There are few anglers that are yet to hear about the awesome pulling power of Marukyu’s Krill products. Match anglers were the first to latch on to the amazing attraction of Krilled maggots – and the big fish anglers were very quick to latch on. Now Marukyu’s Krill additives have become ‘must carry’ items for some of the biggest names in carp fishing.
So here is a novel idea that can quite literally make any bait into a better bait.
Simply glug your bait – boilies are ideal – in Marukyu liquid Krill SFA 450. A few seconds will do…. But the longer the better! Overnight is perfect!
Take your soaked boilie and roll it in Marukyu’s Krill Powder – SFA 400. The powder will fuse to the krill soaked boilie.
The result is a powdered krill bait. The original boilie absorbed the liquid krill – and the powder sticks to the outside – giving instant Krill-appeal to any bait – and providing a lasting Krill scent trail. It is ready to use immediately – but for even better results – air dry your new Krill krusted boilie and lock in the flavour!
And don’t just stop at boilies… it works just as well with almost any bait! Try it with meat, pellets, corn… Almost any bait works better with Marukyu Krill! But beware of imitations – Marukyu only uses uniquely processed 100% Pure Krill in its baits – beware of artificially flavoured imitations!
Need a change bait? Try soaking a bait in liquid Sanagi – then rolling in Sanagi powder – it’s devastatingly effective in the warmer weather.
Wondering what Sanagi is? It’s simple – Sanagi is Marukyu’s proprietary silkworm chrysalis additive! Now you can turn any bait into a 100% insect protein-based bait! |
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 My son Bob and I have just returned from another successful trip to France. The success of the Marukyu products continues to amaze us. With a bit of imagination you can always find a Marukyu product that will get you bites.
On this particular trip the carp were being very fussy about the size of hook baits that they would eat. On this occasion small baits were the answer. Maize soaked and cooked in Liquid krill (SFA410) worked really well, as did maize in liquid Sanagi (SFA430) and I had a stonking 51.4 mirror on two 10mm Nori boilies.
These baits were either fished with a method ball or a PVA stick.
My method mix consisted of:
30% EFG 151
30% EFG 161
25% Coarse Ground Sangi
15% Fine Ground Sanagi
This was mixed with lake water and a large splash of Liquid Sanagi
My stick mix consisted of:
80% Coarse Ground Sanagi
20% Powdered Krill
This was slightly dampened with Liquid Krill.
A sprinkling of maize and 10mm Nori boilies was added to both mixes.
Over a period of 10 days we had 102 carp which included a sixty six four mirror a fifty one four mirror, three forty pound mirrors to forty nine twelve and twenty five carp of over thirty pounds up to thirty nine pounds.
A lot of fish came by casting at either showing or bubbling fish. Our baited areas fished okay but not as well as we had hoped. I think that although the carp wanted to feed on small patches of food large beds of bait was turning them off. I wish I could ask them why they behave like this it would make life so much easier.
Rigs were either coated braid or nylon with neither rig being more successful than the other.
So yet again Marukyu products did the business. It appears that so long as you are prepared to experiment with the various ground baits, boilies and additives you can always find something that will turn the carp on and get you a few bites.
 Why not send us your successful Marukyu bait recipes along with a picture and if we post it on the Marukyu website you will receive a days fishing with me when it warms up next year!
Please send your recipes to:
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 The world seems to have gone mad or at least the weather has. I’ve just returned from a week in France, with a suntan in October for gods sake. I always look forward to a trip to France at this time of the year, the weather is usually cooling down and the carp sensing the onset of winter start to feed in earnest. Late September early October is the time for catching a lump or two so I never miss out on a chance to go.
This trip however the weather had other ideas. I spent a whole week sweltering in 30 degrees of heat, with hardly a puff of wind for respite. Even the nights stayed warm enough to sit out in shorts and a t-shirt.
This of course had adverse effect on the fishing. Over forty years of fishing for carp I have never found that radical changes in weather conditions ever bode well for catching them and sure enough this was the case for my week.
Due to the excessive heat the carp were not feeding as well as was expected so I had to alter my feeding patterns accordingly. Due to the fact that I’m not a carp and therefore will never truly understand how carp will behave from one day to the next I decided to use my three rods to try and find out how they wanted it.
