Quest Baits Blog

By Roy Van Goor

What time did you catch that carp?

This is one of the things I seem to be most interested in when I talk about catches that other anglers have had. I would say 70% of the anglers on the waters I fish are doing overnighters.. This means arriving at 18.00 in the evening and fishing until 09.00 in the morning.

What I hear a lot is that they are not confident in fishing the days, because the fish feed at night, and not during daytime. Well, in my view some of this is true, they tend to catch fish during the evening, night and morning. But I would never overlook the hours of daylight. I hardly fish overnighters anymore because I catch my fish with no problem during daytime. But a lot of anglers cant get there heads around fishing daytime only. Is it a confidence thing? continue reading…

Karl Holland wrote:

I fish the Kennet and Avon canal. I’ve just started to use Rahja Spice boilies the inline lead is dipped in the glug and then I wrap paste on top.  The boilie is topped with plastic corn, I cast to the far bank and scatter approx 10 boilies around my hook bait. I’ve had some success with carp to 24lb but I only seem to catch 1 carp per session any help would be great.
Regards Karl 

Hi Karl,
I don’t live in England,so I don’t know the canal you’re fishing. But I fished on several canals in Holland, so maybe I can give you some pointers.

You had some success on the Rahja Spice so I would not change that.

Over here in Holland one of my most successful tactics is pre-baiting. I start to pre-bait a stretch of the canal 2 days before I go fishing. The stretch I talking about is 250 meters to the left and 250m to the right of my swim. Try to just flick out some bait in small quantities, ..a few in the margins, some further out. Spread a few boilies and pellets to intercept fish that come through that area. The idea is that not that one carp eats everything, but more fish find the bait and come back for it. continue reading…