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Runescape Slayer Guide

The Slayer skill gives you the ability to kill enemies that would otherwise be unharmed by your attacks, by using Slayer equipment and your experience in the skill. You can begin the Slayer skill at any time by speaking to any of the 5 Slayer Masters, located in different parts of the RuneScape world:

Turael - East of the bar in Burthorpe.
Mazchna - In the northeast corner of Canifis.
Vannaka - In the Edgeville Dungeon, east of the Wilderness gate.
Chaeldar - South of the entrance to the Lost City of Zanaris.
Duradel - Above the fishing shop in Shilo Village.
If you’re having trouble finding a Slayer Master, just look for the Slayer Icon on your map. It would also be wise to start off with the Slayer Master in Burthorpe, as he generally gives easier tasks than the others.

Training Slayer

To train your Slayer skill, you first need to get an assignment from one of the Slayer Masters as described above. They will tell you to kill a certain amount (no more than 200) of a kind of monster, and once you’ve defeated the required amount you can go back to your Slayer Master and get another assignment.

While on an assignment, you’ll receive experience only for defeating the type of monster that has been assigned to you. Killing other monsters that have not been assigned to you will not get you any Slayer experience. The amount of experience you receive from each kill is the same as the number of hitpoints the monster has. If two players attack the same monster, one causing the most damage and the other stiking the final blow, the experience will be split in half between each player.

Some Slayer monsters also require you to use a weapon or other item to defend against their attacks. Be sure to bring this item with you at all times during the assignment, and don’t attack Slayer monsters without the appropriate things or you may become overwhelmed and killed.

Slayer monsters drop many unique items that can only be obtained by killing them. These items include Black and White Mystic Robes, Armored Boots, Granite Maul, and the Abyssal Whip, as well as Clue Scrolls for Treasure Trails and assorted herbs.

Alternate Monsters

Sometimes your Slayer Master may be a bit vague as to the type of monster that he wants you to kill. He may generalize and say “Kalphites” or “Dragons,” which means that you can kill any monster of that type.

Kalphites - Kalphite Workers or Soldiers.
Dragons - Baby Blue or Red Dragons.
Wolves - White Wolf Mountain Wolves.
Shades - Various Shades found in Mort’ton.
The Enchanted Gem

In Slayer there is a lot of equipment available (details below), but none more necessary than the Enchanted Gem. The Enchanted Gem will enable you to contact the most matched slayer master to your combat level (Vannaka to those below combat level 70, Chaeldar to those between combat level 70 and 100 and Duradel from combat level 100+).

Once you activate the enchanted gem you have the following options

The two most important options are “How am I doing so far?” which will tell you which monster you are killing, and how many you have left to kill of it such as “You’re currently assigned to kill Cockatrice, only 85 more to go.” The other important option is “Got any tips for me?” Then your slayer master will tell you advice such as “Werewolves are feral creatures, they are strong and tough with sharp claws and teeth”

The other two options “Who are you?” and “Where are you?” are simple questions which let you find out who your slayer master is (not just the name) and where to find him or her to get tasks from them.

Changing Assignments

If you think that a certain assignment is too tough or too boring, you have the ability to change it for another random assignment. At the Burthorpe Slayer Master (Turael), you can change it by asking for a new one. However, there are two snags:

You cannot change Slayer assignments given by Turael.
You cannot change an assignment by another master if the current monster assignment is assigned from Turael’s list.

Slayer Masters

Each of the 5 Slayer Masters will give you an assignment with a different level of difficulty, depending on the master that you speak to. Some also have requirements before you are able to get an assignment from them.

Note: The following slayer task lists are by no means all-inclusive; they only detail the most common Slayer tasks.

Turael

Turael can be found in a small house near the southern entrance to Burthorpe. He gives the easiest Slayer assignments, and he has no set requirements.

Turael’s Possible Assignments
Monster Where to Find
Banshees Canifis Slayer Tower
Bats Around Keep La Faye, Taverley Dungeon
Bears North of Falador, Ardougne Mine
Birds Chicken Farms around Lumbridge
Cave Bugs Lumbridge Swamp Caves
Cave Slime Lumbridge Swamp Caves
Cows Throughout RuneScape (in cow pens)
Crawling Hands Canifis Slayer Tower
Dogs Ardougne
Dwarves Dwarven Mine, Taverley Dungeon
Ghosts Draynor Mansion, Edgeville Dungeon
Goblins Around Lumbridge, Goblin Village
Kalphites Kalphite Dungeon
Icefiends Ice Iountain (north of Falador)
Minotaurs Stronghold of Security
Monkeys Karamja Island, Ape Atoll
Rats Lumbridge, Varrock Sewer, Edgeville Dungeon
Scorpions Al Kharid, Chasm Mine, Barbarian Mine
Skeletons Draynor Manor, Edgeville Dungeon
Wolves White Wolf Mountain
Zombies Edgeville Dungeon

Mazchna

Mazchna can be found in the northeast part of Canifis, near the Clothing Shop. He has no set level requirements, and he gives more difficult tasks than Turael, but generally the stronger the monster, the more Slayer Experience you will get.

