or cherry it
doesn’t matter what it is. This is used mainly for warm weather
although it could work in cold.
1 cup corn meal.. 1/2 cup sugar.. 1 teasp vanilla extract.. Mix
with water.. to consistency of pancake mix.. Bring to boil.. Let
cool.. Make dough balls and place on hook.. #8 or #6..
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If you want to catch big carp you have got to try millot- just add
pancake syrup and flour and millot and your favorite flavoring
(I prefer strawberry oil). Mix until you have a good packing
ball. This will keep a long time so you can make as much as
you want and it will catch big fish.
Big Red mixed with cornflakes works wonders.
Strawberry jello one 4 oz pkg 1 pt. Boiling water 1 cup of flour
1 cup, 1 tsp salt, 2 tsp sugar, 2 cups of corn meal, 1 tsp vanilla
put on low heat to simmer , simmer for 2 min. Let cool
ingredients: -1 cup of cornmeal -1/2 cup of flour -1/2
cup of peanut butter -1 tbsp. Anise extract -1 tbsp. Vanilla
extract -2 tbsp. of molasses. Just mix all of these ingredients
together. If you are river fishing, as I do, knead in some strands
of cotton from a cotton ball. This seems to keep the bait from
washing off the hook in the current. I use a VERY small hook.
(A #8 bait holder works very well) The rig I use is as follows:
20# test braided line, A 1 oz. egg sinker, with the line slipped
freely through it. Then I tie on a large snap swivel. Then I
snap on a line with hook, very similar to the, “snelled,” pre-tied
hooks available in stores. ( make my own a foot long, using
20# test braided line, such as Berkeley Gorilla Braid.) Keep a
semi-taught line. When the fish bites, the sinker will stay down
and the line will slip through it, allowing the fish to pick up the
bait without feeling it. When he runs, your rod tip will jiggle,
then dip HARD! Set your hook, and hold on!
Van’s Delight Ingredients: Take 1/2 a brown bread 2 overripe
bananas 1 small cooked sweetpotato Method: Go as follows:
Mix the bananas and sweet potato together and then mix the
paste with the bread. Knead to a sticky paste add a little water
if needed.
One box of jiffy cornbread mix. Mix with water. Microwave
on high for 3 minutes add cherry extract work in some bread
crumps until firm and not sticky.
Thread bread and corn rotating on a #2 single hook. The hook
sinks the bread floats and the corn sinks slowly thus you got a
bait that bounces off the bottom and suspends for a while and
tasty for carp too.
1. Add equal amounts of flour and cornmeal into large mixing
bowl (one cup each will do for each fishing trip). 2. Slowly
add water into the bowl until the ingrediants become a dough.
3. Sugar, and or vanilla extract may be added to sweeten
the mixture. If you want a flavor such as strawberry add one
packet of jello miw into the dry ingrediants above. 4. Take large
dough ball and wrap in cheese cloth, I use a old t-shirt cut
into a square rag. 5. Put dough in water and boil for 30 min.
Remove unwrap and let cool. 6. When dough has become cool
enough to handle nead in with hands molasses and or honey
also add vanilla extract to plain flavor. This makes the dough
tacky and sweet. 7. Break off small pieces and roll into small
hook size balls, put it on the hook and hold on to your rod!!
I use ground baits. Here’s a good one. Mix about 4 cups of
chow in a bowl. Add a can of sweet corn and let it set. In about
2 hours the bait is ready to use.
Mix the folowing in a bowl : 1 cup flower 2
cups of corn flower Heat up 1 cup of water and pour the ingredients
into the water. Stir the mixture until it has become firm.
To be used with or without flavours on a hook. 2. Try a whole
or a piece of a cherry as bait. 3. Honey Dip for bait Mix the
following together : 2 table spoons honey 1 tea spoon of red
powder ( or red colourant ) 1 tea spoon custard 2 tea spoons
strawberry essence ( or strawberry flavour ) Dip or mix with
your bait.
