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Making Boilies
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a beginners guide
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This is a basic step by step
guide to making boilies "this is not the only way " there are hundreds
of flavours, colourings, ingredients, base mixes, rolling machines and lots more besides to
help you make the perfect boilie.
Choose your ingredients or
your base mix carefully,
there are some god companies from who you can buy a good base mix such as -
NashBait, Richworths, Mainline, Premier, Tails Up and loads more.
" Stick with your base
mix" not many boilies are instant fish catchers but you will usually
(hopefully) pick a fish or two when you first start using it, as the season goes
on and you introduce more and more of your bait you should start catching more
fish also if you should try and bait up on your chosen waters on a regular basis
before the season starts. Also if you can stick with your own flavouring and additives
these will also hopefully bring the carp in more as time goes, if you are constantly
changing your ingredients you will constantly be starting from scratch and you
might become disheartened and generally fed up with carp fishing, "you
need patience with your bait as well as on the bank"
You don't have to use
anyone else's base mix you can mix your own but if you are new to making boilies
it is definitely recommended that you use a tried and tested mix, flavour and so on...there's
loads of recipes and advice to be had on the forum.
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.......... Some of the
equipment you may need ..........
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The
sausage gun - needed to make the sausage of paste
from which you roll your baits, this can be done by hand but
it's much more difficult to get a consistent size bait,
providing that's what you want of course......
Simply fill the gun
with your prepared mix, add the size of nozzle to correspond
with the size of boilie or pellet shaped boilie you wish to
make....squeeze the trigger and a perfect and consistent
sausage will be pushed from the gun.....easy as that!
The sausage guns cost
from around £15 upwards, a compressor run version is also
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The
Rolling Table - Another excellent labour saving piece of
kit, again this makes the whole process of rolling your
baits quicker and easier, there is no other way of getting
such a consistent sized bait.
Simply lay the sausage
that you've already prepared using your sausage gun (shown
above) onto the table and roll the top of the table over the
sausage and you'll be left with perfectly round
boilies....again very easy!
These range from about
£10 - £30 in price. |
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Air
Drying Racks - An optional extra this really but on some
venues it's of great importance to have hard baits due to
pests such as crayfish, ducks & small fish.
Simply place your
freshly made baits in the trays and allow them to dry
naturally at room temperature, you can leave your baits for
anything up to two weeks or even more depending how hard you
need them to be.
There are other means
of drying your baits but if you fancy having a purpose
made piece of kit to help you then these trays are excellent! |
By the way ...
after use clean your bait making stuff with hot & cold water only!
you don't want
the scent of cleaning products on your bait 
All the above
items can be bought from Gardner
Tackle or from any good quality tackle shop.
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Making the bait by hand ..........
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