How To Use Boilies:

Because of their hard skin, boilies should always be fished on a hair rig,

Depending of where you're fishing, boilies might require a little prebaiting. In waters where carp typically feed on larger food items, such as crayfish, boilies are often taken without hesitation by carp. In waters where the carp subsist primarily on smaller food items, such as bloodworms, boilies might require a little bit more prebaiting.

One way to get around throwing hundreds of dollars worth of bait into the water to get the carp used to it is to prebait with a particle (such as field corn/maize) that has been flavored with the same flavor as your boilie. For example, if you've made up a few pounds of Tutti Frutti boilies, you can flavor a bucket of maize with Tutti Frutti, bait the area you wish to fish for a couple of days in advance, using a few pounds of the flavored corn and a pound of boilies a day.

Another trick to try with boilies is to fish them in conjunction with particles but on the outside of the baited area. Establish a decent bed of particles and then fish a boilie five to ten yards away from the bed of bait, use about a dozen boilies around your hook bait. This method often accounts for the big fish of the day. I'll also occasionally use a PVA stringer with this method, fishing half a dozen boilies on the stringer.Or if the fish shy away from boilies try cutting them into odd shapes, fish have been known to get shy towards common shaped baits, this trick can also work for meats as well.

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