One rod was fished over a bed of boilies, about a kilo to start with regular top ups of about two large handfuls every forty five minutes or so. This not only keeps fresh bait in the swim but also the noise of boilies hitting the surface is like a dinner bell ringing.
Rod two was fished with PVA bags filled with as many boilies that I could comfortably cast the distance that I wanted to fish.
Rod three was fished with PVA sticks filled with a mixture of Krill powder and powdered Sanagi slightly dampened with liquid Krill. This rod would be cast at showing fish using the high levels of attraction with a small amount of food to try and get quick bites.
After a couple of days it became apparent that the carp were indeed being a bit indifferent to large beds of bait. The carp that were getting caught were falling to small patches of bait or the PVA stick tactic.
 As the week progressed and the heat became hotter and the carp became even fussier it was the PVA stick rod that was getting results. It was apparent that the carp were not happy to eat loads of food in one sitting, but were happy to pick up the odd bit of food if they stumbled upon it. Therein lay the problem. To get bites I needed to cast frequently at showing fish. During the heat of the day the carp were not showing much, but would show more during the night. This of course made it more difficult to cast accurately to them.
By the end of the week I had managed to catch thirteen carp with a real beauty of 51lbs 8oz. So by all accounts it was a tough week all caused by the unseasonably hot weather, which as I write this has now turned to ridiculously cold. I had to work hard trying different tactics but I know that even in rubbish conditions some carp will feed and are catchable if you get your tactics correct.
Your results reflect the effort that you put in, when it gets difficult don’t just sit in your bivvy and hope that what worked last time will work this time, get your angling head on and TRY HARDER. |
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At this time of year carp will often spend most of their time in the surface layers. The obvious ways to catch them is to either fish on the surface or just under the surface with a zig rig. Both of these methods work well but there are times when the carp can be very spooky on the surface. Zig rigs are difficult to set at the correct depth; this is due to variations in the bottom topography of the lake.
I have recently been having some exceptional success using a spod, not only as a float but as a way of feeding also. By using a spod as a float I can fish my hook bait at the precise depth of my choosing. Then I can load the spod with a mixture of ground bait and chopped boilies, which will slowly fall out of the spod falling past my hook bait.
This way of using a spod not only allows you to present a hook bait in a way that a lot of carp are not used to but you can cast a spod further than most surface controllers. You will also find that the spod float does not drift so fast in the wind as a surface controller does.
THE SET UP
There are two ways to set up a spod float. You can either use a lead clip arrangement or a helicopter set up. My preferred set up is the helicopter version as this is less prone to tangles, especially if you have to use longer hook links.
Firstly I shorten the loop of line on the spod so that it is really short. I then take a small length of anti-tangle tubing about 6cm. Using a couple of beads and a large eye swivel to create the helicopter rig this is held in place by a tail rubber which is pushed onto the swivel of the spod.
I then tie on a hook link set to the depth that I think that the carp are swimming at. Simple and deadly on its day.
GROUND BAIT MIX
I mix my ground bait on the dry side as I find that this helps it to dissolve slowly out of the spod. I want a ground bait that has lots of particles in it so EFG 142 is ideal. To the EFG 142 I add some broken boilies and some sweet corn or maize. This is mixed with some liquid Krill to get a slightly damp mix that I mentioned earlier.
HOOK BAITS
Your hook bait can literally be anything. I have had good success using very dark boilies, but it is worth trying different colours to see what the carp prefer on the day. Maggots can be deadly if small nuisance fish aren’t a problem, just add a few to your ground bait.
HOW TO FISH THE SPOD FLOAT
Don’t cast the spod float about randomly; try to cast it to where you see the carp most often. The ground bait should help concentrate the carp in that area with repeated casting. It can also help if you catapult boilies over the top of the spod.
Bites are usually ferocious as the spod acts like a bolt rig with the carp being hooked in the top lip which they are also not used to.
Give the spod float a go it is especially useful when fishing over very deep water, where zig rigs are difficult or impossible to use. On a recent trip to France I had over sixty carp up to 42lbs in a week all on the spod float. |
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Tim takes a look at some exciting new products to be launched by Marukyu in 2011...
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