Boost up your boilies.

The most common way of boosting boilies is to spray flavour onto the bait just before it is cast out. The problem in this is fairly evident: The bulk of the flavour disperses into the water when the rig hit the surface. This is no great problem when fishing in shallow water. However, if the water is of some depth and there is a current, the result is, that the flavour-trace ends up well away from the bait.

In order to counter this effect it is better to spray the flavour onto the bait at least half an hour before the bait is cast our. In this manner the flavour has an opportunity to penetrate into the surface of the bait, so that it is not washed off on impact or when sinking. In order to secure a more gradual emission of scent from the hook-bait it may be an advantage to boost the bait several days or weeks in advance, so that the flavour penetrates thoroughly into the bait. By repeating the procedure a couple of times, each time followed by drying the hook-bait, you can build up several "layers of boost", which, when the bait is lying on the bottom, will ensure that the bait leaks scent continually during a considerably longer period of time. When the boost after some hours has been completely dispersed, further dispersal of scent will emanate from the ingredients of the boilie itself - if the ingredients is watersoluble enough.

Layer-boosting is best done by pouring a couple of ml. of flavour or boost-mixture (see below) into the bag of boilies, whereupon the bag is thoroughly shaken, until the boost covers all the boilies evenly. The first boosting can suitably take place before the boilies are placed in the freezer, in this way the boilies will have plenty of time to penetrate. When defrosted the boost will sink even deeper into the boiliesurface.