Carp A Diem - Musette's Carp Diary

[Musette]

Dear Carp Diary,

I was fortunate to encounter 1 warm weather and water condition on 9/7/2020:

Here are the results of my creel with a basic Warm Water recipe:

Total of 9 Unis and an assortment of trophy and regulars and 1 young carp for $94937 creel.

Conclusion:
Warm water stimulates sweet, fruity and nutty chemo receptors. The carp are attracted to either sinking or pop-up types of boillies and pellets during warm weather.

[Musette]

Dear Carp Diary,

I only encountered cool weather and water temps on 9/8/2020. My recipes today are mediocre.

Here are the results of my creel on Day 1 with an X Flavor All Purpose Recipe:

Total of 6 Unis and an assortment of trophy and regulars and 1 young carp for $91801 creel.

Conclusion:
X Flavour Aroma appears to favor Spice. Lets try Octo Aroma next.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here are the results of my creel on Day 2 with an Octo All Purpose Recipe:

Total of 5 Unis and an assortment of trophy and a few regulars for $92669 creel.

Conclusion:
Octo Aroma appears to favor Spice too. Perhaps Octo and X Flavour enhances anything spicy when the waters are cool? Let's try mixing Octo and X Flavour tomorrow!

[Musette]

Dear Carp Diary,

9/9/2020: It's fall and likely cool weather and water temps for some months. My cool water recipes are more productive. I have a 3 day test today.

Here are the results of my creel on Day 1 with an X Flavor + Octo All Purpose Buffet Recipe on 9/9/2020:

Total of 9 Unis and an assortment of trophies for $94091 creel. I ignore all obvious regular and young bites which have become less frequent today.

Conclusion:
X Flavour is beginning to sound suspiciously like a spicy Red Robin formulation. Both X Flavour and Octo aromas combined have a profound effect on boosting garlic boillies. I ran out of Garlic PVA chum first. I should test a double dose of both flavours next.

Day 2 9/9/20 to be continued in the next post.

Edited September 11, 2020 by Musette
typo

[Musette]

Here are the results of my creel on Day 2 with a double dose of X Flavor + Octo All Purpose Buffet Recipe on 9/9/2020:

Total of 9 Unis and an assortment of trophies for $94809 creel. All obvious regular bites ignored. Did not get any young bites.

Conclusion:
Upping the aroma concentration has little effect past a 4% solution. Perhaps I should up PVA size from Medium to Large next?

Day 3 9/9/20 to be continued in the next post.

 

Edited September 11, 2020 by Musette
typo

[Musette]

Here are the results of my creel on Day 3 with a double dose of X Flavor + Octo All Purpose Buffet Recipe and Large PVA on 9/9/2020:

Total of 12 Unis and an assortment of trophies for $94181 creel. All obvious regular bites ignored. Did not get any young bites. I had a weird weather shift mid morning from cloudy to sunny. This netted me an extra set of peak fishing time and extra 3 Unis.

Conclusion:
Medium PVA is more cost efficient than Heavy PVA. Heavy PVA is wasteful for exp and cash farming. Heavy PVA might be more useful in tournaments for slightly heavier carp. You'll only need 1 bag of groundbait per rod if you fish till you fill a 1102 Lb keepnet with 4 rods. You'll need 2 bags of expensive groundbait if you use heavy PVA. I'd like to use flat feeders to save on PVA costs, but this means I need to make space for 4 feeders versus 1 slot of stackable PVA. My tackle has limitted space. Also, flat feeders tend to glitch for my steam PC set-up. This slows down my ability to manage multiple rods.

I also suspect from the 6 test runs that I have done thus far, boillies/pellets may not need to be paired with similar PVA or feeder chum. I am going to try regular strength All Purpose Carp Buffet recipe with garlic feeder chum and pop-up spice, crab and garlic baits next. I need to test leader length to see where unis, trophies, and babies congregate. I want to catch more uni/trophies and less regular and young carp.

