Awesome Liver B8 and Rahja Spice!

Date: May 2008 Name: Lajos Szekely Email: Venue: Undisclosed Venue - Budapest

Details:
Hi Shaun

just look at the fantastic catches....thanks to Your awesome Liver B8, and Rahja Spice

Best regards
Lajos

1st 50 on Quest Baits

Date: May 2008 Name: Ian Dunklin Email: l.caslake@ntlworld.com Venue: Island Lake France

Details: Hi Shaun
I've just come back from fishing Island Lake in france & am very impressed with Quest Baits. I caught a 51lb PB along with 5 30's to 38lb, a 40.4lb & 42.8lb, all on Tiger NutCrunch boilies. I'll definitely be using your baits again. Thanks every much.

PB Broke Again!

Date: May 2008 Name: Andy Robinson Email: andy.robinson32@ntlworld.com Venue: Home Farm Fisheries

Details: Hi Shaun (once again) as the heading says PB broke again, New UK PB 25lb 13oz Mirror from Home Farm fisheries, the secon was a 13lb 11oz Common both fished over a bed of Rahja spice chopped boillies and pellets and on the hook was a 14mm with the edges chopped of, fished at close range on a 12ft Whychwood Rouge 3lb test with Fox cammo line 12lb, size 8 mugga barbless on 15lb Gardner stealth skin line. Once again many thanks for all the help

cheers

Andy

What a cracker!

Date: May 2008 Name: Darrell Womack Email: dazzie37@hotmail.co.uk Venue: Press Manor Fisheries

Details: I caught this cracking fish at 24lb 8oz on pineapple crush with a pva bag of the same pellets its my first fish using the baits

Winter into spring....

Date: May 2008 Name: Andy Robson Email: carp-face@hotmail.co.uk Venue: Private syndicate, north England

Details: Just to let you known my log for October through to May.
Fishing with just the one 7 foot "Greys" stalker on days only. Fishing marginal spots using your fruity trifles / rahja spice.
Approx 19 doubles - 7 of which were different nineteens !
13 twenties between 20lb and 28lb 2oz.
And the half linear at 30lb 2oz.
Not bad on one rod and fishing in the frozen north.

rahja spice = 19lb 10oz

Date: May 2008 Name: Ryan Wilkinson Email: blitz999@hotmail.co.uk Venue: brookfield lake

Details: I have just returned from a excellent 24hour session at Brookfield lake. My main target was to beat my personal best which used to be 12lb.

It was hard locating the fish and
no other angler on the lake had caught any fish..
So I stuck with the shelf life 15mm Rahja Spice
boilies - and I am very happy =]

Rahja and Irish Cream producing in difficult conditions.

Date: May 2008 Name: Andy Robinson Email: Venue: Etang-le-Fay

Details: Hi Shaun,
Hope you are well, just got back from France, a very hard week was had but the good news is, I caught on both Rahja Spice and the Irish Cream, picture attached of the best one caught on a snowman rig, 14mm boillie with a 10mm popup size 8 korda hook on a 15lb Gardner suffix hook length, 12ft Whychwood rouge 3lb rod on 10lb red mist line, Venue Etang-le-Fay . Once again many thanks for all your help and I hope you like the picture....

Many thanks

Andy

First Time on Quest Baits -Two P.B.'s in 2 trips !

Date: May 2008 Name: Bob Williams Email: bobbfg_655@hotmail.com Venue: Private Water East Sussex

Details: Hi Shaun
First time out with your bait Special Crab I had a new pb 26lbs 2oz mirror carp - very pleased.
Second time out had another pb 32lbs 12oz common carp - well made up, cheers again Shaun.

1st target of the year banked!!

Date: May 2008 Name: Roy Van Goor Email: roy.enna@hetnet.nl Venue: Dutch Park Lake

Details: Hi Shaun,

Well, things are starting to kick off.
The last few days the fish where on a feed and I managed several fish up to 30,8 lb
but..the biggest resident could not resist the smokey fish 10 mm's.
weight...39,6 lb!
just a bit short for the magic mark..but i dont care..:-)

greetz Roy Van Goor

1st Session Using Quest Liver B8 = 1st 30!

