 Wellington
Country Park
We wondered how long before the Atlantic Heat would be used at this
popular big fish water.
Reg Verney joined Welly this season and enjoyed a fantastic first
session on the water.
Reg used 10kg of Atlantic Heat 18mms at various ranges and notched up
the following fish. 35.05, 35.06, 39.11 and a 45lb+ common!!
What a way to open your account at the water! Just goes to show, no
pre-baiting necessary....The Atlantic Heat totally instant and long
term.
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 Frankie
catches 2-scale.
Old fish this one. Frankie sent through this pic of the old warrior
2-scale at 33lb+ from Ham Pool in the Cotswolds.
This fish was one of 6 landed over a hectic overnight session.
Frankie used 3kg of KingFish 18mms to keep the action flowing.
Great session m8 seeing as this was the first time the KingFish has been
used at the venue!
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 Baitworks
40th 40.
Mike Holly caught this stunning 40+ from an overnight session recently.
This 40 is the fortieth that has fallen to Baitworks Boilies. When you
consider the geographical location as well as our limited trade outlets
then this is quite an achievement considering the amount of 40lb fish in
our area. I hazard a guess that there are probably more 40lb captures to
add to the list from some of our secret squirrels out there but for now
this number has reconfirmed the pedigree of the Boilie range......
Mike used Atlantic Heat 15mms fished at the base of a marginal shelf and
introduced 15 free baits during his stay.
Mike was over the moon with the capture of this particular fish.
As you can see from the pic, this one is a real looker.
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 KingFish
Nails the Lin.
We thought it wouldn't be long before our new bait caught up with the
club lakes most desirable!
Taz has been on fire since the start of spring catching over 30 fish
using the KingFish. The Lin was the one he really wanted and it was a
pleasure for me to pop down and see this
glorious old carp on the bank.
Tipping the scales at over 33lb on this occasion.
Top result Taz.
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 King
Common.
What a result this is!
Chris popped over the Unit the other day to pick up some of our new
KingKish 18mms. Going straight to his new venue and knowing it contained
a very large common, I commented that this would be his first fish. This
is the first time the KingFish has ever been used at this water, so when
Chris Called me in the morning with a huge 42lb 10oz common in his net I
had to pinch myself!
A fantastic result for Chris on his first night at the venue. The
Melksham angler fished at short range and introduced 3kg on his over
night stay. The big common picked up a single 18mm bottom bait.
The KingFish will be released shortly...........Jun 09
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 48hrs
on the KingFish.
New Baitworks user Dave Jones kicked off in fine style with a 5 fish
haul from a busy club lake.
This cracking twenty as well as the other fish took a instant liking to
the new bait. Dave fished at short range and introduced 3kg of Boilies
during his stay.
Top result Dave, I'm sure more will follow.
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 Work
= Reward.
Congratulations to Richard Rogers.
I take my hat of to guys who manage to juggle fishing , work and
a family and still manage to get up to the lakes for one nights
fishing per week.... Usually on a Friday, usually rushing to slot into a
3rd or 4th choice swim when other anglers have been there for days
and sometimes weeks!
Well Mr Rogers religiously makes the pilgrimage up the M4 every
Friday regardless of weather to angle for some stunning fish that reside
in his chosen venue.
After turning up and realising he had forgot his bait in the freezer he
began to rummage through his tackle bag to find some worthy
bait. Richard found 500g of Atlantic Heat i5mms that had been fermenting
in the bag for two weeks! The pic shows that bait that Richard used
and didn't he put it to good effect!
Catching a PB that afternoon!
Fantastic result mate M8, well happy for you fella.
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 PB
to Matt Price.
New Baitworks user Matt Price got him self off to a flier in the
shape of this 34lb common.
Matt fished a single overnight session between work and caught the fish
just minutes before reeling in to join the rat race!
A handful of 18mm Atlantic Heat boilies placed under a willow
tree tripped the big common that signals a personal best for Matt.
Good stuff Matt. Top Angling
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 No
fixed abode.
Ecstatic with this capture! I sometimes pop in one a
particular pressured club lake from time to time to target some of its
large wily carp.
Due to the nature of my sessions I knew that having a number of fish
from one venue is not my style of fishing. Flitting about from water to
water is very much the way I angle these days. With this in mind I knew
the water in question held one old original mirror that seldom graces
the bank.