I have used this bait to catch 5 fish over 40lbs. This is a big
carp bait,so be careful. Fillet a 15 inch or so carp and and
set the meat outside for 2 or 3 days in the shade. Do not let
the meat dry out, so keep them damp. At this point the odor
should be a challenging drawback but bare with me. Cut the
fillets into 1 inch cubes and mix with half a cup of olive oil and
tuna fish oil (from the tuna cans) in a bowl. let this soak for at
least 24hrs in your refridgerator (do not let it freeze). After this,
lightly dust the cubes with garlic powder and youre ready to
fish.
8oz fish meal 3oz soya flour 3oz c.l.o 1oz semolina 1oz maize
meal Crack 6 large eggs into a bow. Add 10ml of olive oil and
3ml of kevin nash mature lobster flavour. Add mix untill firm,
roll into balls, boil for 2 minutes and go catch a carp.
Mix 10 oz semolina, 6 oz soya flour, 2 oz garlic, 2 oz soya
meat and 3 eggs add more flour to thicken if needed. Make
small balls out of this mixture and boil the balls for 2 min. Dry
and store to freezer.
Ingredients
2 cups Cornmeal
3 tbsp Sugar
1/2 tsp Salt
1 pkg Strawberry Gelatin
1 tbsp Vanilla
2 cups Water
bag “Secret Ingredient” (see # 3 below)
Directions
1) - pour all ingredients into a large bowl, mixing until dissolved.
2) - cook over a low flame, stirring constantly.
3) - slowly add “Secret Ingredient” (Marshmallows).
4) - continue until batch is sticky as glue & too thick to stir.
5) - wrap in wax paper
6) - use strong line, put on a slip sinker then tie on a stout hook.
7) - pinch on a piece of shot ~ 12" above hook (as a stop for
the slip sinker).
8) - break off a hunk of the ultimate bait & mold it fully around hook.
9) - cast out & get ready for some hot & heavy action!
One really good bait for channel cats is raw shrimp.
Got a better idea, swing by McDonalds on the way fishing,
grab a super size order of fries, then catch channel cats all
night long. Used it many times, if you don’t get decent sized
cats, you’ll get lots of big carp.
Here are two recipes for you.
1. Go to the store and get some chicken livers. Leave them in
the trunk until flowers wilt when you drive by. When you see
that, they’re ready! Seriously, chicken liver makes a fine bait
in warm water. You may want to add flour or corn starch to the
container to help firm them up. When they get soft they don’t
stay on the hook well.
2. When you get to the river, use plain garden worms to catch
a sucker or similar rough fish. Cut the body into chunks about
1" thick and use the chunks for bait. Letting them sit in the sun
until the flies gag won’t hurt them either. If you can’t get the
sucker or other fish use herring, smelt, mackerel or other oily
fish from the local market.
Out here in Southern California we use Mackerel chunks.
•1 carton of chicken livers, cut into bait size pieces •1 box of
STRAWBERRY-BANANA JELLO •Sprinkle the Jello over the
liver and refrigerate until it becomes slimy.
A couple tips:
- Cutting the pantyhose into strips prior to going fishing will
spare you a significant amount of hastle from your fishing buddies.
- Be careful when inserting a hook with a large barb. It is not
easy to stick the hook through the fabric. Or better yet mash
the barb down somewhat.
- Let the wrapped liver soak in blood before you hurl it at the
catfish.
- I’ll leave the acquisition of the aforementioned garments to
you. Your wife may worry if she catches you rifling through her
dresser.
•Pieces of hotdogs •Pork snout or fatback •Leftover trimmings
of fat and gristle from cooked steaks that have been marinated
in Italian dressing.
Now this may sound bogus and when my friend used them, so
did I. You'll never believe that I caught over 35 lbs. of catfish at
Cull Canyon using "PICKLES"!