Edited September 11, 2020 by Musette
typo

[PH_Carpman99]

 I had a weird weather shift mid morning from cloudy to sunny. This netted me an extra set of peak fishing time and extra 3 Unis.

Every day at the same time there is a "system clock reset", the weather forecast is forwarded to the next day and challenges requiring things like catching a certain amount of fish in a day are reset. It can be very useful to note when this change occurs for you, so you don't accidently forward to a peak time and suddenly find yourself in a snooze zone and stuck with the cool down timer, or getting that sneaky extended run of peak time .

Daylight saving time changes need to be taken into account as well. 

HTH. 

   

[Musette]

@PH_Carpman99

I'm doing these carp sim science tests ever so slowly while I jot notes and take screenshots, so I caught the weather shift as it happened. I need to install a video app to speed tests up so I don't have to pause frequently to jot notes and collate screenshots. The playing screen read cloudy, but the weather forecast on the main HUD indicated it was sunny. It took some minutes for the the playing screen to catch-up with the weather forecast. While the playing screen was updating, I was on another monitor editing something.

 

[Musette]

Dear Carp Diary,

9/11/2020: I was in Weeping Willow UK today for a competition which was in off-seasonal warm water. I had too much left over warm water feed and spod chum, so I decided to test warm stuff under cool conditions.

Here are the results of my little test because I did not want to waste my leftover warm weather competition chum and feeders on 9/11/2020:

While I managed to net 8 unis in one spot in the same game day, it was not fun. The first 2 game hours I wanted to give up. Just a few young and regular bites. I still had a lot of feeder and spod that was going to waste so I soldiered on and forwarded from 3pm to 5pm. Bites were mostly regulars until 5:30pm when things picked-up. 4 unis in the evening hours before I forwarded to 9pm, then another 4 unis in the night. I had to fish an extra game hour to fill my keepnet with commons and trophies.

Conclusion:
I deduce that aromas have a water solubility threshold based on temperature. Warm weather chum are mostly sweet. The more sugary the aroma, the longer it will take to dissolve in cold water. Nutty warm water aromas don't have much sugar so will become active in cold water sooner than the more sugary ones. However, nutty aromas still fall behind fishy, spicy, wormy all season aromas in cool water in activation time.

Thus, someone could easily conclude that feeder and spod chum are a waste of money if the wrong kind is used. They may get bored before the aroma hits it's solubility threshold in cooler waters.

The AI for Fishing Planet never ceases to amaze me with it's complexities.

My next test has some amazing results. I accidentally created a cool water carp uni magnet. I still need to collate and upload the data. Stay tuned.

[Musette]

Day 1 (9/12/2020) pt. 1

Observations:
I have 13 Unis recorded for this game day but actually caught 14. I had to release the last uni because my keepnet was over capacity. I would need to let 2-3 trophies go at a loss of about 2k in profit to keep the last uni.

Tiger Nut with Hot Spice Method Mix feed stole the Uni Show in cool weather. While boilies bait does not have a weather rating, boilies groundbait do. Tiger Nut is a nutty warm weather aroma so I paired it with a random cool weather mix, Hot Spices. Wow. The rod with this pairing was super active throughout the 6 game hour test run. I was expecting the other 3 flavors/aromas to beat Tiger Nut.

Unique Break Down:

• Tiger Nut Boilies with Hot Spice Method Mix Feed = 9 uni = 70% efficacy
• Garlic Pellets with Garlic Boilies Feed = 2 uni = 15% efficacy
• Spices Boilies with Hot Spice Method Mix Feed = 1 uni = 7.5% efficacy
• Crab Boilies with Crab Boilies Feed = 1 uni = 7.5% efficacy

Please don't get too comfortable with these results as there are other parameters that I have yet to test like synergistic effect with other aromas, line color, rainy weather, bait color/shape and more warm water testing. Not enough testing has been done to use my results as any sort of optimized meta. Listen to the more senior players who have way more knowledge about the fishing AI than I do.

