Angling Lines blog

Quest have just launched their new boilie for 2010 – Chilli Chocolate.  Shaun Harrison describes it;

Every once in a while you stumble across something in life which cannot be ignored! This is the case with our new Chilli Chocolate range.

I was working along a totally different theme when I uncovered some particularly interesting ingredients. They weren’t particularly suitable for the bait I was working on but curiosity got the better of me and I’ve incorporated the ingredients into a different bait altogether.  To cut a long story short, Quest Baits intended next arrival was put on hold as I started to experiment further with the Chilli Chocolate concept.

This bait really is different. Definitely very user (and missus) friendly in smell but once the carp start eating the bait the subtle fish meal and chilli kick starts to come through.

And here’s the best bit… we’re doing a special launch promotion so the price is almost 20% less than usual, a saving of £2 per kg.

Click here for more information.

Visit the Quest site to read Shauns latest newsletter covering Braddock’s Baits launch at Leslies of Luton.

Click here to go straight there.

Alan Smith wrote;

I am taking my son with me to Malvoisine and was interested to find out if the fish are not all caught by fishing to the far bank as he`s not the best caster in the world and we don’t have a baitboat.  I was hoping to bait an open water area no more than 40 metres out for him.  Any advice? 

Hi Alan,

Malvoisine is a large water and has so far received very little pressure. There is a good head of fish and previous groups have had over 100 fish in a week.

While the far margin is a good spot, and in some areas of the lake it is not very far away, Shaun Harrison had a good number of his fish fishing at around the range you are suggesting.

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By Pat Gillett

I have just come back from an interesting weeks fishing with Paul Cooper on the Angling Lines Venue, Island Lake.

Island Lake is a mature looking Gravel Pit of approximately 25 acres in the Champagne Region of France; roughly 3 ¾ hours drive from Calais. As the name suggests it has a large island and 4 or 5 bays along with a lot of weed and underwater features.

The lake is totally different to most commercial French fisheries as it is relatively lightly stocked for the size of the venue. Most commercial French Lakes are overstocked and so the fish become virtually dependant on anglers’ baits, which more or less guarantees you catching plenty of fish. The fish in Island Lake are of an excellent average size and it would appear that they have reached and are maintaining these weights by feeding on the abundance of natural food in the lake. This can lead to very challenging fishing, but to me this makes it all the more interesting and rewarding. 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’ venue 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. continue reading…