How To Make Your Own Pellets  

Here is a cheap and simple way of making your own pellets.

Here is what you need:

Eggs

Boilie base mix

Flavours

Colouring

Boilie gun and nozzles

Screaming Delkims Tip : If you don’t own a boilie gun you can buy an “aluminium Patronspruta” from “Jula” www.jula.se or page 160 in the catalogue, which is exactly the same as a boilie gun. They cost 199:-

A Bowl

A Fork

A pan of boiling water

A pair of scissors.

The Mix:

First of all, make your mix exactly the same as you would do for your boilies.

When you have made the paste ready for rolling in to boilies, attach a 6, 8, 10, 12mm nozzle (depending on the size of the pellets that you want) then load the paste into the gun.

Forming The Pellets:

Next thing to do is put the pan of water on the stove until the water is boiling.

When it’s boiling, take your boilie gun and squeeze the paste directly into the boiling water so that you have a long sausage of paste in the pan.

Then leave it to boil for:

6mm – 1 minute

8mm – 1minute

10mm - 1minute 30 seconds

12mm - 1minute 30 seconds

14mm - 1minute 30 seconds

16mm – 2 minutes

Once they are cooked take the sausages out and lay them on a towel to dry & cool for about 30 mins.

Then cut the sausages with the scissors to make they size of pellets that you want.

Drying and bagging the Pellets

Then leave them to dry over night. Once they are dry, put them in a plastic bag with a bit of the flavouring, seal the bag and freeze them.

Once you defrost them the defrost process draws the flavour into the pellets and it will leak out of the pellets when in the water.

Because they have been cut with scissors there is no skin on the bait so the flavour leaks out better from the pellets, unlike on a sealed boilie.

You can PVA bag ‘em, stringer ‘em or even hair rig them because they are soft like a boilie.

You can also roll some hookbaits out of the same mix to use with the pellets.

They are also great for Bream and tench fishing as hookbaits.

Here is my favorite mix for pellets

6 Eggs

10ml Energy Scopex Flavour

20ml Energy Liquid Amino Liver

Energy Mega Fruit Mix (Base mix)

2 tsp Energy Betain

1 tbsp Energy Total Sweet

1 tbsp Vanilla Socker

2 tbsp Bird seed (small parakeet seed)

1 tbsp Chopped Almonds (Hackad Mandel)

Yellow colouring

My favorite method is to PVA bag the pellets with some chopped & whole boilies and a Scopex Squid Liver 20mm pop up as hookbait.

It works as this is what the 2 Henrikstorp carp (11.8kg & 9.7kg) fell to in July 2005.

Try it and see

Tight Lines & Skitfiske

Chris Thornhill