How to make crusty boilies

The days of just popping open a bag of baits, firing them out into the pond and sitting back have long gone. With the incredible attractors and knowledge readily available to most anglers today, creating unique edges to your baits undoubtedly has its advantages among the ever-growing population of carp anglers. Thinking outside the box and tailoring your bait, end tackle and watercraft to meet the demands of pressured carp fishing is so vital, especially on those busy venues. Naturally, boilies are packed with incredible attractors, but due to their boiled profile, the volume of leakage is limited with much of the goodness sealed within the bait. This feature takes a closer look at how to increase the soluble attraction around the boilie, adding a thin crusty layer of goodness that simply breaks down quickly in the water, perfect for those short overnight sessions.

The ‘Crusting Effect’

Achieving the crusting effect is simple, but the main advantage of tailoring your free offerings with this super boosted technique means that the water can penetrate and breakdown that outer skin, leaching stimulants quickly into the swim and drawing fish into the baited area quicker than a standard bait straight from the bag. The great thing about this technique is that it can be applied to so many different types of bait including hookbaits and particles to name but a few. This simple but effective process can be quickly applied to both shelf-life baits and freezer baits the night before fishing, allowing all the liquids and powders to effectively cling to the skin of the baits, forming a crust as they dry out. This feature looks closely at crusting some Pacific Tuna baits, but the same can be applied to Live System or Odyssey XXX with complimentary liquids and powders.

How to crust ‘em up

Simply start by adding the required amount of boilie to a bucket, followed shortly after by your liquid of choice. The Hot Chorizo Extract is the perfect choice for the crusting process, complementing the Pacific Tuna perfectly with the smooth and reasonable thick make-up of the hot spicy liquid food. Once the baits have been covered, leave them for twenty minutes to soak in some of the liquid goodness before adding the powders.

For this sequence, two powders have been added to create the desired crust. The first powder is the incredible yeasty Feedstim XP Powder which is dense in its natural make-up, this means that the powder will bind incredibly well to the surface of the baits, aiding the tacky, sticky outer skin of the free offerings. Once the Feedstim has been evenly distributed over the baits, the next step is to add some of the much lighter, fluffier Krill Meal. This naturally salty, neutral buoyancy powder forms the light outer coating around the bait which means as soon as the super boosted baits are introduced, small fragments of krill meal are released into the water column on impact.

The combination of liquid and powders to create the highly attractive outer crust offer a unique attractor package that release food signals throughout the water column and across the lakebed at the point of impact, vastly enhancing the level of attraction released from the baits.

Once all the additives have been introduced, it is important to leave the baits to form the desired crust. This usually takes a few hours, but the longer you leave the baits, the tougher the crust will be. The baits can then simply be introduced by catapult or the Spomb.

For those anglers on limited time, or just popping to the lake for a few hours, the crusting technique is certainly not one to be missed; allowing you to vastly increase the soluble attraction of yours baits, with less free offerings needed to create a feeding response when introduced to the chosen spot.

Your eight point guide to making some crusty boilies