november-2026-free-line-part-2 - Flipbook - Page 123
FREE LINE / FIELD JOURNAL
KRIS FORD
FIELD NOTES
Logically!
Now to me, logically, the solution to both issues is simply to revert in the
main to my baseline theory a successful bait should ideally be something
that they like and preferably totally new . Why not a mid-range bait with
elements of high digestibility coupled with HNV? Too easy or too hard to
achieve? By the way, I was totally ignorant of this issue of high temperature
and indigestibility until I read Tim book. I thought that the lack of appetite
from carp in very warm conditions was akin to our own response to hot
conditions simply a loss of appetite. Although also physiological, I thought
it a question of comfort rather than an environmentally imposed disability.
The nonsense that a university got paid millions to ascertain that we eat
more ice cream and salad in the summer than we do in winter astonished
me. I would have produced the paper for a fraction of the cost.
It used to be extolled that it was possible to create a bait (food) that fulfilled
all the dietary needs of carp and that by introducing such a bait into a
lake regularly and in sufficient quantities that the carp could and would
become totally dependent on it, with the inference that this would be to
the exclusion of all else. This may well be true of tank raised and held or
farmed fish, but this claim, belief, theory or hope, call it what you will, fails
to recognise one simple but vital element: DNA.
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