Years passing and money allowing I started to design my own  bait. I just could not buy what I needed, the profile I wanted. I tried all the bells and whistles from chemistry department only to find out how madly I hated them. We’ ve all been there I guess.

The next shocking discovery was misleading and straight out lying advertizing about freshness and quality of the ingredients used. Don t even get me started with no proper igredients (in finished bait) listed in the first place. In order to get the quality and freshness required I had to find the major producers of raw bait ingredients. This was painful… When finally communication was established, nobody wanted to sell less than 12 tonns?!

In the mean time I spend thousands of whatever currency they sold it in and used tonns of various ingredients to establish the pros and cons of each.  I could say I ve found a lot of ways how to ring carp’s constant and long term feeding bells and probably even more of “not interested” turn downs. As you can imagine the learning curve was steep and costly (divorce-separation included) but I ve learnt so much in the process. I was more determined than ever to pursue my passion. After all, knowledge is the product of experience which by itself is usually the result of past bad judgement.

Making my own bait and carp obsessive social behaviour gradually lead to success. Big fish constantly started to munch my bait and landed in the cradle. They kept coming back as I have been changing swims throughout the year to exclude location factor. Prime takes followed on different lakes… When my good old friend with extraordinary catch balance of 28 carp over 50lbs from Smartinsko lake, changed his sponsored big name bait to mine… It was clear. I ve cracked it! At least good enough to make my special friends happy. Both, underwater and by the water alike.

I never wanted to sell my bait and turn emotional passion into cold profit business project as I never wanted (and never will) compromise the content of the bait in place of cost-efficient productivity. I rather threw away ingredients past BB date than sell my soul.

But then the obvious struck me…

The most I can do for my belowed carps is to promote natural and nutritionally balanced food while offering angler the joy and satisfaction of wild and constant takes at the same time.

As it turns out, I can only do that by making my bait avilable to the world. If that’s what it takes to make them healthy, big, strong and feisty for generations to come…Then I will BIO-TAKE!

As header suggests I don t think I know it all.  But I know enough to provide carp with healthy, balanced nutrition and provide no sleep to fishermen.

No Faith, but what We Make