written by Alexander Nikolajevitch
Why baiting campaign is so fantastic? Carp learn through association, so the idea of a baiting campaign is to make the carp associate safety with the new bait. If any carp have been caught before, which in a popular lake means most of the fish, they will generally feed on baits cautiously, and some carp may not even touch baits at all. A cautious feeding carp will be hard to catch because they have learned ways to evade capture. Some may have even learned how to “test” for tethered bait. I have seen carp swim hard into a bed of bait causing the free offerings to bounce up off the bottom then take the food while it is suspended in the water. In this particular example the carp may have learned through experience that most hook bait won’t bounce up from the bottom because they are tethered to a hook link. Carp aren’t necessarily clever creatures, but they have had plenty of experience and the time to work out regular patterns to cope in dangerous situations.There are two main ways to catch carp easily; create a feeding frenzy by encouraging large numbers of carp to feed (the competition for food causes them to forget about any potential danger) or encourage carp to lower their guard by making the food seem safe. The trouble with the first tactic is its very difficult to make large numbers of carp feed together. A baiting campaign will encourage the carp to feed confidently, thus they will lower their guard and take the bait further into the mouth giving the hook more of a chance to grab a hold.

Success of Pre-Baiting Campaign. You establish a new bait by regularly throwing in a kilo or two of your chosen bait in various areas of the lake. Throw the bait into all the places you think carp will be hanging out. Remember carp love weeds and safe areas like snags, so make sure you get plenty in these areas. Many anglers don’t like fishing in weedy or snaggy areas, so it is less likely that you will be baiting the area up for others. Also, a safe area means the carp are more likely to feed on the baits quickly, and it is less likely other, nuisance fish will be eating them first. For these reasons put a larger portion of the bait into these areas. Once you have introduced the bait over a month or so then put the majority of the bait out in places where you’re likely to cast. At the latter stages of the baiting campaign this will help make the carp feed more confidently out of those “safe zones” and give you a greater chance of catching when the bait has become established. When thinking of where to place bait, remember to cover the margins in places where you can see the bait. Then you can check to see if it’s been eaten over the next few days(at list3 days). Carp may also associate danger in the areas where they have been caught from previously, thus it can pay dividends if you target areas where many anglers don’t usually fish, unless there is an obvious reason not to fish those areas.
The frequency of baiting up can range from every other day to once every two weeks, it really depends on the number of times you can get to the lake for an hour or so. As a rough guide, I try to bait up two to three times per week for four months. I may change it depending on how much time, money or travelling I have. It could be changed to twice a week for six months and maybe throw three kilos in rather than two kilos.
Remember the more the carp see the new bait and get used to it, the more likely they will feed on it. They will eventually start to associate that bait as a safe food that’s always available, thus they will start to neglect other angler’s bait because yours will be freely available. When you have arrived at this stage, the carp are conditioned to the bait, and you will be in a position to exploit it with anmazing results.

You really want to hook the Trophy carp of your life....

Consider that!

Why nobody in the United States, since the last 35 years has never caught any carp above 45lb? (except some bow hunters or some lucky fishermen but they did it once in their entire life). Thousands of fishermen in Europe catch every single day hundreds of huge carps from 44 to 60lb and some hundreds of carps between 60 to 80 lbs. 99% of the time, they caught all these fish with boilies.

The American fisherman can do the same and I'm here to help you guys. I really do believe that in United States we can beat the world record of common carp (82.33 lb from Romania) for 3 reasons: More water, more fish and carps are more easy to catch in USA and less carpanglers,but, we have to realize that you have to do that it suppose.It will easy to find the top spots for big carps because the population of carp fishermen is small and fish stay in peace with no pression and stress.If you are a serious carp angler and ready to pay the price to be the creme of the carp anglers you have to prebait a lot and regulary than you will catch the biggest carps of your state.

The "problem" comes from education and culture.99% of the carp anglers (do not prebait at all) and when they prebait it is just a couple hands of seeds or boilies, the day before fishing. The lakes in US are so big ,that you really have to prebait a lot. One week at list long before your fishing time is a minium duration for good results. If you have a lake or river not from your home with Royalcarp's boilies 9(lowest price in USA/Canada since 5 years now)you will be able to start a serious campagne of prebaiting to increase your fishing success 300% better than in your pass.

Just for the story: The 2 UK winners of the world carp Tournament 5 years ago in New York state, caught hundreds of carps in a few days........ with 50 lb of boilies used every day. I was there so I can tell you.

I have been 16 times on the carp fishing TV series in Europe in the last 25 years. with some carps caught between 35 to 65 lb just with this strategy (prebaiting/only boilies).

About corn bait, with corn grains you will be sure 100% to stay almost at the same level of small carps (with some exception around 40 lbsof course) Corn is a really great bait to catch a lot of small carps there is no doubt. In the same time you have to acept to to catch everything who like corn (catfish, turtle, minnow, mussel, crappies ect...).Now you know why I used only boilies for carp fishing in any case.(summer time as well as winter time).Never forget 100% of the biggest carps or grass carp on the planet were caught with boilies.

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS

Campaign of prebaiting in the water system

First point/Location: Make sure that the lake where you fish produces the "trophy record". Some lakes do not have big fish. Find the spot where there are big carps, where they eat or jump regularly. Best time to fish from May to October. for north of the coutry and for the south none stop winter is my favorite season (quiet nobody and all the lake for you only)

Second point/Prebaiting: Boilies of 18mm /always used only one flavor

)FIRST DAY: If possible, use a boat and cast everywhere on the water in one time 22lb of boilies on 5 acres of surface to make sure it will give enough food for all carps. During this time, I do not fish, let the fish quiet and in peace because carps will start to swim a lot to find all these boilies and they will stay here for a while. You will cover a big surface to make sure that you will be able to stop some of big fish on this zone. Do not use corn, it will bring a lot of crayfish, catfish, buffalo, turtle and minnow and it won't attract the biggest fish. 80% of your corn will feed thousands of minnows, bremes or any kind of small fish and nothing will stay for carps.

SECOND DAY: Same quantity 22 lb of boilies in 2.5 acres of surface. Same quantity of food as the 1st day BUT the story is different: the competion will be harder between carps. The population will be bigger but the area twice shorter. The biggest carps will eat in first or will eat more. More you will have carps more the competition for food will be hard and less less they will be suspicious because they will try to eat faster than another one even if they don't want to eat .....so, it will be easier to catch some of them.

THIRD DAY: Same quantity 22lb of boilies in 1 acre of surface same story but again shorter and shorter. Make sure you will bring all the carps in teh short area. NOW the real "ultimate fighting" start between carps. The biggest will push away the smallest ect.....

FOURTH DAY: Now, you are ready for the "big day" and to catch the big carps. If they are many jet skis during the daytime fish at night. If it is quiet at daytime fish during the day. Never forget that usually the fish eat more during the day than the night whatever the most of the fishermen beleive. Always one rod close (20 yards) to the border (especially at night), second rod 50 yards and the third rod as far as you can. After a short time you will have almost all your run on the same rod. In this case you will know where carps feed. For each carp you caught you have to cast (with a throwing stick) 50 boilies in the water around your leader. Each time cast again the same quantity of boilies to make sure you leave the spot always active with some food at the bottom.I know, you think that it is to much....but this is the price for a trophy! .For any results in any sports, there is a price for success.YOU ARE READY.....and you will be the first angler of your state to catch the biggest carps frequently.