Caring for your bait

  • 21.09.2021
  • incQbait

It's a necessary evil looking after your baits, so with what we have learned over the course of forming incQbait, and seeing that not every other bait company does this, we'd like to offer you some guidance to look after it, that we feel, is worth its weight in carp.

The trusty boilie can be made from a source of many or even very few natural or not so natural ingredients. And regardless of whether there are preservatives in them, they can still go off.

Think of the bait like the food in your cupboards at home, except its for the fish. Keep it at its best for them as you can. Whether its our bait or another.


SHELF or FREEZER BOILIES. pointers for both:

  • 1. ALWAYS keep them in a cool and if possible, dark place. Both are still a food source, so anything that causes them to over heat and sweat, will cause a form of mould or cause the sugars to come to the surface. 
  • 2. If you’ve had a rainy session, and with left overs, give them a couple of days on a  towel to dry, then back in the packet and freezer for the next session. 
  • 3. Pop ups can get sweaty in their plastic tub if left in the sun, so again, keep them cool and dry. If they get wet, on a towel for a couple of days and also dry the pot out too. 
  • 4. Although we use preservatives in our shelf life baits, they can  go off in the end, just like a human grade food source can, even chocolate bars go off and those have way more preservative types than us!

  • 5. Shelf life boilies can go hard and shrink over time if kept in the wrong storage conditions, so like freezer baits, add some liquids to pump them up a bit before a session or during if its a long session, a bit of lake water can help too.

    6. Rehydrating bait. If you have thoroughly dried your baits out, for what ever reason and want to put some life back into them, rehydration will only put up to 85% of moisture back into your boilies. Because of the nature of incQbait bait, we recommend using HEMP OIL on our baits if rehydration is required. We use hemp oil in our bait because it is probably the best form of liquid in any season to carry flavour through the water


Overall Colours to be aware of: If the boilies go green, furry green or furry white in appearance, they are done, bin them. They are not fit for anything. They arent dangerous but they are not fit for consumption on any level.  If the surface of your boilies have a white coating, almost like a white fine layer, that is NOT furry, these are still fine to use, it it simply the sugars coming to the surface. This can form from being kept in warmer conditions and in direct sunlight (as explained already)

We’ve tried and tested this, and 3 weeks is probably a good limit to leave them out. Something to be aware of especially if you don’t want to refreeze and go through the whole dry out phase again. But again, if you keep them correctly like you would fresh veg, they will keep longer.