Carp love corn, and many anglers chum with it to get the fish into a feeding mood. Often, however, it’s easy to out-cast the distance you can fling your corn-chum by a longshot. If that’s a scenario you face, consider pack-baiting.
- Get a can of creamed corn, and thoroughly mix it with regular dry oats at around a 1:4 ratio.
- Let it sit for around 20 minutes.
- While it’s percolating, open a can of sweet corn and thread several kernels onto your hook.
- When the creamed corn and oats mix is ready, grab a handful and smoosh it more or less flat in your palm.
- Place the hooked corn in the center, roll the edges up, and apply pressure to form it into a pack-bait slightly larger than a golf ball.
- Cast it out and let it sit. You probably won’t get a bite right off the bat, but in five or 10 minutes the pack bait will fall apart (water conditions and how firm your pack is will have a big effect on just how long it takes), chumming the waters right where you’ve cast while also exposing your hook bait.
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Looking to catch carp during the colder months of the year? See what our Freshwater Correspondant Jim Gronaw has to say ont he subject, in Catchng Carp in the Cold.