When To Use Homemade Boilies

[Elton]

Posted on behalf of tich. Please add all replies to this thread:

 

am new to carp fishing an only have limited time to fish,i like to make my own bait,so was wondering if there are an problems with useing baits that have just been made,as some say you have to let them dry out b4 use?,thank you 4 your time.

[thebigshow1271]

Never tried to use them straight away, always boiled mine up and then leave to dry out for 24 hours or just left them to dry so you may start a new trend, lol. Let us know how you get on

[Newt]

The drying part is mainly to harden them a bit and to allow them to last longer without spoiling or being frozen.

 

If they are firm enough to stay on a rig, it works fine to use them immediately.

[Phone]

tich,

 

You making boilies with a boilie recipe? Without eggs and cooking you have doughball. Hard doughball probably should go on a hair like a boilie. Soft doughball you call paste (if you are in the UK). Even with the eggs you can have a doughball depending on the binder.

 

Of course you can use them straight-away. (I guess you are carp fishing??)

 

While there may be some down sides there could also be an up side. Give it ia go!

 

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[BoldBear]

tich,

 

You making boilies with a boilie recipe? Without eggs and cooking you have doughball. Hard doughball probably should go on a hair like a boilie. Soft doughball you call paste (if you are in the UK). Even with the eggs you can have a doughball depending on the binder.

 

Of course you can use them straight-away. (I guess you are carp fishing??)

 

While there may be some down sides there could also be an up side. Give it ia go!

 

Phone

I have often kept some of my boilie mix in an uncooked state to use as a paste while boiling up the rest of the mix as usual.

 

There are times when a paste bait has scored better than a boilie or I may wrap some of the paste around the boilie to add an extra flavour trail leading up to the hook.

I haven't noticed much difference in the number of bites I have had; whether they are freshly made boilies or on boilies that have been dried out and frozen.

Edited April 24, 2012 by BoldBear

[Dick Dastardly]

Air drying is about preserving/storing nothing to do with hardness.The mix it self should be designed to produce the "hardness" you want from rock hard (by using Egg Albumin) or just lightly skinned (by using plenty of any of the calf milk replacers or Calcium Caseinate).

 

Any "hardness" achieved by air drying will soon be lost once the boillie re-hydrates in the water!

[Phone]

BUDGIE,

 

I defer to you but I've never seen a commercial boillie that re-hydrates to the consistancy of a paste? Or for that matter, even close.

Who makes such a boilie? Homemade?

 

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[Dick Dastardly]

BUDGIE,

 

I defer to you but I've never seen a commercial boillie that re-hydrates to the consistancy of a paste? Or for that matter, even close.

Who makes such a boilie? Homemade?

 

Phone

 

No one. My comments were in regard to hard baits Phone and people thinking that just because an air dried boille is rock hard it would remain that way when in the water.

[Phone]

BUDGIE

 

Ohh - - - - I did.

 

Phone