PS:
If you guys see me catching a bunch of Unis and Trophies then a bunch of Commons and Young, that means I filled my creel to capacity and am testing how the leftover feeder and chum affects corn, sweet corn, peas and sweet peas. Thank you to the kind veterans who try to teach me in game. I'm curious by nature and must investigate what makes things tick. The grind doesn't excite me as much as my amateur mad scientist experiments.

The next test is a trial run with method feeder and PVAs. The glitches I have had last month with method feeders seem to be fixed now. Thank you dev team

[Musette]

Day 1 (9/12/2020) Pt. 2

Rod 1: Boilies Tiger Nut Pop-up .8" (Neutral Warm Bait)
       Method 2 5/6 oz. with Hot Spices Method Mix (All Season Groundbait)

Rod 2: Boilies Tiger Nut Pop-up .8" (Neutral Warm Bait)
       PVA Med with Garlic Pellets .24" (Neutral Warm Groundbait)

Rod 3: Boilies Spices Pop-up .8" (All Season Bait)
       PVA Med with Garlic Pellets .24" (Warm Groundbait)

Rod 4: Pellets Garlic Pop-up .6" (Neutral Warm Bait)
       Method 2 5/6 oz. with Hot Spices Method Mix (All Season Groundbait)

Observations:
Only 10 unis this round. I was an idiot. I should limit uni magnet configurations to 1 rod. I lost a few unis to line slack by trying to reel 2 in with furious rod swapping.

Tiger Nut, a slightly warm weather aroma, appears to work well when paired with spicy or garlic groundbait aromas. Rods 1 and 2 were highly active, with Rod 2 being slightly more active than Rod 1.

Curious how neutral warm aromas stimulate carp chemo receptors in cool water. I think this fact is further evidence  that aromas have different activation times based on sugar content ratios programed into the fishing AI.

Today's result leads me to believe that the fishing AI favors  calorie rich proteins with savory spices during cool weather. Warm weather has a different chemo receptor profile of sugary calories.

I should try spicy with stinky meats combo in my next test since the fish AI is looking for calories mixed with savory spices.

Also of note: I'm using red braid on Rod 2 and green braid on Rod 1. If the carp AI is sensitive to line color, carp should be avoiding the more popular Rod 2 which uses red braid. Either the carp REALLY love garlic, or they are programmed to be line blind. I'm seeing similar line color blindness to the carp in Russia which had warm weather when I last visited.

PS: I'm late in posting, already did the other test...another WOWSER. Spicy stinky calories slayed the mighty Tiger Nuts!  Stay tuned as I collate the data. Been sick yesterday.

[Danangpa]

Hi buddy, youre guide carp fishing recipe much helpfull for me. Since im never fishing carp before. Btw Thanks for the info...

[Danangpa]

Hope youll get well soon , buddy....

[Danangpa]

Anyway, which place your the most favorite best spot for sunny and cloudy in UK ? Now i often fish at cave lake...

[ErwinNau]

On 9/13/2020 at 1:49 AM, Musette said:

PS:
I'm curious by nature and must investigate what makes things tick. The grind doesn't excite me as much as my amateur mad scientist experiments.

Each one finds its appeal in the game. I just found your project and I love it 

[ErwinNau]

I miss ur Carp Diary

[Musette]

My apologies for not posting earlier. I meant to post this a month ago, but had a medical emergency and only now had the energy to upload data and post. More carp diary entries to come. Sorting through my library of saved creel screenshots before I landed in the hospital. I also have requested super chum combos coming-up for uni fun. I did get distracted in Marron last week. Heading back to UK!

Hugs,
Musette

Day 1 (9/13/2020)
Today, I am trying a few new Korean based hybrid cooking aromas against the all powerful Tiger Nut Garlic hybrid. Lets see how the fishies respond.

