Hi All

Looking for recommendations for a good winter boilie please.

Thanks

In reply to Post #1
DNA The bug has always done well for me all year

In reply to Post #1
Whatever you use at every other time of year. All this "winter/summer" baits is a load of twaddle imo

In reply to Post #1
Any decent boilie made nowadays is far more digestible, lower in protein and fats than baits of yester-year.
Pick one with a good track record and just use less of it in the colder months.

Aqua baits maple milk

In reply to Post #2
Another fan of the DNA Bug.

I enjoyed using creamino last winter, DNA switch the winter before was pretty decent too but creamino probably just edged it

In reply to Post #7
Cell
live system
Cream cajouser
Tutti
Single hi fizz glugged pop must have ea flavours and milk pop base

Or proper carp baits strawberry jam sub zero

Decades ago I would have used a dedicated milk birdfood base but these days I just fish DNA S7 all year round...as always with another boilie jic.

I'm not saying I wouldn't fish a MBF btw.

My home made mix has performed for many winters now.
4 ingredients with garlic and fenugreek.
No need for flavours, hydros, coatings or any other fashionable additions.

Live system and white pop ups ..

In reply to Post #10
What are the 4 then?

In reply to Post #12
I'd use something like this -

40% Semolina
30% Birdfood
20% Maize Meal
10% Milk Powder

In reply to Post #1
I love the Quad by premier named as used in the four seasons (( I believe )
Wish I could find someone to roll it for me

In reply to Post #3
I've definitely used baits in the summer that just won't get me a bite in the winter. The baits that I have faith in for the winter would almost certainly work in the summer as well, although maybe maybe not as well as my summer baits.
The best readily available winter bait? I reckon a Richworth Tutti would take some beating, assuming they're still the same?

For me its either magnum baits winter wonder or essential baits salami cream both superb baits

In reply to Post #12
My simple guess

40% LT94
20% CLO ( IMHO some are much better at binding, and finer in texture for rolling than others )
20% SEMO
20% VITAMEALO

In reply to Post #17
20% CLO ( IMHO some are much better at binding, and finer in texture for rolling than others )

Very very true! If you can get a consistent size great, otherwise blend your own however you like it from a coarser mix.

In reply to Post #15
The best readily available winter bait? I reckon a Richworth Tutti would take some beating, assuming they're still the same?

Years ago, and someone did mention the word Decades earlier. Fook me I'm young!
In the last century we were walking around Farlows and it was bitter. Icy cold the water.
We found a mid twenty sitting under the Snags, left of the Sunset and in front of Goose Green.

My mate had a few Tuttis in his pockets and was breaking them up a bit and dripping bits in. Once Mr Twenty realised he started taking the bits on the drop. Amazing in crystal clear water!

The original frozen Richworth Tutties really were a great bait all year round. I used to fish singles over Mainline's Grange bait.
Every fishmeal bait I've used over the past few decades has worked over winter.

In reply to Post #1
Perhaps any nut based bait (eg Sticky Manilla) but in reality I've never done particularly well on any . . .if you are going to fish winters (why, I've no idea) I would say its perhaps more important to keep trickling in whatever you've already been feeding previously throughout the season and to keep the bait going in, rather than randomly switching to something you never really use / have actual faith in . . .you could go balls deep and create an expensive John Baker Supermilk but again, you're probably opening an unnecessary can of worms (pardon the pun!)

In reply to Post #2
Just to add to the confusion (or mine anyway) I have been using DNA Bug all year, but in 20 mm. I have confidence in the bait….but…20 mill’rs…in the winter? In my head I’d be wanting to drop down a size or at least cut them in half or more. Am I being overly dramatic and thinking too much…or not thinking enough 🙁

Perhaps fish it as crumb in a bag with a wafter(that I have had soaking in liquid since April!)😎

In reply to Post #22
If you've been using Bug, I'd stick with it and drop down to 12mm and 15mm baits.
I had a good winter using those sizes as I was able to bait the swims from the far margin and plop / scatter the small bait in whatever density/amount I wanted 👍

In reply to Post #23
Quote: If you've been using Bug, I'd stick with it and drop down to 12mm and 15mm baits.


Hmm, I like the idea of 12 mm.....combined with some crushed 20's, maybe.

Can't beat a handful of sweetcorn in the winter and a small yellow pop up or wafter.