Carp Fishing Tiger Nuts

The simplest way to prepare tiger nuts is as follows: Simply soak them in filtered water (to remove chlorine etc,) for 24 hours, (whatever the size; large, or mini etc.) Cook them in boiling water for 30 minutes, keeping watch on water levels dropping, which might lead to burning and tainting of flavours. Many anglers use betaine and the protein sweeteners Thaumatin and Talin.
But wherever these have likely been used before, I’d opt for other potent alternatives, such as natural black currant flavour and liquorice extract, or ginger powder and fructose, or sweetened garlic oil or hemp oil, combined with liquid lecithin.



Tiger nuts create an attractive noise that is very easily heard in water by other carp long distances away; so effectively helping other fish locate your free baits. This noise is perhaps far more important than the fabled enjoyment of crushing food in the throat teeth, although pieces of nuts exiting from the gills and dispersing obviously tempt more fish to join in feeding too!
The relative hardness of tiger nuts leads to baits often being taken back towards the throat teeth which are around 6 plus inches away from the lips even in small carp. This gives your rig if designed well, more chances of hooking the fish. This is another reason why very buoyant, neutral or over-weighted tiger nut rigs all work so well, even when simply using a tiger nut slime-soaked cork ball, or fake plastic tiger nut baits!
The crushing of tiger nuts in the throat teeth excites specialised receptor cells within the mouth and throat due to the palatability and nutritional factors in tiger nuts which encourage chewing and swallowing. (The external tiger nut cover of dietary fibre can help better digestion in certain ways too.)
The same nuts are known to be picked up by more than one fish as it can often be the case that different carp will over time break a whole nut down and vent particles before they become extremely small insignificant particles in size able to be most efficiently digested. This adds to their effect as pieces may be distributed all around a swim or lake and so many more the carp will become in contact with them...
Using tiger nuts which are on the point of fermenting are very effective too. If you want to go the conventional route (and use substances your competitors will probably already be using) you can add tackle shop extras. My way is to do things different to anybody, because if your bait has never been experienced and dealt-with previously, you can bet this difference will raise your hooking chances big-time!
It may be remembered that all tiger nuts vary in shape and buoyancy to some small degree that means that each bait is unique. This makes using them more effective as most anglers use free baits that are uniform in shape. Most commercial baits are regular round, cylindrical or barrel shaped even if in different sizes.
Carp physical reference points are vitally important to fool and this can involves anything from bait colour, texture, density, buoyancy, movement in water when moved deliberately by fins (or on fins) and in the mouth and so on. This means that having munched through loads of identical shape and buoyancy baits, when fish come to your hook bait, often they are well ahead of your rig in determining which baits are attached to a hook!