How To Make Homemade Carp Boilies For All Year Round Fishing Success!

By Tim Richardson


You can make your own homemade carp fishing boilies that beat readymade baits with creative thought and key information about carp sensitivities, and making carp boilies and paste or dough baits is very much an art and refined skill. The traditional method of making boilies is to have two parts namely your liquid and your powdered boilie or paste base mixture.

The dry powder and liquid mixtures you create to form dough and paste and boilies can be very simple, or as complex as you like but must be as potent as you can create them! This bait article is just a snippet from a 7 year study on how to make homemade baits of many formats that defeat top readymade carp baits!

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 called by this name because they are dough baits which have been boiled to make it last longer in the water and be more resilient as bait. The old thinking used in originally creating boilies was that firmer more resilient baits which have been boiled would resist the attention of pest species other than carp and also enable free baiting at greater ranges plus make pre-baiting more effective over time.

Truly attractive boilies attract the attentions of pest species whether they are hard or soft or boiled or are dough paste baits by the profile they are composed of. There are great benefits to attracting pest species whichever bait format you use because they attract attention to your baits and create a beneficial competitive feeding scenario that produces more hooked fish!

Far too many anglers mistakenly think long lasting boilies are best but following years of trials I discovered the opposite is true and in fact in most cases the faster a boilie breaks down even in as little as 3 or 4 hours, then this is far more successful! Boilies that last 24 hours and are fished for that long are generally not anywhere as effective as baits that break down in 4 hours and this is very much due to the water reactive elements of a bait entering the water column far more effectively in short duration baits!

Boilies for winter and low temperatures must be very soluble and Robin Red which contains lots of soluble sugars makes baits more open and soluble which is part of the success of this particularly famous additive used in many boilies worldwide! Using more higher than recommended flavour levels in boilies actually benefits results by helping baits suck water in to release bait substances and in many cases actually numbing fish lip feeling to rigs which increases chances of hooking fish, but see Baitbigfish or my biography for more!

By Tim Richardson.




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