My first home made boilies

[gentle]

Hi all,

Id like some feedback n a boilie mix im using. I made this up the other day and ive got a couple of lads using it at present. No feedback from them just yet.

Mix:

2 oz semolina
2 oz rice flour
4 oz Greedy pig groundbait: 80% fishmeal 20% ground pellet
1 oz glucose powder
3 eggs
Betaine
Chilli Powder
green food colouring
Anchovy oil
1/2 tin of tuna flakes

Im avoiding using anything thats currently produced by bait companies or specialist suppliers and wish to continue doing so. How can I improve this recipe?

Does anyone have any recipes that dont require pre mixed base mix and uses only natural human grade foodstuffs? (In case I get hungry) The mix above has only 1 ingredient I wouldnt put in my own mouth. I want to fish with things that are extremely cheap and dont come with a corporate 'this will bag you fish up' label.


G.

 

[tortoise100]

Can't add anything useful but have found this wicked site about making bait.
Carp Fishing and Carp Bait Boilies
I also want to make bait without expensive flavors unfortunately that site mainly advocates fishing flavors.

 

[captain carrott]

one bit of advice

if you come across atlantic kryll be carefull what proportions you put in a mix, in my formative times of bait rolling i made up a mix which rolled and boiled like a dream,
dried them all out and went off to try my hand with my new mix full of confidence and wonder.

throuble is the whole fekkin lot of em floated like corks.
fortunately the lake i was on sold ready mades which served me well for the weekend.

 

[quickcedo]

Imo. the only reason for adding flavours is when a bait starts to "blow". If you are the only one using your bait and you feed sufficient numbers the bait should never "blow" Hence no need to add flavour, unless of course you want to mimick an expensive bait being used on your water. My own base mixes have over the years become very simple, in fact the one I now use for 99% of my fishing only has 4 main ingredients. all of which have some food value.

 

[Day Breamer]

Get some garlic in it

I wouldnt recommend you eat betaine...

Bream love it, i dont think your stomach would tho.

 

[gentle]

Can't add anything useful but have found this wicked site about making bait.
Carp Fishing and Carp Bait Boilies
I also want to make bait without expensive flavors unfortunately that site mainly advocates fishing flavors.

Yeah thats what ive encountered. Its all the same corporate 5h1t3 (Our additives blah blah blah). In fairness im of the opinion a carp cant know that an artificial or contrived additive is any better than and actual food produce that has been blended up and whacked into a boilie. Stronger flavours? not sure the carp really want something that smells like a scent bomb..... surely they can tell its not quite right if its really that strong. So use less of the additive and be carefull how much corporate whack you put in your boilie mix... or dont use the corporate whack.

Thanks for your feedback.

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Get some garlic in it

I wouldnt recommend you eat betaine...

Bream love it, i dont think your stomach would tho.

Garlic .... genius why didnt I think of that.....becuase ive got you to do it for me. Appreciated day breamer. Oh and betaine was the thing I wouldnt put in my own mouth.....the fishmeal I suppose would be suspect too although fishmeal for human consumption im sure is available...just dont know where.

Again thanks for feedback will try a garliky bait.

 

[Mithrandir]

I would chuck a bit of salt in too.

As to the strong taste, i often use bechalan as a paste straight onto a bait, and that is a really strong shrimp paste (is a good additive to boilies too), seems to turn on both carp and barbel.

 

[captain carrott]

I would chuck a bit of salt in too.

As to the strong taste, i often use bechalan as a paste straight onto a bait, and that is a really strong shrimp paste (is a good additive to boilies too), seems to turn on both carp and barbel.

you forgot to mention that bechalan is strong grounds for divorce if let loose round the house as it stinks to high heaven

 

[Mithrandir]

you forgot to mention that bechalan is strong grounds for divorce if let loose round the house as it stinks to high heaven

divorce?? done that twice , too expensive, just live with them now until they get bored of the smell of bechalan!!!:wh

 

[slime monster]

My Nephew made a batch of boilies containing smashed up peeler crab ....you have never smelt anything like them or his van at the time, apparantly they worked

 

[gentle]

My Nephew made a batch of boilies containing smashed up peeler crab ....you have never smelt anything like them or his van at the time, apparantly they worked

I was talking to my mate about that the other day. I sea fish in the winter and was thinking about using a boilie mix full of crab and squid for sea fishing. Worked for carp? Thats one to try then. (looks for waders and headlamp)

Cheers bud.

 

[Roto Fryer]

2 oz semolina
2 oz rice flour
4 oz Greedy pig groundbait: 80% fishmeal 20% ground pellet
1 oz glucose powder
3 eggs
Betaine
Chilli Powder
green food colouring
Anchovy oil
1/2 tin of tuna flakes

get rid of the rice flour, glucose, tuna flakes. investigate wheatgerm, fishmeal, molasses, lamlac ( calf milk or similar), maize meal or go hereCC Moore: Fishing Bait & Fishing Baits | Carp Bait & Carp Baits | Boilies