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Carp Boy · Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 2

I love carp fishing and I love making my own bollies its cheep and easy also I shape my bollies to look like slugs and prawns and they are deadly for chub and barble here is a good recipe Very Happy

Making the Boilies.
Having made the base mix above it's now time to use it to make some bait. The flavours that I have decided to use are:2.5ml Mulberry Florentine (Rod. Hutchinson)5.0ml Scopex (K. Nash or Rod. Hutchinson)3ml Intense Sweetener (K. Nash or Rod. Hutchinson).It's a combination the Rod. Hutchinson wrote about and it has caught me many fish. It works instantly without pre-baiting and is also great for fishing as a single hookbait, with no loose feed introduced.
Crack 4 medium sized eggs into a mixing bowl or pan. Measure out the flavours and sweetener, as detailed above, and add them to the eggs. You can use a pipette or set of measuring spoons to measure out the right amount of flavour. Most tackle shops sell small pipettes, which are made for the job. They coast just over one pound for a set of three.Some chemists sell double headed spoons for a few pence that measure 5ml at one end and 2.5ml of liquid at the other. If you are using a liquid dye, add it to the eggs at this stage.
Once you have added the flavours and sweetener to the eggs beat the eggs well up with a fork. You will need to beat the eggs for a couple of minutes, so that everything is mixed well in.
It's now time to add the base mix powder to the eggs. Do not add it all at once.Add about a cup full of base mix to the eggs and mix it well in with a fork. It will go like sloppy porridge. Leave it to stand for about five minutes, before adding more powder. This will give the base mix you have added time to absorb some of the egg/flavour mix and will help to stop the mix drying out to much later on.After five or so minutes continue to add basemix slowly, mixing well in.
You will come to the time when the mix is to stiff to mix with a fork anymore. There's nothing for it now, but to get your hands messy. Slowly add more powder, a bit at a time and kneed it well into the paste with your hands.
You will know when the paste is ready when it forms a firm ball that isn't sticky and can hold its shape, yet is easy to mould. I think that putty is the nearest description I can give, that the finished paste should be like.
If you don't have a rolling table your going to have to roll the paste into what ever size boilies you want by hand. Simply break off small pieces of paste and roll between your hands into round boilie shapes.You can get various gadgets from tackle shops (such as rolling tables and extruder guns) that help turn your paste into sausages, while other gadgets are available that turn the sausages into small balls.Boilies are only round so that they will catapult out accurately. If your fishing close in or with hookbaits only, there's nothing to stop you rolling the paste by hand into sausages, then cutting the sausages up into cylinders with a knife. At least your being different and that will often catch!
You now need to boil your baits. Bring some water to the boil and add about 20 at a time to the boiling water. Do not add to many so that the water goes off boil. After about 2 minutes of boiling take the baits out of the boiling water and let them dry on a clean towel or cloth. I use an old chip pan, as it is easy and safe to lower to lower the baits in and out in the chip basket
After all the batch has been boilied leave them to dry on your cloth for about half an hour. I use a Gardner Drying Rack which can be bought from tackle shops for about ten pounds. It lets the air circulate freely around the baits during the drying process.
After the boilies have dried for at least half an hour, bag them up and store in the freezer ready for use
The end result.A 15.5lb ghost carp caught on one of the actual boilies I made above.

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George_A · Site Admin Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 66 Location: Essex

Good review, and written like a pro Very Happy

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It helped me and im sure it will help others too.

Very good! Very Happy

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tom · Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 17 Location: england

yep nice 1 m8. how much did it start you to get the guns and table. i know about 10kilo of base mix n additives etc, so just for the rolling equipment Question

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