Semolina... friend or foe

[OldBoy]

Bit wierd, 

But got some to firm up my method mix and works well.

Just wondering if anyone now makes own boilies? I don't anymore but used to do Premier Aminos base mix and had a lot of fish on it.

With all the hype about certain hookbaits 'doing the business' I just wonder if semolina might make a comeback?

Rob Maylin, Andy Little etc did ok on it back in the day.

As for HNV baits, well Nutrabaits did drop their 'Addits' range ages ago

[salokcinnodrog]

6 hours ago, OldBoy said:

Bit wierd, 

But got some to firm up my method mix and works well.

Just wondering if anyone now makes own boilies? I don't anymore but used to do Premier Aminos base mix and had a lot of fish on it.

With all the hype about certain hookbaits 'doing the business' I just wonder if semolina might make a comeback?

Rob Maylin, Andy Little etc did ok on it back in the day.

As for HNV baits, well Nutrabaits did drop their 'Addits' range ages ago

Semolina I've always thought of as part of a balanced bait or as a binder. It's a decent source of carbohydrates and quite filling.

I personally think that the days of the food bait are over as there are so few animal protein based baits around any more. What is around is, I think, often yeast based with nut meals and semolina as the binder. 

I put animal protein; fish meal cost became prohibitive, and few bait companies are making chicken or meat meal based baits, which I thought were as good, (The Biollix, Protavit Liver, DT did a chicken special as well).

Almost every year I do liquidise my left over mackeral and herring deadbaits from pike fishing and mix them with semolina and chapatti flour and make boilies for my barbel and chub chasing on the Wensum and occasional trips to my syndicate as something different from my standard bait.

Nutrition wise, if carp are eating boilies, a bed of various anglers baits, it can't identify one particular boilie as the high nutritional one and eat only that, it will likely eat a mix of them and 'notice' that the boilies are good for them full stop. It's only when a 'cr..' boilie is the only bait that they may start to avoid them. However fish in overstocked or waters with low natural food stocks will need to eat bait anyway.