Most of us who go fishing, I think it would be fair to say, as past time, its been passed on to a lot of us via parents or even grandparents…pretty much.
I fall into the above category very easily. My love of angling passed from my Grandfather to my Father….you can guess the rest.
Let’s fast forward a fairly long time, into the 2000’s, my carp fishing began to take flight after being introduced back to fishing. It became a mild obsession…then came the frustration, I endured the earworming of brand bait advertising until 2013, a sporadic catch rate, I didn’t have a clue of what I was using - ‘use stabilized’, ‘use freezer’, ‘use this liquid’,’ that flavour’, ‘do this’, ‘do that’…STOP. Just STOP.
With two large sausage fingers raised to the echo chamber of the carp bait world, rods were packed away for a year, to make my own bait from scratch, creating it all from my own findings. If I caught on my own baits then that in its own right was an achievement. Imagine, create a bait that would catch on any given length of session, and as consistently as possible.
It worked. Armed with my first ever bait, I set off to an unknown water, 4 fish out within 3 hours, 3 mirror carp and….a bream. Not huge by any means, but a result. Followed by a similar session a week later.
My intrigue and pace picked up and my thirst for all things bait progressed, and then incQbaitwas born…it just happened, you know. We gained a slight following, and then we formed a small team, and tiny business. The team has changed over the course of 10 years. We have had and have got a mixed batch - young, and well, not so young. With carp angling experience across the board, they catch carp in their own manner. They’ve tested our bait on pressured day ticket waters and on syndicate waters around the country. Nowadays, each tester even has theirfavourite 'go to' incQbait, as well as continuing to test the new releases, but be assured, we’ll offer only the best of our selection. The idea of incQbait is to keep our range select, and although it will grow over time, we’ll keep it manageable while moving forward. There’s nothing worse than being confronted by a plethora of flavours and liquids and not knowing what will work for you.
Remember, as long as you know how to find your fish and tie a good rig with a sharp hook, then we hope our bait can help you with the rest.
If you ever need bait, and need a change with some outside the box thinking, consider our bait.
Jay Edwards - IncQbait gaffer, bait maker and carp angler (when I'm not making bait)