Boilie a boilie is a hair rig (the bait is not attached directly to the hook) which allows the boilie to sit off the back of the hook. This not only means that the bait will behave more naturally in the water (for example when disturbed by feeding fish) it also will often make the difference between a good hook hold and a bad one. Due to the nature in which a carp feeds the bait is blown out of the mouth soon after it has been picked up and the fact that the bait can move independently from the hook
Fish or cut bait the task of fishing, and that of cutting the bait, were considered equally important to the goal of catching fish. Failure to contribute is not one of the offered alternatives, although "go ashore" and "go overboard" are sometimes offered as clarifying alternatives. Writer Jan Freeman in the "Boston Globe" summarizes with the characterization that, "It's sort of a maritime version of 'Lead, follow, or get out of the way'". She followed up the following day with an expansion of her analysis of this phrase, including quotes from "Literary Digest" from 1899: "The thousands of Cuban soldiers yet in idleness will