Carp: Underwater Taste Detectives

Carp have taste buds all over their bodies. Not just in their mouth but covering

their entire skin, fins, even their tail. Over 100,000 taste receptors scanning

everything they touch. This is why experienced carp anglers spend hours perfecting

their bait recipes, mixing specific flavors and scents. The carp doesn't need to bite your

bait to taste it. The moment your hook bait lands in the water, any carp swimming

nearby is already tasting it through the water column. They can detect a single amino acid

in millions of parts of water. This is also why they're so difficult to catch.

They've literally tasted thousands of baits before and remember which ones had hooks in