Comments on: Winter attraction – crumb those boilies! http://www.questbaits.com/blog/winter-attraction/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:00:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Simon Lowes http://www.questbaits.com/blog/winter-attraction/comment-page-1/#comment-1298 Simon Lowes Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:00:33 +0000 http://www.questbaits.com/blog/?p=1229#comment-1298 Thanks everyone for your comments. Fishing getting harder, had a few blanks now. Hopefully they will soon start feeding before the frost comes in. Cold night last night. New Nash frostbite sleeping bag gets top marks from me. Make sure you have one of these on your Christmas list! Cheers, Simon Thanks everyone for your comments.

Fishing getting harder, had a few blanks now. Hopefully they will soon start feeding before the frost comes in.

Cold night last night. New Nash frostbite sleeping bag gets top marks from me. Make sure you have one of these on your Christmas list!

Cheers,

Simon

]]> By: Ron Key http://www.questbaits.com/blog/winter-attraction/comment-page-1/#comment-1297 Ron Key Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:57:57 +0000 http://www.questbaits.com/blog/?p=1229#comment-1297 Hi Simon congratulations on winning the competiton and welcome to the Blog. Like Shaun I'm interested in the possibilities of boring out baits, custom made wafters. Nice idea Shaun I'm sure I've got an old Marvic punch lying about somewhere. Cheers Ron Hi Simon
congratulations on winning the competiton and welcome to the Blog. Like Shaun I’m interested in the possibilities of boring out baits, custom made wafters.

Nice idea Shaun I’m sure I’ve got an old Marvic punch lying about somewhere.

Cheers Ron

]]> By: Shaun http://www.questbaits.com/blog/winter-attraction/comment-page-1/#comment-1296 Shaun Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:17:18 +0000 http://www.questbaits.com/blog/?p=1229#comment-1296 Hi Simon, Welcome to the Blog mate. Interesting comment on the pop-up inside the drilled out bottom bait. This isn't something I have tried before but certainly will now - thanks for that. I would imagine the old boilie punches first marketed by Marvic then copied by many (as usual) would be perfect for this. Bore a hole in the bottom bait. Do the same with the pop-up and then use the plug from the pop-up to plug the bottom bait and vice versa. I like it :-) my brain is ticking over on this one. Best fishes Shaun (P.S.) Quick tip - if you start your replies four spaces down you won't get the irritating bit with the date through your comment. Hi Simon,

Welcome to the Blog mate.

Interesting comment on the pop-up inside the drilled out bottom bait. This isn’t something I have tried before but certainly will now – thanks for that.

I would imagine the old boilie punches first marketed by Marvic then copied by many (as usual) would be perfect for this. Bore a hole in the bottom bait. Do the same with the pop-up and then use the plug from the pop-up to plug the bottom bait and vice versa.

I like it :-) my brain is ticking over on this one.

Best fishes
Shaun

(P.S.) Quick tip – if you start your replies four spaces down you won’t get the irritating bit with the date through your comment.

]]> By: Simon Lowes http://www.questbaits.com/blog/winter-attraction/comment-page-1/#comment-1295 Simon Lowes Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:27:47 +0000 http://www.questbaits.com/blog/?p=1229#comment-1295 Some great advice Ron. I find as winter is drawing closer i shorten my hooklinks to 5in of supple braid and use a inline lead which i then coat in crab glug . I then just slide a pva mesh stick off crab pellets down the hooklink just to stop the tangle's. And as my hook bait i will carry on using 15mm special crab but topped with a glow corn that is flavoured in Tutti Frutti seems to be working well for me. As for placing my baits will now start to move then down the slopes in 26 - 27 ft of water and starting looking at the bottom of the slopes. On the smaller waters i fish i have started placing about 10 special crab baits in 3 sizes 10mm 15mm and 20mm near the snags where the sun hits the water through out the day and then just spread some particle over the top. Then when i do return to fish a swim i have baited i pop down in the morning and top the spot up and return in the evening and just place a bait on the baited spot.I have been using a trimmed down 20mm bait and dug a hole in the middle of the 20mm and then place a 11mm yellow pop-up down inside so it ends up like a snowman style. I think for me it takes the wieght out the bait and also adds as a visual you can trim the sides of the your bait but just keep checking in the margins so its not lifting up to easy Cheers Simon Lowes Some great advice Ron. I find as winter is drawing closer i shorten my hooklinks to 5in of supple braid and use a inline lead which i then coat in crab glug . I then just slide a pva mesh stick off crab pellets down the hooklink just to stop the tangle’s. And as my hook bait i will carry on using 15mm special crab but topped with a glow corn that is flavoured in Tutti Frutti seems to be working well for me. As for placing my baits will now start to move then down the slopes in 26 – 27 ft of water and starting looking at the bottom of the slopes.

