by Samantha Collins-Ratcliffe
Summer or winter, weedbeds are well worth a serious look at as being a good holding area for carp. I’ve found that clear spots in the weed are often a good area to put your hookbait - especially on a short session. I’ve fished a lot of very weedy waters, both here and on the continent, and most of the time I find takes occur during the hours of daylight from these clear spots. (more…)
Hi All,
An excellent interview with the man himself in this month’s “Carpology” e-newsletter
The CARPology e-Newsletter Five-Minute Interview
This week we chat to Quest Baits main man, Shaun Harrison
“Shaun, can you tell our readers what your company has been up to over the past 12 months?”
“Last September we had to move Quest Baits into larger premises. This was our third move in just two years. Everything has moved on at a steady rate since first putting the foundations of Quest Baits together in 2005.”
“We drew up a very precise five year business plan based around my long experience in the tackle trade and I am happy to say everything has gone to plan. This year (2008) was always the year we were going to make the baits much more widely available through a carefully selected range of shops. Leading up to 2008 we had supplied bait direct from our website www.questbaits.com and purposely kept the baits in just two shops. The Tackle Box in Dartford Kent and Walkers of Trowell in Nottingham, the shop I had worked in for 25 years prior to leaving to set this business up.
We have been absolutely delighted with the response from the shops after doing a mini nationwide presentation tour. Our baits have been accepted with open arms and the sales so far have been truly staggering considering the time of the year. (more…)
Ian Hillier:
Hi my question is, let me give you some background. All of my winter captures have come on plastic sweetcorn (no slur on your bait Shaun ha ha) and I read a back article from your site about plastic baits and how they take on flavour. Are these the type of boilie that enterprise tackle sell the ones you sell on your site? If so will they take on the flavours of glug you sell? Any tips you can give.I want to fish the top 18 inches of the water during the afternoons before I start surface fishing in the evenings.
Many thanks Ian
Shaun replied,
Hi Ian,
The plastic boilies we sell are the same ones as the Enterprise Tackle ones. I have used these on and off since they were very first released and have now caught many fish on them. When we started quest Baits I wanted to offer everything I use myself - not just small selected items - thus the artificial baits being included in the range. (more…)
by Shaun Harrison
A favourite method of mine, especially in Winter is frequent recasting with bright ‘in your face’ baits and personally I think none are more effective than the many varied Artificial Hookbaits which are now available. Now I guess this may surprise a few anglers, after all I run a bait company and here I am advocating artificial baits, but anyone who has read my work over the years will realise by now that I tell it how it is! I see no point in pulling the wool over anybody’s eyes. The simple fact of the matter is that I have used a lot of artificial hookbaits and to my mind they have many advantages over the most carefully prepared natural bait. By natural bait, I am of course, referring to real food items, because boilies can hardly be described at natural.
Many anglers seem quite happy with artificial corn which is now available in a few difference guises, although we really have Enterprise Tackle to thank for bringing the artificial baits to the fore. I rarely use the artificial corn myself - much preferring the artificial boilies which Enterprise also supply. (more…)
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