Quest Baits Blog

There’s no easy way to get your chosen boilie out, no matter what the size or shape, unless you use some of the following.

Throwing Stick

These come in variable sizes and diameter depending on the brand you use.  I find that the Throwing Stick gives me a better spread pattern of round bait for 10mm to 24mm baits over a large clear area of the lake. This gets the carp moving and roaming around the area and gives you a better chance of getting the carp confidently feeding in numbers. Brilliant to use at showing fish and very quiet in the proccess.

The Spomb

This I have just recently used and I recommend highly. They are capable of holding any shape, size or chopped boilie and get out to a feature of the lake at great distance. There is no spillage like the normal spod or rocket depending on the angler of course and is very accurate in its flight. Great for baiting up at distance and suprisingly effortless. continue reading…

We sell far more 15mm boilies than we do 20mm boilies which does surprise me.  I like small baits in my own fishing but tend to do so from 20mm baits. Let me explain.

To me there is nothing worse than not being able to quite reach the fish with free baits. This is why I tend to carry 20mm’s around with me and leave them intact until I know the fishing situation I will be in.

Look at the food in these chopped Chilli Chocolate baits

I often end up cutting them into halves, thirds and quarters. This releases a lot more of the attractors much quicker and also gives the advantage of them looking totally different. I find I catch more with these on pressured venues than I do on conventional round baits. Obviously no good for baiting at range though (apart from with a Spomb). I would definitely rather have a bed of broken 20mm boilies out in my swim than a bed of uniformly sized and shaped baits and when I really need to I can introduce them whole at much greater ranges than I can with smaller baits.

For fishing catapult range the chopped baits hit the surface from a catapult much more quietly – thus less scaring. continue reading…

All loaded and ready to go

In April this year I’ll be off to Luke Moffatts’ La Graviers for the first time in search of monster carp.

As always anglers who have visited waters before are queuing up with advice.  I have been told that a lot of the fishing is at range, placing baits from a boat.  I’ve also been told that the bream are a problem.

Now if I’m placing baits at over 200 metres and hook a bream at 2am in the morning I’m not going to be too pleased!

Use 20mm+ baits and bigger hooks I’ve been told… a bit daunting to someone who thinks 15mm is a big bait and who’s normal hook is a size 8!

So… the age old question;

What are your strategies for avoiding bream.  Are there any baits, flavours, ingredients, additives to avoid.  Can you effectively avoid catching nuisance fish and target only carp?

Cheers, Ron

Following on from Sam’s piece with the PVA mesh and foam nugget for perfect presentation I thought I would add my own version here which gives perfect presentation but also adds a little bit of attraction around the hook bait. This particular method has been particularly successful for me during the cold winter months.

The best PVA I have used for this in terms of meltability and size is the one Korda market as the Boilie Funnel Web.

So, here goes, with the ingredients required…

• One pinch of Quest Baits Micro Feed
• One Pinch of Maximum Action Pellets
• One Pinch of crushed up Boilie
• One full Boilie
• Tub of matching Bait Glug

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By Ron Key
When winter arrives and the carp start to feed less frequently, and perhaps only feed for very short periods, I want to create a situation where my bait will deliver maximum attraction without fear of overfeeding the carp.

At times like these I like to crumb or chop my boilies because once the boilie skin has been broken it allows the the flavours and attractors to be quickly released. My preferred method of delivery is 5 or 6 crumbed fruity or spicy boilies in small PVA mesh tubing ball attached to the hook. When distance is a major requirement small solid PVA bags are used, packing the crumbed boilie around the lead, folding in and sticking the corners of the bag to create a more aerodynamic shape. continue reading…

By Pat Gillet
1. Different size baits

A method I use quite a lot during the months of say August and September when the carp are having a good feed (especially for wary fish) is to feed with different sizes of bait. For example I will feed Quest boilies of 10, 15 and 20mm. I will then tie up a circular 6 bait pva stringer of different size baits and fish a hair with say a 15mm & 10mm bait on it which when the pva has dissolved, will sit right in the middle. The theory behind this method is that when the carp is feeding it will find it much harder to detect the weight of the hook than it would if it were just feeding on the same size baits. This method has brought me a lot of success and is the method I used to take fish to 55lb 4oz from Island Lake in France last year. continue reading…