DIY floating boilies recipes

This type of bait, called Pop Up, is an artificial bait used for catching fish such as carp or carp.
This article will tell you how to make floating boilies with your own hands. Boyle is a ball, about 2 cm in diameter, brightly colored and containing various ingredients, both animal and plant origin. In addition, taste and smell enhancers have been added to the composition.

Boilies can have the following characteristics:

• drowning;
• neutral;
• floating.

All of them are designed for certain fishing conditions. So, if there is a muddy bottom, it is undesirable to use sinking boilies, since they will sink in the mud and remain invisible to the fish. In this case, it is better to use boilies with neutral buoyancy. They will be in close proximity to the bottom. But after a certain time, the smell of silt and aquatic vegetation will drown out the aroma of boilies. But floating boilies are ideal for such fishing conditions, since they will constantly be in the water column without losing their attractive characteristics.

Ingredients for floating boilies

Regardless of what kind of boilies they are - sinking, neutral or floating, their composition is almost identical. They differ from each other only in the technology of preparing the dough: sinking boilies are boiled, and floating boilies are cooked in the microwave. At the same time, the composition of boilies can be very diverse. The dough contains dry ingredients, binders and aromatic ingredients. All this taken together is mixed with eggs or water.

Boilies can contain both nutritious and low-calorie ingredients. It all depends on the fishing conditions. If you need to attract fish for a short time, you can use low-calorie boilies with a pronounced aroma; if you need to attract fish for a long period, then high-calorie boilies are used along with bait.

Animal Ingredients:

• meat products;
• chopped fish;
• chopped bones and meat;
• casein and milk.

Herbal Ingredients:

• various flours;
• various cereals;
• birdseed.

The color and aroma of boilies are of great importance, so various flavors and dyes should be added to the main composition.

Flavorings can be:

• chocolate;
• various oils;
• sunflower seeds (crushed);
• curry;
• caraway;
• cinnamon;
• garlic.

If meat or bird food is added to the mixture, then flavorings can be dispensed with, but if the composition contains fresh elements, such as flour, cereals, then flavorings are necessary.

The color of the boilies should be contrasting with the underwater world. Bright shades such as red, yellow, orange, etc. are more suitable.

Secret ingredients of boilie for carp

In addition to the main ingredients - cereals, eggs, flour, in order for the fish to become interested and swallow the bait, when preparing boilies yourself, you need to use some secrets that will increase the taste and nutritional properties of the bait.

Namely, use “magic” additives - flavors, liquid and dry dyes, attractants. The concentration of certain ingredients and the composition of the boilies are determined by the time of year, the temperature of the water, the type and specifics of the reservoir.

Dyes

The color of the bait is of great importance when fishing, especially in winter. At this time of year, carp have weakened olfactory functions and, in search of prey, the fish orient themselves using their vision. The most attractive colors for fish are yellow, white, purple, and red. Although the opinions of experienced fishermen constantly differ on this issue.

The main thing is not to use dark-colored boilies in ponds with muddy water. Fans of night fishing can use boilies coated with fluorescent dyes. When choosing a dye for bait, you need to take into account the characteristics of the reservoir, and it would be nice to know the preferences of the carp that live in a particular reservoir.

Flavors

To prepare boilies, you can use regular food flavorings, culinary spices, seasonings, or special ones that can be purchased at fishing stores. If homemade boilies contain fishmeal, flavorings may not be used. Conventionally, flavorings can be classified into: liquid and dry.

Liquid flavors

The group of liquid flavors includes: jelly-like dips (blended sauce for dipping ready-made balls at the fishing spot), extracts of various plants, fruit syrups, liquid dips. Some flavor enhancers are added during the cooking stage, others are used after the bait is fully cooked, before placing the balls in boiling water.

Liquid flavors provide a long-lasting flavor and are added in minimal quantities. For 1 kg of dry matter – 3-7 ml of substance.

Dry spices and herbs

Dry aromatic substances include dry spices, various types of spices, and powdered dips. Homemade boilies can be given a unique aroma by anise seeds, dill, curry seasoning, ground cinnamon, and red pepper. Dry herbs and spices are introduced into a container for dry bait ingredients.

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It is worth considering that an excess of aromatic components can ruin boilies. The recommended dosage is 1 ml of substance per 100 g of dry mixture.

Substances that improve digestion

To increase the fish’s interest in baits and activate digestive reflexes, special enzymes and food additives are added to boilies.

These include:

1. Ground hemp, sunflower, fennel seeds.
2. Flaxseed pulp.
3. Betaine HCI.
4. Flour from gammarus, daphnia, bloodworms, squid.
5. Birdseed.
6. Sprouted wheat flour.