Mazchna’s Possible Assignments
Monster Where to Find
Banshees Canifis Slayer Tower
Bats Around Keep La Faye, Taverley Dungeon
Bears North of Falador, Ardougne Mine
Blue Dragons Taverley Dungeon, Heroes Guild
Cave Crawlers Fremennik Slayer Caves
Catablepon Stronghold of Security (Pit of Pestilence)
Cave Bugs Lumbridge Swamp Caves
Cave Slime Lumbridge Swamp Caves
Crawling Hands Canifis Slayer Tower
Dagganoths Lighthouse west of Rellekka
Desert Lizards South of Uzer
Dogs Ardougne
Earth Warriors Edgeville Wilderness Dungeon
Flesh Crawlers Stronghold of Security
Ghosts Draynor Mansion, Edgeville Dungeon
Ghouls Northwest of the Mort Myre Swamp
Green Dragons Wilderness
Hellhounds Ardougne Dungeon, Taverley Dungeon
Hill Giants Edgeville Dungeon, Wilderness
Hobgoblins Crandor, Edgeville Dungeon
Icefiends Ice Iountain (north of Falador)
Ice Warriors Port Sarim Ice Cavern
Kalphites Kalphite Dungeon
Killerwatts Through Oddenstein’s Portal in Draynor Manor.
Lesser Demons Karamja Volcano, Taverley Dungeon
Mogres Mudskipper Point
Moss Giants Varrock Sewer, Wilderness
Pyrefiends Fremennik Slayer Caves
Rock Slugs Fremennik Slayer Caves
Scorpions Al Kharid, Chasm Mine, Barbarian Mine
Shades Mort’ton
Skeletons Draynor Manor, Edgeville Dungeon
Trolls Death Plateau
Vampires Swamp east of Canifis
Wall Beasts Lumbridge Slayer Dungeon
Werewolves Canifis
Wolves White Wolf Mountain
Zombies Edgeville Dungeon

Vannaka

Vannaka can be found in the Edgeville dungeon, just east of the Wilderness gate. He will give you Slayer tasks of ‘medium’ difficulty to complete, and you must be at least level 40 Combat or higher.

Vannaka’s Possible Assignments
Monster Where to Find
Aberrant Specter Canifis Slayer Tower
Bloodvelds Canifis Slayer Tower
Blue Dragons Taverley Dungeon, Heroes Guild
Crawling Hands Canifis Slayer Tower
Crocodile Elid River, west of Nardah
Dagganoths Lighthouse west of Rellekka
Desert Lizards Kharidian Desert
Earth Warriors Edgeville Wilderness Dungeon
Elves Tirannwn Elf Camp
Fire Giants Waterfall
Ghouls Northwest of the Mort Myre Swamp
Green Dragons Wilderness
Hellhounds Ardougne Dungeon, Taverley Dungeon
Hill Giants Edgeville Dungeon, Wilderness
Ice Giants Port Sarim Ice Cavern, Wolf Mountain Cave
Ice Warriors Port Sarim Ice Cavern
Kalphites Kalphite Dungeon
Lesser Demons Karamja Volcano, Taverley Dungeon
Molanisk Dorgesh-kaan
Moss Giants Varrock Sewer, Wilderness
Ogres Feldip Hills, Tree Gnome Village Cavern
Otherworldly Beings Lost City of Zanaris
Pyre Fiends Fremennik Slayer Caves
Rock Slugs Fremennik Slayer Caves
Trolls Mountain Northwest of Burthorpe
Turoths Fremennik Slayer Caves
Vampires Swamp east of Canifis
Werewolves Canifis

Chaeldar

Chaeldar can be found just south of the entrance to the Lost City of Zanaris. You need to equip your Dramen Staff from the Lost City Quest and enter the small shack in the Lumbridge Swamp to be teleported to the Lost City. You can also use the Fairy Ring in the Morytania Woods to get there. Chaeldar gives more difficult tasks, and for this reason he requires at least level 70 Combat.

