Saturday, October 25, 2014

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.

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 liquid mixture can be as simple as liquid whole egg plus other liquids such as flavours and liquid foods and sweetener. The powder part of your bait can be a ready made base mix or a special homemade mixture of your own design but should be made as unique and as potent as possible!

Potency is a measure of activity in terms of the amount required to produce an internal effect of given intensity within carp in this case, thus go for the highest potency ingredients, additives and liquids possible for maximum fish response; this is absolutely critical in creating homemade carp bait to beat readymade bait! To form baits mix dry powder mix to your liquids mix to form a stiff dough or paste which may be shaped into individual baits any size or shapes you desire!

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.

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!

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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