Making your own boilies

Norfolkboy · #1 11-24-2004, 03:17 PM

Making your own boilies is a much cheaper way of getting bait, and by making your own you can roll them to any shape, size, flavour you want.

To make boilies what you do first is to make a flavoured paste. This paste is then rolled into many small balls, boiled, (hence the term boilie), left to dry and then frozen . To do this you need eggs, a liquid flavour, a sweetener and a base mix.

Firstly you need to make a base mix, the base mix I use is:
8oz Semolina (available from supermarkets)
4oz Ground Rice (available from supermarkets)
4oz Soya Flour (available from health food shops)

The Semolina, Rice and Soya Flour powders are then poured into a large freezer bag. Blow the bag up (with the powder inside) like a balloon. Twist it around at the top to trap the air in the bag. Give the bag a very good shake, so that all the powders inside it are well mixed up.

That's the base mixed. YOu now need to get your flavours together, you can buy powdered/liquid flavours in tackle shops, but i just use ordinary liquid dyes and flavours like food colouring.

I use 2ml sweetner, and around 5-10ml of flavouring and colouring.

Crack 4 medium sized eggs into a mixing bowl or pan, add your flavours and dye to the eggs. 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.

Now you need to add the base mix, but 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 5 mins, continue to add base mix slwoly. You will come to the time when the mix is to stiff to mix with a fork anymore.
When it gets like this kneed it 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. Kind of like putty or 'play dough' Now roll the mix into a ball shape and at whatever size you want them to be, I do this by getting a bit and then rolling in the middle of your 2 hands continuously in a circle shape.

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. (It's so much easier this way!!) Let the boilies dry for around 30 mins and then freeze them in a freezer back, until you want to go fishing then get em out!!

And that's it, hope it works wel for you, I've made them in banana, peppermint and lemon, my 1st carp i caught on them was a fat 5lb mirror carp on the banana flavoured one's.

Fishing Forum Admin · #2 11-24-2004, 03:29 PM

What a great read thanks mate

delboy · #3 11-24-2004, 03:47 PM

sounds like you would make a good chef

Stickyboy · #4 11-24-2004, 04:11 PM

Dan,
Have you ever used them in the sea.
I presume they aren't up to being cast from the shore but what about from a boat?

Norfolkboy · #5 11-24-2004, 04:33 PM

No, we've had some discussions on here about them though. Can get some flavours such as squid, crab mussel. Could be a good bait, if perhaps rolled into worm shapes or something..

delboy · #6 11-24-2004, 05:03 PM

a pop up one would be good keep it off the bottom away from the crabs when they are about, can i place an order for 50 peeler flavour and 50 lugworm and 25 ragworm please dan

get cooking

Norfolkboy · #7 11-30-2004, 06:23 PM

Talking of pop ups, to get them to pop up put them in the microwave for around 2 mins on a low setting(i once did it for 2 mins on high power and they were completely burnt..)