Chaeldar’s Possible Assignments
Monster Where to Find
Banshees Canifis Slayer Tower
Basilisks Fremennik Slayer Caves
Blue Dragons Taverley Dungeon, Heroes Guild
Bronze Dragons Brimhaven Dungeon
Cave Crawlers Fremennik Slayer Caves
Cave Horrors Mos Le’Harmless Caves
Cockatrices Fremennik Slayer Caves
Crawling Hands Canifis Slayer Tower
Dagganoths Lighthouse west of Rellekka
Elves Isafdar Woods
Fire Giants Waterfall
Greater Demons Entrana Dungeon, Brimhaven Dungeon, Ogre Enclave, Lava Maze Dungeon, Wilderness Demonic Ruins
Harpie Bug Swarms West of Tai Bwo Wannai, near Jogre Caves.
Hellhounds Ardougne Dungeon, Taverley Dungeon
Infernal Mages Canifis Slayer Dungeon
Iron Dragons Brimhaven Dungeon
Jellies Fremennik Slayer Caves
Jungle Horrors Mos Le’Harmless
Kalphites Kalphite Dungeon
Lesser Demons Karamja Volcano
Mollanisks Dorgesh-Kaan South Dungeon
Pyre Fiends Fremennik Slayer Caves
Shadow Warriors Legend’s Guild Dungeon
Steel Dragons Brimhaven Dungeon
Trolls Death Plateau
Turoths Fremennik Slayer Caves
Wall Beasts Lumbridge Slayer Dungeon
Zygomites Lost City of Zanaris

Duradel

Duradel can be found above the fishing store in Shilo Village. He gives the most difficult Slayer assignments of all the Slayer Masters, and he requires you to have at least level 100 Combat and 50 Slayer.

Duradel’s Possible Assignments
Monster Where to Find
Aberrant Specters Canifis SlayerTower
Banshees Canifis Slayer Tower
Basilisks Fremennik Slayer Caves
Black Demons Taverley Dungeon
Bloodvelds Canifis Slayer Tower
Blue Dragons Taverley Dungeon, Heroes Guild
Bronze Dragons Brimhaven Dungeon
Cave Horrors Mos Le’Harmless Caves
Dagganoths Lighthouse west of Rellekka
Fire Giants Waterfall
Greater Demons Karamja Volcano
Iron Dragons Brimhaven Dungeon
Jellies Fremennik Slayer Caves
Kalphites Kalphite Dungeon
Lesser Demons Karamja Volcano
Mutated Zygomites Lost City of Zanaris
Pyre Fiends Fremennik Slayer Caves
Steel Dragons Brimhaven Dungeon
Trolls Death Plateau
Wall Beasts Lumbridge Slayer Dungeon

Equipment

In order to kill some monsters, you may need to use a special Slayer item against them. Items range from weapons and armor to items that you need to use on the monster, and you can buy all of these items from your Slayer Master.

Slayer Equipment
Picture Item Requirements Cost What it Does
Enchanted Gem None 1 Activate this to call your Slayer Master.
Spiny Helmet Level 1 Slayer
Level 5 Defense 650 Used to repel Wall Beast attacks.
Rock Hammer Level 1 Slayer 500 Kills weakened Gargoyles.
Bag of Salt Level 1 Slayer 15 Kills weakened Rock Slugs.
Fishing Explosive Level 1 Slayer 63 Lures Mogres out of water.
Ice Cooler Level 1 Slayer 1 Kills Desert Lizards
Facemask Level 10 Slayer 200 Protection vs. Dust Devils.
Earmuffs Level 15 Slayer 200 Protection vs. Banshees.
Slayer Gloves Level 17 Slayer 200 Protects against Fever Spiders.
Mirror Shield Level 25 Slayer
Level 20 Defense 5,000 Protection vs. Cockatrice and Basilisks.
Slayer Bell Level 30 Slayer 10 Causes Molanisks to fall off of walls.
Bug Lantern Level 33 Slayer 200 Used to kill Harpie bug swarms
Insulated Boots Level 37 Slayer 200 Protects against shocks from Killerwatts.
Broad Arrows Level 55 Slayer
Level 50 Ranged 60 Kills Turoths and Kurasks.
Leaf-Tipped Spear Level 55 Slayer
Level 50 Attack 31,000 Kills Turoths and Kurasks.
Slayer Staff Level 55 Slayer
Level 50 Magic 21,000 Use the Magic Dart spell to kill Turoths and Kurasks.
Fungicide Spray Level 57 Slayer 300 Kills Mutilated Zygomites.
Fungicide Spray Can - 10 Refills your Fungicide Sprayer.
Witchwood Icon Level 58 Slayer 900 Protects against Cave Horrors.
Nosepeg Level 60 Slayer 200 Protection against Aberrant Specters.

Slayer Monsters

There are a variety of Slayer Monsters that you can kill using your Slayer skill. Some of them require you to use a specific item against them, or to have a higher Slayer level.