Rod 1: Pellets Sunflower Oil Cake Pop-up .6"
       PVA Med with Garlic Pellets .24" (Warm Groundbait)

Rod 2: Boilies Tiger Nut Pop-up .8"
       PVA Med with Garlic Pellets .24" (Warm Groundbait)

Uni Magnet Rod 3: Boilies Spices Pop-up .8"
       Method 3 1/5 oz with Shrimp Squid Method Mix (All Season Groundbait)

Rod 4: Pellets Garlic Pop-up .6"
       PVA Med with Shrimp Pellets .12" (All Season Groundbait)

Look at how spice boilies + shrimp squid sethod mix stole the show in cool weather conditions. 100% unis efficacy! 13 unis all with the spice boilies and squid/shrimp method mix combo.

In later experiments, spice boilies + shrimp squid method mix, will take a back seat to other combinations depending on environmental factors and fish targeting.

Cool Water Observatons:
In cool water and conditions, hybrid aroma mixes appear to be amazing. Carp chemo receptors are more attracted to protein calories + savory spices in cool water conditions.

For cool water (below 66F/19C), the chemo receptors for the fatter trophies and unis are most keen to a mix of savory spices and stinky protein calories. It appears that carp chemo receptors (fish form of chemical smell) trump other fish receptors in cool, rainy, murky and dark conditions. Carp are also more keen to round shapes at this time, so boilies work best.

Baby Carp:
Baby carp are less likely to be attracted to this combo gestalt. If you need a baby carp, use hooks smaller than 4/0, sweet peas on carp rod or pea dough, South American fruit/nuts (camu, jauari, moriche, rubber) on bottom feeder rod. Baby carp seem less attracted to spices and garlic, but more attracted to round shapes and greens.

Spod Micro Environment:
You want to create a micro environment which draws in the carp with spod chum. Use only 1 or 2 rods with uni magnet combinations as you will lose unis to line slack if you are swapping rods around too much. The lost uni may become too skittish to return. I see that when I only catch 3 unis in a time slot because I've lost a uni or 2 to line slack.

With a good spod base mix, you can contain 5 unis within a 15 minute wave in your micro environment. In my experience, I now get 2 waves of 5-7 unis within 2 game hours or 30 minute IRL. After the first 2 waves, it's best to advance at least 2 game hours or move to a new spot if you are in a long peak period hump.

You can tweak the micro environment to produce oversized unis or isolate carp species. Posting more recent creels to show isolation techniques soon.

Hook $ize:
Note that I am using mostly carp hook 6/0 with these published tests. 6/0 hooks is best for filling a 1102Lb/500Kg keepnet fast with unis, trophies and commons. 8/0 and 10/0 hooks slow down catch rate but will give you chunkier trophies and unis and a more enjoyable time fishing and Netflixing at the same time. Whatever the hook size or amount of unis caught, the average amount of cash per a 1102Lb/500Kg keepnet is between 92-99k with premium.

 

Edited October 12, 2020 by Musette
Added creel image

[Musette]

10/08/2020
Dear Carp Diary,

I've been recovering slowly. Was at the hospital off and on this past month. Finally well enough to collate some data.

Someone asked me to share one of my hybrid Spod and PVA combos which generates alot of carp uniques. I wasn't pulling-up Moby Carp (Jim Kaf's endearing term for monster carp), just 8-10 unis in a 30 minute IRL period. But the formula can be modified to pull-up the mobys everyone seems craves. I don't enjoy fishing mobys because they take longer to reel. This means I may lose 2-3 unis with 4 active rods.

I prefer a slower recipe so that I can enjoy fishing and watching a movie at the same time.

This formula works great for cold weather and water temps below 68F/20C. Warm weather and warm temps require a different formula or an innoculant.

20 unis and 1 trophy is the most I could fit in this creel. Elapsed real time: ~90 minutes.

