{"id":628,"date":"2008-10-16T08:24:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T07:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2013-11-21T20:36:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:36:29","slug":"readers-query-bait-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/readers-query-bait-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade boilies – problems and solutions!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Vince wrote:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Why do I end up with holes through the centre of my home rolled boilies ? I have tried adding more liquids \/ oil to no avail. I am using bog standard semo\/soya\/milk powder etc with the inclusion of finely ground nut\/seed mix in proportion<\/span><\/p>\n

Hi Vince,<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll pass on your query to my friends at Quest Baits, also who will have a better appreciation of the problem than I,\u00a0 but here is perhaps the reason.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a long time since I rolled my own bait there are a few things I remember as crucial to getting round baits.<\/p>\n

1) Make sure your mix is right, ie. The right consistency, number of eggs and wet ingredients to get a mix that is firm but not too dry nor too wet. This will take some trial and error, especially if you are putting together your own base mix blend from dry ingredients.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

2) Certain ingredients can be harder to roll than others. I remember once getting a batch of really sticky Nutrabaits fishmeal and it was nigh on impossible to roll.<\/p>\n

3) I always found the crux of getting a round bait was precisely matching the nozzle of your bait gun with diameter of your rolling table. If your nozzle is too small you\u2019ll end up with more barrel shaped baits. If your nozzle is too wide it will try to crush the boilies, making them oval, rather than letting them roll. This will give you a hollow centre or the hole you are describing. I suspect this then is the case.<\/p>\n

4) Finally make sure your table is well lubricated. Flour is a good one for this as it won\u2019t make your baits any more moist. If your baits are still too moist when the come off the table they will start to flatten out as they dry and you\u2019ll not have round baits.<\/p>\n

All this apart unless you are planning on using a bait stick to get distance when baiting up, there is absolutely no reason your baits need to be round. On the contrary, chopped, apple-cored, barrel and other odd shaped baits are preferable. Watch the Korda Underwater videos and you\u2019ll see what I mean.<\/p>\n

Anyway I\u2019ll through the question out to my friends in the bait business to help answer your question in more detail.<\/p>\n

Regards
\nGareth<\/p>\n

Hi Vince,<\/span><\/p>\n

Gareth contacted me to see if I could help out on this matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Almost certainly you need to adjust the nozzle size of your sausage gun.<\/span><\/p>\n

At Quest Baits we have to use slightly different sized nozzles to roll the different mixes we use.
\nThe sausage cone needs to be slightly smaller than the rolling table anyway as the paste sausage will expand slightly as it leaves the gun. Different mixes and different density of mixes will expand in different amounts. The firmer the paste is \u2013 the more pressure required to extrude it the less the sausage will expand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Too small a tube and the baits will end up slightly barrel shaped, too large a tube and the baits will end up slightly flat on the sides and often with a small hole in the middle.<\/span><\/p>\n

I start with a small bait gun nozzle and simply touch it on a wheel grinder momentarily. Sqirt out a sausage and test roll it. If still a little barrel shaped I briefly touch the end of the nozzle on the grinder again untill I get a sausage which rolls better. You can trim them with a sharp modeling knife but personally I grind them down.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hope this helps
\nBest fishes
\nShaun Harrison \u2013 Quest Baits<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vince wrote: Why do I end up with holes through the centre of my home rolled boilies ? I have tried adding more liquids \/ oil to no avail. I am using bog standard semo\/soya\/milk powder etc with the inclusion of finely ground nut\/seed mix in proportion Hi Vince, I\u2019ll pass on your query to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carp-bait"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}