Slayer Monsters
Monster Slayer Level Combat Level Tactics or Required Equipment
Crawling Hand 5 8 or 12 No equipment needed.
Cave Bug 7 6 No equipment needed.
Cave Crawler 10 23 Always bring Antipoison Potions with you.
Banshee 15 23 Do not attack without Earmuffs. They drop herbs.
Cave Slime 17 23 Always bring Antipoison Potions with you. They drop Swamp Tar.
Rock Slug 20 29 You need a bag of Salt to kill them.
Desert Lizard 22 12 or 24 Use an Ice Cooler with it when it’s hitpoints won’t decrease anymore.
Cockatrice 25 37 Don’t forget your Mirror Shield! They drop Limpwurt Roots and Iron Boots.
Pyrefiend 30 43 Magic-based attacks; wear Dragonhide armor. They drop Fire Runes and Steel Boots.
Mogre 32 60 Bring Fishing Explosives and throw them into the fishing spots at Mudskipper Point. Must have completed the Mogre Mini-Quest.
Harpie bug 33 46 Requires a Bug Lantern. Located East of the General store Nearest to Tai Bwo Wannai.
Wall Beast 35 49 They hide in cracks on walls — wear your Spiny Helmet! They have 125 hits and usually hit no higher than 4.
Killerwatt 37 55 Don’t forget your Insulated Boots to protect from their shocks!
Mollanisk 39 51 Requires a Slayer Bell to knock it off of a wall.
Basilisk 40 61 Don’t forget your Mirror Shield.
Fever Spider 42 49 Don’t forget your Slayer Gloves!
Infernal Mage 45 68 Magic-based attacks; wear Dragonhide armor.
Bloodveld 50 76 Magic-based attacks; wear Dragonhide armor.
Jelly 52 78 Bring good armor and food.
Turoth 55 83, 85,87 or 89 You can only kill these with Broad Arrows, Slayer Staff or a Leaf Tipped Spear.
Mutated Zygomite 57 74 or 86 Requires Fungicide Spray to kill it.
Cave Horror 58 80 Don’t forget your Witchwood Icon to protect against them!
Aberrant Specter 60 96 Make sure you have Magic protection and a Nose Peg. Can reduce your stats to 2.
Dust Devil 65 93 Make sure you have a Facemask!
Kurask 70 106 You can only kill these with Broad Arrows, Slayer Staff or a Leaf Tipped Spear.
Skeletal Wyvern 72 140 Requires an Elemental Shield.
Gargoyle 75 111 When it’s hitpoints don’t decrease, use a Rock Hammer on it.
Nechryael 80 115 Bring food, melee armor and Prayer Potions.
Abyssal Demon 85 124 Bring armor, food and potions. They drop Abyssal Whips.
Dark Beast 90 182 Be very careful when fighting these monsters. Keep Prayer on! They can drop Death Talismans.

Slayer Dungeons

There are 3 main places where you can find Slayer monsters. Each dungeon offers different kinds of Slayer monsters.

Fremennik Caves

The Fremennik Caves can be found just east of the Golden Apple Tree, which is located southeast of the village of Rellekka. Slayer monsters inside include:

Cave Crawler
Cockatrice
Pyrefiend
Basilisk
Jelly
Turoth
Kurask
Canifis Slayer Tower

The Canifis Slayer Tower can be found to the northwest of the small swamp-town of Canifis. Before you can access this tower, you need to have completed the Priest in Peril quest. You can find the following Slayer monsters inside:

Crawling Hand
Banshee
Rock Slug
Infernal Mage
Bloodveld
Aberrant Specter
Gargoyle
Nechryael
Abyssal Demon
Lumbridge Swamp Caves

The Lumbridge Swamp Caves can be found in the Lumbridge Swamp, just west of the shack that brings you to the Lost City. It’s very dark inside, and you’ll need to make a lantern to see. Talk to the Candle Seller outside to learn how to make 1, and then go inside. Make sure to bring a Lantern, Tinderbox, Rope, Spiny Helmet, Food and an Antipoison potion. The following Slayer monsters can be found inside:

Cave Bug
Cave Slime
Wall Beast
Other Slayer Areas

Of course, the number of Slayer monsters appears to be increasing, and there are a number of other places where you can find some of the newer Slayer monsters:

Desert Lizard - Found just south of the Ruins Of Uzer & East across the river from Pollnivneach. To get there, take a magic carpet to Ruins of Uzer or if you haven’t done the suitable quest take it to Pollniveach.
Mogre - found at Mudskipper Point.
Harpie Bugs - found on the northernmost beach of Karamja.
Killerwatt - found in the “Killerwatt Plane,” which is inside the Interdimensional Rift on the third floor of Draynor Manor.
Fever Spider - located on Braindeath Island, in the Basement of the Pirates’ Brewery.
Mutated Zygomite - found in the Lost City of Zanaris.
Cave Horror - located in the Mos Le’Harmless Caves.
Dust Devil - found in the Smoke Dungeon west of Pollnivneach.
Skeletal Wyvern - found in the Ice Cavern near Port Sarim (in Thurgo’s Peninsula). Go through the cave entrance on the back wall (behind the Ice Giants).
Dark Beast - located in the Light Temple.

