Hubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble... Ten easy steps to making your own boilies

9. Place a dozen on a wide slotted spoon and lower gently into the now rapidly boiling water, holding the spoon just below the surface. Be vigilant. The movement of the boiling water will cause the boilies to dance on the spoon and the effect can be like one of those computer games that require hand to eye co-ordination. The spoon must be constantly jiggled in order to retain the cooking boilies in their rightful place and therefore not lose a life – or a boilie into the bowels of the pan - but only for about forty seconds.

10. Continue in this insane manner until all the boilies are cooked. The finished items should be placed on spread out newspaper on the floor to dry off, and become cool before being placed in small plastic bags and frozen.

Del Barham with a Carp caught on a 'home-rolled'A couple of tips, here. When you get fed up with rolling to scale you can change tactics and create little baby ones for freebies to throw round your hook bait. And you can mix flavourings into the basic mix or dip them in something unspeakable before you freeze them.

And finally – leave the kitchen in a terrible mess, then tell the wife that you have cleaned it all up. She will tell you, next time, to leave the clearing up to her since she has to do it all again anyway, after your pathetic attempts at housework.

Oh yes – and this is what you can catch with home-made boilies. The satisfaction of boasting that you actually made the bait yourself is, apparently a ‘man’ thing and boosts a flagging ego no end.

Go on, then! Off to the tackle shop for a bag of mix. Let me know how you get on.

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