Making boilies

[mike rousseau]

Spent the afternoon making some homemade boilies today... Trying to get ahead for the spring carp season...

The recipe I've got smoothed out

500g base mix (equal parts semolina flour, soy flour, and corn meal)
6 large eggs
3 tbls oil (I use corn oil)
2 tbls flavor ( this varies depending on strength)
Powder dye

If you use liquid dye just ad a bit extra base mix

Mix dry ingredients
Mix wet ingredients
Then ad wet to dry and mix

Then I put a bit of oil on my hands... Then work the dough with your hands until consistent...

Then you roll sausages...

Then place sausages on rolling table

Roll em

Then boil em till they float... 2-3 minutes

Then youll want to strain them and spread them out to dry...

I let em dry around an hour or 2...

Then place the boilies in freeze bags... Label what flavor they are... And freeze em...

 

[hightechdecks]

pro!

 

[mike rousseau]

Store bought boilies are about $15-20 per kg

Home made around $5 depending on additives

 

[hightechdecks]

Store bought boilies are about $15-20 per kg

Home made around $5 depending on additives

heres a little walleye pic to go along with our pm conversation.....not a monster but a solid fish for sureView attachment 9085

 

[mike rousseau]

heres a little walleye pic to go along with our pm conversation.....not a monster but a solid fish for sureView attachment 9085

Lol

Chunker

 

[hammercarp]

Looks like someone wants to target the big ones. ;-) Good luck Mike. Hope you get some hefty ones.

 

[mike rousseau]

Looks like someone wants to target the big ones. ;-) Good luck Mike. Hope you get some hefty ones.

I'm looking to break 40lbs thus year HC...

I've got 2 just over 36lbs... And I've seen 40s in my swims...

So this year I'm making a big push with loads of boilies...

 

[hightechdecks]

i dont carp fish much but we always use fresh corn on hair rigs......chum the snot out of them too.

 

[mike rousseau]

i dont carp fish much but we always use fresh corn on hair rigs......chum the snot out of them too.

Yup... Corn is one of tge best baits to get a lot of bites...

But I get sick of lots if bites because it usually means lots of smaller carp... 25lb and under... These smaller fish are more aggressive... So they take the bait before the bigger...smarter...slower moving ones get a chance to...

I've been testing this for a couple years now... My average size of fish goes up about 5lbs if I use bigger baits...like boilies... My best year for big average carp I was using a snowman set up with a 20mm boilie and 16mm pop up... That year I placed 3rd in the Carp Anglers Group big four tournament...

But when going to bigger baits... Your number of fish per day takes a nose dive...

 

[ChaseChrome]

Well I've taken some big carp on W. Buggers and Leech imitations, but you've got this thing down to a finely tuned science my friend!!
Nicely posted too...
CC

 

[mike rousseau]

Well I've taken some big carp on W. Buggers and Leech imitations, but you've got this thing down to a finely tuned science my friend!!
Nicely posted too...
CC

were you targeting carp?

ive heard of some amazing days of carpin on the fly...

 

[ChaseChrome]

were you targeting carp?

ive heard of some amazing days of carpin on the fly...

Indeedie MR--cyprinus carpio....on the fly

 

[mike rousseau]

Indeedie MR--cyprinus carpio....on the fly

very cool...

 

[ChaseChrome]

very cool...

Dude: you know the "Carpfather"?
Great guy, London area--Ian James....check his blog bro.

 

[mike rousseau]

The Norewgian Carp Hound...love it...

sounds a lot harder then the euro style i fish....

 

[ChaseChrome]

Well I've taken some big carp on W. Buggers and Leech imitations, but you've got this thing down to a finely tuned science my friend!!
Nicely posted too...
CC

Here you go brother Mike CARP ON THE FLY!!!!!!!!!

 

[mike rousseau]

i cant believe how consistantly those carp were surface feeding...

ive never seen that in open water before... only in big mats of weeds...


thanks

that was a really cool video

 

[NADO]

sweet video, I watched that one 4 or 5 times in a row last year and the result was quite a few unsuccessful outings lol. I especially like the parts where he dips his reel into the water and lets it rip.

 

[ChaseChrome]

sweet video, I watched that one 4 or 5 times in a row last year and the result was quite a few unsuccessful outings lol. I especially like the parts where he dips his reel into the water and lets it rip.

VERY COOL

 

[roska]

Good pics mike what is a rolling table and where I can get it