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1. Board Games or Puzzles

I am sure that you have had one of those days, where it seems like everything that can go wrong already has and you simply cannot take anymore nonsense in your life. You can gradually feel the stress and headache develop in your head. Then something unexpected makes you laugh, one of those good belly laughs. Before you knew it, your stress is gone. Whatever was bothering you seems to have disappeared.

One of the best ways to relief stress is to play games that make you laugh, as they will help take your mind off all your troubles. Try a game of charades or Pictionary with a group of friends, or other online games that are relaxing to help relief some tension.

Puzzles are the favorite of many. They include jigsaw puzzles, word puzzles, word searches and such. All of these games work to keep your mind preoccupied. Your mind will be busy focusing on the tasks before you; and therefore have no chance to think about all your worries and troubles.

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Exercising does not necessarily mean working out at the gym. While for some, the best way to handle stress is to get a good work out, however, you can always consider other less intensive games if you prefer a lighter exercise regime. For instance, participating in outdoor sports like softball, baseball or even football helps to remove some of the pressure that you are facing as your mind is focused elsewhere. An entire hour of physical activity will definitely make you feel better and refreshed.

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by Ernest Cisneros
The Lower Laguna Madre in South Texas is a unique hyper-saline lagoon that offers a variety of species from redfish, trout, flounder, occasional tarpon, and a growing population of snook. What separates the Lower Laguna from other parts of the Texas coast? Its the abundance of sea grasses.

One of the reasons that the Laguna Madre contains all of these different species of fish is the grass and algae. These grass beds provide a home and protection to fish as well as structure and ambush points. They are very important to the success of our fisheries.

People who are not familiar with fishing in the Laguna Madre can have a real problem with their lure from getting stuck in the grass, which can make for a frustrating experience. The unique grass beds cover 85 percent of our local waters so there is no escaping this problem that doesn't exist in other parts of the Texas Gulf Coast.

One particular species of grass, the Thalassia testudinum, can be the most difficult. Locally this grass is known as turtle grass, and whether you are an experienced angler or new to the region it can cause all sorts of frustration if you aren't used to it. Turtle grass is found especially on both sides of the Intracoastal Waterway.

The key to being successful in this situation is to keep your fishing lure just above the grass, which can be easier said than done. It is difficult but you want your lure to stay in this important "strike zone" at all times for the best chance of catching a fish. The trick is to keep your rod tip at a forty five degree angle (or higher in thicker grass), and the retrieve is equally important.

What you want to focus on is making sure that your lure is constantly in motion when over thick grass so that it doesn't get stuck. This can take a while to learn, but once you get the rhythm down pat your success rate of landing fish can skyrocket.

Everyone has their own technique of retrieval. Mine is so weird that when fishermen try to mimic my retrieve, they wonder how tired my arm gets by the end of the day. My lure is always in constant motion. If its not going up, its going down, all in one action of my rod tip. Most anglers jerk up two to three times and then let the lure drop. That technique is very successful.

Whatever technique you use, the important thing to keep in mind is that the lure needs to keep moving in order to not snag the grass. It may take hours of practice to get this method down but I assure you it is worth it. Also, watch the people fishing near you. If you see someone who isn't getting caught in the grass then pay attention to how their rod tip is moving and their retrieval rate. Don't be afraid to experiment and practice different methods, that is usually the best way to get better. In time you can become an expert at working fishing lures over grass areas and hopefully catch more fish.

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by Bob Smith
Every person who fishes has their favorite type of bait. It probably comes from successfully using the bait on several occasions. Then the result? It's a great bait.

Crawfish was my bait of choice when I was in Missouri. You just couldn't beat them for trout or a small mouth bass. But I haven't had much luck finding crawfish in other places. But I will say this, if you can find these little crawdads as they are called in Louisiana, buy and use them. Crawfish are a great way of attracting fish.

Live minnows are used by many fishermen as the live bait of choice. It's an especially attractive bait when you are fishing from a boat. Otherwise you're going to have to figure out how to carry around the bait bucket.

Live worms have long been the subject of comedy routines. People just don't know how to put a worm on a hook. When a gang hook is used a worm stretches out and looks natural. The fish don't get suspicious and you catch more fish.

There are some folk who wouldn't consider using live bait. I mean, like never. For these folk, synthetic bait can be real useful. Synthetic bait has come a long, long way in the past few years. Some of the new synthetic bait is nothing short of amazing. Today synthetic bait comes in every shape, form and type of bait you can imagine. With synthetic bait you can be ready to fish at a moment's notice.

