How To Make Homemade Winter Carp Fishing Baits And Irresistible Red Boilies!
Robin Red is one of the most successful carp bait additives in carp fishing history! However, it is a real winter winner and is now used in ready-to-use and homemade baits all year long too! How can this amazing carp hunter be best harnessed to get better and better catches of large carp in winter and year-round? More is revealed here to stimulate carp senses, so read on now!
Robin Red is a dark red powder originally formulated to improve plumage health and coloration in birds. But it has a lot of controversy, myths and legends due to its exceptional powers to catch carp! Within this mysterious mix of sweet, spicy, sweet, and red oily elements and factors lie the secrets of an astonishing carp-catching history dating back to the mid-1960s. Among the ingredients or additives in carp fishing bait, Robin Red is in the top ten fishermen, but there are many fishermen who have never used it and who do not realize what they can do with it to improve their catches .
Two of the first fishermen known to have developed the use of Robin Red in the context of carp fishing baits and extraordinary catches were Ian Booker and John Holt. Many other anglers, including Rod Hutchinson, publicized the benefits of using Robin Red as part of their baits, especially in making boilies. The distinctive color of the hand pole when fishing with Robin Red boilies was a sign to fellow anglers of what he was wearing, even though in the early days of carp fishing, the pioneer red robin was part of the cult of the secret of carp bait.
Robin red has been discussed, discussed, and generally discussed as a topic of debate since it became more popular because anglers really wanted to know what its secrets of success were. It seems that the recipe may have changed, perhaps due to EU legislation, but some think that the recipe is not exactly as it was. But still, the recipe is similar enough today to think it’s the same product I first used in the early eighties.
Getting Robin Red is pretty easy and one of the cheapest licensed providers is CC Moore. Many bait companies use this exceptional ingredient in at least one of the baits in their range of pre-made baits and certainly CC Moore Meteor Pre-made Bait is a mix that has caught countless large carp over the years, including an old Rainbow Lake record, and I for one. I have been making homemade bait versions for many decades using Robin red and most recently adapting and altering CC Moore Meteor to suit my own lines of bait design principles and internal and external functions and optimizations.
One of the things you first notice about Robin Red is how similar it smells to paprika, and the molasses content is also very noticeable. I’ve used both to great effect, especially at low water temperatures, and indeed, Red Robin is a legendary winter bait additive. Robin Red was originally so associated with winter and cold temperatures that most of the fishermen I met in the early eighties in North Kent and South Essex only switched to exploiting Robin Red in mid-October depending on how quickly temperatures will drop and frost will approach.
The two factors of cold weather and Robin Red were intertwined and over time, with experimentation, home bait makers realized that this spicy sweet additive was actually very good at any time of year. This was a time before ready-to-use boilies were available in fishing stores and personal experimentation was a key part of personal fishing success.
In fact, for me, this journey never stopped to this day, as the advantages of knowing for sure what a bait is made of and knowing why and how to really optimize and maximize a bait for particular conditions and seasons of the year they are just so incredibly important to maximizing your success!
Anglers who use pre-made baits without developing this first-hand knowledge are simply blind to the bait and are fishing in faith without knowing how to improve the bait they have purchased.
Being a home bait maker is not about choosing a mix and how many eggs go into a mix. What matters to me are the factors that all fish tell me, in relation to their internal and external processes and much more, and how to induce feeding even when the conditions and metabolism of the fish seem to be at odds with feeding. This is where the Robin Red highlights are important to me and I have often used this additive as a starting point to develop bait additives and baits of my own design, for unique advantages over well known and established commercial food baits.
This additive is often used in pre-made baits with low inclusion rates, because that way a company can call their bait Red this or that and claim that it includes this well-known additive, without necessarily putting much in at all! For me, this is not a win-win situation for those who, for whatever reason, do not make their own baits!
The fact is that there is a huge difference in catch results between making a homemade winter bait using as little as 25 grams of Robin Red, compared to using 100 or 200 grams in a kilogram of base mix. Pepper and chilli can be too powerful due to the ever-so-powerful microelements they contain, so balance is essential.
I have made baits with too many spices that have made the baits repellent, and only testing will identify maximum levels if you create your own spice mixes and I test all of my baits very rigorously. With Robin Red, if you use 100-200 grams per kilogram in boilie bait recipes, you can be sure that you haven’t overloaded your bait and have enough of this additive to make a difference. Revealed in my unique e-books on premade baits and homemade carp and catfish bait secrets, there is much more powerful information, please search my unique website (Baitbigfish) and see my bio below for details of my e-book deals! right now!
By Tim Richardson.