Ray Daywalker Clarke
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I've been down that road Ray. Crushed Vitalin mixed with blended sweetcorn, eggs and I added aniseed to one batch and strawberry syrup from the cake aisle to another. Both caught and to be fair it is an easy way to make your own boilies.
I've said before that I don't subscribe to the HNV obsession. My own view and it is based on nothing more than a hunch, is that sugars rather than proteins are what bigger fish want. You might need steel to make the boiler, but once its made you need plenty of wood to run it and not much steel. That's my simplistic way of looking at things.
On the theme of the dog food; over here a lot of anglers use Frolic dog biscuits as carp bait and for catfish. The Frolic biscuits are fairly soft in composition and sink in their natural state. They are formed in a ring shape that is ideal for hair rigging one, two or three at a time and can be stuffed with paste inside the hole.
A Polo Bollie, watch this space, Nash or one of the big companies will soon have them in the shops.