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<p>I'm new to boilies and have never tried them. I want to give them a shot this week just to do something a little different for my spot. I searched the net and found a recipe from the UK that seemed pretty good, strawberry milkshake! I went to the store and got the ingrediants and went to work. The recipe called for a play dough like consistancy and mine turned out a little sticky, so I added a little more of the dry ingrediants and came up with these nice looking little strawberry boilie balls.</p>
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<p>I got my water boiling and eased about 10 of them into the boiling water. I let them cook for the suggested 100 seconds, then strained them out. This is what I got!</p>
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<p>The density and weight seem right along with the texture, but they got pruned? They're all wrinkly. I think the Carp will still smell them and still come into them, but why didn't they turn out with the classic "round boilie" shape?</p>
Those almost look tasty!
Fish won't care about the look... They look great Mags. Good to see you are still alive too.
It is all perspective!
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They don't care about shape.
If the water is clear, they sight feed and the best bait colours around here are yellow and white.
If the water is muddy they'll key in on flavour.
Eli
They look fine mags, just make sure you let em dry out so they form a nice crust on the outside. Just fyi boilies work best if used as part of baiting campaign. If you don't get anything on your first trip don't get discouraged. I would feed the area you plan on fishinng for at least three days prior to fishinng it so they have a chance to figure out that your offering is food.
Also if you dont have a bait needle to hair rig your boilies you can use a straightened out size 2 eagle claw hook with the barb pinched down.
Thanks guys, gonna try them thursday. They didn't really get a crust on them, they were kind of rubbery, like a rough superball. Anyway, I'll try em'. I'm gonna try a hair rig, I think I can whip up a few pretty quick on the fly vise.
How long did ya let em dry for mags? Most people recommend 2-3 days.
The recipe said to freeze them to preserve them. I dried them off and rubbed a little extra dry ingriedients on them and put them in the freezer. They feel more like a doughball rather than a crusty little cake ball. They're pretty dense and kind of heavy, I don't think you could pop-up rig these.
People freeze them if they arent going to use them right away then they pull em out and dry them before use. The tough outside helps keep your boilie on the hair. It sounds like you should have no problem with them falling off the hair. A pop up rig uses special boilies called pop ups that float. Some people use whats called a "snowman rig" where the put a normal boilie on the front of the hair and then a smaller pop up boilie on the end.
Here is decent article on boilie theory.
http://www.carpanglersgroup.com/forum/index.php?/topic/45461-boosting-confidence-with-boilies/?hl=%2Bboilie+%2Bconfidence