Date: Apr 2008 Name: Mike Burrell Email: mikeburrell@mac.com Venue: Essex Syndicate Lake

Details: Having blanked for a dozen sessions using various boilies over PVA'd pellet / crumbled boilie approach, I decided to try a bait I figured these carp would not have encountered before.

1st session using 20mm Liver B8 Shelf life boilies fished 'snowman' style with B5 pop ups over PVA mesh bags of chopped & crumbled B5 boilies produced 2 runs (my 1st 2 runs on the water!) one of which resulted in a lovely mirror of 31lb 2oz - my first 30!

Result!

First time using Quest Baits = first 20lber!

Date: Apr 2008 Name: Ed Whitby Email: ed_w@whitbymorrison.com Venue: Private Club Water, Near Crewe, Cheshire

Details: After 8 blank sessions in 2008 so far I decided it was time to make changes. Having read about Quest Baits on a regular basis I decided that a change to these baits would surely be the best way forward.

I was fishing a private water of just over 1 acre that has a stock of just 10 Carp (per EA netting in January). However, 9 of these are over 20lb with a couple pushing 30lb!

I arrived at the water and spent a few hours looking for the fish. After finding them sunbathing in a bay i decided to present them with a 15mm Fruity Trifle boilie as well as 6 freebies on a stringer. After painfully watching them swim over the bait for 30 minutes, the left hand rod screamed off. Following a short fight I was rewarded with this 24lb 4oz Common - my first 20 too!

The last capture from the water was in early July 2007 - hopefully this capture is a sign of things to come?

31 lb common - Smokey Fish

Date: Apr 2008 Name: Roy Van Goor Email: roy.enna@hetnet.nl Venue: Dutch Lake

Details: hi shaun,

1st fish on the Smokey Fish...
fished a 15 mm bottom bait over a bed of 10 mm readymade boilies..
greetz roy

First time on Quest Baits Rahja Spice

Date: Apr 2008 Name: Gareth Stockdale Email: Venue: Private Syndicate

Details: This would be my first time using any of the Quest Baits range and also my first session this year so stakes were running high !The lake was not fishing particularly well with only two fish out since the Sunday. I arrived on the Thursday morning and by Friday morning I had 3 fish of 19lb 8oz, 17lb 10oz and 23lb 15oz. Needless to say a very happy angler and I will using the Rahja for the significant future !

12 PB,S ON RAJA SPICE

Date: Apr 2008 Name: Iain McEwan Email: michellemcewan@tiscali.co.uk Venue: France

Details: I have been using Raja Spice up here in Scotland for about a year now, where 20s are few and far between and 25+ are a rarity!

I've had success on my local club waters using Raja Spice so decided using this would be my main plan of attack on my French campaign.

I bought Raja Spice in 10mm,15mm and 20mm. I also bought 5k of Red Birdy base mix and added some red venom, some pepper oil and some Indian spices as a cheap alternative as I was on a tight budget.

I did 5 short sessions between 6 and 8 hours and caught 12 carp and lost 2. The heaviest being 35.05 along with 6 other 30+ carp. And 5 between 22lbs and 29.10. Keep up the good work Shaun.

Iain Mc

Big Mirrors fall to Special Crab

Date: Apr 2008 Name: Kevin & David Keep Email: info@officeoasis.co.uk Venue: Laroussi, France

Details: 5 superb mirrors of 49.12, 49.06, 42.10, 39.04, 36.12... and around 8 small grassies of around 5lbs

Quest Special Crab fished over Mehdis parti-blend mix. Used mixed sizes for baiting up 10, 15 & 20mm with 15mm hookbaits. Fished Point & Deux Seules swims. Fish in Deux Seules came from far margin & in the Pointe from far margin & out towards middle of lake.

Not an easy week but what superb fish! You don't need many takes to keep you happy if you get specimens like this!

Shaun Gave Lee the Runs All Night!!

Date: Apr 2008 Name: Lee Johnston Email: lee@laglehias.com Venue: la Gléhias

Details: I know it sounds a bit sad, but I was really excited to hear about Shaun's new Liver B8 recipe from Quest Baits, and couldn't wait to give it a good testing. When you watch fish as closely as I do, your gut starts to tell you what baits should work well, and I was well pleased to be proven right.

