Well I am certainly not the one to ask for a good recipe for boilies. I made my first batch today ever. After searching around for a while to find a good starter recipe I determined that there were no simple recipes. So off I went to get the ingredients that I did not have. I had to buy semolina flour and soy flour. I had really hoped to use ingredients that I already had.


Anyway, I mixed up cornflour (I only had white cornflour), semolina, soy flour, eggs, strawberry drink mix, and a little powdered sugar. The mix was failing to get putty-like and was pretty sticky. So I added white flour to dry it out and make it kneadable.

Then I started rolling out logs to cut and form balls. Quickly I discovered that the logs were too fat and I rolled out ropes - the thinner the better.

I was rolling on wax paper because I did not want to get the red die on my counter. The paper moved around alot and that was a problem. But a little flour on the work surface helped to keep the dough from sticking. About two thirds through my dough was drying out. Next time I will wrap the dough in plastic wrap while it is waiting.

They boiled faster than I could roll out the balls and they were not all evenly sized. I tried one and I don't think they taste very good.

But all that matters is that the carp will take them. So off I went to Vickies restaurant that is right on the river. About a month ago I was there and my son was feeding french fries to the carp and they came right up even letting him touch them while he was offering food. I knew I would be able to watch the carp eat the bait and I could judge how much they would like it.

And the result was that the carp did like my boilies better than french fries and better than leftover hot dog bun. I also saw one eat a bit of my daughters leftover hot dog that was at least 2 1/2 inches long. So no more fears about them not taking the bigger boilies.

I made a device to thread the boilies on the hair rig by nipping off part of the eye of a sewing needle and fixing it on a bit of dowel for a handle. This too I have never done before so hopefully the boilies will be easy to attach. The knots were intimidating me but after looking at them some more I think I will be able to tie them. I just hope they work like they are claimed to.