HOW TO MAKE PELLET BOILIES

A CHEAP and easy way to make your own boilie hookbaits is with ground halibut pellets. This might seem like a lot of effort to go to to make what in effect are just

Use a coffee grinder (preferably one bought solely for your own bait-making use) to reduce a couple of handfuls of halibut pellets to a fine powder.

Slowly add the halibut pellet powder to the liquid egg until the mixture takes on the texture of a soft paste such as you might use on the hook or as a boilie wrap.

Boil the sausages for around one minute and then allow them to cool on a piece of kitchen roll to soak up the excess moisture.

soft pellets, but these are very tough and easy-to-use hookbaits that can be flavoured, coloured and made more buoyant – in effect, customised to your liking.

Break a large egg into a bowl and add a teaspoonful of hemp oil, half a teaspoonful of Umami paste and four drops of Black Pepper Oil.

Put the paste into a bait gun fitted with a 12mm nozzle and extrude all the mix, which will emerge as sausages. Keep these to a maximum of 30cm long.

Cut the sausages into chunks and freeze them until needed. A few drops of hemp oil added to the tub will boost the baits further.