I decided to book a week away in France on a lake that holds big fish and the chance of landing a few good carp, so I called David from Angling lines and asked his advice. He talked extensively about Laroussi and convinced me this was the lake I was looking for, so I booked up for the last week in March. I set about doing all my homework for the lake from the Angling lines website, which was full of useful hints and tips. Then it was time to sort out what bait I was going to take with me so I called Shaun at Quest baits and decided to use liver B8 as a new bait for this year.
I headed off to France on a Quest to catch a big Common, armed with liver B8, 10-15mm shelf life boiles, there was no stopping me, car all loaded for the week. It took 3 ½ hours to reach Le Mans from Roscoff travelling through temperatures down to - 4°C and encountering the odd snowstorm along the way. When I reached Laroussi the temperature had crept up a little to 1°C with the odd heavy downpour but that didn’t put me off! (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 baitShaun 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 plasticboilies 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…)