Note: Recipes were done in metric mode then swapped back to imperial.

This formula is enough mix for a 6 game hour period. The spod recipe is a boosted form of my All Purpose Buffet. The PVA recipe follows the same bottom feeder theory I use for catfishing by combining large and extra large particles which large fish with barbels (fish mustachios) find satisfying. You'll actually fill your creel in less than 1 hour IRL if you don't release the trophies. I tried to slow down bite rate with 10/0 carp hooks, but the attraction is so strong, that I think even the unis that I lose to line slack or rod swap come back. This is a very busy formula, not suited for watching a movie and fishing at the same time. You will want to chuck your bleeping beeping rod stand after awhile. I play this fishing game to relax and meditate. Super fast action and moby action is just not my thing.

This spod formula encourages 5-7 unis to spawn every 15 minutes in the same micro environment. There are 2 waves in a 30 minute period. After 30 minutes, the waves take a break and you need to move to another spot or advance to the next prime fishing period if you want only unis in your creel.  

To slow the flow a little for the next 2 hour game time slot, I swapped one of the spod slots with the PVA mix so I would not need to make another batch of spod mix. That's when a moby appeared.

If you crave fast action and filling your 1102LB/500KG keepnet quickly with unis, you may need to make another set of spod buffet mix rather than swapping in some PVA pizza mix when you move spots or advance time. Turn down your volume though so the beeping rod stand doesn't drive you nuts.

13 unis and 14 trophies. No swapping of PVA mix to spod or need for making more spod mix. Elapsed real time: ~50 MINS.

Note: Recipes were done in metric mode then swapped back to imperial.

Moby Hint:
Leather and mirror carps breech the moby range of 70LB+/32KG+. Thus, if you want less ghost and grass unis, reduce sweet aroma. This will make room for the lottery spawn of a few heavier mirror and leather mobies. The reduction of sweet aroma encourages the fishing AI to spawn more large sized trophy grass and ghost carps and smaller grass and ghost unis in exchange for boosting the weight of leather and mirror carps. You can also play around with decreasing X Flavour to tweak weather conditions.

Correction:
I proved myself wrong by creating an innoculant mix, spod chum combo by accident that produced a moby grass carp in a later creel. Play around with your mixes and innoculants to isolate the different carp species for carp competitions like Danger in the Grass or Lucky Ghost Hunt. Will post my later creels shortly.

Tweaking:
Tutti Fruiti and Crucian Carp increases bite rate in colder temps and fattens ghost and grass carps especially in warm temps. Tutti Fruiti enhances the attraction of fruit baits, while Crucian Carp enhances the attraction of non fruit baits. These two sweet based aromas give all carp an energy boost when activated. This can be a good thing and a bad thing. Good for stimulating lazy carp. Bad for stimulating smaller carp to bite more. Use with moderation.

X Flavour increases bait attraction in cold, cloudy, rainy, mixed weather and the attractiveness of spicy, savory baits.

Giant Octopus increases attraction of big catfish and leather/mirror carp. However, too much stink reeks of disease and will repel fish at high concentrations. (I try to stay below 3.5% concentration. Past that amount requires a case of Febreeze to repair everyone's chemo receptors!)

Giant Octopus + X Flavour is essential for cool water attraction especially when using feeder groundbaits rated for warm water. Otherwise, warm groundbait will take a very long time to activate. I've witnessed purely warm weather ground bait taking several game hours to activate in an earlier posted diary entry.

Giant Octopus + X Flavour + Tutti Fruiti (or Crucian Carp) produces a gestalt effect of attracting everything at alarming rates.

Feeder groundbaits provide nutrition, texture and aroma absorption for picky fish with barbels (fish mustachios).

You also control carp species by shape, flavor and color of bait and weather. Pay attention to which baits attract the leather and mirror unis to further cut down the lottery of ghost and grass carps whether you use South American fruits and nuts with bottom rods, or boilies with carp rods.