The new B8 arrived here at la Gléhias last Thursday afternoon, and after looking at the 5 day weather forecast, decided to try it over a couple of sessions from Saturday onwards. My son William (9) and I got down the lakes and set up for the night just before 7pm. I put out 3 rods into some of the usual likely spots and a 4th rod out into the middle of nowhere; all using the new Liver B8 20mm, on 25lb Mantis, stiff all the way to the size 4's.

I then set about baiting up around my hookbaits. For this I had pre-soaked about 2kg of 7mm carp and 5mm halibut pellet in lake water for about 2-3 hours along with about 30 broken boilies mixed in. This was to moisten them just enough to get the pellet slightly sticky so when it was balled in, it still broke up roughly back into individual pellets with a nice cloud around it to create some instant attraction. I only baited up around the first 3 rods as I wanted to see how effective a Liver B8 would be on its own in a particularly difficult spot out in the middle of the lake.

By 10.45pm I was getting regular beeps on my 1st and 3rd rods which were out in the reeds so I knew at this point there were carp grubbing about in these swims and it was now just a waiting game. At 1.40am, a slowish run came from my 3rd rod that turned out to be a Common of 23lb 6oz - the smallest fish of the night's session.

By around 2.00am my nerves were on knife edges as the first 3 rods were now getting knocked about regularly. At 10 past, a screaming run came on rod 1 which was planted at the inlet and, being unable to sleep, I was on it like a rocket. Annoyingly the run stopped as I touched the rod, so I decided to wind it in to check the bait and re-cast back to the inlet.

By about 2.30 the same rod was off again and this time I connected with the fish, a pristine but bad tempered 26lb Common. I renewed the boilie and re-cast to the same spot again.

3.20am and I'm out of bed again, rod 3 is already running and I don’t know for how long as I had managed to fall into an incredibly deep sleep! I strike and ARGHHH, I felt the fish for a moment and then ping, nothing there. Still, I put the rod back in where it should be and go back to bed. Amazingly, William is sleeping through all of this!!

At 4.45 I had a short run from the 1st rod again, but this stopped before I could even unzip the door, I was so shattered that I decided to leave this where the fish dropped it.

One hour and many beeps later, rod 4 tore off with such force that it pulled the front of the rod sideways off the buzzer! This one REALLY had the hump, and didn't get any happier as I struggled over the next 15-20 minutes to wear it out and get it in the net. The struggle was well worth it as it turned out to be one of the lake biggies; a Mirror named Golddigger, this time coming in at its heaviest weight yet of 40lb 7oz. This is a new PB for me and certainly made up for all the lack of sleep.

At this point, having weighed and photographed the fish and got my rod back in the water, it was now 6.30am and I had decided to pack up at 9.00. Just as well really as I got another screamer from rod 3 at 8.50. An unknown deep, thick-set Mirror of 27lb 14oz - a lovely fish to end on. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Shaun's new bait turned up more unknowns not seen since stocking, and I've a feeling the Cats should love it too!

I will get some much needed rest today and go back again tonight as there were fish still lumping out over the baited spots even as I was winding in!

Total weight of Carp landed in one night 117lb 11oz.

Thanks a lot Shaun; I got next to no sleep at all!!!

Lee

Three days in April

Date: Apr 2008 Name: Tom Craven Email: tom@specialist-tackle.co.uk Venue: Essex Syndicate

Details: Three days on my syndicate water in hail, gale, snow, frost, sun etc... produced these five fish to the awesome Crab Special and B8.

Crab: 27.08 and 34.08 Mirrors and a 29lb Common.
B8 18.08 Mirror and a 22lb Common.

Heavily feeding with maize and a handful of boilies per cast produced the goods.

A tip: each boilie bait was tipped with a maize grain.

First time using quest baits

Date: Apr 2008 Name: Lee Bullock Email: lee@ruxleylakes.co.uk Venue: Lac Du Val - France

Details: First time fishing in france and tried the Lac du Val Special's (made for them by Quest Baits) and the Rahja Spice for the first time and in difficult conditions managed to catch three personal best carp and also a 16lb & 22lb common's, all were caught on snowman rig's. Hoping to try the Lac du Val Special's on my club water now for the next season.

1st 40 of the year!!

Date: Apr 2008 Name: Roy Van Goor Email: roy.enna@hetnet.nl Venue: Etang Negreloube

Details: hi shaun.

