Quest Baits consultant Ron Key talks about the new Surf ‘n’ Turf boilie.
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White Out on the Mangrove
by Jim Kelly
Winter carping can be one of the most sole destroying pastimes imaginable. What with the long cold nights, freezing days and with little chance of a fish anyone would be mad to fish through the winter months – wrong winter carping can be one of the most rewarding and exciting parts of carp fishing, if you get it right!
The fish are normally at their best weight and in excellent condition. The million dollar question how do you get it right in winter?
Firstly my definition of a winter carp is one caught between 1st November and 1st March just to make it clear. Now that has been cleared up what makes the difference between success and failure?
I have winter fished for carp for well over 20 years, with some spectacular successes and some dismal failures. The problem with winter carping is that there are few rules.
by Gareth Watkins
I previously published this article on the Angling Lines blog, but it really does stand out for me as one of, if not the most memorable session I have ever fished. Not because we caught big fish, indeed I have caught larger from other less challenging waters. It was just the immense elation of banking an Orient 40lb Plus…
Here is the story:
It was with huge anticipation that I agreed to my friend Laurent’s invitation to try an assault on one of the most daunting of waters: the Lac d’Orient.
Orient is a veritable inland sea covering some 2600 hectares. Despite its size, and typical of French waters, the night sectors are very limited.
At the agreed time I rolled into the car park at the cafe in Geraudot and sat down with a cold beer to await Laurent. The conditions were ideal with a strong wind blowing and the forecast for some nasty weather for the next 48 hours. You see Orient is not a difficult lake, its the rough conditions and its size that increase its difficulty, the worse the weather the better ones chances of catching. Rotten conditions seem to bring the fish right into the bank, thus increasing the chance of a take. continue reading…
A nifty idea from the Quest Baits boys. A clear plastic tube containing four separate bait pots which can be used for carrying glugs, dips or an assortment of different hook baits.
The problem with most of the glug pots I’ve used in the past is that they are prone to leaking. This is usually caused by getting a drop of liquid in the threads of the screw cap – it then manages to work its way around the thread channels and out of the lid. By placing the tubs in an outer tube you stop all of that irritating spillage contaminating everything else in your kit.
Ron Neville and Steve Beeton have just phoned from France to say they are notching up a few catches with the Quest Rahja spice in the very cold weather on Grosley Lake.
With 13 carp so far, including 2 x 30’s (11 on the Rahja proving once again what a truly exceptional winter bait it is) and they are just into their 6th day!
They will update at the end of the week but are looking to extend their stay for a few days more… & with the weather set to get milder catches could get better still!
Regards, Bridget
Have you ever caught a carp from under the ice, by design? Shaun Harrison certainly has!
by Shaun Harrison
I had invited Elie Godsi along to ‘The Inner Sanctum’ for the afternoon to fish as my guest. After the long walk to the pool, we were both disappointed to find it frozen over apart from a small bay in the northwest corner. I decided to set a rod up and give it a couple of hours.
I was able to drop the rig eight feet out into the lake and onto a ledge in around three feet of water. A bright red, critically-balanced whisky boilie was delivered to the lake bed and left in isolation under the ice. J
ust an hour later I was playing a carp from under the ice. 
The size of fish in these conditions is pretty much immaterial but for what it’s worth it turned out to be a mid-double.
This fish definitely gave me a much bigger sense of achievement than a lot of the larger carp I have caught over the years, particularly as it came from under the ice. continue reading…
