Home-Made Freezer Boilies, Simple, Cheap and Attractive to all Carp!
For only £2 per kilo, you can make yourself simple and attractive freezer bait. Most of the main components can be found at your local fishing shop or through boilie manufacturers, and even pet stores in some cases. Boilie manufacturers tend to ignore their pre-mixed boilie mixes and source the components individually, so you can reduce the cost with out reducing the quality.
As an introduction, we are trying to achieve good tasting bait that's 100% food based and contains a unique flavoured attractor to pull carp into eating the boilie instantly. This recipe has been solely created using the Amino Liquid Food as the main component attractor and before this recipe was disclosed to carp anglers worldwide it was thoroughly tested on Dutch & French waters with amazing success when compared to traditional freezer boilies sold in the high street shops or online stores. In other words this boilies performs and behaves exactly the same as its competitors and in some cases out performs boilies that are up to 70% more expensive than this one.
The advantage of a homemade boilie is its cost effectiveness, meaning you can make far greater quantities to feed on a regular basis. Of course each angler has a different idea about this. Some prefer to pre-bait and others like the instant approach. Both methods are effective, more so when combined together.
One of the important factors of a homemade boilie is the fine tuning of the bait through the seasons, as we will explain later. Using these instructions, you can create a single specific taste for each water and situation. Don't be too concerned about having as many different ingredients as possible in your homemade boilies this tends to catch more anglers than carp when it comes to feeding our quarry, but it certainly gives more immediate results when fishing, and that's what has made Ocean Fresh so successful.
Cheap meals like maize and soya with relative high sugar levels are still perfect carp catchers. The quality of your boilie is mainly dependant on the taste of the components and the liquid attractors. In this article you'll read how to combine those great standard components with the Liquid Amino Food Trigger to make an all time boilie that will give you the success and confidence to catch carp from a variety of waters all year round.
Please read the complete instructions before starting.
Ingredients:
- Eggs
- Maize meal
- Wheat Flour
- Soya meal ( Fatty soya flour Prefered)
- Fish meal or Alternatives like (Trouvit) The raw indgredient to trout pellets
- Salt (optional extra) with any food salt taste great, to be mixed in dry part.
- Liquid Amino Food Trigger- Choose the flavour OC, RSG, GLM, PBP, TM
- (optional Concentrated Flavour & Sun Flower oil)
Base Mix
First thing to do is to make the base mix. The four meals in the list above are available in many tackle shops or online stores. For our "homemade" boilies we'll take four even parts from the meals and mix them together. For example:
- 1kg maize meal
- 1kg of wheat flour
- 1kg soya meal
- 1kg fishmeal
Mix these together in a large mixing bowl or a clean bucket. If you like salt then add this too this can only increase the tastiness of your bait if you think it does the same for your dinner. Your base mix is now ready.
Making the boilies
Requirements for Making Boillies
Rule number one when making boilies is always mixing the dry components together into one mix, and liquid components into one liquid. From this point you can start mixing them together, but not before! Since we already mixed our dry components, we can now start with the liquids and, in this boilies, there are only two of them: 10 eggs together and 5ml Amino Liquid Food Trigger. These need to be mixed together in, if possible, a large bucket. If you want to use more Liquid Amino Trigger, possibly for strong leaking bait for high attraction fishing in large water systems and rivers, then that's no problem. The Liquid Amino Trigger allows you to use up to 5 ml per egg, without having any trouble with carp that refuse to feed because of the strong smell of the bait. Now, with your dry parts and your liquid parts ready, we can combine both of them to create the dough.