Well..the other 3 nights where fished at Etang Negreloube..
Weather was poor..N/W winds...cold..rain..frost
we had it all...
Where is that Spring??

We struggled...but I managed to catch 3 fish
a 22 common..25,3 mirror and a whopping 41,3 lb mirror.

the big fish fell for the Liver B8..
the other 2 for Rahja Spice (both 15mm's)....
both baits dipped 24 hours in matching Quest Bait Glugs


greetz Roy

8 fish in 36 hours!!

Date: Apr 2008 Name: Roy Van Goor Email: roy.enna@hetnet.nl Venue: Etang Vivale

Details: Hi Shaun.


Just back from a 5 day trip to france
we fished a lake called Etang Vivale..

I had 9 takes in 36 hours..landing 8 of them
biggest was a 30,8 lb mirror

The 2 bigger fish of the session came to liver b8 shelflife 15 mm's

the other 6 could not resist the Rahja Spice 15 mm shelf life..( dipped in blaitglug)
greetz roy

1st dutch victim for quest

Date: Apr 2008 Name: Roy Van Goor Email: roy.enna@hetnet.nl Venue: Dutch Park Lake

Details: Hi Shaun,

Here are the pics form my Dutch fish on your baits..caught on 6th April (Shaun's Birthday)
A combination from a Fruity Trifle 15mm shelf-life over Maximum Action Pellets did the trick..
more to follow...:-)

greetz roy van goor

Another Great Eight

Date: Apr 2008 Name: Peter Evans Email: p.evans31@btopenworld.com Venue: Gaunts Lake Oxfordshire

Details: Hello again,
I have just had a 5 night session on Gaunts at Oxfordshire, on the Sunday morning after tiring of catching tufties for two nights I decided to move during a hail storm to die for....... I fished the new swim from sunday lunch time until 10 am tuesday with the tally of mirrors @ 14lb, 18lb, 24lb ,25lb , 26lb, 36lb and a pb 42lb plus a 20lb grassie........happy days. All were taken tight from under a low hanging willow at approx 90yards. I presented "adapted" 15mm Rahja Spice frozen baits over a particle bed of hemp, maples, tigers and maize . All were bottom baits presented on 20lb fluorocarbon claw rigs.... I also managed to pull out of three other fish !

Liver B8

Date: Apr 2008 Name: Samantha & Scott Email: scott.ratcliffe@hotmail.co.uk Venue: France

Details: Just started using Liver B8 (What a Bait) the fish just love it, even when the weather gets cold the fish are still on it, we used 10 mm and 15 mm about 100 bait per marker. The 15 mm was cut in half and the 10mm stayed whole, we used a snowman Liver B8, 15mm bottom and 15mm pop did the trick
Samantha

Liver B8 & Pineapple Crush result

Date: Apr 2008 Name: Jamie Simpson Email: jamiesimpson1@ntlworld.com Venue: Cuttle Mill

Details: Hi mate

Here are a few photos of some of the fish we managed to catch during the BCAC qualifier at the weekend.

Rehydrated Liver B8 and 10mm Pineapple Crush did the trick in difficult conditions.

I will post a much more detailed log of the session on the Questbaits Blog.

Cheers

Jamie

April Common on the Special Crab Plus.....

Date: Apr 2008 Name: Steve Guy Email: steve.guy@kds-solutions.co.uk Venue: Mangrove

Details: Hi Shaun

Just back from a three night session on the Mangrove,fishing from the High Swim,the weather chucked everything at us,sleet,high winds,lots of rain and some sunshine in between. Needless to say,things have been very slow on the Mangrove this winter,so I was more than happy to pick up this lovely 28.02 common. Two 2x15mm Special Crab Plus boilies fished combi rig style over a kilo or so of the awesome Garlic Feast Particle mix did the business.

Cheers

Steve

2 hour session

Date: Apr 2008 Name: Craig Roberts Email: craig625@hotmail.com Venue: earl of harrington/derby

Details: I had a couple of hours to spare on thursday afternoon so i got my rod bag 3 pva bags and my unhooking mat and scales. i went to my local lake and opted to put out my rods on pineapple crush all close to the island and within 40 minutes i'de caught my fish, 2 hours well spent in my books.