But when the day ends its all about getting out on the water and doing it. That's fishing, not talking or debating the best bait. Without practice in fishing you'll never be good. And a good angler catches the fish. So try the different baits, but most of all get out there and fish.

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by Tim Richardson
You can make carp baits as easy and simple or as complex as you want but one thing is certain and that is, for best results you need to make sure your baits are as unlikely to arouse as little suspicion in fish as possible. To do this you need to leverage the top rule with fishing bait; that of making your bait unique and different! A new different bait has the best potential to tempt big wary carp because even where a so-called food bait or nutritional biological value bait is established, once fish get hooked on it, then fish feeding behaviour on it can alter dramatically!

Improving your baits competitive edges is all about adapting their ingredients or adding extra ones soaked in, or treating the bait with a new process so it smells and tastes different to its previous version. Other carp can senses come into the equation and be exploited in regards to texture, colour, density, shape, buoyancy, firmness, solubility and permeability etc. However you do it, changing a bait in even one small way can sustain your results on it or even totally transform your results far more positively!

To prolong the life of a readymade bait or produce a new homemade one, you have an amazingly diverse fishing bait industry offering decades of experience and field tested products proven to catch fish. So finding new products and combinations of them you can trust is easy. But there are literally thousands of products which can be exploited which are not usually used by carp anglers and theses often have potent competitive edges over the most popular proprietary ones on pressured carp waters.

Many anglers love to use flavors and others steer clear of using them. But one thing for sure is that the majority of anglers are only aware of a tiny fraction of forms of flavors and flavor substances and components available to use in our baits. The concentrated solvent based flavors so commonly used to change the smell and taste characteristic of a bait are a minor part of what you can leverage for great results!

We can associate flavors with fruits and sugars of many kinds from oranges and pineapples to apples, pears, butter and cream, spices and herbs, molluscs and crustaceans, fish and everything in between and those besides. But many flavors are beyond what most anglers would even term flavors and have bitter, sour, salty, sickly, acidic, highly pungent even repulsive effects on us humans, but carp absolutely love them. It is an interesting fact that complete digestion of many substances occurs as a direct result of bacterial action to help break down food in the gut which enzymes alone cannot digest. In this example, this means that flavors and ingredients that are partially digested or even represent or mimic these can be super attractive to fish

Whether you prefer food baits or flavors or even artificial baits like plastic corn or pellets, all can lose effectiveness after repeated captures of fish on any particular water. This is why constantly tweaking or altering your baits in minor or sometimes major ways can extend your catch results on them. The fishing bait industry is all too aware of exploiting this by offering multitudes of new products every year.

When you realise that carp will pick up anything between its lips to more fully sample and identify its potential a food you can understand why practically any bait will hook a carp at least once or never again. This means that fake baits are not the super baits many seem to think as over time these bait forms too will lose their initial advantages and edges through over-use and repeated capture conditioning of fish. Just by handling them you are tainting them with substances carp can detect and associate with danger if hooked on them and encountering them in the future.

So what is the translation of making a bait different in order to achieve perpetual edges over your fish especially in regards to bigger fish? The fact is there are thousands of substances to exploit and just one can make all the difference and transform your results. Put as simply as possible, fish and humans share numerous very vital processes which all relate to energy and its efficient use.

Fish and humans share many of the same vital processes and body chemicals we need to survive. A familiar and popular bait additive today is betaine which fish and we use in digestive juices which is also significantly used to remove harmful products in the body. Betaine is one of those substances which is found naturally abundant in nature and which our and fish bodies extract from natural foods for a balanced healthy body. So it makes sense being abundant in our natural foods that our bodies can instinctively senses its need for it and our food detection senses code for this substance strongly.

Betaine even rivals many essential amino acids carp require in their natural diet and its effects upon food palatability and synergistic interactions with amino acids in baits and in the carp body demonstrate how important this substance is in carp baits! Betaine is a bit like sugar and salt and even flavor components like malic acid which really intensify the effects and profiles of other substance like amino acids and other flavors etc at carp receptor sites all over its body from lips, face, fins, flanks, in the throat and gill areas and even in the gut itself. Yes betaine is a big fish substance for sure!

You can help your bait enhancing and bait making efforts enormously by looking at how the food we eat is formulated. The food industry go to great lengths to get substances in our food which make you eat more of it, even to the extent of training our taste buds with all that sugar, salt, yeast extract, and the vast number of other healthy and unhealthy additives hidden away in long ingredients lists. When I began writing books and articles many scoffed (please excuse the pun,) at my claims that there are many addictive substances to exploit for use in baits for big fish; just 2 clues are the capsaicin receptors found in carp, and the addictive effects of certain cereal gluten substances which release feel-good but addiction forming endorphins in carp brains! Fishing blends well with other outdoors recreation and sport activities like hunting, camping, boating and other such hobbies and but so knowing as much as possible about your improving your fishing baits will ensure you always have better results; guaranteed!