On the smaller waters i fish i have started placing about 10 special crab baits in 3 sizes 10mm 15mm and 20mm near the snags where the sun hits the water through out the day and then just spread some particle over the top. Then when i do return to fish a swim i have baited i pop down in the morning and top the spot up and return in the evening and just place a bait on the baited spot.I have been using a trimmed down 20mm bait and dug a hole in the middle of the 20mm and then place a 11mm yellow pop-up down inside so it ends up like a snowman style. I think for me it takes the wieght out the bait and also adds as a visual you can trim the sides of the your bait but just keep checking in the margins so its not lifting up to easy

Cheers
Simon Lowes

]]> By: Jamie Simpson http://www.questbaits.com/blog/winter-attraction/comment-page-1/#comment-1287 Jamie Simpson Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:53:07 +0000 http://www.questbaits.com/blog/?p=1229#comment-1287 Hi Ron Nice piece mate. When winter comes I tend to go for smaller 10 or 12mm baits and wrap them in paste. I will also use more pop ups at this time of year depending on the situation as I feel that a lot of the rotting leaves etc can put fish off feeding in some areas that they would otherwise feel confident feeding in. However I am sure they still visit these areas and a bright pop up just above this may just tempt a take. Oh yeah I would definately go for either the Fruity or Rahja at this time of year too. Cheers Jamie Hi Ron

Nice piece mate.

When winter comes I tend to go for smaller 10 or 12mm baits and wrap them in paste.

I will also use more pop ups at this time of year depending on the situation as I feel that a lot of the rotting leaves etc can put fish off feeding in some areas that they would otherwise feel confident feeding in. However I am sure they still visit these areas and a bright pop up just above this may just tempt a take.

Oh yeah I would definately go for either the Fruity or Rahja at this time of year too.

Cheers

Jamie

]]> By: Shaun http://www.questbaits.com/blog/winter-attraction/comment-page-1/#comment-1281 Shaun Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:09:38 +0000 http://www.questbaits.com/blog/?p=1229#comment-1281 Hi Ron, Last Winter I caught quite a lot of fish in this way. I chose to bait up lightly but quite regularly between sessions then rely on my PVA packages to tempt a fish into having a go. The mesh bags I had the most success with last winter contained a couple of crumbed 20mm baits (easier to quickly break between the fingers) a 15mm whole brightly coloured boilie along with matching Maximum Action Pellets (with a little bit of matching Glug added) and the Micro Feed. Hookbait was a trimmed down 15mm (apple cored). These bags are quite small and I also had success dipping them into a Glug before casting. Lots of variation to use but my mind was going along the lines of the fish spotting the single bright boilie standing out amongst the dust and bits from the bag. Hoping the fish would be wary of the single bright bait but accept the small trimmed down darker bait as being safe. If this is what actually happened I don't know, but what I do know is that a fair few fish fell to my traps. Best fishes Shaun Harrison Hi Ron,

Last Winter I caught quite a lot of fish in this way. I chose to bait up lightly but quite regularly between sessions then rely on my PVA packages to tempt a fish into having a go.

The mesh bags I had the most success with last winter contained a couple of crumbed 20mm baits (easier to quickly break between the fingers) a 15mm whole brightly coloured boilie along with matching Maximum Action Pellets (with a little bit of matching Glug added) and the Micro Feed. Hookbait was a trimmed down 15mm (apple cored).

These bags are quite small and I also had success dipping them into a Glug before casting.

Lots of variation to use but my mind was going along the lines of the fish spotting the single bright boilie standing out amongst the dust and bits from the bag. Hoping the fish would be wary of the single bright bait but accept the small trimmed down darker bait as being safe.

If this is what actually happened I don’t know, but what I do know is that a fair few fish fell to my traps.

Best fishes
Shaun Harrison

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