MAKING YOUR OWN BOILIES

Making your own Boilies is really quite simple as long as you follow these simple instruction. Crack 6 size 4 eggs into a bowl and measure into the eggs accurately using a 5 ml spoon or syringe, any flavourings. Then add any appetite stimulators, oils and colours. Whisk thoroughly with a fork or ideally a whisk to mix all the ingredients evenly. Add in the base mix a little at a time and keep stirring. Keep adding the base mix until you reach a firm paste like consistency. Make sure its not too sticky, because if you are using a rolling machine to roll the bait, it will tend to stick to it. To get to the firm paste, you need to finish of the mixing by hand. Use the paste straight away as it tends to dry out if left to stand. Keep unused paste for a very short while, while rolling, in a plastic bag. Roll the paste into a big sausage of about 2" in diameter and place in a bait gun. Extrude a long sausage of the thickness that you want i.e. 16 mm or 18 mm etc. Place the long sausage on a table and cut into the correct lengths for your rolling table. Place the cut lengths into the rolling table one at a time and roll into balls. Do not over roll the mix, because if the mix is too dry, the balls will tend to break up and they will then have to be rolled by hand. Place the balls into a bowl with a little dry base mix and give them a quick toss in the dry mix to coat them. This stops the balls from sticking together, while you roll out the rest of the mix. When you have rolled all your bait, all that is left is to cook the boilies. Place the boilies into a pan of boiling water, about 20 to 30 at a time. Make sure the water stays on a rolling boil to skin the baits. Cooking takes approximately 1 and a half minutes and when they rise to the surface of the water, they are ready. If you want a harder bait the give them up to 3 minutes in all. Sieve off the cooked boilies and place on a towel to dry off, preferably overnight. The baits are then ready to use or freeze. If you want any pop ups then some of the overnight dried baits can be microwaved on a low power level to increase their buoyancy. As all microwaves are different, a little testing of power level and time of microwaving is required, but do not use a full power level as it will split the baits.

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