Quest Baits Blog

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 continue reading…

Following on from Rons Rig post I wanted to add my thoughts, mainly revolving around the Chod rig. Yes I know, its in every magazine, on every website and every corner! But is it on your rods? Its nothing new, its just a fad, it is nothing special. Really?

The simple truth is that Carp find it very difficult to deal with and whilst it doesn’t ideally suit a rock hard clean bottom, lets be truthful, how often do you fish like that anyway? If casting to where the fish are feeding, without having to cast a marker out to check the bottom debris, silt depth etc appeals then give it a try. Its not just a fashion!

Id add that it suits a boiled bait fishing scenario where you can spread baits a little so that Carp move from bait to bait, or alternatively and particularly at this time of year, single hookbait fishing. All you need is some very buoyant pop ups, such as Quest baits of course and the rig components to make a choddy.

I’m not going to list them all because its been done to death, however Ill chuck a few little things in the mix! Have you tried it running some length between beads? Have you tried it with x line and without leadcore(The naked Chod)? Have you tried it with a spaghetti back stop? Do you need a backstop at all?

Some tips: Use it with a light lead, ideally with at least two foot between lead and top bead, try it on x line, mould some lead substitute putty around the base of the swivel and use a korda sinker with a rubber bead over it as an upper stop, that way you don’t need a big length of leadcore. Most importantly you must must ensure that the rig is safe, our Carp are precious……

Have a play, get it right and you could just turn your year around!

All the best,  Spencer Humble