Hey guys, was searching around the carp forum when i came accrossed this thread, not sure how i missed it before?
Anyway, about Boilies..YES i bought about $150 worth of Boilie Shop(
http://www.boilieshopusa.com/index.html ) stuff (fresh frozen boilies/matching flavors) and have caught on every one of the boilies....BUT my biggest carp of 2004 all came on either plain canned sweet corn or flavored sweet corn....NOT boilies.
I tried banana, pineapple, blueberry,tiger nut, scopex, tutti-frutti boilies and they all worked.....i also have used from Bill Dowler(Boilie Shop owner) Strawberry, pineapple, scopex, tiger nut, banana, tutti-frutti, Indian spice flavors and did AWSOME on them(soaking sweet corn in these flavors).
I also would highly recommend Superior & R&W carp juice flavors from the Carp Shack(
http://www.shopbettys.com/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=5 ).
In the colder water times, i have used small flavored boilies next to highly flavored corn and the corn out fishes everytime. During the warmer months i did well on boilies, but i could still catch more with unflavored sweetcorn or maise(field corn). I think boilies are great on waters where they are used a lot(none of my waters have seen them) or where you want only a shot a catching bigger carp and your using 24mm boilies .
At East Harbor i caught 16 carp with the biggest going 19 1/2 lbs. all fish were caught on flavored sweetcorn(also using the METHOD)....At Buckeye lake, same thing , NO boilie carp, i had a rod out with some too. At COSI, Jake & I caught all fish on the method with highly flavored sweetcorn(and chick peas..shhhh). Yea i will add that pre chumming of steam rolled corn certainly helped..lol
My biggest carp of 2004 was 36 lbs and was on 7 kernals of plain sweetcorn fish with the method. My 2 other 30's were the same set up BUT this time using flavored sweetcorn as the only change.
My biggest carp on boilies were around 20 lbs.
I will buy a FEW certain boilies for 2005, but for the most part im betting on particles soaked in GOOD flavors . When a great pattern shows its self, no need to change, just tweek it a bit..lol.
I bet if we got a poll together(hmm good idea) that we'd find that anglers biggest fish here in Ohio came from other baits, not boilies?
My 2 fishing partners caught thier PB's this year using flavored corn...along with my PB.
Scott