Homemade Boilie Recipes - The Best Way To Make Big Carp Baits And Avoid Beginner Mistakes!

Save yourself time, expense and wasted effort and avoid making the commonest of basic mistakes carp anglers make all the time when it comes to making homemade baits! If your focus is on recipes, ingredients and flavours then you are making a big mistake! There are far more important aspects to focus on which actually make all the difference! Read on now!

Readymade baits are not the edge they used to be and with their rising costs it is no surprise that more and more anglers are turning to making their own homemade baits. However, the vast majority is making enormous mistakes in their bait making and they continue to do so, (mostly due to ignorance due to commercial-led bias or sheer closed-mindedness!)

Having been making successful homemade baits for 37 years now I can assure you that I began by starting out with the current thinking of the time, which was making special pastes, (using no eggs,) because that approach was not fashionable. Following intensive testing I went full circle and have avoided using eggs in my homemade baits for over a decade.

Using flavours had not come about either when I first started making homemade baits. Pop up baits were yet to be popularised and the hair rig, bolt rig and readymade rigs and baits just were not invented at that time and the plethora of carp magazines and mass mindset-conditioning media and advertising was none existent!

For this reason I had to be my own pioneer and think for myself and harness the power of my own dynamically-evolving creative process. My learning was first-hand bait testing, using endless combinations of simple baits and ingredients and liquids, the vast majority of which are still the basis of readymade baits today.

I linked my practical fishing testing, observations and experiences with all the reading on carp behaviours and internal and external functioning as I could. It is this learning which the majority of anglers miss out on, as well as countless hours of testing very simple baits to study relative levels, combinations, synergies and how fish actually behave in the presence of each bait version.

Taking up carp fishing and just buying everything off the shelf and becoming an instant carp angler fixated on catching thirty plus carp means nothing, because the understanding is just not there. It takes experience to discern patterns and discover truths of absolutes in very personal terms in bait.

Long and intensive real experience in bait testing, using comparative analysis and control baits is the only way to know the truth of new bait performance for sure instead of merely swallowing hype! I have tested homemade baits for decades against popular readymade baits for this very reason, specifically in order to beat them and to help others do so!

Very many big fish in the media are not caught as claimed. The truth is often twisted or warped to make a story and make catching big fish consistently seem far easier than it really is.

The commonest mistake I find beginners and indeed more experienced carp bait makers do is to be fixated upon recipes! In my experience 90 plus percent of all baits will get a pick up by a carp. But that does not mean that bait is good! It can easily mean that the bait works in spite of itself, being repellant to some degree. (Very many flavours are actually not palatable at all and are repellant in certain levels as are a number of essential amino acids!)

I mean seriously, in all the hyped advertising regarding so-called food baits and readymade boilies, whether it is a nut bait or Cell type boilies, I expected and indeed have found in testing that very simple paste baits can out-perform them, most especially whether these food baits have been well established!

I suggest that Marmite bread paste with fructose, honey, maple syrup and maple steep liquor flavour, or peanut butter bread paste with butyric acid and Feedstim XP liquid will do rather well for big fish regardless of all the hype attached to readymade boilies (and at a fraction of the cost!)

I suggest that there are immensely superior ways to make beginner baits instead of starting out with 6 eggs, adding carbohydrate ingredients like semolina and soya, a flavour, a liquid food and an intense sweetener. In my experience such baits are more often than not ignored by carp today which are so well used to selectively feeding on a countless range of nutritionally-stimulating baits and boilies presented to them!

My personal aim is truly genuinely achieving maximizing of external and internal impacts and this is a very complex very deep and broad ongoing progression, one step and lesson leading onwards revealing another, reaching another level.

Carp definitely feed selectively. One fish will be more sensitive to one version of bait compared to another. Sensitivity varies between individual fish. This applies especially in the case of fish studied in the wild or in tank scenarios in the lab, for instance where one fish is less stimulated into feeding by one palatable amino acid compared to another, yet another fish will find other amino acids more palatable. Everything is on a unique individual fish basis and this is part of the reason why some fish are caught far more than others.

There is a Kent 44 pound mirror which has been banked 3 times this year which is the most-caught fish in that lake, yet it is far from the biggest and far from being the smallest, or youngest or oldest fish in the water. It is simply that the fish is less sensitive to the standard rig used on the water in its manner of feeding on baits and has a very broad spectrum of substances to which it is sensitive which stimulate its feeding.

