Boilies

Advantages: Saves you tons of money
Disadvantages: Stinks and your wife will nag you

I have been fishing for over 25 years approx and can say the secret to catching the big fish is how you feed the lake or river before you start on a serious fishing expedition. It gets pretty expensive buying your Boiles from your local fishing shop and the more you get into fishing the more determined you are to make the perfect boilie yourself. I did try the pound shop version but can only say I didn't catch one fish all day long so best to avoid ...
...perfect base to mix your own ingredients to and the cheapest way to do it.. Many of the ingredients are cheaper such as pure fishmeal from your garden centre rather than your local fish tackle shop. Ok they might not like to hear that but as you are giving the fish your food free then the cheapest option is the one we would all use. Many people will use the powdered colouring again available at you local tackle shop but the cheap food colorants ... Read review

Advantages: Saves Money on shop bought popups and popup mixes and make as many as you like without breaking the bank
Disadvantages: Stinks the Kitchen and upsets the missus

...base mix to pop-up my boilies or even fork out 5 pound plus on a small tub of pop-ups. After trying many different types of products and various methods, I decided to experiment a bit to see if I could make it cheaper. I always like to mix my own base mixes up, either by buying a 50/50 mix and mixing in my own ingredients with it, or by simply just using my own homemade base mix. Either of these two and other shop bought mixes will all do the same ...
...occasions. You now have your boilies ready to boil. Right here’s the trick. Pick out your favoured hook baits from your batch of boilies (before boiling). I choose about 30 of my favoured baits, and place about 10 at a time on a microwavable plate. Put them in the microwave for about 1 minute on high power. Once you have done this, check the texture of the boilie and see if its starting harden. If it’s still soft to touch and feel, then put them ... Read review

Advantages: Gets him out of my feet when he is fishing!!!
Disadvantages: THE SMELL, THE SMELL, THE SMELL AND OH YES...THE SMELL.

...on, for recognition, and then placed gently back into the swim!!!! Noone visits me until the Autumn is approaching, as thats usually when the smell had started to fade to bearable, and the car..well its stinks of fish and whats in my glove box....a bag of boilies air dired!!!! ... Read review

Advantages: Good baits
Disadvantages: Were cruel to the fish.

Im big, BIG into my fish KEEPING now. Once upon a time I was BIG into my fish CATCHING. Its only recently that I realised its not nice being forced the wrong way through the water with all of your bodyweight dragged along by a hook through your lip. Still as a teenager, I caught some great Carp. There are 4 types of Carp really in the UK. Crucian Carp are much smaller than their 3 big brothers, the Mirror, the Leather and the Common Carp. To hook ...
...on a golden hook and bobs your uncle. Early in the season, you can catch the smaller carp of the top with dog biscuits. I used to prefer to hunt deeper in the water. In search of the big monsters. It was because of this that I ledgered with boilies. Floating ones could be used to keep your bait out of the silt or weeds. I experimented for years with different types and flavours. Yes Flavours. These small balls that are about 2cm in diameter ... Read review

Advantages: very versitile bait
Disadvantages: not many i can think of

...these boilies" but why?? Boilies are essentially just a mixture of powdered proteins ect mixed with egg and boiled so why do so many fish love em?? The truth is not many people know but one of the reasons could be because of the high nutritional value contained in many top brands and another may be because even if you were to dangle a fluff ball right inm front of a carp's nose chances are they would bite it. Boilies are very versitile as the come ...
...the boil and put you boilies in for roughly 2 mins. At this stage you could add flavours to the boiling water as well. Drain the boilies off let them cool then seal in an airtight container or if allowed freeze them. Flavours can be brought from a fishing shop but here are some of my own which can be brought from tesco ect. Curry powder or paprika for winter Golden or maple syrup liquidized hot dogs liquidized sweetcorn strawberry jam(melted ... Read review