Quest Baits Blog

Oakview by Linda Latham;

We were lucky enough to be able to stop at Oakview for a few days whilst making one of our usual trips to some of our venues in France. On this trip most of our visits to the lakes were grouped in an area where we could stop in one place and circle out each day to view the venues.

When we arrived at Oakview in the evening Shirley and Martin made us most welcome at their home with a nice hot cuppa. From their house we could just see the lake through the trees in the distance as the sun was going down.

We discussed their plans and then the talk got around to the actual fishing something I love to do! (I always travel with my rods in the roof of the van) Martin could see I was chomping at the bit and offered to show me around the lake – if I wanted to fish… If !! – we were down the stairs and half way across the field before his feet touched the ground.

As we walked around the lake Martin told me all about the work they had done – including de-silting the lake and putting in a deeper channel along the left side of the lake (looking from the cabin) He also showed me the hotspots where successful anglers had fished before. continue reading…

Paul Bedford wrote;

Hi, I am going to Jonchery, France, in August ‘08 and I’m just wondering what flavour boilies and pellets you would recommend to take as I have never fished in France before.  Thanks very much
Paul

Hi Paul,
I haven’t fished Jonchery but have seen the lake. Certainly if I were going myself I would take either Liver B8 boilies or the Special Crab (or both) at that time of the year and back them up with the Garlic Feast particle mix. continue reading…

By Pat Gillett;
Towards the end of April I had a week on one of the Angling Lines venues called Long Lake. I have written an article on the weeks fishing on the Angling Lines’ website. Now although I didn’t catch any massive fish I did catch a few. But the main thing that the week brought home to me was how little things can make all the difference in fishing.

On Long Lake you book a swim for the week. Each swim has its’ own ‘end of swim marker’s’ which show the angler the exact area of water he has in front of him and should stop anglers encroaching on each other’s water.

I had got swim number 4 which was pretty much in the centre of the lake but also by far the narrowest part of the lake.I set up the marker float and plumbed the depths etc. About 10 to 15 feet back from the ‘end of swim marker’ I had an area that sloped from (left to right ) 12 feet deep to 14 feet deep. Now with the weather predictions I would have thought this was perfect so I marked up 3 rods plus the spod rod to fish this area.

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Nick wrote;

Hi Pat,
Hope you don’t mind me mailing you, have picked up your mail address from the Quest baits website. I have posted a blog along the same lines as this but I was wondering if you could recommend one of Shaun’s baits for barbel along with a pellet. I am fishing the Ouse around Bedford this year for the big girls and wanted something they have not seen before and could start putting in to get them used to it. Any recommendations?
Many thanks,
Nick

Hi Nick

Living in Wolverhampton I am central to a number of rivers and the ones that I have fished for the last two winters (whilst using Quest) were the Lower Severn, the Upper Trent, the Warwickshire Avon and the River Dove. None of the stretches are particularly prolific but in general the average size of the fish is pretty good, although nowhere near as good as yours will be on the Ouse at Bedford. continue reading…

Andy Stansfield wrote:

I’m going to France at the end of April and have just found out it’s a boilie and fake bait water. What do u think would be best to take with me?

Hi Andy,

At the end of April I wouldn’t hesitate to take the Special Crab and or the new Liver B8 as the boilie choice. As far as artificial baits are concerned I use many different types and always carry a selection with me.

We sell the Enterprise Tackle ones here at Quest Baits and I have personally done particularly well in France with the yellow/green artificial Boilie fished over the top of a conventional boilie ‘snowman style’. Simply changing the colour of the top bait (I refer to them as sight bobs) can often make all the difference and tempt a few bonus carp.

Good luck and best fishes – Shaun