carp bait (cant remember what someone used)

[walleyeking]

Hey guys

Just had a quick question, a long time ago, I used to watch people fishing for carp off the pier at Lake Ontario.

The guy that had the most success catching them used human food as bait. The way it works was as follows:

He would put (I think) Corn and corn meal and other stuff on a spring, thats attached to the line, in addition (I think) he put pieces of corn on his hook.

If I remember correctly when it hits the water, it would all disperse and fall off the spring, with the corn pieces still on the hook. The idea would be that the carp would eat eat eat and then eventually hit the HOOK with the corn.

What I dont remember exactly is what ingredients were used to make this bait, and I am wondering if anyone knows 100% what it is.

Also, the way to properly set up your line.

Thanks

[Fishooked]

Ah yes, I remember the days as a kid trying to make the perfect cornmeal baits for carp fishing the Passaic River!

I can't remember offhand, but I do know we used to add all sorts of sweet stuff to it like sugar and vanilla extract so it would have an attractive scent.

Of course as kids it took us forever to finally get it right and we wasted loads of cornmeal to boot.

Im not sure if anyone here can help, but there are tons of carping websites out there completely dedicated to carpfishing. You'll probably have good success there - I cant think of any offhand but if I do I'll post it here...

Ted

[qbert]

Now that you mention carp, one day last year there were dozens of 10-20 lb carp right at the waters edge splashing around making all kinds of noise. They were there for hours and hitting every little piece of bread or corn I threw at them. Was this some kind of spawning ritual or something, or did my local carp just go crazy for an afternoon???

[Fishooked]

There was always a lot of mulberry trees along the edges of the riverbanks as well...they used to sit under these trees in June when the mulberries would fall into the water, and they would sit there and slurp them up...

[walleyeking]

Ok thanks guys!

For some reason, these 3 ingredients come to mind:

cornmeal
corn (not sure if regular or creamed)
and bird seed

[Fishooked]

Mar 1, 2010 14:27:50 GMT -4 walleyeking said:

Ok thanks guys!

For some reason, these 3 ingredients come to mind:

cornmeal
corn (not sure if regular or creamed)
and bird seed

All I remember about making cornmeal was water, sugar, cornmeal, and vanilla extract. You knew when it came out good when you could roll it up into a ball and make it bounce. That, and a destroyed kitchen...

[walleyeking]

haha, I will have to give it a shot fishooked, thanks for the tips

[Tom]

carp...
boilies, pellets, bread, luncheon meat, jelly-tots and marsh-mallows (yes really), sweetcorn, dog biscuits, cat meat, lob worms, maggots, prawns, hemp and many more.
Best bait for me is a freelined cube of luncheon meat roughly 1inch squared, sweetcorn is second best, and here in the UK boilies and pellets are the most popular (if you're not sure what these are, google them)

[Tom]

and what you are talking about walleyeking, is a method feeder, they come in all shapes and sizes, including coils, and groundbait is wrapped around it, with a bait fished on a short hooklink. Groundbait is available everywhere here (carp fishing is huge here, like bass fishing in the US. Not many people fish with lures here, about 95% of fishing is done with bait). Most likely the guy bought the bait, if not, it can be made with breadcrumb, then different additives, in this case sweetcorn and maybe others.

[indafishinhole]

Are there any carp spots in Alberta or sask??? I don't think so but if there are let me no