Cool, dark, cloudy, murky and weedy environments means carp need to rely on tactile and stinky protein chemo receptors more than vision. Round shapes and bouyant baits like pop-ups and hollow nuts present better under these conditions.

Sunny and warm environments means vision receptors are more keen, so vibrant colors and sweet calorie chemo receptors are more active.
----------------------------

[Musette]

10/10/2020
Dear Carp Diary,

Today, I encountered a snag in my boosted All Purpose Carp Buffet. Day 2 was too sunny and warm. Bite rate dropped dramatically. I was bored. I had lots of test spod from the previous day for sunny weather. So I used the test spod mix as an innoculant to the All Purpose Carp Buffet to increase bite rate.

2 mobies, 11 other unis, 13 large trophies.

Note: Recipes were done in metric mode then swapped back to imperial.

Edited October 12, 2020 by Musette
spelling correction

[Musette]

10/11/2020
Dear Carp Diary,

Today, I was curious about how Crucian Carp aroma would work with my All Purpose Buffet. Replaced Tutti Fruiti with Crucian Carp. The test shows that Crucian Carp enhances carp attraction to spicey and stinky baits and indirectly shows that Tutti Fruiti enhances the attraction of fruit flavors like banana. See previous creels to see how popular banana boilies are when Tutti Fruiti is used in the spod mix. This is good to know as it helps to isolate carp species for competitions like Jolly Carp, Lucky Ghost Hunt and Danger in the Grass. Knowing which bait the different carp favor and then making the correct baits more attractive is helpful to these types of competition.

Crucian Carp Spice, Shellfish and Krill.

Note: Recipes were done in metric mode then swapped back to imperial.

Edited October 12, 2020 by Musette
spelling correction

[Musette]

Late 10/11/2020
Dear Carp Diary,

I am thoroughly enjoying being a carp mad scientist. I wanted to make the spod mix more appealing texture-wise by substituting small Hemp Seed with 6mm Hemp Pellets. Since it was another warm, sunny day, I knew I needed an warm sunny innoculant again. I made the innoculant with Strawberry Banana Method Mix, X Flavour and Tutti Fruiti to further enhance my main uni magnet rod with the banana boilie bait.

Grass Carp Moby produced!

Note: Recipes were done in metric mode then swapped back to imperial.

[Musette]

10/13/2020
Dear Carp Diary,

Cannabis Sativa is my favorite material to make paper, textiles, medicines and food. My homegrown hemp sprout sushi rolls are divine. Thought I'd try a Triple H Cannabis Sativa spod mix of 2 different sizes of Hemp Pellet groundbait and Hemp Seeds Spod mix. This gives me more spod volume so I don't need to make an extra batch of spod mix. Also switched to LARGE PVAs to use-up PVA groundbait. Pellet and boilie groundbaits have twice the volume of spod products. This way I can happily fish and binge watch horror movies this month without running back and forth to homepoint to replenish particles which are not sold at the WW UK Shop.

Looks like Triple H mix, with a little more tweaking, maybe good for higher-end mirror and leather unis and Jolly Carp competition. Conducting more Triple H research soon...in game. I'm not set-up this season for Triple H research IRL.

Note: Recipes were done in metric mode then swapped back to imperial.

[Musette]

10/21/2020

Dear Carp Diary,

It's Halloween season so I thought I'd binge watch the Ghosterbusters franchise and target the elusive Moby Ghost Carp.

Here's the creel:

Happy Halloween Hugs

[Musette]

10/22/2020

Dear Carp Diary,

I accidentally won a French Biggest Carp Competition today.

I went to the French competition to test bait combos because it was set unseasonably warm and sunny:

• 78F/25.5C Air Temp
• 68F/20C Water Temp

I don't see weather that warm in Weeping Willows, UK like ever. If there is warm weather in fall, the water temps are cool (below 68F/20C). Luckily, the French decided to have a custom competition with just the right temps I was looking for without me having to run my own custom competition. Oversized unis are not as prevalent during warm weather and water with my current mixes.

