Homemade Carp Bait Making for Beginners and Experienced Anglers – Semolina Secrets Part 1!
Whether you are a beginner to carp fishing or a seasoned bait maker, there is always something you can learn that will make a big difference to your success! Semolina is one of the most used carp bait ingredients in recipes, but why? The carbs in grits are used for energy and for other nutritional functions and functions as well! Grits is one of the staples of carp baits, so find out more about what it is, how it’s best used, and why carp like it.
I guess that in addition to eggs and many other common cooking and cooking foods that pioneer bait makers tried in their carp baits, grits was something that people tried and found functionally useful at first. Grits is definitely a carrier substance, which means it can be put to good use in boilies and other baits using its ability to absorb any one of many different liquids.
Winter or indeed any other time of year is great for grits as it is an invaluable vehicle for any stimulating liquid within your baits, plus it helps make baits cheaper!
Just add boiling water to the semolina powder and you’ll notice how it reacts with the gluten, lectin, starches, etc., causing it to stick together. When cooled you can scoop out a tasty solid mass that was once a flowing granular powder! I am sure that, like me, many home bait makers notice this property and use this property! Of course, anyone who has ever added sugar, strawberry jam, maple syrup, or cinnamon to their grits knows how useful grits are as a carrier of more flavorful substances that make you eat more.
Grits is, in its simplest form, a functional binding filler ingredient not only for boilies or pastes, but also for a wide variety of ground bait formats and other baits. Its use as a cheap and inexpensive binder means it has been a mainstay in carp baits for decades. I wonder why semolina has been used like this instead of other carbohydrate and starch binders and other energy sources and I have some personal suggestions after using both hard and soft forms of flours and wheat meals for decades.
Other sources commonly popularly used at various times and in various countries are ordinary and whole wheat flour, mashed potatoes and other wheat-rich crushed grains and seeds, and poultry and pet food, corn and grits, soybean meals and soy grits, peanut and other nut flours and tiger nut flours and flours rice flour, potato flour, corn starch, custard powder, Lamlac, Vitamealo and other low-protein and high-protein milk powders Energy. Also: polenta, farina, potato starch, cracked corn or grits, and other starches and also high-sugar sources, and modern sources include vanilla extract powder and CLO from CC Moore, Meggablends, etc.
In terms of nutrition, protein has been presented as the most important factor in making carp baits. There is a big difference between making baits that meet a variety of essential nutritional requirements, compared to baits that are truly optimized to stimulate fish feeding. All you have to do is look at the ingredient lists of premium koi fish feeds and aquaculture feeds to realize that such feeds are not really optimized for making fish feeds, as they are committed to supplying of essential nutritional requirements and activation of fish feed.
Certainly, baits do not have to contain essential nutritional elements to trigger excellent fish feeding! This is a relief for people worried about the complexities of amino acids, peptides and the optimizing actions of carp digestive enzymes etc. and protein-free baits and protein-free fish baits can certainly be made, even if they are enzyme active or optimized. for digestion
Carbohydrates found in wheat flours, including durum durum wheat flour (semolina), in the past used to be considered part of inferior baits, even as so-called junk baits, since their convertible nutritional value and also the density of feed activation are lower compared to other ingredients that are much more powerful in those properties and characteristics, but carbohydrates are vital for carp!
Not only this, but so-called low nutritional value junk baits have caught literally millions of carp, including many lake records and even a great 60+ Lake record from Rainbow Lake in the past! Even extremely popular loop waters have been ripped apart by grits carb baits, including catching most of the big fish in Great Lake Darenth when more than a ton of those baits were used in a season that I know of.
Carbohydrates have extremely valuable functions and health internally. Many ways that essential proteins, such as essential and semi-essential amino acids, are used within the body involve the formation of critical substances that are formed from the combination of carbohydrate and amino acid molecules, including things like protective fish slime and the protective mucus that is secreted over the eyes and receptor sites such as the nasal cavities. It is these coatings that ensure that the fish do not immediately dry out and become seriously damaged when you take them out of the water when catching them!
I guess now you can appreciate how much more important it is to keep your fish in a cool shaded place and supplied with water to keep them moist when out of the water, especially in the heat of summer and also in windy conditions!
I guess the reason semolina became more popular (in boiled pasta boilies) than soft wheat flour was that in addition to its binding qualities in baits, hard durum wheat flour (semolina) also hardens baits, does not dissolve instantly in water and is Practically a substance that makes sticky bait recipes can be rolled into balls on a rolling table and easily extruded with a machine etc. no sticking problems.
The semolina makes the baits firmer and more resistant than normal fine soft wheat flour. But now everyone knows that toughness doesn’t stop so-called pest species from consuming the toughest baits anyway! Personally, for homemade pasta, I prefer soft soluble wheat flour, not semolina, but certainly for those who wish to roll boilies it is a handy ingredient.
In my experience, there is absolutely nothing negative about softer baits, especially the use of more water soluble binding substances such as common wheat flour or genuine whole wheat flour. I have caught many larger carp using soft wheat flour in my baits and not grits, and it is also a valuable part of my ground baits of many formats! Semolina is not as soluble and is not as energetically digested by carp.
Soft wheat flour is also used much less so that’s another big plus and let’s not forget the bread used in loaf mixes etc. is made from fine, soft, highly soluble wheat flour with a high gluten content. Revealed in my exclusive homemade bait carp and catfish bait secrets eBooks is much more powerful information. Find my unique website (Baitbigfish) and see my bio below for details of my eBook deals right now!
By Tim Richardson.