Feed Mix
A cheap, fast-breaking bulk bait for prebaiting and spodding: no gluten, plenty of leakage, easy to roll by the 10 kg.
Recipe
Amounts for a 1000 g batch of dry mix
| Ingredient | Dose | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Dry mix | ||
| Semolina | 25 % | 250 g |
| Maize meal | 25 % | 250 g |
| Ground fish-feed pellets | 15 % | 150 g |
| Breadcrumbs | 15 % | 150 g |
| Full-fat soya flour | 10 % | 100 g |
| Brewer's yeast | 5 % | 50 g |
| Sweet whey powder | 5 % | 50 g |
| Liquids and eggs | ||
| Whole hen egg | 8 units/kg | 464 g |
| Corn steep liquor (CSL) | 20 ml/kg | 24 g |
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About this recipe
This is the mix to roll when you need a lot of bait rather than one perfect hookbait. Semolina and maize meal make up half of it because they are cheap, bind well enough with eggs and give the paste a smooth texture. Breadcrumbs open the bait up so water gets in quickly, which is exactly what you want from a boilie that should be gone within a few days.
The food signal comes from ground fish feed pellets, a little full-fat soya flour, brewer's yeast and sweet whey powder. Pellets are the cheapest way to get fishmeal flavour and oil into a bulk mix, yeast adds a savoury pull, and whey dissolves on the bottom and leaves a milky cloud around the baits. Corn steep liquor in the liquids adds a sweet-sour soluble attractor for very little money.
There is deliberately no wheat gluten. Without it the paste is a little softer to roll and the baits skin more slowly, so keep the boil short, around 60 to 90 seconds for 18 to 20 mm baits, and dry them for a day or two rather than a week. Eight eggs per kilo of dry mix is the starting point; add the last one only if the paste still cracks.
Use it all year for prebaiting a swim, as spod and stick bait, or as the bulk of a bed of bait around a harder hookbait from the same flavour family. In cold water feed less and keep the baits small. If you want it cheaper, raise the maize meal and lower the pellets; if you want more attraction, raise the pellets and the whey and check the cost per kilo in the calculator.
Questions about this recipe
How many eggs does this recipe need?
About 8 medium eggs per kilo of dry mix. Add them beaten and stop when the paste no longer crumbles; the exact number depends on how much your ingredients absorb.
Can I change the ingredients?
Yes. Open the recipe in the calculator, swap or rebalance any ingredient, and the nutrition, binding and cost update straight away.
How long should I boil these boilies?
As a rule of thumb, boil 18 mm baits for about two minutes, smaller baits for less and hard hookbaits for longer. Air-dry them on a rack before freezing.
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