By Tim Richardson.

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Fishing bait from fishing shops can really make going carp fishing an expensive passion! Many anglers are now so conditioned to using readymade baits that they have never seriously considered the huge advantages of making very unique baits for themselves, but they will catch as many if not higher numbers of fish than commercial baits. The fact that homemade bait will cost you a fraction of the cost of readymade baits and over the days and weeks shocking savings can be achieved with no less fish (in fact quite the opposite!)

Having a unique bait is one of the greatest competitive advantages in fishing. This is very often the factor which tips fish over from the state of just testing a bait, to actually taking it into its mouth along with your hook, and giving a very desirable run. There is no doubt in my mind after over 3 decades of making homemade fishing baits, that they can compete against commercial readymade baits on any water or venue.

Of course it takes the usual fishing skills and application in order to catch any fish especially those bigger ones which are far less easily caught, but your unique bait is a distinct factor in producing for you consistent big fish catches. One of the most incredible highs is to land new personal best fish on bait you have made from your own recipe and knowing you are the one angler who is ever going to exploit your secret bait. You never have to compete with hundreds of other fishermen on the same bait as you!

Bait only really has a peak of effectiveness when fish feed confidently on it because they know they most likely will not get hooked and risk getting taken home for tea. Sure we put them back, but if you were hooked and dragged out of your safe air environment into a foreign one you would be wary of any bait that has led to you being hooked previously too! Making your own alternative secret bait recipes is such a great advantage over the masses who use readymades without a further thought to their never talked about disadvantages!

On the point about fish learning by association, you will also find with readymade baits that they frequently have to be changed to new ones because they get over-used and fish associate them with danger of hooking or capture. Whereas with homemade bait this rarely happens because you alone are fishing your bait so it cannot get over-used so intensively as readymades. This means your baits will remain effective very likely indefinitely which means you can focus on your fishing and have complete confidence that your bait is always working to best effect and has not blown! Some baits get based around flavor attraction on a carbohydrate ingredient base mix. Many others utilise to a greater extent a food bait approach using nutrition as the fish feeding triggering mechanism.

I could not believe how easy and simple it was for me to make baits that hooked big fish straight away literally while still hot, even using the most basic of ingredients. Homemade baits can be just amazingly instant and fill you will so much confidence. I do not even bother to make baits that have a round or barrel shape or an even skin at all and I most often do not even boil them to make them resilient boilies either. This is because your greatest edge with bait is their difference. Therefore if you bait feels different, has a different shape, colour, texture, buoyancy, density, firmness or softness or permeability or solubility for example, then it is far more likely to out-fish readymades with ease! That is why making homemade baits is so easy.

As I said, round baits are not needed. Things have changed drastically in the last 3 decades. There are many methods which introduce free baits well over 100 metres accurately, including ground bait slings, spods and PVA bags and nets etc. So you do not need to ever roll your baits. To make a starter effective bait you need only use one ingredient or a couple like soya flour and semolina, add enough eggs to bind them together, and make a dough to use as bait (and every bait can be different!) These might be used as paste or cut or divided into many different shaped and sized bits which you might scald with water or boil for a few seconds to harden them up to make them more resilient.

The easy way to make a paste or boilie bait base mix is to use about 6 hen eggs in a pot or bowl, whisked with about 5 millilitres of a cake flavor and 1 millilitre of intense sweetener. Then slowly add a fifty - fifty mixture of semolina powders and soya flour or maize meal or corn flour, until you have a workable dough, not too sticky and soft and not too firm to pull apart easily.

Now you can use the dough as fresh bait or opt to label some sealed plastic bags and store it in the fridge for a few days or to freeze it in advance of going fishing. You most likely will forget what you made your baits out of so it is best to write this somewhere so you can remake your winning baits repeatedly! It is possible to get a ball of dough weighing about a kilogram from a 6 egg mixture; this will obviously vary depending upon the various ingredients you choose to include and their levels. Some ingredients will hold water better than others while some might dissolve readily in water, and the practical advantages of each kind are easy to exploit depending if you want hard baits which break down slowly or ones which dissolve and spread their attraction very quickly.

I understand value like anyone else so making homemade bait for 3 pounds as opposed to buying it for 12 pounds makes great economic sense. This is startling especially when you think of the saving on 10 or 20 kilograms of homemade baits compared to commercially produced readymade ones. The saving can be in the region of 80 or 90 pounds for just 10 kilograms of bait. You will have been using many kilograms in a season so figure your savings on homemade bait, it could easily total you not hundreds but thousands of pounds so easily saved!

