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The dawn of a new bait

                                                           THE DAWN OF A NEW BAIT

I have been given the very arduous task to produce Richworths 2012 new bait. Some of you will know that I produced XLR8 and KG1 which have been more than successful for the company. Over the next three months along with Total Carp we are going to try to explain the process and pit falls in producing a commercially viable bait. A new bait can go in many directions depending who are the creator. We at Richworth have since 1983 tried our very best to bring the customer a quality carp bait that not only looks good but will catch more than its fair share of carp. The idea behind KG1 was to bring the public a very instant and all year round bait and its success is second to none. This bait has a very unique flavour combination that appeals to carp even in the winter and the base mix is easily digested in the colder months. XLR8 was to follow with an all year round theme but very different additives. This bait was created to get the bigger carp interested very quickly once sampling a few baits. Larger carp in most cases are more selective about their diets and know what their bodies need to stay fit and healthy. So a bait containing good levels of protein, vitamins and minerals in powdered and liquid form will be recognised by bigger carp more instantly. That is putting it in layman’s terms for fear of boring people to death. I personally tested 25 flavour batches and powders to produce a very unique bait. Without giving it the biggun on weekend sessions I had many 30s and a mid forty whilst testing this one. The big fish caught were out numbering the smaller carp, the theory was working.

So back to the new bait which has not been given a name as yet. The flavour combination was from a tremendous bait I use to make in the early nineties. Where ever I took this bait it was apparent the combination was out fishing anything else I was using. We sourced the flavours from our flavour house and kept them very natural. For obvious reasons it would be silly to diverse the technical information but let me tell you this bait is very attractive flavour wise. I have always had a rule in bait making to use flavours that I can dip the hook bait into and cast out without repulsing them. Many flavours will and do steer carp especially wary large carp away from your bait. This depends on flavour levels, back notes or just a rank flavour. So with the taste and attract side dealt with after rolling endless batches I was near to happy. I wanted to make this bait fairly unique by adding very expensive but mind blowing powdered additives. I ordered some very interesting items from a human grade food company. The claims for these powders were amazing to say the least for what they do for a human let alone a carp. I studied the write ups for hours and tried to put together a complete carp bait super food. With the flavours sorted and now with powders to up the ante this had to be near to a winner. The green powder has a longer list of do good than I care to mention but more importantly it consists of 98% fresh water algae. Now I’m not a scientist but in my view this has to be an amazing product for a carp bait. Oh and it’s not spirullina nowhere near it before people think that. The profile of this powder is ten times that of the aforementioned powder. I am not saying spirullina is not good because it is but this one is loads better. I also doubled the amount of green lipped mussel going into the bait. Put it this way when I first showed Bob Baker at Richworth what was in it he went a little grey. But Bob being Bob agreed if this bait was as good as I said it was he would take a dip in profits. 

My next task was to sort the base mix to an all year round mix but fishy enough to be devastating in the summer also. When you commercially roll boilies there has to be some guidelines as to what mix can be rolled. Not all items or colours can be added for rolling reasons. So with Richworths guidance we developed the correct base mix for the job. At the moment I have called said bait Project X but

we will be giving the bait a different name. We might even be running a competition for one of you guys to come up with the name, watch this space. Now with the base mix established I was ready for rolling and testing different batches until I achieved and all round winner. This was never going to be easy as I have a full time job outside of fishing and a little boy I have every other weekend. Enough batches of bait were made so I could get the flavour levels correct and also to see how much of the special powders would be required. Not one to shy away from a challenge I took the new bait on my weekender series in Advanced Carp. For those of you that don’t know the weekender is a live 48 hour session mainly on new waters to see if I can outwit large carp to order. So there is already more than enough pressure to fill six pages of a magazine with fish. But hey I was quietly confident the bait was ready for the mag. I fished Winters Lake at manor farm fisheries in biggleswade, I had never seen it before but new it had some good fish in. With one rod on the new bait and one on the trusted Multiplex I was fishing and more importantly testing. My hunches were paying dividends when the first run on the new bait was the venues largest carp at 38.08 lb, what a result. I had two further carp to the new bait and no runs to the Multiplex. The locals had said how bad it had been fishing so I was really encouraged with the result. I only fished bottom baits for 24 hours before putting on zigs and taking my foot of the pedal. So this was the start that I had hoped for and long may it continue. Next month I will be testing the bait further down the line with bait rolled by Richworth. I will go in depth about the testing process and rigs I plan to use. See you next month

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