Instead of using chemicals rich mixtures, liquid additives, and fragrant tubes, you can cook burley at home from readily available ingredients. You can even use ready-made burley as the basic ingredient. What you need to remember is that winter burley needs to be finely powdered and odorless. If you don’t use a ready-made burley, try semolina, breadcrumbs, sunflower meal and other small additives. Critters are a must have. You need to add at least 10% fodder bloodworm, crushed worms or other worms and insects.

Making good burley is not enough, you also need to use it right. Since we’re talking about winter fishing, you want to feed small portions to avoid overfeeding the fish. When fishing at shallow depths and when there is no current, the mixture may be fed into the well dry, not soaked. After you’ve thrown dry burley into the well, gently stir it with a slotted spoon. The particles will gradually swell and slowly sink, forming an attractive-looking feed pole. We recommend dump-feeding on rivers with a noticeable current.

For greater efficiency, try drilling and feeding several wells at once. You can then change the wells in case of unstable biting.

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