Thanks and keep it up.

I became paranoid about the risk of transferring diseases in the summer of 2007 when we had an outbreak of unexplained carp deaths around the Trent river system. Until then I had always used local lake and river water to cook my hemp in, then used that to rehydrate air dried boilies with. Now there’s no risk if the water has been thoroughly boiled but I tended to add extra (unboiled) water to the hemp juice and then use that liquid to rehydrate with.

I would therefore suggest any water that is used should always be boiled first, or better still, only use water from the lake you intend to fish. I now take home 5 litre bottles of lake water with me at the end of a session and use that to do all my particle preparation and rehydration with.

Elie G

Just one point, do you concider the boilies safe after you had soaked them in your pond water? I was thinking in terms of introducing viruses into other lakes that may be present in your pond.

keep up the good work
Paul

So sorry for the delay in answering – this one has been lost in the depths of my computer somewhere – don’t know how I have missed it!

Yes, I always used to freeze half pint and 1 pint bags of hemp juice. I pour the juice in a plain simply sandwhich bag, use a paper covered wire twist to seal the bag and freeze it.

If you try and freeze several pints in a block you will find it takes ages to thaw out.

Water wise when I was getting through quite a lot of re-hydrates on the Mangrove I would simply add twice as much to the hemp as normal, then bag the excess juice. By measuring it before freezing it life gets so much easier.

Hope this helps
Best fishes
Shaun