If having a different bait can produce such a difference in results you may as well have the goal of being as innovative as possible with yours as you create new versions for those big fish you dream of catching. The spooky thing about new baits on a water is that they very often produce the biggest most sought after fish within a short space of fishing time because they are fresh and new. Now this is as great a motive as anyone needs to take up bait making and is the icing on the cake. You can use simple forms of bait mentioned here, but you will discover that with successful baits comes the excitement of making more creative ones, and bait making can be extremely exciting, even an integral addictive part of your fishing, as you thirst for more information!

By Tim Richardson.

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It will probably come as a surprise to many fishermen that fish alternate frequently between one feeding mode and another, in order to best profit from various food opportunities available in the aquatic environment even within a short time period and this can change many times even over an hour or 24 hour period. The way fish feed is key to how best to tempt them in order to get a hook in their mouth and catch them, but few anglers actually give this immensely important subject the attention it demands. But the good news is that you can induce many fish feeding modes simply and easily in order to catch more fish purely by exploiting what comes naturally to them...

It is well-known that jokers and blood worms have often been banned as baits from various fisheries because they impact upon the feeding behaviour of fish so much. Many species of fish and in particular the Cyprindae genus of fish, have many adaptations which help them switch between modes of feeding to exploit the higher profitabilities of one mode over another, depending on which forms of food are available and where they are located in the water or bottom sediment.

For instance, fish can harvest the extremely nutrient rich algae purely by sucking on stones and gravel. They can also particulate feed and filter on zooplankton and algae for instance in the upper layers of the water in spring and summer especially when building up reserves of energy before and after spawning activities. This reflects in the ways that fine bread and fish meal based ground baits can be fed upon in ways where the fish do not have to actually feed on the bottom, but consume it higher up in the water in suspension.

This kind of feeding or similar can be used to further explore the potential of your hook baits and free baits as food items even before your bait is actually touched by a fish. You might have seen a fish suddenly dart towards a bait after having started gulping in water first to taste your bait more efficiently using taste buds in the pharyngeal cavity in the gill area. Fish also use gulping in a snapping motion in a mobile pump feeding) or static position to filter feed and particulate feed and carp and bream do this much of the time in turbid lakes; lazy of what!

When filter feeding and using similar and related modes, carp can actually benefit from you baits nutrition and attraction without even touching them which definitely has its advantages if you use this to excite them fully before they actually feed. Such things as vegetable and fish oils, fine crustacean and milk extract powders and liver and digestive tract extracts for example, can all be exploited, but there are thousands of choices. You bait substances through carp filter feeding can induce a feeding frenzy state even before your carp have even swallowed a single bait!

Bass and trout and even carp, bream and fish like crappie roach and barbel all filter feed to different degrees. This finely adjusted feeding is achieved using what is called the branchial sieve structures which are adjusted in order to energy efficiently exploit more abundant nutritious food particles and natural organisms. Carp can even suction filter feed at least an equal head length away from its head which is similar in energy and movement efficiency as a sheep seen feeding on grass on its knees although fish use far less energy in general movement compared to terrestrial animals not supported in water.

It often seems to be the case that carp fishing baits focus goes on chemical smells for instance which are very obvious to our senses, but it needs to be remembered that fish have extremely fine tuned lateral line cells which use electrochemical impulses in the detection of food items even by the tiny movements of zooplankton only 1 millimetre in diameter. The gape size of a fish's mouth is normally not a limiting factor in efficient feeding, but the diameter of the area where the food is chewed is and it is often far less than the gape of the mouth. Therefore its makes sense to exploit this and use smaller baits than often recommended. In fact carp in turbid lakes predominantly depend on food which is in particle size, so why not go with this approach not against it!

Smaller food items can naturally be passed to the throat teeth in mouthfuls without any problem and of course the more energy efficient the food delivery system is the better. It can often be the case that small baits are the preferred choice of more experienced big fish anglers because they can see the benefits of smaller food items in regards how fish feed on such baits and also their more natural weight, size and movement in water when combined with a correctly balanced hook rig. I find boilies in the 6 to 8 millimetre size excellent for bigger more wary fish even with huge mouths!

If you exploit the various filter feeding modes of fish using various grades of ingredients both soluble and insoluble in your ground baits you can certainly induce far more intense and suitable feeding for hooking wary big carp. You might recall the fact that fish are lateral lines are tuned to feel the movements of live foods like maggots and sound is important in ground bait effectiveness, but smaller hook baits are well recommended in conjunction with this. With carp one thing is for sure and that is when you leverage their mode of feeding or preferably specifically induce particular modes of intense feeding, you can vastly improve your catches all year round and all you need to know is a bit more about effective bait use and ingredients manipulation...

By Tim Richardson.

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