Boilies have become the chosen carp bait for most modern carp fishing enthusiasts, over the years the boilie has come along way from its humble beginings where its semolina/soya flour base was little more than a flavour carrier offering little long term nutritional value to the carp. Over the years carp bait base mixes have become very complexed with the use of predigested fish meals milk proteins etc these offer a much higher nutritional value bait for the carp and can be used and recognised as a long term food source. Many of the modern bait companies will have a team of bait testers working on a particular carp bait for long periods of time until the the levels of each ingredients is added at its optimum level of effectiveness. The whole bait making business can become something of a science in itself howver do not let this put you off making your own bait.

www.bigcarpbait.co.uk offer a range of ready made base mixes from nutrabaits, richworth dynamite baits etc that can be rolled simply by adding the desired flavour and colouring we also offer sugested recipes within the bag to make the whole proces as simple as possible. Boilies can be extruded rolled and dried using our range of gardner bait making products we also have a step by step how to make boilies page originally written for nutrabaits by Julian Cundif.

So making you rown boilies need not be as daunting as you may first think there is nothing more satisfying than catching a whacker on your own carp bait why not have a go at making your own boilies and see if you can craete your own succesfull carp bait.