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Commercial boilie mixtures can be used as very successful hookbaits in their soft paste form, although not all boilie mixes are smooth enough to form a paste suitable for a hookbait. Some of the fishmeal mixes are a little coarse in texture, and have to be boiled to work properly, when they are fine. There are many good quality ready-mixed pastes available in tackle shops. As well as fished on their own, they also make good neutral buoyancy cocktails when fished along with bread crust.

Making Synthetic Paste

To make up your own synthetic paste, a strong starting point is a high quality but forgiving base mix, such as 50/50 Promix. You then have to decide whether you want to add any more powdered ingredients, such as flavours, colours or sweeteners, or whether those ingredients will be in liquid form.

If you opt for powdered additives, such as curry powder or cheese powder, or natural extracts such as powdered crab, mussel or nectar, these must be thoroughly mixed with the base mix before adding the mix to the binding liquid.

If based on a balanced 50/50 mixture, pastes can be made successfully with either water or eggs, but if you want the option of a hard-boiled bait as well as a paste, then eggs must be your choice. Even with a soft paste, eggs are recommended as they give the paste a lovely, pliable, waxy feel.

Beat the eggs thoroughly, add all the other liquids, flavours, oils or enhancers, and then add the powder slowly, mixing thoroughly as you go. Do not be in too much of a hurry. If you pile too much powder in and make the mix too dry initially, there is no way back. When you have a sticky ball of paste still too soft for hookbait, let it rest for five minutes. You will find that the paste tightens up in the air and becomes perfect.

If you plan to freeze the paste it also pays to make it a fraction soft. Pastes tighten up in the freezer. If you do not want the expense of buying commercially available base mixes, paste baits can be made from a great number of products, such as trout and koi pellets, or tinned or dry pet food mixers, all of which are available from many stores and supermarkets.

Ingredients such as tinned pet foods, or tinned fish, are naturally sticky, and simply require a bulk binding agent to produce a workable bait. Kit-Kat chocolate bars mixed with fine breadcrumbs is a well-known example.

If you wish to base your bait on a dry ingredient, such as trout-fry crumb, any ingredients added to the bait must have a glutinous content to bind the powders in with the water or eggs. The simplest material to use is wheat gluten, but you should be careful not to use too much as this results in some very rubbery baits that can be unattractive to the fish.

Baits made with gluten can also be quite chewy, and it can be helpful to add a quantity of a light milk protein or baby milk powder. This balances the ingredients and makes the bait more palatable.

Your trout rigs are critical success factors to consider when going fishing. Trout baits are what attract and help you catch “supper”. There are normally two varieties of bait: live bait and artificial bait. Live baits consist usually of the fish’s natural prey like worms, insects and small fish.

Artificial baits are a great alternative to trout fishing with live bait. Many streams have rules prohibiting using live bait, so the proper selection of trout rigs is crucial. Here are a few artificial trout baits you can find at your local sporting goods store:

Artificial Trout Fishing Worms

Synthetic trout fishing worms are artificial worms that are made to look just like a real worm. Some have been infused with appealing scents to maximize their success in attracting a trout. These artificial worms are sold in a variety of different colors, they are three and a half inches long and are a very effective trout fishing bait. They are approximately the size of a red worm and are made to be used with your choice of hook set-up.

Trout Dough Bait

There are many different trout dough baits available in the market. Most dough bait is categorized into either natural or artificial bait. Artificial dough bait can be bought at your local sporting goods store. It comes in a variety of flavors from “worm”pie to chunky cheese. One method of using this trout bait is to mold the dough around a treble hook and use a bobber.

There are lots of trout baits sold in sporting goods stores. Homemade trout dough bait is just one great way to make sure you catch a creel full of trout. Trout go insane over BBQ dough bait.

Powerbait

One kind of artificial bait has become almost a household word because of its widespread use…Powerbait. Much like Kleenex (which lost its brand-name uniqueness because it was so widely used); powerbait is now a brand but also a kind of trout bait.

Powerbait comes in a wide variety of colors and flavors. You can find yellow, pink, and orange to name some of the colors. You can buy cheese, corn, bubble-gum to name the variety of flavors. It comes in a variety of sizes from nuggets to balls to “form your own” dough in a jar.

The above-mentioned baits work extremely well when fishing in rivers and deep lakes no matter if trout are born wild or stocked. Probably because of how they are pellet-fed, hatchery trout or stocked trout are extremely attracted to synthetic bait. Synthetic trout baits are an option to use if you are going to be still fishing in a lake that is full with trout. In cases where the lake is stocked, they may do better than live bait.

You can swear you are a purist and try to convince everyone that all you ever did was fly fish; but you are not fooling anyone. Somewhere in your closet is that old rod and reel and your small tackle box of trout baits. Go ahead admit it; come out of the closet!