Boilie Recipes for Carp

Please post your favorite Boilie Recipes for Carp fishing (not personal if you don't wish) here.

 

Shorebound,

This recipe came from the above address, and is what I started with. It mixes and rolls well, AND catches fish.

6oz Semolina Flour
4oz Soy Flour
2oz Milk Powder (I would suggest some sort of animal milk replacer: Calf, Goat, etc. If you don't want to do this, add 1 extra oz of semolina and 1 extra oz. of Soy Flours. Milk powder we get at the store (powdered milk) is fat free....which is not a good thing when rolling boilies)
2oz Ground Rice Flour
2oz Maize or Corn Meal/flour

You will need about 4 medium eggs cracked in a bowl. Add your flavorings and sweeteners to this mix (these will be used on the hook, not as chum.....so feel free to add like 15mls of flavoring (vanilla, strawberry, etc.), 10mls of Artificial liquid sweetener (found in the coffee section), and food coloring of your choice. Combine with the eggs and beat. Mix all your dry ingredients together seperately. Slowly add some of the dry mix to the eggs and beat with a fork until you get a Poridge looking mess. LEt it sit for 5 mins to absorb the liquid. Then continue to add the dry mix.....once too thick by fork, switch to hand. Keep adding dry mix until you get a "play-dough" look and feel. If you run out of basemix, just keep adding either rice flour or soy flour until you get the desired effect. ONce done, just break off little pieces, roll small balls into dime diameter pieces or bigger, and boil for 2 mins. Take out of boiling water and let air dry over night. You can freeze them until ready to use (thaw first) or use them fresh. I like taking some corn syrup (Karo) and the flavoring of the boilies, and putting it into a ziplock. Add some of your boilies you are planning to use that day into that bag, and coat the boilies. Gives them extra attraction.

 

Mitch,

Flavor levels are all depending on what you prefer. Most people say that too much flavoring will turn off a carp. Well.....yes....if you are going to use that bait as chum. But I want the fish to find my hookbait quicker than anything else. So I usually "key" up the flavorings in them. You DON'T want to flavor your chum this highly though. I would suggest starting with Vanilla or Strawberry flavorings. You will get good takes with those as a start. I would say with that recipe, and store flavorings, go ahead and add 1/4 teaspoon of the flavoring and the same with the artificial sweetener.

 

Mitch,

No prob. It's all trial and error. And to be honest, I haven't made somethign that carp Didn't eat...LOL. My goal is to try to gain the "edge" on the competition...to come up with a bait that the fish will prefer over the other baits being presented. I think I have that worked out....and plan to fish it exclusively for our Carp Challenge in September. And it will remain under lock and key until then hehe.

I will have a good supply of bait with me at the outing this weekend. Feel free to ask for some if you wish. I don't mind sharing. Especially if I'm catching and your not That's the whole purpose of our outings. But as for Catking......he's on his own

 

Actually, if you buy your flours by 50lb bags, it is relatively cheap ($150/season) 250 lbs of flours will make enough boilies to feed the entire western basin. LOL. If I do a week session in some deeper waters of erie, I will likely be chumming 2lbs/day for 5 straight days. That's 10lbs of just boilies.

 

Artificial sweeteners do not "promote" fermentation like natural sweeteners (sugar, etc.) Besides, it's much more potent than regular sugar......and takes less artificial liquid sweetener (Nutrasweet in your grocery store near the coffee). As for the mls, you can do a search on ask.com for milliliter conversion tables.