Getting the best out of your goodness

On your more highly stocked waters where carp eat bait to survive you don't need to prebait to any great extent. Just a simple baiting up when you leave the venue will suffice, all our baits have caught first time out on fish. At these types of waters the food signals the bait gives off while breaking down proves irresistible to hungry carp.
Where the bait comes into it's own though is on the waters that have been hammered on conventional boilies, because Carp Hunter Baits contain no egg products they give off a very different signal to more conventional boilies and due to the fact that they contain liquidized food stuffs that are proven carp catchers our baits are recognized very quickly.

Remember bait is only part of the puzzle, if you are not experienced in carp angling there is no magic formula, all waters fish differently.
Lets imagine you are targeting a smallish water of 2 to 5 acre's. First of all watch the water on a trial session, see how the other anglers are fishing, what bait they are using and how they are applying it, see if there is a pattern, what time do they bait up, how often and what amount are they using, are the takes coming strait away or are they coming 24hours or longer after baiting up? Once you have some of the answers you can formulate a battle plan, remember the 6 P's, Perfect Planning Prevents Pi$$ Poor Performance!

On many waters anglers will be turning up at late afternoon early evening time, they will be disturbing the water, spodding, feature finding etc. others may be winding in to recast or going off to get a takeaway etc!! This can be a good time to get takes and I always try to have my baits in the water in undisturbed area's. On pressured waters carp can be feeding quite happily 100yds up the bank from matey who is whipping the water to a foam with his spod rod. These area's are usually found furthest from the car park!!

So where to put our baits? Where the carp naturally feed I say. A carp will know his patch well, he will know where the natural larders are and when best to harvest these natural larders, by introducing baits to these spots on a regular basis 2 or 3 times a week you will be increasing your chances considerably. Bait up after dark if possible, so other anglers will not see you and neither will the wildlife which can be a real problem especially in the colder months when food is scarce.

Lets say you have found 10 to 20 spots around your lake where you have seen carp feeding or noticed regular fly hatches, start introducing bait to these area's. If there are a lot of small fish present use a larger size boilie to bait up with, I personally use 22mm baits in this situation as I don't want the nuisance fish to view my bait as a food source, this way it keeps costs down and nuisance fish to a minimum. There can be nothing worse than prebaiting with small baits only to turn the nuisance fish on to it.
Keep putting bait on these spots on a regular basis ie. every 48hrs. Vary the spots the spots you are baiting, say, do ten spots one night in favorable area's then do the other spots 48hrs later, keep swapping the spots around, that will keep the birds off. Remember you only get out what you put in, hard work equates to fish on the bank.

On the Road Lake last season it took a month of regular fishing to get the carp on to the bait, this was largely due to the vast amount of natural food present. Carp in this lake looked on boilies with fear, they would come across a patch of round balls on the bottom and spook off them. It wasn't the bait that was a problem, it was the shape of the bait.
I started to introduce small handful's of twiglett shaped baits to area's I could watch the carp feeding in, low and behold a carp comes in and starts feeding straight away on the twiggs. Over a period of two or three 48hr  sessions I started to introduce 22mm baits, chopped up, to the spots, these were eaten also. Once I saw The round baits going, watching the bigger carp bully the stockies off the bait I knew it was only a matter of time before carp would be coming to the bank on a regular basis, and low and behold they did.

Fishing with Pure Goodness, hookbaits will last a good 24hrs in high summer when water temperatures are high, I usually use large boilie stops cut from thin plastic 2-3mm in size. If I want a bait to stay out longer then I use mesh which is free with our bait packs. When I mesh the hookbait, be it a cork balled pop-up or a normal bottom bait, two or three days in the lake is not a problem.

Pure Goodness is a freezer bait containing 50% liquidized fresh ingredients, it contains absolutely NO PRESERVATIVES to shelf life the baits, so it needs treating with respect to remain in good condition on the bank. A mesh washing bag is a good choice if no freezer facilities are available. If a white powder starts to form on the outside of the bait don't worry, these are free forming amino acids that greatly inhance the pulling power of the bait. If you see green mould on the bait however, It's time to through it. I personally like to use the "Goodness" when they have the white powdery coating on them, especially the hookbaits, we call these Bon Bons!

Any questions email dean@thecarphunter.com