Quest Baits Blog

by Shaun Harrison;

A favourite method of mine, especially in Winter is frequent recasting with bright ‘in your face’ baits and personally I think none are more effective than the many varied Artificial Hookbaits which are now available.

Now I guess this may surprise a few anglers, after all I run a bait company and here I am advocating artificial baits, but anyone who has read my work over the years will realise by now that I tell it how it is! I see no point in pulling the wool over anybody’s eyes.

The simple fact of the matter is that I have used a lot of artificial hookbaits and to my mind they have many advantages over the most carefully prepared natural bait. By natural bait, I am of course, referring to real food items, because boilies can hardly be described at natural.

Many anglers seem quite happy with artificial corn which is now available in a few difference guises, although we really have Enterprise Tackle to thank for bringing the artificial baits to the fore. I rarely use the artificial corn myself – much preferring the artificial boilies which Enterprise also supply. continue reading…

Poisson-chats;

There have been a few posts on the web forums of late about the small fresh water predators called ‘Poisson-Chats- Ameiurus melas (Catfish in French). Many anglers who have been to France will have been confronted with them.

Now these fish are not Wels catfish (Siluris Glanis), they rarely grow to over a pound and are generally only a few ounces in weight. But they are indeed extremely troublesome creatures. They are omnivorous, hunting in shoals and feeding on much the same food as carp… and that includes your bait. There is nothing more frustrating than fishing all night with no bait on your hook.
But don’t despair just because a water holds these fish, there are numerous ways to avoid them and have some great sport with the carp!! continue reading…