In reply to Post #20
Had trouble with the cc moore maker and wanted some advice. Im using 12mm corkballs for 15mm popups. I fill both cups level and then place the corkball in centrally. Then when i take it out the press after rolling the paste is not even around the corkball. Am i doing something wrong?

In reply to Post #2
Any idea how to preserve them? Was thinking of just air drying untill rock solid then re hydrating in hydro and once the hydro is nearly all the way soaked in to coat the baits with various powders. Or would i be better off leaving them in a pot of salt/rice?

In reply to Post #16
nah mate im making 16mm baits but i air dry them for a while so they harden up. i do mine for like 3-5 days

In reply to Post #14
Had another go today with baf mix and got it spot on. what i did was mix it up and leave in the fridge for an hour. i then rolled it out and got the water to a boil. i then turned it down so there were just one or two bubbles coming to the surface. after that added 20 baits instead of the whole lot. left in for 1 minute or untill they started to misshape a bit. Was around the one minute mark when they were just starting to mis shape. took them out and now air drying and they are exactly spot on just how they came off the rolling table. hope that helps some of you who may also be having problems

In reply to Post #11
will try putting the mix in the fridge like suggested. havent tried that one yet. might be that the water is too hot or something im not sure

In reply to Post #6
Lads, any idea how i can get my pop ups a bit rounder. they come out perfectly off the rolling table and then i stop the water boiling and put them in straight afterwards for 1 minute. they tend to come out looking a bit like the moon with small craters in them. am i doing anything wrong. im using baf mix and making the mix as stiff as possible to the point i can hardly squash it. they roll fine its just the boiling stage it tends to go wrong or something.

In reply to Post #13
Hi everyone,
cheers for the advice it is much appreciated

can anyone give me a rough way to work out how many cork balls I will need for a certain amount of base mix?

for example if i had 500g base mix how many cork balls would I roughly need?

cheers in advance

HI everyone,
I have been rolling my own bait for a while now and I have started using hinge stiff/chod rigs in my fishing a lot more and feel the need to make a change to cork dust/corkball pop ups. Can anyone get me thinking along the right lines of what I need in the mix? I am unsure on whether a 50/50 mix will be alright since its only a hook bait and not going to be digested by the fish and then the attractors would be just in the liquids and attractor powders.

In reply to Post #29
I am gonna be splitting the 10 pots between my mates who all pitched in as we are all fishing one particular water .

if i dried them out for a week wouldnt they be rock hard? and hard to puncture?

In reply to Post #26
Cheers guys. Whats the best way to go about preserving my pop ups?