Boilies size question?

[Alan Taylor]

What would the average size of boilie be for UK waters?

 

What size boilies are used for the big French waters?

 

Cheers

 

Alan(NL)

[craig2309]

i use 18mm boilies fished over 14mm boilies for all my fishin, home and abroad

 

i will sometimes use a double hookbait if havin trouble with nuisance fish

[poledark]

Alan, the answer is a lemon! On my local lake they have been caught on 22mm brown ones, 10mm fluor ones and just about every shade and colour and size in between, inc my own bright yellow ones.

All of these within the last 14 days.

 

Good luck with your quest though

 

Den

[GLOBE]

I prefer either double 20mm, or single 28mm, or sometimes double 28mm and 30mm.

 

I guess I like using BIG boilies....

[Peter Sharpe]

It is a well known fact that carp will only take a boilie that is exactly 15.75mm. Anything else and you are wasting your time.

[mpbdsnu]

Ah, that's where I've been going wrong then Peter!

[peter mccue]

Au contraire Mr Sharpe, I have recently been doing well with 15.76's over a bed of 15.74's!

 

Dammit thats another edge gone.

[Alan Taylor]

Thanks for taking the time to reply, it seems to me that the average size is 20mm. Colours :confused:seems that no one will admit to which colour they use except for Yellow

 

Thanks again.

 

Alan

[mpbdsnu]

Not a question of admitting to using a particular colour Alan.

 

Its horses for courses and all that!

 

Different waters, different species, different sized fish in said water, and so on.

 

I'm off to France later today, and I'll be taking my own version of 'tutti frutti' (yellow), my own 'extra fishy' (red), 'NRG' (buff), 'M-tech' (browny-red) & 'Tock Specials' (lighter browny-red). But not forgetting of course, and after 30 minutes in the water they turn into a wishy-washy version of their original colours anyhow!

 

As for the average size - a lot of carpers will use, and much prefer, a smaller boilie - more like 14mm, doubling up on many occasions. Me - normally 18mm.

[RobStubbs]

I normally use 16mm, sometimes 14mm. Most people where I fish use 16, 14, 12 or even 10. I'm not aware of many people using 18+ - but they have their advantages. If I could I would carry baits from 10 to 22mm but it just isn't practical. Bigger baits catapult & stick out further whereas smaller ones rest in weed etc a bit better and give more of a carpet affect. I also like to use chopped sausages but they don't catapult well and get stuck in boilie rockets.

 

Rob.