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HOMEMADE BOILIES |
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Homemade freezer boilies, simple, cheap and attractive to all carp ! For only £1.50 per kilo, you can make yourself simple and attractive freezer bait. Most of the main components can be found at your local fishing shop or through boilie manufactures and pet stores in extreme cases. With boilie manufactures ignore their pre-mixed boilie mixes and source the components individually so you can reduce the cost with out reducing the quality. As an introduction, we are trying to achieve good tasting bait that’s 100% food based and contains a unique flavoured attractor to pull carp into eating the boilie instantly. This recipe has been solely created using the Amino Liquid Food as the main component attractor and before this recipe was disclosed to carp anglers worldwide it was thoroughly tested on Dutch & French waters with amazing success when compared to tradition freezer boilies sold in the high street shops or online stores. In other words this boilies performs and behaves exactly the same as it competitors and in some cases out performance boilies that are 70% more expensive than this one. The advantage of a homemade boilie is the cost effective price, meaning you can make far greater quantities to feed on a regular basis. Of course each angler has a different idea about this. Some prefer to pre-bait and others like the instant approach. Both methods are effective especially when combined together. One of the important factors to a homemade boilie is the fine tuning of the bait through the seasons this will be explained later. Using these instructions you can create a single specific taste for each water and situation. Don’t be too concerned about having as many different ingredients in your homemade boilies this tends to catch more carp anglers than carp when it comes to feeding our quarry, but it certainly gives a better edge when fishing instantly and that’s what has made Ocean Fresh so successful. Cheap meals like maize and soya with relative high sugar levels are still perfect carp catchers. The quality of your boilie is mainly dependant on the taste of the components and the liquid attractors. In this article you’ll read how to combine those great standard components with the Liquid Amino Food Trigger to make an all time boilie that will give you the success and confidence to catch carp from a variety of waters all year round. Please read the complete instructions before starting. Ingredients: Base Mix First thing to do is to make the base mix. The four meals in the list above are available in many tackle shops or online stores and for our “homemade” boilies we’ll take four even parts from the meals and mix them together. For example: 1kg maize meal, 1kg of wheat flour, 1kg Soya meal and 1kg Shrimp Trouvit. Mix these together in a large mixing bowl or a clean bucket. If you like salt then add this too this can only increase the tastiness of your bait if you think it does the same for your dinner. Your base mix is now ready. Making the boilies Rule number one in making boilies is always mixing the dry components together into one mix and liquid components into one liquid. From this point you can start mixing them together, never earlier! Since we already mixed our dry components, we can now start with the liquids and in this boilie that’s only two of them: In this example we’ll mix 10 eggs together with 5ml Amino Liquid Food Trigger. If possible, I suggest in a big bucket. If you want to use more Liquid Amino Trigger, possibly for strong leaking bait for fishing high attraction in large water systems and rivers, then that’s no problem. The Liquid Amino Trigger allows you to use up to 5 ml per egg, without having any trouble with carp that refuse to feed because of the strong smell of the bait. Now with your dry parts and the liquid parts ready we can create the dough out of both of them combined together. Rule number two in making boilies: Add the mix to the eggs until its dough like. Do not try to add the eggs to your mix, because this way is much more difficult in ending up with nice smooth dough. Keep adding the mix to the eggs until your dough is nice and smooth, and becoming a sticky substance for creating your boilies. With small amounts, like in our example we can roll the boilies by hand. For larger amounts you’ll find some very nice tools available in the fishing industry. I.e. boilie table, these come in different diameters to determine the size of your finished boilies. Most common are 20mm and 18mm for hook baits though the debate is endless about the best size for carp fishing. Mine for most fishing is 18mm, though some of the best carp anglers in Europe swear by using small as possible baits with the largest size being 15mm boilies. In my early days I fished a lot with 15mm’s but the hook size for big carp plays and important factor so for 80% of my fishing I use an 18mm boilie and a size 6 hook with a long hair. For French waters most anglers want a large as possible bait for fear of nuisance fish like bream taking the feed and hook baits, these anglers tend to fish 22mm 25mm & 28mm boilies and I heard and seen anglers fish 3 x 22mm on one rig at a time frequently with awesome results. The best by far rolling table on the market is from Gardner Tackle, there are many substitutes but most don’t perform as well as the Gardner. When we are finished rolling the boilies, the only thing we need to do is boil them. For most mixes a boiling time of about two minutes will be just fine. You won’t be able to make the boilies harder by boiling them longer. This is something we can only accomplish by drying them longer or by using egg albumin rather than wet egg in the early stages, remembering to mix the dry and wet components separately. When you dry the boilies after boiling for 10 hours they should be ready to fish with. To test this break one in half to see if the middle is wet or not, one secret to OF is to add more amino liquid into the a bag before storage, this increase the instant attraction of the bait, though it is not necessary every time and I only suggest it to your hook baits. If you are saving them for a later fishing trip then put them into a plastic food bag and then put them into the freezer. If you don’t freeze them they will go off in a couple of days. Mould will cover the outer side and they will turn white. This boilie is made with no preservatives and there for requires frozen storage to stay fresh until use. Ocean Fresh boilies also have no preservatives but their secret is a special milk protein which has been careful blended with the base mix to keep the boilies fresh with out the need of freezers. Fine tuning your boilies Like mentioned before, a big advantage you’ll have with home created boilies is that you can adjust them for any specific situation. Think about finetuning your baits for matching the structure of the lake bottom or resistance for bream and other fish than carp. Every ingredient has its own properties. Adding a specific and unique character to your baits won’t be any problem by adding one of a thousand components wich you can buy at tackle stores, but also at your local supermarket or pet store! The base mix which we created in this article is very tolerent and can have up to 50 percent other meals without having trouble rolling and cooking the boilies. Think about different types of fishmeals, hemp, and milk proteins to give your baits extra pulling power or better goodness to the carp digestive system. Also the liquids can be extended for example the Ocean Fresh concentrated Oily Crab and add olive oil to make the boilies roll better. Actually it’s your creation so you decide what you want. With each boilie you can test yourself and keep fine tuning until you find the ultimate winning method of making your bait and catching the carp you’ve been dreaming about. Trust me there’s no better feeling than catching a nice carp on your own home made boilie all thanks to your effort and Ocean Fresh amino liquid food. For £1.50pkg money can’t buy this type of happiness. Final Conclusion On most pressured waters our team of field testers have proven that the more natural the boilie, the better chance of a take. Originally people were taking an expensive bait and air drying it as hard as possible then leaving it in water for 24 hours so all the flavour was gone. In most fishing condition this tricked the carp into thinking this was a safe boilie to eat, but what an expensive way to follow. This was when we at Ocean Fresh came up with Green Lipped Mussel very natural bait that has little smell but an extremely effective taste to catch big pressured carp. By trial and error you to can make a very natural boilie using less amino liquid food or the complete opposite and create a bait that tares you nose off with a very disgusting potent smell, the choice is yours, but please try both and test all the options for yourself before you come to your final conclusion. |