A to Z of Boilie Fishing

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OF
BOILIE
FISHING!
EVERY LETTER OF THE ALPHABET
CUNNINGLY REPRESENTED BY AN
ITEM OR TACTIC. CLEVER, EH?
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT’S BOILIE
TIME – SO HERE’S HOW TO GET
THE MOST OUT OF THIS AUTUMN!
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AUTUMN
FEEDING
A:
Description: “It’s a delightful time of the year.
The leaves are turning brown, the conkers are
falling and hatching and
there’s that fresh bite in
the air,” confirms one
weather nerd. To us it
means just one thing:
it’s boilie time!
Cost: Nowt!
Contact: For weather
forecasts, head to:
www.bbc.co.uk/weather
F:FISHMEALS
Description:
Stand by to
have the old
school
concept of
‘no oils in
the winter’
shattered.
Fishmeals
these days are now prepared and
sold for all year round usage so get
on them and stay on them.
Cost: Around a tenner a kilo.
Contact: Your local tackle shop.
OF
LARGEST
I:INTHEPURSUIT
*Picture courtesy of Damian Clarke
at Korda Developments.
FLOSS
D:DENTAL
B:BARRELS
Description: At a time of year
when the fish are just hungry, any
shape will do, but look at some of
the facts. Boilies: used through the
year, come in three regular sizes
(10, 15 and 18mm), and usually
fished as ‘50 baits around each
rod’. Result: The carp can get wary,
so use barrels.
Cost: £11.99(ish).
Contact: www.tacklebox.co.uk
Description:
“If you’re
gonna be
using popups, then
tie them
on,” one of
our ‘big fish
experts’ told us. Boilies just go
hand-in-hand with the likes of the
Chod Rig and Tel’s Stiff Hinged Rig
– both of which you need to tie
the baits on with.
Cost: £2.99.
Contact: ESP on: 01865 748989.
CARP
LOVE ’EM!
G:GREEDY
Description: Simple maths here:
how do you get a really fat kid?
Feed them loads. So person plus
plenty of Big Mac burgers equals
a wobbler of a person. It’s the
same with carp – they only
get mahoosive by eating – and
by eating boilies – so give
’em boilies!
Cost: Mass buy your bait.
Contact: The Bait & Feed Company
on: 01920 438338.
Description: Boilie connoisseur,
Terry Hearn knows exactly the
advantages of boilies and describes
those ‘plus points’ in his first,
award-wining book. He even
shows and talks how the famous
‘Hinged Stiff Rig’ works.
Purr-chase now. NB: His new
book is out soon – yay!
Cost: £21.95.
Contact: Bunter Hunter
Publications Ltd on:
01252 373658.
C:CATAPULT
Description:
For up to 40
(or if you’ve
got a real
industrial jobby and
strong arms), maybe
50yds you can bait up with ease.
One of the real beauts of boilie
fishing is being able to bait up
without any hassle. Bombs away!
Cost: From a tenner up to a
score (£20).
Contact: Fox International
on: 0208 501 0921.
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EASY
FISHING
E:
Description: Your hookbait should
match the size of your hook, which
makes fishing ‘bits’, such as corn,
trimmed down boiled food and half
a growler (tiger nut), sooo much
harder. With boilies you can get
away with bigger hooks, bait up
easier and, fingers crossed, catch
some of the bigger residents…
Cost: Nothing more than you’d
pay already!
Contact: CEMEX Angling for big
fish waters: 01932 583 630.
POP-UPS
H:HOOKERS
Description: If you’re looking for
performance pop-ups that look
dead right and weigh as much as
a Malteser, Surrey-based pop-up
techs are what you want. “They’re
all rolled with corkballs – and have
a nice, hard outer-coating,” says
Lee Laggan. As used by Hearn,
Sharp and Read.
Cost: £8.99 a tub.
Contact: Hookers on: 07890 796506.
LOOK AT
THE BIG FISH
J:JUST
ANGLER’S
RESULTS!
Description: Gaze through any
issue of CARPology and you’ll
see that most of our resident
‘big fish anglers’ have something
in common – boilies! Regan,
Taylor, McAllister, Davey, Slowen.
Join their team and become
the ‘big fish angler’ of our
angling community.
Cost: £3.25 for CARPology
each month.
Contact: www.carpology.net
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KORDA BOILIE
FUNNEL WEB
K:
Description: Based in Essex and famous for their
Underwater DVD’s and PVA funnel web systems, the
Korda clever clogs reformatted the original design and
came up with this. Used nowadays mostly for the
‘Dynamite Stick’, but not used so much for it’s real
purpose – boilies. Place three in the tube and then
attach one to the Hair. It works a treat.
Cost: £10.99.
Contact: Korda on: 01708 749775.
AND EASY
Q:QUICK
Description: Guaranteed to make
your fishing a lot easier. You can
bait up quicker, re-bait quicker
and catch more quicker. “This is
dead easy fishing. Wang a load
of boilies out and that’s it. Beats
all that spodding malarkey,”
Angus announced during our
stay in France.
Cost: Nowt!
Contact: There isn’t one!
’EM UP!
O:OIL
LICK AND
STICK!
L:
Description: Round boilies and
barrels for fine heavy-hungrywaters and canals, but if you fish a
pressured pond, then you need
this: Crack a boilie in half, lick
both sides and then place back
together. Catapult out and on
impact the two halves will split.
