How much and for how long would you introduce a bait before you think it will be readily accepted as a food source,say if you were fishing a 5 acre pond with 100 fish and when would you decide that they dont particulary like that bait/flavour and make a switch to another bait,would you give it more than 5 48hr sessions or longer. Tell me your thoughts on prebaiting techniques etc

cheers.

That depends on whether you are using a attractor bait, or a nutritional bait it might pay to change if you are using a attractor bait, but you will have to give a nutritional bait a bit longer, so that the carp find and keeping finding this bait is good for them.

I always prebait a few area's with different baits, and see what they do with it ???

Do they clean it up straight away (within a few hours) or does it sit there for a few days before it is eaten.

Unfortunately there is never a easy way, otherwise we wouldn't get the buzz from trying, it is all trial and error.

luckily for me my food source bait is a nutritional bait then I have managed to prebait a few areas now for several weeks but it looks like all the other species have found out as well as i am catching a few small carp,lots of bream,tench and even pike now ,its a funny old game, and an expensive one I will carry on and see what else occurs but if i keep catching the bream etc then i will stop as it is unlikely that my bait is even getting through to the carp and they are turning into expensive looking bream

6.4 lb bream 19/5/08