Hi gouldycarp,

Yea i took carp fishing propley last season, bought some basic kit, couple of rods and reels, bag and bits , unhooking mat, and large landing net,and peices, all low bugdit kit, but does its job, in case i did,nt wont to carry on with carping, i could get rid, i love it , i still fish for the silvers, ect as river fishing is my number one passion, but more often than not carp fish, ..
I mainly fish our club carp lake, yes there some good fish in there, and plenty so a easy water, but good for trying different rigs, and baits.
My base mix for my boilies, i do two sorts of base mix,s and they are..

8 oz of Powdered Semolina

4 oz of ground white rice

4 oz Soya flower..

or another one i use is 50 % Soya
and 50 % Semolina.For every one pound mix, use three medium eggs,
The first base mix,i mentiond, the one pound mix, i use three medium eggs, 5 ml of chosen colour, 5 ml of chosen flavour, and 2 ml of sweetner.

Hears a bird mix boilie mix,
4 oz of Semolina
4 oz maiz meal,
4 0z ground up bird feed mix,
4 0z of soya flower
Again to this one pound mix three medium eggs.

And for pongy, mingy fishy boilie mix..

4 oz fish meal,
6 oz semolina
6 oz Soya Flower,
one tin of pilchards in tom sauce,
30 ml of salmon oil,
this is a four egg mix.

Just a few boilie mix,s and how i do my base mix, if anyone wonts to no how to get the base mix,s from , iether try morrisons for semolins powder, and ground white rice, also sainsbury,s do them, but the one you will find hard to track down is the Soya flower, if you struggling, i,v metioned on another post, try this site, it is,
http://www.wholefoodcoop.co.uk or if you have a local health food shop near you should stock the base mix ingridants.
John..

~think ~think ~think

Sorry lad,s and lasses, i,v made a mistake when writing the above post,s?
I put that you need three medium eggs, sorry but you need to use four medium eggs per pound boilie mix. ~think

Yea Gouldy, the one boilie brain was doing overtime and not working on all one cylinder. Opsssssssssssssssssssss..

I dont if i,ll be fishing this weekend, as i,v pulled my hamstring and muscle,s getting better, slowly, im hopeing to go next week leg permitting, as im stuck in home at the minute bored out my tiny brain.
Iv got all of march as the remainder of hols from work, so hopefully can a few hours fishing in.
~sick ~sick ~sick

Nice fish gouldy, have it on a boilie you made, or another bait, iv been making some base powders up today and trying different additives to go with the base mix,s,
I,v been messing with betain pellets grindding them down and adding them, fishmeal,
I,m going to be making some chockie malt ones, and some cream flavoured ones over the next day or to, i,m geting the freezer restocked.
Again nice fish, i hopeing to beat my measly small fish, mirror, pb this year, it stands only at 13 lb 4 oz, that was on a tuttie frutie home made, pop up.
~clap ~clap ~clap

If your making just small batch,s up, thats from making your base mix and putting together eggs , flavours, colours and sweetners, to rolling them and boiling, to make this batch from start to finish, takes no more than a about half a hour.
You no whats going into them, you make them and talour to how you wont them.
The big plus catching fish on them the fact you,v made them, the effort is effortless realy, and it gives the satisfaction of catching fish on your home made baits gives you a extra buz.
But like whats said, if you dont simply dont have the time, to nock up you own baits, then it,s just as easy to pick a bag up and away you go and fish.