Thursday, February 7, 2013

How To Make Homemade Carp Fishing Boilies For Big Fish For Winter Or Summer Fishing!

By Tim Richardson


You can make homemade boilies to beat readymade baits with guidance and a bit of creative thought to form boilies and paste or dough baits ahead of their time! The most traditional way of creating boilies involves the use of powders mixed with liquid to create a dough which is attractive and stimulatory to carp!

These mixtures can be as simple or complex and sophisticated but should be as potent as possible! This is an insightful guide into the world of beating ready made baits using homemade baits following an intensive 7 year study of this vital subject!

Your bait liquid mix can be anything that stimulates feeding, including for example liquid foods, sweeteners, enhancers, flavours and more plus traditionally you would include liquid eggs in your mix at for example 6 eggs per kilogram of dry powder mixture. Your dry powder mix should be as potent as possible and personally I avoid any carbohydrates as these are low in true feed triggering substances; I choose the most potent substances possible including soluble protein additives!

Potency is the aspect of your bait substances which ultimately attracts carp and triggers the most intensive feeding response possible! Your liquid and powder mixes are mixed together to form a dough from which any kind of shaped baits can be formed.

Boilies are dough or paste baits boiled for less or more than a minute and the boiling coagulates globular proteins in the egg and bait ingredients etc forming firmer more resilient baits that last longer than paste against pest species. Originally boiling paste to make boilies meant advantages over paste against pest species plus increasing effective free baiting range and longevity when pre-baiting too!

The very best carp baits will attract fish of multiple species even if boiled because their components are so potent and many fish are sensitive to substances that carp are attracted to and stimulated into feeding strongly by. Part of the purpose for making boilies was to enable baits to withstand attentions of pest species such as roach, and also enable free bait to be introduced at range, but attracting pest species is actually highly beneficial and creates competition that leads to more bites and hooked carp!

Most carp anglers think that a boilie is great because an egg sealed boilie will last all night, but in fact I discovered after extensive trials the opposite is true and that boilies which breakdown in just a few hours are far superior in very many situations! Boilies that last 24 hours or more if fished for 24 hours or even 8 hours are less effective than baits that break down in just 3 or 4 hours, because bait works by ionizing water and long lasting boilies by definition cannot do this optimally!

Winter and cold water boilies must by definition be very soluble in order to react with water to form a concentration gradient for fish to home in on and this is one aspect of homemade bait making we can seriously exploit in beating readymade baits at any time of year! Many anglers add a flavour or flavours to their baits often for their own confidence, but a well designed bait requires zero flavour as it ionizes water so supremely effectively anyway, however flavours and their individual components have an important place especially in pre-conditioning fish to hook baits, but see Baitbigfish or my biography for more information!

By Tim Richardson.




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