Quest Baits Blog

Words and Pictures supplied by Lee Wheeler:
I have been on the Quest Baits team nearly a year now and I cannot explain enough how impressed and happy I am with the bait.

With not being able to get to places with bigger fish in them I am generally fishing for twenty pound carp. I fish a few different waters containing a few big fish but nothing really massive, but I still have very good fun catching upper doubles and low to mid twenties.  I think that what it’s all about.

I became interested in the bait when I and my dad had a little read about the new Ghurkka Spice coming out. I went down the tackle shop and bought myself a kilo. Sure enough I started catching fish and this led onto me buying another kilo, eventually I had 17 fish in 2 kilos worth of bait and I knew I was onto a winner!

I then started to report my captures and Shaun started giving me feedback and positive comments about my writing. This made me even more happy as not only had I found a winning bait I had started talking to an angler who takes interest in the younger generation and doesn’t just ignore them unlike some other famous anglers. continue reading…

Spring, one of my favourite times of the year for catching carp. With the high air pressure I knew that the shallow lake about 10 minutes from my house could be worth heading down and putting a bit of bait in,  I felt the carp might respond to the warmer weather and my god they did!
Thursday evening I pre baited the swim with some Magnum White and Squid Berry boilies and by 5 o clock Friday after school I was down the lake and ready for the challenge.Ghurkka Spice was my top choice of bait and will be from now on until the winter arrives again (although it is fair to say it has produced a lot of winter fish for Shaun). With the days slowly getting longer I could manage to arrive after continue reading…

21lb winter scaly

Winter is always the hardest part of the year for catching carp. This year I have been adjusting rigs and fishing different hook baits to try and get me that extra bite. I’ve been using pop up rigs lately and having some good results. The best fish being a stunning 21lb scaly mirror.

Last winter was a very hard time for me as I did about 30 sessions and blanked them all. I Lost fish so I was doing something right to get the bites but I just couldnt land them! Having so many blanks in a row really got my confidence to a very low point. That’s why this year I wanted to up my game and try and get a few fish.

So far I have had 7 fish in 7 sessions. Fishing on my local club water and a few day ticket waters, I have fished lakes about 2-3 days after they have thawed out and knew it was going to be tough I have also fished lakes that have been half frozen when I’m there  and I have still managed to get amongst a few. This just shows how much the carp love the Quest Baits I have been using! continue reading…

Words and pictures by Lee Wheeler:
A few weeks ago I entered a carp cup match sponsored by my local tackle shop “Tackle Up”. The draw took place at 8 o clock in the morning and I drew peg 18 which was a swim that had a large amount of water in front of  it. Fortunately the other pegs along my side were not drawn so I had a range of ideas where to fish.

I started off by fishing a spread of Ghurkka Spice boilies over an area where I had seen a few fish show and after about 15 mins of having the rod out the bobbin pulled up to the top and line started to tick off the reel. I hit the take and I had the fish on. Unfortunately after about 40 seconds of having the fish on it came off, this was not a good start as someone else had just landed a fish and was in the lead!

I put the rod back out but everything went quiet for everyone so I decided to get my bag of dog biscuits and see if I could get the fish feeding confidently on the surface. After about 30 mins of constant feeding I had the fish feeding like mad, I didn’t have a controller float with me so I resorted to using an idea which a friend and I came up with which was using an apple core as the float. On the hooklink was a size 12 mixer hook and a trimmed down Ghurkka Spice pop up. The fish just werent having it. After having about 4 fish mouthing my bait and then spook off I decided to change hookbaits, I put on an 8mm cork ball soaked in Rahja Spice Bait Glug I cast the apple core and cork ball beyond the feeding fish and slowly drew it over them, within about 10 mins I had a fish stick its mouth out and suck in my bait the apple bobbbed under and I struck the rod hard. The fish weighed 11lb 6oz and that put me in second place shortly after one of the others were into a fish once landed his fish came in as 18lb 4oz which put me back down to 3rd place. It was game on now and I was trying my hardest to bag up on a few fish I got the rod back out and I was soon into another one, once this fish was weighed and landed it all kicked off I then had 3 more fish in about an hour and a half. I was now in 1st place with a very convincing lead. It came to the end of the match and I was the winner with a total of 5 fish and a total wieght of 68lbs.

Once again Quest Baits came out on top.

Thanks Lee Wheeler.