Understanding pressured carp and reasoning behind using this method:
Simply saturating your boilies with attractants and lake water can prevent them from “drinking up the silt and mud aromas off the lake bed.
Let me explain, a dry bait placed in silt will become "pumped" with bad odours, often change its colour... making it much less attractive or even act as a repellent. I’m sure you will have found baits that have washed up that stink putrid and have been totally ignored by carp for several weeks before popping to the surface. Would you want to eat something that had taken on a bad aroma and taste, even if it was your favourite dish?
Thanks to prior soaking for 24 to 48 hours, you can avoid this inconvenience.
You can make do with lake water on its own, but my preferred method is taking advantage of adding liquid glugs whilst soaking in lake water to give my baits even more added attraction with the varying liquids available in the Nutrabaits range.
Let your imagination run wild
Second reason: a soft textute and also washed out baits are perceived by larger carp as safer, let me explain: both in terms of colour and aroma, a bait which has been at the bottom of the lake for several days is a bait which does not represent less danger from the point of view of a big, wise old carp.
My method of washing out baits is easy easy. Simply cover my baits in lake water or bottled water, add 50ml of one of our dedicated bait glugs or liquid foods per kilo of bait and mix well, then leave to soak up the goodness. Then remove the baits from the liquid ready for your session and reuse the liquid for your next batch.
Washed out baits therefore offer several advantages and depending on your type of fishing, you can combine different liquids to suit the type of lake bed you are fishing over.
You will be amazed to find this tactic often singles out the most elusive carp which tend to be the largest
Use this method and you won't regret it, guaranteed
Tight Lines
Jesse
