Corn seems slay Carp are other baits needed?

[akthor]

So do other baits work better or are they needed? If so in what conditions do you use them? If youn got any recipes to share that'd be great too.

Also anyone use that power bait fake corn? Also any tips on keeping the corn on you your hook?

[KawishiwiKid]

Corn is King but i once found some chewy dog food that was the size of a large marble that was killer. Super stank, stayed on the hook very well. Unfortunately it was from a lakeside spill pile so i dont know the brand. I thought about but never tried tying corn into spawn bags.

[Stick500]

To keep corn on hook simply pick out the biggest, most sturdy kernels and put the hook thru the middle. Corn seems to stay on fine even in heavy current. Helps if you use baitholder hooks.

[half-dutch]

We have been using instant oatmeal to pretty good effect. Just work it into a ball about the diameter of a dime right at the point when you need a new bait. No special advance prep is needed and there is no juice or opened can that needs to be tossed out after wards, and you can keep your bait right there in your car.

I fish it on the bottom with a bit of slack on a size 6 - 1/32oz bare ball head crappie jig in slack water and a size 6 or 4 circle hook in current. It stands up to repeated bites, and current pretty well, too. No special flavors have been necessary thus far, just plain instant oatmeal has worked about as well as anything. The flavored types contain milk powder or some such that makes the dough balls softer and they do not hold up very well.

[akthor]

How does it hold up to casting?

[CarpO0101]

as someone earlier said .. Corn is King

[JeremyCampbell]

I'm still waiting for my first corn caught carp.Only had luck with worms.Lol

[akthor]

I can't imagine using worms I would think that the panfish wouldn't leave em alone enough to let the carp bite.

Interesting question does corn only work in waters near corn fields? Maybe you haven't used corn but if you have and it hasn't worked would be very different from my experience. But there's corn fields all around the lake I fish.

Got some green giant golden niblets that I put extra salt and sugar on sitting in the fridge I can't wait to try. Think I'm going to Mille Lacs tomorrow. They say they got huge carp in there

[HandGunner]

corn is king lol. Was fishing around and ppl were using worms oats wheat blah blah blah but I was slaying carp with straight up corn on a hook. A hair rig would have increased my hook ups I bet although yesterday I was using corn boilies I made and was getting bites but I think since the ball shaped bait was kind of big on a hook the hook ups were bad a hair rig would have done it for sure. We found worms and that landed us a carp and a sheep head. My first time trying boilies but still the corn in the boilie I think was the winning ingredient.

Corn boilie

took some old canned corn blended them up mixed it in with some flour and water into a dough roll em into balls boil until they float to the surface of the pot and let em dry.

carp and cats are my new thing over bass and other game fish love hearing the bait clicker screeching