Carp Dough Bait Recipes

There is no exact science to carp dough bait recipes. Carp dough bait recipes are usually varied by region in tastes that match the palate of the local inhabitants more than what carp are naturally attracted to. This is why the carp dough bait recipe business is not exactly booming. Easy to prepare, cheap ingredients and no set formulas make carp dough a thing of personal preference. Carp are greedy fish that will eat anything they can suck into their barbed mouths. They are invasive, not native to North America and are considered a serious threat to local wildlife. So go nuts out there.

To make carp dough bait recipes, you will need:

• Imagination
• Cheap bread
• Fresh donuts
• Biscuit dough
• Vanilla, ketchup, syrup
• Jello or Kool Aid packets
• Corn meal and corn starch
• Creamed corn
• Corn flakes or Cheerios
• Cheese, garlic, tuna fish, liver, etc.

1. Simple. Carp dough bait recipes can be as simple as wadding up bread onto your hook. White or wheat it doesn't really matter to carp. Uncooked biscuit dough is a perfect choice but you have to keep it in a cooler or it starts to fall apart. Fresh donuts work well because they are already flavored and have that perfect texture of squished bread. While texture is not important to carp because they follow their nose (or barbels), it is important to fishermen. A good doughy texture is needed to stick to the hook. Stale baked goods tend to crumble. Never use previously frozen dough or freezer breads as they disintegrate too quickly to stay on the hook.  
2. Fancy simple. To take your culinary skills up a notch without actually cooking anything try adding various scents to your carp dough bait recipes. Take some bread, add a dab of vanilla, ketchup, pancake syrup or anything really and wad up the bread in your hands to work in the scent. Another effective technique is to put cheese on the hook and wad the bread, biscuit dough, donut or whatever around it. This sounds horribly white trash but while some serious anglers waste cash on fancy lures, a little girl using squished maple donuts is catching buckets of carp.
3. Cooking. Some fishermen are willing to go the extra mile in carp dough bait recipes. They will actually turn on the stove. Corn meal based doughs are the weapon of choice for these anglers but like the above recipes, the rest is left to the imagination. A simple and effective base recipe is to blend a can of creamed corn and heat it on your stove. When it bubbles, add two tablespoons of sugar, a tablespoon of corn starch and two cups of corn meal. Take this thick paste off the stove and let it cool. Now add a cup of corn flakes, Cheerios or some sort of crunchy cereal and whatever else you think will work. Carp anglers usually add sweet choices like Jello or Kool Aid powder but they are not above adding tuna fish, liver or garlic.