Certain other fish that water which are the most sought-after have a far narrower band of substance to which they are most particularly sensitive, partly due to being different strains of fish and being commons, and these fish feed very differently to that 44 pound mirror and only come out rarely. It is fascinating in my study of them to note that they are far more sensitive to certain mineralised salts and vitamins, than to a large range of amino acid blends.

Anglers tend to try to generalise when they cannot explain something, especially when it comes to bait! But the answers are in the details. For example there are sensitivity links between grass carp and certain strains of common carp, some of which being the biggest in the UK. There are certain sensitivity links between tench, bream, roach, crucian carp and many strains of mirror carp. Various sweet flavours will catch all these species to a lesser or greater extent, depending quite often on the exact levels of flavour or flavour combinations applied in boilies or pellets.

Certain strains of mirror carp and common carp have particular sensitivities more in common with wels catfish! Just for example sweetcorn and red kidney beans contain components which in my experience are stimulatory to both species. It may seem weird imagining a 100 pound UK catfish feeding on tiny grains of sweet corn or red kidney beans, but that is the truth.

The bait companies tend to generalise in terms of saying their so-called food bait is superior, when in fact there is no bait which will catch every single fish all the time. Fish go through cycles and dynamically evolve all the time in direct response to experiences and exposures to substances and baits and their unique properties, features and characteristics.

So for example, commercially produced egg-sealed boiled baits, rolled at speed in a machine, will have pretty standard appearance, density, behaviour and common physical characteristics. Carp are exposed to thousands of such objects all their lives and easily discern between them, selectively, even to the point following being hooked of avoiding picking egg-sealed boilies entirely. This is a fact which the bait companies do not want you to realise!

Another small point is that when you use a popular readymade boilie you have no idea how many other anglers have used the bait and had their rigs sorted and their hook baits and free baits marked by hormone marking them as dangerous. You also do not know if your target fish even if not landed, have been hooked and lost on any particular readymade bait, which can literally have profound implications in terms of your potential for catching that fish if that fish avoids those baits as a result!

Even just these introductory reasons are enough to encourage anyone to look beyond the hype and twisted truth about readymade boilies and decide to make their own homemade baits. In fact someone just today asked me how much I make my boilies for as a cost per kilogram. Bait measured in terms of price per kilogram is a joke. It has zero bearing on the potential of each individual bait to stimulate intraoral feeding where a bait is tested within the back of the mouth, which is exactly where you want your hook bait to be.

My answer to the question was I would rather pay for example 250 pounds for substances sufficient to make just 1 kilogram of the most potent true fee triggering baits to fish singly for an entire season, knowing they will induce actual pick ups because they trigger exactly the precise form of feeding behaviour and mouth motions necessary to get rigs well back in the mouth for bait testing by fish, than pay 1000 pounds for a years supply of any readymade baits! This is even though I am a CC Moore consultant and could also just request free bait from numerous bait companies in the UK, Europe and the States due to my contacts within them from years back.

This is not to put down the readymade baits, but just to underline how much control you can have by creating your very own baits in terms of exactly how they stimulate fish feeding and behaviour in reaction with water. For instance, I can create baits which are designed to be resilient, yet have not solid surface, create baits which are resilient to pest fish, yet contain no eggs and are not heated nor rolled and contain levels of substances which no bait companies could possible consider for them to actually make a profit.

I can create homemade baits which naturally have a distinctly different feel, taste, density and buoyancy compared to any readymade baits, whether the bait is boilies, pellets, paste or particles. I can create baits which progressively become more like natural food items in terms of density, the longer they are immersed, yet remain firm and intact, while attracting natural food items to them.

There are countless other examples of the kinds and levels of control I can build into my baits. I teach all these and more in my one to one bait tuition day courses fro beginner to the most experienced anglers, from anglers never having made a bait or caught a twenty, to pairs of anglers each of whom have a long history in homemade bait making and each caught Heather the leather which has at times been the biggest leather carp in the country.

In 2002 I caught a 46 pound leather carp and a UK fifty on my homemades but I kept the detail to myself but needless to say, they were caught on very uniquely different baits and thinking compared to that you commonly find in the magazines! I can state that because I had my own bait page in Crafty Carper magazine called Carp food; why do carp like that, explaining the truth of why bait substances actually work.

I was asked by the Carp world sub-editor at the time to write for them, but I declined as the bait industry is a highly political world and my stance coming from making homemade baits that defeat the most popular readymade baits is just not politically correct!

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By Tim Richardson.

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