Table salt, sea salt. The salt must first be ground in a coffee grinder. This component gives the boilies a porous structure, is a natural preservative, increases the diffusion of water into the bait, accelerating the dissolution of the components.

Stages of preparing floating boilies

1. Dry and liquid ingredients are mixed together.
2. After this, knead the dough until smooth.
3. The entire batch is divided into several parts.
4. And sausages are formed from each part, after which they are cut into small pieces.
5. Small pieces are formed into balls and placed on a tray.

After this, boilies are made from the resulting balls. If you boil them and then dry them, you get sinking baits. To obtain floating baits, you can use several methods. The simplest option is to bake them in the microwave. In this case, the maximum power is selected. Boilies are considered ready if they have already begun to burn, but they should not be allowed to reach this state. You can check how buoyant the boilies are in a glass of water. With the help of such experiments, you can select and determine the size of the boilies. After this, hooks are selected for such boilies. It is very important that the hook does not pull the boilie to the bottom, and that the bait with the hook remains in the water column.

There is another option. To ensure the buoyancy of boilies, you can use cork material:

1. To do this, you need to grind the cork and add it to the main mixture. Such boilies are not baked in the microwave, but boiled.
2. Use pieces of cork. To do this, they are coated with dough and boiled.
3. You can make a sinking boilie float if you drill a hole in it and insert a piece of cork into it. Unfortunately, this process is quite labor-intensive.

If you make boilies based on cork, then their diameter should not be more than 15 mm, since cork is too buoyant. Although, the buoyancy of boilies can be adjusted by the size of the pieces of cork, and after lengthy trials you can decide on this issue.

Boilie preparation technology

This process consists of the following steps:

• take a container and mix the dry ingredients of the future dough in it, and in another pan make a “cocktail” from liquid products;
• the liquid fraction must be slowly poured into the dry mixture, actively stirring, this prevents lumps from forming, and the dough turns out dense, elastic and non-sticky;
• cut small pieces from the dough and roll them into sausages 1 cm thick;
• the sausage is cut into several parts and rolled into balls;
• Heat treatment is carried out in a microwave oven or a pan of water.

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If boilies are first boiled and then dried and frozen, the result is a dense, sinking bait. It can stay in water for a long time without collapsing. If a microwave is used for final processing of boilies, the balls will be porous and loose. They swim well, but in water they can quickly lose their shape and disintegrate.

Floating boilie recipes

There are a lot of such options, and they are all designed for specific fishing conditions.

Recipe No. 1

• Semolina – 250 g;
• Soy flour – 200 g;
• Corn flour – 150 g;
• Chopped peas – 80 g;
• Powdered milk – 80 g;
• Ground hemp – 100 g;
• Flavors and dyes – 100 g;

Recipe No. 2

• Grated potatoes;
• Equal parts of semolina and flour (1:1);
• Hemp cake;
• Eggs;
• Dyes and flavors.

Recipe No. 3

• Bird food – 400 g;
• Soy flour – 300 g;
• Wheat flour – 90 g;
• Starch – 90 g;
• Ground peanuts – 90 g;
• Flavors and dyes.

Recipe No. 4

• 1 cup crushed seeds;
• 2 cups soy flour;
• 4 cups fish meal;
• 1.5 cups of semolina;
• Eggs.

Recipe No. 5

• Bird food - 1.5 cups;
• Soy flour – 1 cup;
• Sunflower, flax or hemp seeds - 0.5 cups;
• Krupchatka – 1 glass;
• Eggs.

Typically, boilies are made from complex recipes to make them more attractive to fish. Such baits can also be made from store-bought dry mixtures that have the same purpose.

In summer, carp and carp prefer boilies containing plant ingredients. In spring and autumn, it is advisable to add animal components to the mixture. For fishing in winter, when carp and carp feed very rarely, it is worth making boilies with the most vivid odors and colors.

Boilie preparation technology

In addition to the main ingredients, the following are added to homemade boilies: milk powder, bird food, salt, betaine hydrochloride, glucose, vitamin supplements, salt, ground sunflower or hemp kernels, various flavorings, dyes.

Sequence of boilie preparation:

The preparation of this type of bait for carp has a universal technology and requires adherence to a strict sequence:

In a plastic, ceramic or glass container, you need to mix together all the dry components of the dough bait, consisting of different types of cereals, mixing them well. Another vessel is intended for preparing a cocktail from liquid ingredients.

