Your best carp bait recipe

[Indy Pete]

Hey Guys in Colorado, your suppose take it off the cobb first, no wonder why those fish are constipated.



Just kiddng Colorado!!

IP

[nuke1neil]

You guys crack me up!!!!!There is some serious comic genius here!!!!!!!

[crappieloo]

Getting back to the recipes,i really never would think of eating one but i have kept carp and used them.
I'm into gardening big time and have ''planted'' them for fertilizer after scaleing them and removing the lips. The scales make good poker chips and i use the lips to hold my tomatoe plants up on the steaks.

[fishin fool]

Are you serious about the poker chips and the tomato plants?

[buzzbomb]

We soak corn for a few days with sugar and jello or kool-aid + whatever sweet fruity junk catches our fancy, then boil for 2 or 3 hours, and use this for groundbait, as well as on the hair rig.  I just bought 50 kilos of corn for $14 at the feed store, and if I use this judiciously and prebait with boiled wheat as well (same additives) it might last all year.  I remember when the big scare was on about trout eating corn, and I'm glad it's over.  I'm going to grow a carp the size of a freakin' dog!

[slacker]

peanut butter balls, mix peanut butter, bread, and vanilla extract.

[Colorado_Ice]

A note on the practice of "Chumming" in the state of Colorado.

Please forgive me as I know that this is off the topic of bait recipes but it has been touched on in this thread and my intent is strictly to help people avoid breaking the law and possibly getting into trouble.

Chumming, whether it be corn or any other substance not on a hook, is forbidden here. The first section cited defines chumming. The second section cited prohibits it.

Colorado Division of Wildlife Rules and Regulations
Chapter 1 - Fishing
Article 1 - General Provisions
#100 - Definitions

"Chumming" means placing fish, parts of fish or other materials upon which fish might feed in the waters of this state for the purpose of attracting fish to a particular area in order that they may be taken, but such term shall not include fishing with baited hooks or live traps.

Chapter 1 - Fishing
Article 1 - General Provisions
#103 - Manner of take
10. Bait
      a. Bait may be used as an aid in taking, exept by chumming, in accordance with regulation #104(G).

Taken from http://wildlife.state.co.us/regulations/ch01.pdf

[Colorado_Ice]

And oh yeah,

Thanks to everyone for sharing your carp bait recipes here! I learned a lot and plan on trying some of them out very soon. 

[CarpOnTheBrain]

carp can fully digest corn trout can't. I feed my left over corn to the carp in the no fish area at lake nockamixon and i can reconize individuals.  The one carp with a missing whisker will eat right of your hand. He must have eaten a whole can of corn to himself this year and he doing just fine.

[buzzbomb]

  I've heard of that!

[trout sen-sei]

Do any of you guys use wheat germ for doughballs? I am looking for a good recipe.

[mrwalleye]

Just wondering what you use for carp baits? Do you chum, anyone use boilies or ball baits?

Here's my favorite mixture;
equal parts of
All Bran Cereal
dried whole milk
ground dead minnows
creamed corn
Corn meal
crushed rabbit food (the little green pellets)
Sometimes I add a tablespoon of strawberry jam

Mix well and add enough blackstrap molasses to bind the mixture and roll onto nickle sized balls.

Tie the balls with egg sack mesh and freeze til used.

Keep some loose (untied) in a plastic bag and chum the area with the crumbled mixture.
This mix has never failed .
RG

does anyone eat carp?  looks like alot of meat on one of those fishies

[fastribs85]

there is a russian guy i work with who says there really good. he keeps telling me to bring them and bass in if i catch any. thank you for the info tho ill be trying some in the next week or two

[saskcarp]

Just wondering what you use for carp baits? Do you chum, anyone use boilies or ball baits?

Here's my favorite mixture;
equal parts of
All Bran Cereal
dried whole milk
ground dead minnows
creamed corn
Corn meal
crushed rabbit food (the little green pellets)
Sometimes I add a tablespoon of strawberry jam

Mix well and add enough blackstrap molasses to bind the mixture and roll onto nickle sized balls.

Tie the balls with egg sack mesh and freeze til used.

Keep some loose (untied) in a plastic bag and chum the area with the crumbled mixture.
This mix has never failed .
RG

Do the crushed minnows have to be dead? 

[Big Burk]

best doughbait i have made so far consided of
-regular bread dough (flour, egg, ect.)
-strawberry cool aid powder
-maple extract
-ground up tiger nuts
its simple and works great its my second go to bait after corn.