laguna
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Many anglers will be tempted to use some kind of flavours for high leakage in an attempt to attract fish - many are also designed to smell nice to attempt anglers to buy them too, but leaving that contentious point aside for a moment;
A little bit of background...
Science tells us that proteins and amino acids are damaged by heat processing and alcohol.
Specifically from an anglers point of view; I think few would argue that natural baits are best (including those containing unprocessed fresh real-food bait ingredients)?
Boilies are boiled with most of the flavour locked in, hard pellets are processed with high heat and extruded using a hammer mill, soft pellets are often preserved with alcohol, freezer baits with high water content can suffer cellular damage etc.
Fish have the ability to detect amino acids but not so if they have been ruined with heat or glugged with alcohol. I personally believe this makes the bait less effective because the fish are looking for nutrients - it is not looking for something that it finds hard to digest. The energy expended in eating something with minimal nutritional value will force it to call upon its own 'limited' bodily reserves to digest it. I say limited because all living creatures only have a limited ability to produce enzymes necessary to digest all what it eats, unless the food eaten is raw and unprocessed (100% natural), it will get ill and will die prematurely just as sure as anyone who mostly eats low quality fast food will get ill and die prematurely.
Here consider if you will, two types of fishery namely;
Which fishery will you catch more on if you used;
1. Artificial liquid flavours that smell nice?
2. Real-food liquid extracts that smell natural?
The same can be asked for local river stretches with easy access that see lots of angling pressure, and less for remote river areas?
Maybe a final question...(for those of you that don't use any kind of flavours) is it because;
1. Everybody else does and you think you gain the advantage by being different (edge)?
2. Because you have only ever used artificial flavours and never tried a real-food extract?
3. something else?
Thanks for your opinions.
A little bit of background...
Science tells us that proteins and amino acids are damaged by heat processing and alcohol.
Specifically from an anglers point of view; I think few would argue that natural baits are best (including those containing unprocessed fresh real-food bait ingredients)?
Boilies are boiled with most of the flavour locked in, hard pellets are processed with high heat and extruded using a hammer mill, soft pellets are often preserved with alcohol, freezer baits with high water content can suffer cellular damage etc.
Fish have the ability to detect amino acids but not so if they have been ruined with heat or glugged with alcohol. I personally believe this makes the bait less effective because the fish are looking for nutrients - it is not looking for something that it finds hard to digest. The energy expended in eating something with minimal nutritional value will force it to call upon its own 'limited' bodily reserves to digest it. I say limited because all living creatures only have a limited ability to produce enzymes necessary to digest all what it eats, unless the food eaten is raw and unprocessed (100% natural), it will get ill and will die prematurely just as sure as anyone who mostly eats low quality fast food will get ill and die prematurely.
Here consider if you will, two types of fishery namely;
- Commercial urban fishery - heavily stocked and heavily fished by all and sundry
- Commercial suburban fishery - heavily stocked and fished infrequently
Which fishery will you catch more on if you used;
1. Artificial liquid flavours that smell nice?
2. Real-food liquid extracts that smell natural?
The same can be asked for local river stretches with easy access that see lots of angling pressure, and less for remote river areas?
Maybe a final question...(for those of you that don't use any kind of flavours) is it because;
1. Everybody else does and you think you gain the advantage by being different (edge)?
2. Because you have only ever used artificial flavours and never tried a real-food extract?
3. something else?
Thanks for your opinions.