Making Bollie Mixture and Rolling the Boillies
Rule number two in making boilies: add the mix to the eggs, NOT the eggs to the mix, until it is dough-like. It is difficult to make a nice, smooth, dough-like substance if you add the eggs to the mix, instead of vice-versa. Keep adding the mix to the eggs until your dough is nice and smooth, and becoming sticky. With small amounts, like in our example, the boilies can be rolled by hand. For larger amounts you'll find some very nice tools available in the fishing industry. The boilie table, for example, comes in different diameters that determine the size of your finished boilies. Most common sizes are 20mm and 18mm for hook baits, though the debate is endless about the best size for carp fishing. I use 18mm for most of my fishing, though some of the best carp anglers in Europe swear by the smallest possible baits with the largest size being 15mm boilies. In my early days I fished a lot with 15mm's but the hook size for big carp plays and important factor so for 80% of my fishing I use an 18mm boilie and a size 6 hook with a long hair. For French waters most anglers want a large as possible bait for fear of nuisance fish like bream taking the feed and hook baits, these anglers tend to fish 22mm 25mm & 28mm boilies and I have seen anglers fish 3 x 22mm on one rig at a time frequently with awesome results. The best by far rolling table on the market is from Gardner Tackle. There are many substitutes, but most don't perform as well as the Gardner.
Boiling Boilies
When we are finished rolling the boilies, the only thing left to do is boil them. For most mixes, a boiling time of about two minutes will be just fine. You won't be able to make the boilies harder by boiling them longer. This is something we can only accomplish by drying them longer or by using egg albumen, rather than wet egg in the early stages, remembering to mix the dry and wet components separately. When you dry the boilies after boiling for 24 hours they should be ready to fish with. To test this, break one in half to see if the middle is wet or not. One secret to OF is to add more amino liquid into the bag before storage, this increases the instant attraction of the bait (though this is not necessarily the case every time and I only suggest it to your hook baits).
Another alternative is to add concentrated oil flavour by the use of a dustpan. Simply pour some neat oil along the bottom opening side of the pan and scoop up all the dried boilies until they are all coated in the oil. This will increase the cost price, but it will also make more attractive bait. If you are saving them for a later fishing trip then put them into a plastic food bag and then put them into the freezer. If you don't freeze them they will go off in a couple of days. Mould will cover the outer side and they will turn white. This boilie is made with no preservatives and there for requires frozen storage to stay fresh until use. Ocean Fresh boilies also have no preservatives, but their secret is a special natural ingredient which has been careful blended with the base mix and again the neat oil flavour to stop yeast attacking the baits when packaged. This is our secret to keep the boilies fresh with out the need of freezers.
Fine Tuning your Boilies
As mentioned before, a big advantage you'll have with home created boilies is that you can adjust them for any specific situation. Think about fine-tuning your baits for matching the structure of the lake-bottom, or for resistance to bream and to fish other than carp. Every ingredient has its own properties. Adding a specific and unique character to your baits won't be any problem by adding one of a thousand components which you can buy at tackle stores, but also at your local supermarket or pet store! The base mix which we created in this article is very tolerant and can have up to 50 percent other meals without having trouble rolling and cooking the boilies. Think about different types of fishmeals, hemp, and milk proteins to give your baits extra pulling-power or more goodness to the carp's digestive system. Also the liquids can be extended for example the Ocean Fresh concentrated Oily Crab and add sun flower oil to make the boilies roll better, which is also talked about when packaging them for storage. Of course, it's your creation so you decide what you want. With each boilie you can test yourself and keep fine tuning until you find the ultimate winning method of making your bait and catching the carp you've been dreaming about. Trust me there's no better feeling than catching a nice carp on your own home-made boilies, all thanks to your effort and Ocean Fresh amino liquid food.
In Conclusion
On most pressured waters our team of field testers have proven that the more natural the boilie, the better chance of a take. Originally people were taking an expensive bait and air drying it as hard as possible then leaving it in water for 24 hours so all the flavour was gone. In most fishing condition this tricked the carp into thinking this was a safe boilie to eat, but what an expensive way to follow. This was when we at Ocean Fresh came up with Green Lipped Mussel very natural bait that has little smell but an extremely effective taste to catch big pressured carp. By trial and error you too can make a very natural boilie using less amino liquid food or the complete opposite and create a bait that tears your nose off with a disgustingly potent smell, the choice is yours, but please try both and test all the options for yourself before you come to your final conclusion.