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P a g e | 15 It is a question that I have been asked so many absolutely vital. Unless you do, then no matter times! What is it that makes a good barbel bait? what you use, you will likely never gain that vital One that stands out from the crowd, performing confidence. time and again, putting barbel after barbel in I would say your first task is to identify what you your net? Saying it may be a lot easier than expect from your bait. Are you fishing for finding it. numbers or targeting big fish, are you fishing I always think to myself that if the question is frequently or less than once a week, do you being asked, it is safe to assume that the person move from water to water or focus asking has not yet found such a bait! In addition, predominately on one? These are things that, in they are probably looking for something very my opinion, you need to factor in when individual, and maybe even looking to formulate formulating a bait. There must be hundreds of their own individual bait. food products out there, some made by bait companies and some intended for human That in itself is not too difficult; but arriving at a consumption, that will all catch barbel. In this bait which will catch barbel time and again, article, I will try to offer my views on what is inspiring complete confidence in it? I think most important when considering the vast array people often struggle to find it. With most of bait available. I am far more of the opinion starting out on this road, a few blanks which that it is not so much the bait itself, but what may have nothing whatever to do with the bait you do with it, that counts and although I also are enough to destroy their confidence in any believe that quality counts, quality does not new recipe they try, and so many fall into what have to mean great expense. has been referred to as the ‘bait trap’. I have been there myself and I can tell you it is not a So just what does make a really good barbel nice place to be, on a never-ending merry go bait? round of experimentation, never giving anything Many people consider a ‘nice flavour’ and ‘a a fair go, and usually blaming the bait for the good nutritional profile’ to be ‘about it’. Well, in reason for blanking. a nutshell, I suppose it is - but those two I have often said, ‘There’s no such thing as a statements contain many facets on the subject. magic bait! There is no single bait that will catch It is these that I will break down, and make every time, even if your quarry is present, as sense of, in order to answer that question. there are far too many variables in fishing for Signals that. What you can achieve though, by making your own bait, is something very individual, and No, not those horrible things with red claws! I hopefully highly desirable to a fish – or in the am talking of the signals that mean ‘food’ to a case here, barbel. It may surprise some just how barbel! Barbel, like any creature, are attracted simple and readily available the ingredients are initially to a food item by the signals that it to achieve a bait which barbel find highly recognises as food. There are several and as I am desirable, without the need to go to any major talking about what we can offer the barbel in expense, often (and sometimes much) cheaper the way of food that is probably a mixture of than shelf life or freezer bait. What you must processed food ingredients, I will confine my achieve is total belief in your bait; thoughts on the subject of attraction, to scent unfortunately, that cannot come unless it brings and taste. results! However, you must be willing to give What are these signals? They are the scents and your new bait a really fair go - in fact, this is tastes that leech from any food in a water