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Total Carp Fishing Bait It's no secret that carp eat mussels, snails and crayfish sometimes even pulse (legumes) falling into the water. All these kinds of food have one thing in common. They are hard and thus the carp has to break them up with his jaw before he can eat the food. Usually a carp also breaks up hard boilies and tiger nuts before he digests them. In England there are anglers who believe in the theory that the crunchy noise that is created when a carp breaks up a mussel with his jaw attracts other carp and stimulates them to feed, too. Under-water sound travels very well. No matter if this theory is right or wrong; it’s a fact that a large part of the carp’s diet consists of food that is hard and these food items have to be broken up by the carp’s jaw first. …show more content…

Let’s call it the crunch effect. Why not try to include this effect into our carp baits? With baits like tiger nuts you’ve automatically got this natural crunch effect, but wouldn’t it be interesting to have this same effect with boilies, too, so that once a carp sucks in your boilie and tries to break it up the crunchy noise is created? To attain this effect there are several possibilities. The simplest one is to air–dry your boilies until they are rock hard, but once these baits are immersed into water they’ll get soft again especially the boilie´s surface. This isn’t ideal. There’s a better way to attain the crunch effect in a boilie. By adding a small quantity of crushed egg shells to your boilie mix you’ll get boilies that are very crunchy when a carp eats them. Be careful not to put too many crushed eggshells into your mix otherwise you won’t be able to roll out your baits very well. Some readers might be concerned that the crushed eggshells might have a negative effect on the quality of your baits. Believe me, there’s no need to worry . The crushed eggshells can only improve your

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