mix receipt - Home Hi m8, here is how i'm making boilies witch by the way are catching some fish, that proof it should not be a so bad way to make something pretty good tasting and cheap (final price around 4 to 6 Euro/Kilo depending on additive). If you not believing me, too bad and keep giving money to all the bait company Star.....t Ro....n etc. .... if your boilies cost some 10Euro/Kg then you rather buy them directly at least you'll spend more time fishing, :)

How to make boilies?

That's like making a cake, you prepare on one side liquids and separately the flours(mix), then you put all this together to get the paste that you'll put in ball. once cook and dry you can used or stock them.

You can find a short and well describe "boilie making how-to" on catchmorecarp web site

Liquids

Start with a large bowl, resistant enough cos later on you 'll give it some hard time!

1- Start by whipping the eggs till to get uniforms and bubbling stuff.
6 to 10 eggs per kilos of mix, but you learn exactly how much by doing it.

2- Add now the flavors and over additive such as sweetener, appetite stimulator etc. ...

The seringue is at this step the best tools to peek precisely the 5 to 10 mil of flavors, using one seringue per flavor may also avoid some strange exotic taste :-)

I'm mainly using carpfoodconcept flavour and sweetners (lumps, neosweet).

Tips

Just smile to your favorite nurse, and you'll get tones of seringue for nuts. Can't not even think paying 5 Euro for a 2 seringue kit in a tackle shop !

Preparing the flours mix

I have a single base mix prepared by 2 kilos (easier as i put only full flour packets). I usually make boilie by 500g or 1 kilo that i take from the based mix bag.

500g maize flour (1.05 Euro)
500g e corn semolina (panzani 0.72 Euro)
500g pre-cooked Soya flour (bio flour 2.40 Euro)
400g powder milk 1/2 (Lovelait 1.58 Euro)
100g sugar (fine mixed 0.165 Euro)

So that make a total off 2.96 Euro/Kg. There's certainly cheapest by buying big amount (25 Kilo bag), but that's tough then to used the 100 Kilos resulting mix !

To make a bird food type mix i added the crushed bird (or over) seed to the base mix, some 100g or 200g off seed for 300g to 400g off mix that will make my final 500g mix.

Mixing flour tip
To mix the "base mix" and the bird food or crushed particles, best is to weight them separately and put everything in a bag, make some turn to close the bag and check widely.

The paste

First add some cupfuls of mix to the liquid to produce a semi liquid type of mess. Let everything rest some 5 to 10 minutes. That should help the rolling and let the flours better absorb flavors. (Not a personal tip but something I read in some English article I don't remember where)
Now add little by little the flours to the liquid and mix with a spoon, initially soft it will get harder and harder till you can't mix it anymore with the spoon, that's where you have to put the hands on it :-)
Sometime the paste isn't hard enough, what i'll do is to add some spoon off base mix till it get ok., or when the paste is just a bit soft wait couples off minutes so it's perfect. By doing you'll learn anyway the correct ratio flour/eggs depending on the type of mix ( bird food or seed). Finally here we are, with a paste ball not to hard not to soft as in both case rolling would be a nightmare.

Rolling

If you do not have a boilie table then skip ahead , wish you luck for the tough and long job of hand rolling a kilo of paste !
For the one who think in buying a table then Techni-peche (french stuff) is really good and cheap (25Euro).

Make a large sausage roughly the gun diameter where you'll put it. Place the cover, close the nozzle with a finger to start the paste compressing. The first sausage inch mist likely not very nice can be left aside.

Now pump regularly, to form a sausage across the table.

With time you'll be able to roll up to 3 sausage in one single shot, but start with a single well centered on the table is the bets way to succeed in getting perfect balls!

So slide back and front few times, and enjoy watching the small ball getting out of the table.

Tips

A joint gun, strong and cheap(6 Euro) make it very well for diameter up to 14 mm, do not buy the first class gun it will not last long. For the tube ask friends having some house works they'll give you a free used one. Just cut the gun nose to the right diameter, and her we are all set-up with a boilie gun at 6 Euro isn't it the cheapest solution compared to some 30 to 50 it cost in tackle shop ?
Sink carpet are great place below the rolling table, so that after each new batch just have to move the table backward to finally get a perfect organized boilies squadron ! Further more the boilies will not stick, it is easily washed and you can handle boilies without to touch a single one !

Cooking

A fry basket (3 Euro) and a large pan is just the simplest solution , also the cheapest and most used by plenty boilies maker.

Put a single boilie layer on the basket, never put to much at a time just ovoid overlay.
Chrono in hand (The one of my mobile is just great) put the basket in the boiling water, leave there by checking from time to time to prevent the boilies to stick together.

Boiling time 1 to 3 minutes depending on the wanted result and mix..
The more cooked the harder the boilie will be, not enough and the boilies will not fished more than few hours.

The best is to build your own experience by doing time test on small amounts and for all the type of mix you intend to use. Experience wise this should be very easy , but i've not yet reach this point:-(.

Tips

Never put to much water on the pan, just cover few cm above the boilies, otherwise you'll hardly learn the effect of the colored flood on the kitchen, that is not so easy to clean-up!
Some says that water from the tap isn't really good (chlore...), some says leave it rest before to use, and over says use spring water ... ok guys you're far too perfectionist for me , i'll says tap water is far good enough !

Drying

After cooking , i'll put my boilies in another fry basket to drain few minutes, then i'll leave everything drying on a clean paper or rag, or just in the basket or better a net. Let dry overnight till some 2 or 3 days before to used.
Dry time, not everybody say the same things, uk anglers says few hours, all French agree on 2 to 3 days!

Stocking

Several ways

Freezing after drying, put the boilies on a tightly closed freezing bag. DO not forget to get the boilies out few hours before to use.
Dry in plain air for as long as you wish (in a dry room). Only problem boilies will get rock hard, but supposed to still be efficient.
On a closed bucket with a layer off salt a layer off dry rise, a layer of boilie and so on...
For the fortunate one ask Mr. x,yz a for its miraculous product that will be charged something i just don't even want to ear about !!

I personally freeze.

Tips

Salt only conservation is very good (test enanche, but i've just start trying it)

If now you'r not ready for making your own boilie but still like to fish with boilies you know what's in, then carpfoodconcept is a great source for customer customized boilie.

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