dont wanna hurt the fish

[Samsonfire]

i was thinking baout making my own boilies and was wondering is ther any ingrediants that i shouldent use that can endanger the fish? such as citrus ect ect?

and also has anyones used frutela or chewits as bait before?

[Banana Steve]

I made my own boiles once, to be honest, its so much easier to buy them. However Mithrandier did a post last year or may have been the year before about making them, as for citrus not certain.

[Samsonfire]

yeah i got a recipe on how to make them, just i thort like orange and lemon juice could make a nice ingrediant but i dont wanna catch me a fat one then put it back in and its flaoting on the top lol

[fullcreel]

I made some paste baits last year, if I had boiled them they would be boilies, I feel boiling robs some flavour from baits.
I used berries, as a flavour, blitzed them then added them to a paste base mix, which I found on this very forum, I think it was in the carp section, and was way cheaper than a base mix I saw in shops.

[Samsonfire]

fair play, how did ur own made bate work for u?

[BoldBear]

I'm not sure about Orange or Lemon flavours but Pineapple is a great additive and has been catching me and my friends carp since the mid 70s and the Carp love it. It is a well known boilie flavour. other fruit flavours we used successfully were Plum, Strawberry, Rasberry and Banana.