Whether you are a beginner to carp fishing or an experienced bait maker, you can always learn something that will make a world of difference to your success! Grits are one of the most commonly used carp bait ingredients in recipes, but why? Semolina carbohydrates are used for energy and also for other nutritional functions and functions! Grits are one of the staples of carp baits, so find out more in-depth details about what it is, how it’s best used, and why carp like it.

My guess is that in addition to eggs and many other common cooking and cooking foods that pioneering bait makers tried in their carp baits, grits was something people tried and found functionally useful at first. Grits is certainly a carrier substance, which means it can be put to good use in boilies and other baits using its ability to absorb any of many different liquids.

Winter or indeed any other time of year is great for grits as it is an invaluable vehicle for any stimulant liquid within your baits, plus it helps make baits more economical!

Just add boiling water to semolina powder and you’ll notice how it reacts with gluten, lectin, starches, etc., causing it to bind together. When cool, you can scoop out a tasty solid mass that was once a flowing granular powder! I’m sure, like me, many homebait 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 for tastier 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 formats of ground bait 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 have some personal suggestions after using hard and soft forms of wheat flours and meals for decades.

Other commonly used sources popularly at various times and in various countries are coarse and whole wheat flour, layered mash and other wheat-rich crushed grains and seeds and poultry and pet food, corn and corn grits, soybean meals and soybean grits, peanut flours and other nut flours and tiger nut flours and flours rice flour, potato flour, corn starch, custard powder, Lamlac, Vitamealo and other low-protein, high-protein milk powders energy. Also: polenta, farina, potato starch, cracked corn or grits, and other starches and also rich sources of sugar, and modern sources include CC Moore CLO and Vanilla Extract Powder, Meggablends, etc.

In terms of nutrition, proteins have been presented as the most important factor in the production of carp baits. There is a big difference between making baits that meet a variety of essential nutritional requirements, versus baits that are truly optimized to stimulate feeding in fish. 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 truly optimized for making fish feeds, as they are committed to supplying of essential nutritional requirements and activation of fish feeds.

Baits certainly don’t have to contain essential nutritional elements to trigger great fish feeding! This is a relief for people concerned with the intricacies of amino acids, peptides and the optimizing actions of carp digestive enzymes etc. and certainly protein-free baits and fish protein baits can be made, even if they are enzyme active or optimized. for digestion

Carbohydrates found in wheat flours, including durum durum wheat (semolina) flour, used to be considered part of inferior baits in the past, even as so-called junk baits, since their convertible nutritional value and also density of feed activation are lower compared to other ingredients that are much more potent 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 Rainbow Lake in the past! Even extremely popular circuit waters have been wrecked by grits carb baits, including catching most of the big fish on big Darenth Lake 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 form 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 in the nasal cavities. It is these coatings that ensure that the fish do not immediately dry out and get badly damaged when you take them out of the water when catching them!

I guess you can now appreciate how much more important it is to keep your fish in a cool, shady place and supplied with water to keep them moist when out of the water, especially in the heat of summer and windy conditions too!

I suppose the reason semolina became more popular (in boiled pasta boilies) than soft wheat flour was that, in addition to its binding qualities in baits, durum 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 by machine etc. no sticking problems.

The semolina makes the baits firmer and stronger than normal fine soft wheat flour. But now everyone knows that toughness doesn’t stop so-called pest species from consuming the tougher baits anyway! Personally, for homemade pastas, 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 regular 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! Grits are not as soluble and not as energetically digested by carp.

Soft wheat flour is also used a lot less so that’s another big plus and let’s not forget the bread used in bar mixes etc. It is made from fine, highly soluble, soft wheat flour with a high gluten content. Revealed in my exclusive eBooks of Homemade Prepared Bait Catfish and Carp Bait Secrets is much more powerful information. Look out for my unique website (Baitbigfish) and see my bio below for details on my ebook deals right now!

By Tim Richardson.