My All Purpose Carp Buffet Spod Mix was not warm enough to induce rapid uni spawning, to I gave it a couple of shots of Strawberry Banana boosted spod innoculent. I used Strawberry Banana Method mix as the catylst to enhance the Banana Boilies bait I used. In warm water, warm air, bright sunny weather, carp tend to favor bright colors and sweet tropical fruit like banana.

While the introduction of the innoculent sped the spawning along, I was catching low weight unis and high weight trophies. So, instead of using my carp basic PVA mix on my Banana Boilies rod, I swapped in the Strawberry Banana spod innoculent with 4 minutes left. Within a minute, I had a moby on one the Banana Boilies with boosted Strawberry Banana innoculent in PVA. So just as the competition for the biggest fish wrapped-up, I accidentally reeled in the largest warm water moby.

Unfortunately, I couldn't save my creel as the competition ended but I did get a screenshot of the results.

Cool Weather Oversized Moby Carp Recipe I promised to post for Jim Kaf entry next.

PS: The boosted Strawberry Banana Method mix tested to work  within 60F to 70F+ range (15C to 21C).

Edited October 23, 2020 by Musette
formatting

[Musette]

10/23/2020

Dear Carp Diary,

Using the results of the warm water test I did yesterday, I tried to recreate a cool water recipe while binging on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I wasn't expecting an oversized moby!

My suspicions were correct. Not only is a varied ground texture with temperature balanced aroma important, but a big boost to the PVA, Method, or Feeder to enhance bait is essential to attracting supersized mobys of 90LB/40KG+.

My internet is a being a bit bothersome today, so I'll just post the recipe as I promised Jim Kaf:

I don't believe you need to be as complex as I have been. I'll try to simplify my carp regime a little later. What's important is to have a good spod chum, lots of texture and a PVA/Method/Feeder mix as such:

Cool Weather:
Stinky 20MM/.8"' boilies like Krill or Shellfish
1 bag/90.91%  Groundbait to match the boilies
50G/4.55% Giant Octo Aroma
50g/4.55% X Flavour Aroma

Warm Weather:
Sweet, bright, fruity 20MM/.8"'  boilies like banana
1 bag/90.91%  Groundbait to match the boilies
50g/4.55% Tutti Frutti Aroma
50g/4.55% X Flavour Aroma

Back to streaming Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Amazon.

Edited October 23, 2020 by Musette

[Musette]

10/27/2020

Dear Carp Diary,

Today, the French did another warm sunny weather carp competition in Weeping Willow, UK. The custom competition conditions were tailored toward bottom fishing only. Joy! Great conditions to test tropical spod/feeder mixes with South American fruits.

I did test a couple of Halloween pumpkin candies as I was curious if the candies were bright and round enough for carp. The candies only attracted small carp. Hence, I stuck to only 3 bottom feeder rods baited with Jauri, Moriche and Camu-Camu. I did not use Rubber Tree Seeds as I forgot to bring some along. I'll try again some other time. I seem to remember Rubber Tree Seeds having similar results to the Halloween pumpkin candy...mainly small carp once in awhile.

Surprised I actually caught an 80LB/36KG moby and took 2nd place. I wasn't expecting the set-up to work well:

If you do have access to the cheap South American fruits, these do make an excellent alternative to more expensive boilies. You just need a good spodding system and high aroma feeder mix. I did increase aroma levels to compensate for the lack of aroma of the encased nut fruits. The nut fruits demonstrate carp attraction to large, round, bright bait. I think the carp find the bright orange coloring of Jauari fruit especially appealing. Even Bighead carp in Germany are attracted to Jauari. Only small carp, like children, have interest in sugary halloween pumpkin candy. I despise pumpkin candy and candy corn!

Happy Halloween!