Repeat numerous times and you’ll
be left with a bed of half baits on
the deck. Ace!
Cost: Nowt!
Contact: Issue 8 of CARPology for
more in-depth details.
MIXED
SIZES
M:
Description: Don’t
confuse yourself,
but the carp. Get
a selection of
different sized
baits – 10, 12, 15, 18,
20, 22, 24 (you pick which
ones) and fire them in. It
means the carp will have
to suck at different levels
and best of all, it means you can
use a bigger bait and hook.
Outcome: better hook holds.
Cost: A couple of extra kilos, so
around £20.
Contact: Whatever bait firm
you use.
Description: The last word on
extra attraction. There’s two ways
of doing this. “Just before you’re
about to freeze your bait, pour in
some liquid, reseal the bag and
place back in the freezer. The
bait will now take on the liquid
better,” Mr. Knight at Mainline
Baits told us. Otherwise, give
’em a good dose before you
leave to go angling.
Cost: Around a fiver.
Contact: Your tackle shop!
R:ROCKET!
Description: When we say ‘Rocket’
we actually mean ‘Boilie Rocket’.
Thanks to Wychwood we can now
deliver boiled food up to 120yrds
out into the pond. “Durable body
with flexi fins, super float foam
nose and brilliant aerodynamic
design are the key elements,”
Mr. Garner told us. The editors
favourite too.
Cost: £6.99.
Contact: Wychwood on:
01527 587 428.
*Picture courtesy of Richworth Baits.
www.richworth.com
SHARP
BOILIES
N:NIGEL
Description: Whether it’s the mix
of milk proteins, birdfoods and
fishmeals, or that ‘one key liquid
attractor’ we’re unsure, but
whatever it is, this bait works
bloody damn well. It even caught
The Burghfield Common for Li’l
Nige – which hadn’t been out for
over four years…
Cost: £10.99
a kilo.
Contact:
Bait-Tech
on: 01473
241811.
POUCH
P:
Description: It may sound silly,
but B-Geeesus does this make the
whole ‘baiting up’ process a
helluva lot easier. We recommend
ESP’s Boilie Pouch, which even
comes with a catty pult holder.
Cost: £7.50.
Contact: ESP on: 01865 748989.
S:STRINGERS
Description: A three-bait stringer
is ideal, or if you wanna go old
school Paisley stylee, then make up
two or three bait stringers.
Because the fish will be ‘grazing’,
the hookbait/stringer partnership
goes hand-in-hand. Now cue: ‘W’.
Cost: Korda Kwik-Melt Tape, £3.99.
Contact: Korda on: 01708 749775.
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THROWING
STICK
T:
Description: The most advanced throwing
stick ever, has a ultra-lightweight body to
create minimum air resistance, and
phenomenal velocity and spin speed
achieved with flexing carbon arms.
It’s easy to load and takes single
or multiple baits from 20-26mm
without the sleeve and 12-20mm
with the sleeve. Solar’s
greatest creation yet.
Cost: £44.99.
Contact:
Solar Tackle on:
01689 826632.
APPROACH
U:UNDERRATED
Description: What do you use?
Hemp, pellets, corn, a few boilies…
Forget all about that and use just
boilies. Like we keep harping on
about – and Li’l Nige does too – a
bed of bog standard boilies just
doesn’t seem to get used much
nowadays, so get on them.
Cost: Nowt!
Contact: Haven’t got one!
BOILIE
X:XPANDA
BUCKET
Description: Fresh is always best,
so keep them fresh is what we say.
Nashy’s Xpanda Boilie Bucket is a
reliable and fresh way to carry
boiled food. It’s clever too: as like
the name suggests, it can be
expanded and compressed as to
how much bait you want to carry.
Cost: £17.99.
Contact: Nash Tackle on:
01702 233232.
DON’T
NEED LOADSA
Y:YOU
OTHER CACK!
V:VERSATILE
Description: However… if the
thought of just putting out 100 or
so boilies isn’t quite cricket to
you, crush some, blend some, and
halve some and add them to your
spod mix. In six words, ‘the boilie
is a versatile product’.
Cost: Nowt!
Contact: Ditto!
BAITING
W:WIDE
Description: Another real Brucy
Bonus with boilies is that you don’t
need to bait up real tight – in fact,
we vote you really spread the bait
about. The key to boilie fishing is
to get the fish grazing – picking up
one boilie and then moving on to
the next one. Get the ’pult or stick
and cover the swim!
Cost: Nowt!
Contact: CARPology back issues 14
and 15 at: www.carpology.net.
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Description: Because you’re just
using boilies, you don’t need to
carry loadsa other cack – dare we
say it, but pellets, hemp and a
range of multi-coloured pop-ups.
“Go for the simple, clean approach
and you’ll nail ’em,” was Rob Bell’s
closing comment.
Cost: You’ll save money!
Contact: You don’t need one –
just do it!
*Picture courtesy of Dynamite Baits.
www.dynamite-baits.com
OF
CARP FALL
Z:ZILLIONS
TO ’EM!
Description: Look through the
weeklies, look through the
monthlies, look on the web and
you’ll discover zillions – maybe
gazillions of carp have fallen to
them. Whatta you waiting for?
Tackle shop – boilies – pond – NOW!
Cost: Nowt!
Contact: Ditto, ditto, ditto!