
Team Korda - The Benefits of Maize
Baiting Beginner
Maize has to be one of the best particle baits. The colour and texture, carp find irritable and it can be used in a variety of situations.
The big brother of sweetcorn, maize, has to be one of the most effective particle hookbaits around. Whether it’s fished over a spodded area, lowered into the edge or fished as a single hookbait, maize will do the business.
Maize is most commonly used within a spod mix alongside other baits, offering a fleck of colour to a mix, drawing the carp down to feed and giving them something wholesome to eat. This is important when fishing with small food items such as hemp. Carp can easily become preoccupied by a carpet of tiny seeds but by adding some larger, more colourful food items into the mix you can avoid this. Instead, the carp will start to actively search out the grains of maize, this is great way of getting quicker bites whilst using particle.

Maize has the advantage of being a lot tougher than sweetcorn and this makes it an ideal hookbait. The last thing you want is to lose your hookbait, something sweetcorn is susceptible too, especially at long range.
If you are going to be preparing your own maize, you need to be 100% sure that it has been done correctly, as raw particle can cause serious damage to a carps stomach, often resulting in death!
To correctly soak maize, first, you need to soak it in water for 24 hours, once you have done this you can then think about boiling it. Pour the whole lot into a large saucepan and boil it for around an hour, simmering it until the bait becomes dramatically softer and swells up somewhat too. A good sign that it is ready for use is the cracking of the skin that surrounds each grain. Adding a small amount of salt to the water prior to boiling is a good way of making your maize that little bit more attractive, and then once boiled adding further quantities lf salt will help draw out the flavour and help prolong your maize. Really salty bait will last for weeks in a sealed bucket, even in the height of summer.
Balancing your maize hookbaits with the use of foam or buoyant imitation maize is another deadly tactic. By adding buoyancy, you create a hookbait that is incredibly light and will travel much further into the carps’ mouth. This not only results in more hooked fish but it also improves the quality of the hookholds.

The colour yellow has to be one of the most prominent factors in why this bait is so effective. For one reason or another carp simply love yellow, it has been proven time and time again. Baits like maize are a great example of this and you can take advantage of them by using them in your fishing.
If you haven’t already tried it, then give maize a go, it might just put a few extra carp on the bank for you this summer.
Team Korda.

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