new to the channel and WOW! you guys and dean have totally opened my eyes towards bait. By far and away the best pod casts out there, asking the questions we want to ask and massive respect to dean, for having the bollocks to actually answer them... breath of fresh air.
Trouble is when a fish has to eat bait just to survive something new even with high levels of flavour will be eaten. Imo, you can't beat a great food bait with low level flavour and high level solubles.
Dean have you ever thought that the chemoreception is reduced through the winter due to the skin tightening and the nerve endings cant detect the stimuli as much. The skin tightens giving the fish its winter colours!
Yep I have previously thought that about the nerve endings in cold water reacting differently, together with other biological apparatus. Not sure about that causing their colour to change in winter though. Interesting thought there! I will run that by a few people. Thanks for commenting
@@CarpChronicles it's the Chromatophores in the skin that tighten when the skin is cold that give the fish there winter colour..... Was just giving this as an example as to how much the skin contracts thus reducing the ability of the nerve endings.
There's no reason a quality fishmeal can't be used all year,it should be optimised for all eventuallys, saying all of that I believe it's also lake dependant,by this I mean,there are certain lakes that affect bait in varying ways,we used to make a bait that worked everywhere bar a few Shropshire meres ,those above meres responded to birdfood baits ,low protein high carb type baits,might of been because the lakes were quite peaty,we never really worked out why to be honest,it also depended on the birdfood,very strange scenario, another possibility could of been the fish themselves,very old fish ,with that I suppose they're ability to absorb higher protein levels become comprimised with age.
Answers, questions. Always lots to think about, thanks guys.
new to the channel and WOW! you guys and dean have totally opened my eyes towards bait. By far and away the best pod casts out there, asking the questions we want to ask and massive respect to dean, for having the bollocks to actually answer them... breath of fresh air.
Thanks Gary!
Glad you enjoyed it.
When your talking about not needing much msg what % are we talking about as a good starting point?
Try 2g 👍 per kg of basemix
Trouble is when a fish has to eat bait just to survive something new even with high levels of flavour will be eaten. Imo, you can't beat a great food bait with low level flavour and high level solubles.
I think we would all agree with that 👍
Dean have you ever thought that the chemoreception is reduced through the winter due to the skin tightening and the nerve endings cant detect the stimuli as much. The skin tightens giving the fish its winter colours!
Yep I have previously thought that about the nerve endings in cold water reacting differently, together with other biological apparatus. Not sure about that causing their colour to change in winter though. Interesting thought there!
I will run that by a few people. Thanks for commenting
@@CarpChronicles it's the Chromatophores in the skin that tighten when the skin is cold that give the fish there winter colour..... Was just giving this as an example as to how much the skin contracts thus reducing the ability of the nerve endings.
There's no reason a quality fishmeal can't be used all year,it should be optimised for all eventuallys, saying all of that I believe it's also lake dependant,by this I mean,there are certain lakes that affect bait in varying ways,we used to make a bait that worked everywhere bar a few Shropshire meres ,those above meres responded to birdfood baits ,low protein high carb type baits,might of been because the lakes were quite peaty,we never really worked out why to be honest,it also depended on the birdfood,very strange scenario, another possibility could of been the fish themselves,very old fish ,with that I suppose they're ability to absorb higher protein levels become comprimised with age.
Funny how all the experts make baits for a living...