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Here is yet another message I have received confirming that Poisson Chat really do not like the ingredients we use in our anti Poission Chat bait Pineapple Crush.

Hello Shaun,

You may not remember but I promised to report back to you about how Ghurkka Spice fared against the Poisson Chat’s compared to Pineapple Crush on the reservoir I fish in France (Lac de Pincemaille/Rille).

Well sadly they loved it!

Any unmeshed Ghurkka Spice were noshed by the little buggers very quickly. I did try meshed Ghurkka Spice on the hair, but still managed to foul hook them anyway. Considering the number of Poisson Chats in the lake I reasoned that the carp probably weren’t getting the chance of any freebies anyway!

I even tried double 20mm boilies (one Ghurkka Spice and one Pineapple Crush) on the same hair as an experiment, within an hour or so and a few bleeps I reeled in to find the Ghurkka Spice completely gone but the Pineapple Crush untouched. This happened a couple of times without actually hooking the chats because I put the pineapple on the hook end of the hair (a potential good tip for the future when fishing Pineapple Crush alongside another bait the chats might like.

I think to summarise, a bit of a thumbs down for the Ghurkka Spice on heavily ”chatted” waters, but what a good test for Pineapple Crush against the chats! So no guesses as to what bait I’ll be taking to that water next year.

I hope this has been of interest to you.

Regards

Martin Park.

Just spent the day at Leslie’s of Luton with Archie Braddock showing off some of our Quest Baits products as well as the re-released Archie Braddocks spice blends.

As is usual there were lots of questions and queries from the customers. I had one interesting one which I thought I would relate here.

One guy commented that he had purchased a tub of our Pineapple Crush pop-ups, had caught on them but they appeared to lose their colour quite quickly. I went on to explain that we make them this way on purpose and fortunately with having a demonstration tank full of water with us I showed him why.

Dyes are available in many forms and non-soluble dyes will remain the same colour no matter how long the baits are cast out for. Soluble dyes will start to fade. In my opinion this has two major advantages over baits containing non-soluble dye.

Most of the waters I have fished in recent years the carp respond quicker to baits which look as though they have been out in the lake for a long period. This is the reason why I usually pre-soak my feed baits before use. The dye starting to wash out of the pop-up has two very definite advantages. Firstly it emmits an attractive colour cloud around the bait (I demonstrated this in the tank) and secondly it soon looks ‘safe’ and washed out. Once I showed this in the tank the customer appeared quite satisfied.

Sometimes I want a bait to remain bright in colour and in these instances I simply cut the top off my pop-up and add a cut of piece of artificial bait the same size. This gives all the advantages of a artificial bait but with the greater advantage of the attractors from a proper bait emmitting from underneath. The best of both worlds!

By Jamie Simpson
I have just returned home from my first ever BCAC qualifying event at Cuttle Mill Fishery, near Tamworth. What a roller coaster of emotions I have gone through over the past 48 hours.

We arrived at the venue on Thursday evening for a bit of a social and a look around the lake. We managed to spot plenty of fish during this walk around, with carp bubbling and crashing in several areas. A large proportion of the fish seemed to be in an area between swims known as the Pads and Nevilles. Normally this would not be a popular choice as you are in a corner and penned in somewhat by other swims around this part of the lake.

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