Zoltan Kovacs

Competition Angler and CEO of SBS

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In the third part of the series I will give some tips to professional users and competitors; Using more machines to speed up the boilie making process even more. I will give a short demonstration and prepare a well proven special competition recipe. However, when you see or hear the word “professional” you may think “this article is not for me”. Professionals who think they can be shown nothing new are wrong. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced boilie maker you can find guidance in this article and in the short video, you will see how far one can get in boilie making… There is one thing I can tell you for sure in advance: The sky is the limit when it comes to creativity in boilie making whether we talk about machines or new recipes. :-)

The boilies made from this special competition recipe are called “M3”. One of their special features is that the boilies are made from two base mixes.

There are two differently-coloured bags in the package. One of the mixes is the well-known M1 (spicy-flavoured), the other one is the Cream Seed (creamy toffee-tasted mix).

For boilie making I have used 3 kg of base mixes (1.5 kg of M1 and 1.5 kg of Cream Seed) and got 4 kg boilies.

First mix the content of the cream-coloured bag. The indicated quantities of additives are necessary to make 1.5 kg mix:

12 ml M3 Premium Liquid Attract
4.5 ml High Taste Liquid Sweetener
8 drops of N-butyric acid
40 ml Attractamino
1.5 tablespoonful of Betain HCl
3 tablespoonfuls of The Edge Extract
1.5 teaspoonful of Savoury

Use the same additives and add them in the same quantity to the content of the dark-coloured bag, containing the M1 mix.

The necessary ingredients and the more economical 5 kg M3 Quest Base Mix in a bucket.

The first step is to take the required quantity i.e. 1.5 kg from both mixes - use kitchen scales for weighing.

The cream-coloured mix has a creamy character…

… and the red one is the spicy M1 mix

First mix the creamy mix; the fist task is to break the eggs. The SBS bucket you get with the 5 kg and 10 kg package will come in handy.

I start with the liquid ingredients: M3 Premium Liquid Attract…

… High Taste Liquid Sweetener…

… N-butyric acid…

… Attractamino…

… then come the powdered additives: Betain HCl…

… The Edge Extract…

… Flavatract Savoury…

All the necessary ingredients are now in the eggs …

… mix them thoroughly …

… then add the 1.5 kg creamy mix - you have measured before - slowly to it

Keep in mind that eggs are available in various sizes so I cannot tell you exactly how many eggs you must use and how many the measured mix will take. It may occur that some mix will be left, check the texture continuously while you are mixing.

While you allow the creamy mass to stand start mixing the boilie’s spicy part; add the same ingredients to it as the ones you have added to the creamy part…

Add the mix to the eggs and the additives while you are mixing …

… again, take care to get the proper mass texture.

Leave the spicy mass to stand for some time although it needs less time to stand so both masses will achieve the proper texture after “maturing”.

And this is the trick how to make one boilie from two masses…

Form larger sausages from the masses, turn them face to face, then mould them to the size which fits into the pressing gun you are using presently.

If you want to make sure that each boilie contains both masses, cut both ends of the sausages…

… then put them into the gun

The advantage of the compressed-air gun is that the sausages used for rolling will contain both masses in equal proportion even if different mass quantities were put into the gun

The other advantage of the gun is the speed of sausage making…

… because the sausages come out so quickly that …

… you must be quick enough to catch them in time

The next machine which is more effective than the compressed-air gun is the electric boilie roller …

(watch the short movie of this article to see how extraordinarily quickly it operates)

Only the cooking is left to do …

… then leave the freshly cooked boilies cool down

This is the final result.

Freeze the boilies you have made after they have cooled down or use them within a few days. Before you freeze them I will show you a few tips on how to increase the catchiness of the boilies you use for feeding or on the hook…

Before packaging the feeding boilies smear some dip over the inside of the plastic bag, the dip’s flavour should be the same as the boilie’s flavour …

… then put about 1 kg boilies into the bag and shake them thoroughly…

… then - press the air out as much as you can - and seal the plastic bag hermetically.

The advantage of the 1 kg packages is that you do not need to defrost all the bait before you go fishing, just the quantity you will need.

You can freeze a few hook baits separately, I will show you how:

pour some dip into a small jar (which has a lid!) …

… then add some M3 Liquid additive …

… liquid sweetener…

… finally a few drops of butter acid (N-butyric acid)!

Then mix the additives and add the hook boilies to this liquid.

The “final result” can be frozen and I guarantee it will give great joy throughout the year to the anglers who prepare it the way I have shown and try it.

I trust I have given and shown you some useful tips and I hope you will have great angling successes in the near future if you follow my advice.

Picture, video: Péter Takács