At the next stage, the dry and liquid ingredients are combined in one container, and in order to obtain the most uniform consistency, it is necessary to gradually add the liquid fraction to the dry, actively mixing the resulting substance

It is very important to mix all the components of the future bait well so that the dough acquires the necessary elasticity, uniformity, and does not have lumps. Properly prepared dough should not be too liquid, sticky, or viscous.

After the dough is well mixed, it is necessary to separate small pieces from the main mass and roll them into a long sausage on a flat surface, the thickness of which depends on the size of the future carp bait

The approximate thickness should not be less than 1 cm.

Then the strong, well-rolled sausages are divided into separate fragments, small cubes, from which they are rolled into balls.

The balls can be heat treated in an oven, microwave, container, or boiling water. The duration of boiling the balls in water should not exceed two to three minutes.

After heat treatment, the finished balls must be laid out on a flat surface on a cotton, clean towel or cloth so that they do not come into contact with each other and dried for 12-24 hours. Boilies should be dried in a well-ventilated, ventilated area with a minimum level of humidity. Avoid exposure to sunlight, which will cause the bait to lose its properties.

Heat treatment largely affects the properties of boilies. So, if the balls were first boiled and after drying they were frozen, you can get dense, sinking baits that are suitable for carp fishing during the period when large schools of fish gather at the bottom, in the pits of reservoirs. A bait that has undergone such treatment does not soak in water for a long period of time.

If a microwave is used for heat treatment of boilies, the bait will have a porous, light structure.

Such boilies are buoyant, but when left in the water for a long time they quickly become wet, so from time to time you need to check the hook and re-attach the bait to it.

Soft boilies are best used for reservoirs with a lot of activity and a lot of fish.

Preparing the bait is quite simple, but you can add other ingredients to the classic recipe that will give a special taste to the boilies. Carp is an omnivorous and voracious fish, but due to the presence of sensitive organs, the fish is able to evaluate some components in food items that are just beginning to dissolve in water.

To ensure that the boilies have buoyancy and do not quickly get wet in the water, you can place foam balls or a plastic plug inside, which act as ballast.

Ready-made boilies can be stored in the refrigerator, in a hermetically sealed container or bag, so that the bait does not absorb foreign odors that may scare away the fish. You can store the bait in the freezer in plastic bags, after adding the same flavor that was used in the preparation process.

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To prepare boilies yourself, you can purchase special equipment: a table for rolling out sausages and rolling out boilies, a syringe. Additional equipment will simplify the process of preparing a large amount of bait and will allow you to get bait of the same shape and diameter.

Hair Accessories for Pop Up

When taking food, the carp sucks it in and then, in its mouth, separates the food into edible or non-edible, after which it throws it away. If during suction he feels something suspicious, he may refuse food. The hair rig allows you to hide the hook away from the carp’s suction object, and when it senses something wrong, it will be too late and it will no longer be able to get rid of the hook.

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To connect such equipment you need to have:

• A piece of fishing line, about 20 cm long;
• Carp hook;
• Silicone tube;
• Stopper;
• A special needle.

To have hair equipment, you will need to do the following operations:

1. A loop is knitted at the end of a piece of fishing line. It will be needed to fix the boilie.
2. Place a silicone tube on the fishing line and then attach a hook to it.
3. Pass the free end of the fishing line through the tube in the opposite direction.
4. Using a device (a needle), make a hole in the boilie. After this, use the needle to grab the free end of the fishing line and pull it through the boilie, and then secure it.
5. Take a small needle and pierce the boilie in several places.

The hair equipment is ready for use.

The advantages of such equipment

1. Simplicity . It knits without much difficulty in any conditions, including on a pond.
2. Reliability . There is a very high probability of catching fish, since the bait and hook are located at some distance, which does not allow the carp to detect it ahead of time.
3. Safety . This installation is the most humane. This is due to the fact that if there is a hair rig, the fish clings to the lip. After this, it can be released from the hook and released without harming it.

Making floating boilies Pop Ups at home

Brief summary

As you can see from the information, making floating boilies yourself is not so difficult, just do the following operations and be patient and have the ingredients:

• Select components depending on fishing conditions.
• Decide on the technology for preparing floating boilies: either heat treatment in the microwave, or cooking, using cork material.
• Correctly mount the hair rig with the boilie.

In fishing stores you can find a variety of boilies for any fishing conditions. It is possible that they are more effective than homemade ones, but they are much more expensive. Therefore, in order not to pay extra money, fishermen resort to making various baits, including boilies, on their own. Well, those who have the opportunity to buy ready-made boilies will not engage in their independent production.

Igor 02.11.2016