Are Boilies The Wrong Shape?

With all the emphasis that is put on anti eject rigs for carp, surely a boilies spherical shape makes it easier to eject?
What about square thin boilies, or 'smartie' disc shapes, or even hollow, drilled, 'mesh' boilies to allow expelled water to pass through?

So true Terry, originally designed for casting ability, but the trend just carried on even tho many manufacturers are trying to bounce the trend.

read this

or the bottom of this one

Two very good articles Rik, would my last suggestion of hollow, drilled, 'mesh' type boilies, be more difficult to eject as some of the water the carp expels would pass through the bait?

could also release flavour quicker too.

might not last as long in the water tho.

They would release flavour very quickly, and as you say Stuart, not last long in the water.
But if these 'honeycomb' boilies increased the pick up to run rate dramatically.
Both those factors could be irrelevant, don't you think?

We experimented with shaped boilies long before the word boilie was coined, or indeed before the hair and bolt rig were developed, (we called them skimmers in those days, these were basically paste baits with a skin put on them through being dropped in a pan of boiling water)we tried all different shaps including flat ones. If you dig out some of my old carp world pieces you will see we used to use Morphs, these were good luck charms, boilies moulded into the shape of little men, their anti eject properties were second to none, they did however take a bloody long time to make. The round boilie is one of convienience and also of course assists in the areodynamics of casting and firing out. sausage shaped boilies are a nightmare to distrobute