My spicy boilie mix thoughts?

[elmoputney]

Hi guys over the past few weeks I've got into the idea of making my own baits rather than buying shop bought. I've tried to think of a mix that should be soluble, and leak attraction quickly and work all year round, for some reason I've wanted to go spicy and creamy at the same time. 

I am going to use the AA Baits base mixes for now in order to keep it a little more simple. I am starting with the HNV Super red mix which contains: Large amount of Kingfisher Red (Natural), Red Meggablend, Genuine CLO, Hemp Powder, Mixture of Nut ingredients, Combination of high end Milk & Egg proteins and Betaine to name just a few ingredients in this mix.

Powders

90 % HNV Super Red mix 

5% Blue Cheese Powder 

5% my own spice mix (garlic, fenugreek, chilli powder and more 

Milk B powder 10g per kilo 

Liquids 

Egg 

Fermented chilli extract 50ml a kilo 

Scopex flavour at 5ml per kilo 

 

Do you think that is good? I am trying to not throw the kitchen sink at it presently, 

 

 

 

[yonny]

29 minutes ago, elmoputney said:

Do you think that is good?

Defo a sexy looking mix but I'd personally go lower on the spice. The Kingfisher Red will be largely paprika so the base mix is heavy on spice before you've even started.

Maybe go with the AA HNV Superseed if you want to add your own spice mix at higher levels?

[elmoputney]

9 minutes ago, yonny said:

Defo a sexy looking mix but I'd personally go lower on the spice. The Kingfisher Red will be largely paprika so the base mix is heavy on spice before you've even started.

Maybe go with the AA HNV Superseed if you want to add your own spice mix at higher levels?

Thanks for the positive comment I've become obsessed with it this last week 😂

The spice mix was something I thought might be too high tbh I could just start at 2.5% as recommended and add a little more basemix, I could also add more of something else like yeast or an attractor powder but I really want to leave that unless is doesn't work or I feel it needs a tweak. I'm only going to be testing with small batches to start anyway. 

[elmoputney]

More like this 👍

Powders

92.5% HNV Super Red mix 

5% Blue Cheese Powder 

2.5% my own spice mix (garlic, fenugreek, chilli powder and more 

Milk B powder 10g per kilo 

 

Liquids 

Egg 

Fermented chilli extract 50ml a kilo 

Scopex flavour at 5ml per kilo 

 

 

[yonny]

There's a few proper buffs on here that will be able to give you real feedback. I think it looks ok but I'm no expert!

[elmoputney]

27 minutes ago, yonny said:

There's a few proper buffs on here that will be able to give you real feedback. I think it looks ok but I'm no expert!

I think It looks alright on paper, if it rolls, smells OK and sleighs any water it goes in, it will be just fine 😂

 

[framey]

Make a 1 egg mix first 

and test it before too much time and effort and most importantly money goes into it. 
sounds good but the fish will decide 👍👍
 

[elmoputney]

2 hours ago, framey said:

Make a 1 egg mix first 

and test it before too much time and effort and most importantly money goes into it. 
sounds good but the fish will decide 👍👍
 

Yeah I will just get a 5kg bag of base mix and small amounts of additives to play with before scaling it up. 

I've got a manual gun for now, but if I was going to start rolling more think I would want a luxury electric caulking gun or something similar. I'm too old for manual labour 😂

[elmoputney]

If you were to use a curry powder mix as your spices, are there any spices within that, thinking stuff like nutmeg, ginger, fennel etc that might have a negative impact on your bait? 

Also I want to make some pop ups matching and maybe coloured? 

What % of cork dust would I need for matching roughly? And what could you do to make the hookbaits stand out more than the base mix? 

And if I was to use a coloured pop up mix what ingredients should I add to make it similar and what kind of % please ? 

Thanks in advance