A NEW ‘QUEST’ By Spencer Humble
I’m delighted that Shaun has given me the opportunity to have become the latest member of the Quest baits team. Ive admired Shaun’s work for some time, having read his articles with much admiration over the years. Picking a bait company that you can trust is hard to do in this day and age with so many companies in existence. Ive been lucky and used some excellent baits over the years but found myself looking for a bigger choice, a range of baits that gives me more options, different combinations, sizes, pellets, feeds, dips, glugs and more. The convenience of a shelf life boilie, not full of horrible preservatives that is still a very effective food bait appeals massively. No more clapped out freezer taking up room in the garage, no more moaning Wife because Im taking up some of her freezer space with my smelly baits, no more waiting in for a bait delivery to arrive frozen, you know the score! Not only that but also no more wasted bait, dumping kilos of expensive baits in the lake or even in the bin, I can use what I want and take the rest home. As long as you look after it, quest baits shelf life baits will keep for some time.
So when you are faced with a choice of such well thought of and effective baits, how do you choose? Well I’m after a particular fish, a Common and we all know how fussy those buggers can be don’t we?! Commons in my experience are just a totally different breed to Mirrors, cagey feeders that don’t seem to fall to beds of bait or balls of semolina. They seem to have an acquired taste, certainly compared to those greedy mirrors. So I was looking for something different, something spicy, something with a label/ingredients different to the norm. It was with this in mind that along with advice from Shaun Ive settled on a combination of both the Rahja spice and liver B8 with matching pellets and hooker sets.
So, bait sorted, lets tell you a little about where Im angling. Firstly the lake has a publicity ban! This means I cant tell you where it is or name the fish etc. It goes without saying that it is not the easiest to get into, but not impossible. Such a stunning lake rarely loses members. Being an old irrigation pool set in farmland, it has been in existence for many years. The fish are thouroughbreds, proper English Stunners to die for, but unfortunately very difficiult to catch. Never have I fished such a moody water with such spooky Carp that defy the modern angler. Its not a big venue, finding the Carp is relatively easy, catching them is not! You need to use all the tricks of the trade here.
So, its December as I write this and Ive not fished for a few weeks. This month is a write off for me, one of my busiest times at work and I rarely get the chance to wet a line in the festive month at all. I have however had the chance to visit the lake a few times. Ive been out in the boat and had a prod about, settling on two areas of the lake that I think Ive a good chance of catching a certain big Common from. Ive just baited lightly with half a kilo of both Rahja and Liver B8 maximum action pellets with a sprinkling of boilies for good measure. Ill be continuing this at every opportunity. Im not going to tell you that Im visiting the lake three times a week etc, thats not real life, some us work for a living!
I hope you can follow my Quest, this blog might go on for months, it might go on for years, either way, at some stage there will be a truly stunning Big Common for you to see. I hope!
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