Making Homemade Carp and Catfish Boilies for Beginners and Big Fish! by Tim F. Richardson

Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned bait maker there is always more you can learn and the potential to discover new secrets is always ongoing because even top fish scientists admit they are far from knowing it all! To improve your readymade baits or be able to make homemade baits that perform equally or even better than the vast majority of readymade baits takes technical knowledge and loads of field testing on a range of waters right through the year. But one thing is for sure – we all have to start somewhere; so why not begin with big fish bait recipes and read on now!



The history of the modern phenomenon of boilie making could be said to go back many hundreds of years or thousands of year because high protein baits have been used in fishing for millennia. A guy called Fred Wilton did something unusual in that he took the essential needs of carp in particular and built his boilie and paste baits on essential fish needs to maximise possibilities that fish would need to consume his baits to top up their natural foods right through the year if possible. I personally think that high nutritive baits are just one option and I combine aspects of very instantly attractive and addictive substances chosen very specifically in my homemade baits and in fact do not aim to make a complete so-called food bait with balanced amino acids etc because it is simply not that vital to do this to catch fish - even against baits made like this!



There was a time when caseins were the basis of high nutritive fishing baits, backed up by other caseinates plus other ingredients and additives to supply a broader range of nutrition and additional stimulation and attraction, such as liver and yeast powders and so on. Very many anglers were hooked on the idea of using baits based on milk protein ingredients, from the sixties until the rising popularity of fish meal baits utilising soluble fish protein etc that occurred around the middle of the early to the mid nineteen-nineties – at least in my area of the UK which was Essex. Fish meals were more in favour in part because they were much cheaper than the increasingly costly milk proteins, but also because things like the cheaper bird food baits prove that you do not need to spend a fortune to make highly successful HNV or balanced nutrition baits.



Although fish meal baits came more into prominence in the nineties, bird food and milk protein type HNV baits were not the only forms of nutritional baits as there are endless variation, and the success of flavour-over-dosed baits and fake baits show that many other options also exist. Fish such as carp or catfish can be trained like dogs or humans for that matter to come back for more food when it is introduced to them regularly. Where baits contain particularly stimulating nutrition and bioactive factors then baits can be extremely successful – even if you are only an average angler. HNV type baits can be an excellent leveller of results even against better more talented and experienced anglers when you regularly apply them over time - which is a major reason I prefer to make my own unique economical ones and because this is a long-proven big fish tactic for both big carp and catfish and other species too!



Maybe as a beginner you have heard of a few baits and ingredients but the very best point to begin your bait making designs from is the fish. Learning about fish might sound boring until you know a bit more and seriously begin to appreciate the massive power it can give you in your fishing even against better more experienced more talented anglers – for the rest of your life. Like in the old saying knowledge is power, but in this case knowledge of fish senses, internal processes and how bait substances can exploit and manipulate and boost such things like digestion and energy for instance is extremely well proven to lead to catches of very many big fish that make other anglers jealous!



When you begin bait making learning about fish first then it is very much easier to select a range of bait ingredients, additives, special enhancers, palatants, flavours, digestion boosters, addictive and habit-forming substances etc with absolute confidence! To write about bait in depth takes a depth of personal experience and catches from experimenting with bait substances and various combinations and levels etc over many years and my bait making days began for me around the age of 7 back in the early seventies. Many new bait substances are available now that really seriously boost catch results and because these substances are so potent you do not need to use much of them.



In the old days milk protein baits were used very sparingly by most anglers because for one thing they were very high in protein so the fish did not need to eat many before getting full; and anyway, they worked instantly on the vast majority of waters. When fish meal baits came into prominence it was the relatively new tactic of dumping many kilograms of boilies into a swim to draw and hold the fish. Please do not get the idea that you need to make hundreds of kilograms of homemade boilies to catch big fish because just a handful of extremely potent homemade baits are always be just as good as any pricy readymade bait when you fish them in the right spot with a suitable rig!



The major reason why you can have absolute confidence in your own unique homemade baits and recipes is because preferably you will have studied the fish in detail in terms of the many factors that you can potentially exploit to manipulate their feeding modes, feeding habits, feeding intensity and location and so on. I spent a very long time putting this kind of information all into my ebooks to make this far quicker and easier to understand, and to put into practice in formulating your own unique baits that catch fish again and again. Now I will provide you with a simple homemade bait recipe for big fish that will kick start you on the bait-making road - or will give you something a little bit different if you already have some experience!



This bait is not rocket science but explaining science behind aspects of it could be quite involved but needless to say this starter bait will catch big fish! The bulk of the bait is low temperature fish meal with a few binding additions and extras to boost other things such as nutritional value, bait palatability, improve digestion and bait performance, and to make the bait a little different to standard readymade baits! It should be stated here that this is not an absolute bait and it is flexible in amounts, used or other additions, or ingredient availability and according to your pocket (or your own preferences; it is certainly not optimised in terms of digestion for example, but it will catch big fish (of that there is no doubt!)



7 ounces of low temperature fish meal.

2 ounces of calcium caseinate.

1 ounce of 90 mesh casein.

2 ounces of CLO.

1 ounce of blood plasma.

1 ounce of hydrolysed poultry protein.

1 ounce of blue cheese powder.

1 ounce of chopped fennel seeds.



This bait can be made with betaine and liquid eggs with Minamino or other liquid foods etc such as home liquidised liver and anchovy extract for instance; and a low level of oil too is a very beneficial (such as walnut oil.) As for flavours, palatants, sweeteners or labels etc you might choose an essential oil of your choice or even natural orange extract in sunflower oil (just to be different) from the local supermarket. Suppliers are many but the blood plasma plus a few of the other things mentioned are supplied by CC Moore on line. Do not forget that you can use a homemade bait and a readymade bait on the same rig or use homemade baits and recipes in making your own PVA net or bag type baits and fish any other baits on your rigs or vice-versa etc. (For further information on making, adapting, designing and boosting your baits see my website Baitbigfish right now!)



By Tim Richardson.


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