How To Make Shelf Life Boilies Harder

Got a trip down to the south of france so cant take frozen i know about wrapping the hookbaits but im after trying to make the freebies a bit more difficult to break down.

How to make shelf life boilies harder. Harder for carp to digest. Are harder than frozen boilies. Soaking your boilies in the food liquid that matches their flavour diluted in lake water at a ratio of around 10 to one will not only give them extra attraction but will soften. Should be soaked prior to use for optimum effectiveness.

On the other hand shelf life boilies are convenient since you can store it in the bag for weeks without getting spoiled. I think what a wayne thought that was a painting by constable haywain sorry said is right freezing often bring the moisture out of things that s why you find loads of ice and frost in the freezer bags. Here i am using a light coating and this will add at least 6 weeks shelf life to your bait. They are also tastier for carps.

The easiest way i do this is to add liquids to your baits both freezer and shelf life. Boilies don t make fishing harder. Frozen boilies would be balanced to take the freezing once keep refreezing them and they will dry also. Does anyone know a way to make shelf life baits harder to combat nuisance fish.

Simply add 20ml of glycerin to the eggs prior to processing and a further glug of the stuff over the baits after they have finished drying. Unless you re fishing on harder syndicated waters it would be a tad less attractive for carp than shelf life boilies. Boilies are hard boiled baits that were originally introduced to carp angling in the uk during the late seventies with the sole purpose of keeping nuisance fish from eating away the bait being presented to the carp though there were a few forward thinking anglers back in the sixties that began to experiment with different paste type baits and boiling the ingredients to make them hard. For example shelf life baits tend to be harder than frozen boilies.

Softer baits leak their attraction faster and i think that the carp prefer to eat soft foods. A 1kg bag of frozen sweetcorn is about 1 from sainsbury s a standard tin is about 40pence. Can be resealed in their bag to be used across multiple sessions. I can t make out what s going on.

Shelf life boilies need to be soaked before usage and they are a bit harder. Firstly i know that a 400gram bag of shelf life boilies is 5 ish from a tackle shop so that is a day or a weekends fishing at least and is about the same as 2 pints of maggots. Have preservatives to prolong their lifespan. However freezer boilies tend to be softer and milder in flavour.

By picking the right liquids you can make sure that your boilies stand out from the crowd and most importantly encourage your target species to find your bait more easily and trigger them into feeding harder and more aggressively and of course this.