boilies or not?

[peanut]

one of my local carp lakes has gone under new ownership and the rules have changed,meaning there is now no ban on boilies. will the carp in the lake respond to boilies straight away or will they need time to get used to feeding on them first,im show they wont have seen many boilies before. :confused:

[davidP]

First question to me is do you need to use them?? If you can catch carp on other baits then why go to the extra expense of buying boilies. I think I'd only switch if I couldn't get through to the carp because of other species, in which case a big boilie would be more selective.

 

Will they eat them straight away? Well carp are normally very quick to exploit any food source and I'd think that if you used any of the tried and tested fish-catching flavours (tutti-frutti & strawberry spring to mind as personal favourites) then the carp would be onto them pretty quickly. For best results you'd probably have to be prepared to throw a few in as well just to get the fish used to them.

[Newt]

The US has huge numbers of lakes that have never seen a boilie.

 

In some, carp start taking on them right away. In others it can take several months of baiting before the carp decide boilies are food. And I have no idea what the difference in the lakes is.

 

I do think the advice to go with long-time favorite sweet flavors like strawberry is excellent though - especially when the water has warmed up a little.