Spotting a fish roll at 75 yards one evening and a 18mm KingFish was
sailing out in its direction. I retiring to the sleeping bag a little
more than confident. The 27.6 mirror that slipped over the net cord the
next morning took my breath away as it is a beautifully striking long
looking carp.
This one was definitely on my list of most wanted!
They call this one the Pretty one with very good reason.
Fantastic.
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 Peach
What a cracker...I had a phone call from Dan the other day to get
down to the lake sharpish!
When I arrived this 29lb+ carp was the reason.
Stunning old fish that is rightly called "The Peach".
Home made Atlantic Heat 18mms with Dans own additives proved the winning
formula.
Great result Dan.
May 09
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 Last
gasp.
Justin Badman winkled this 29.12 mirror out right at the death on a day
only venue.
Applying the Monster Red to a margin feature tricked this mirror before
the Bristol rod had to leave.
Any later and Justin would have missed his tea that his mother had
waiting for him
May 09
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 Bait
Developments.
Those close to Baitworks will know that over the last 12 months I
have been looking into developing a shelf-life Atlantic Heat and
Monster Red boilie.
After many test batches and in-depth conversations with professionals in
the food industry I am happy to announce that our baits will
be available in a shelf-life form very soon. Nothing has changed with
the mix (nor will it ever). A natural product that preserves as well
as our new drying process in place means we are both excited
and confident that these will catch a awful lot of carp in 2009+.
The fish pictured here is a mid twenty mirror (captured this week) that
was caught on the finished version of our new range that will be shortly
released.
Watch this space.
May 09
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 Another
for Alan.
Alan sent us over this picture of a 27lb+ mirror from a very
pressured water.
With only limited time Alan used the ever faithful Atlantic Heat 20mms
soaked in the matching glug to catch this gorgeous looking mirror.
A top result from the water in question. Well done Alan.
Apr 09
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 Easy.
Ellie Taylor(13) fished her first over nighter last week and she
banked this stunning 18.10oz personal best fully scaled mirror from
Horseshoe lake.
Fishing with Dad Greg and Brother Jake, the family enjoyed a fantastic
overnight session. The Taylors used our new KingFish 15mms to bank 7
carp throughout their short stay.
Top result.
Apr 09
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 Personal
Bests
Since Baitworks formed in 2005 we have had the pleasure of
witnessing hundreds of personal best carp being recorded. This gives me
huge satisfaction and makes all the hard graft of rolling thousands of
little balls daily all worth it.
With Clive Robert realising a dream in not only catching his first
40 but then his second the next day this surely is what fishing is
all about. The smile on Clive's face said it all.
I remember when Phil Bunyan first started to use our bait in 2006 having
a UK personal best fish of twenty something pounds. Phil then fished
with the Atlantic Heat and went on to have a good season on Wraysbury
catching his first 30lb fish and then going on to catch several more
that year over that weight.
Storys like these are what makes Baitwork Baitworks.
Enjoy your fishing and the rewards will follow.
Good luck for the season.
Apr 09
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 Target
achieved
Dave Ellyatt caught up with his target fish in very quick time
this week.
Fishing a southern Venue Dave trickled in the Atlantic Heat to a couple
of likely areas. After catching his target common last week Dave was
ecstatic to see the big mirror slip over his net. What a beauty this one
is......37.10 of classic looking carp.
Both fish wrapped up in very little fishing time.
Top result Dave.
Apr 09
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  KingFish
Jackpot.
Tom Pollard enjoyed a dream mornings fishing on our new bait that will
be shortly released. Tom introduced 2kg of KingFish 18mms to a margin
feature at Churn Pool lake in the Cotswolds. At 7.30am his right hand
rod was away with this cracking 32.14lb common that had eluded capture
for some time.
His session got even better when 1 hour later the other rod went off and
Tom landed a 35.02lb common! Both fish were excreting large amounts of
the KingFish on the mat, testament to the attraction properties of the
KingFish.
I was on had to photo and video the action at Churn Pool (you can see
the video at
Club Baitworks) and what a pleasure it
was to see two magnificent commons on the bank.
Apr 09
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 Atlantic
Heat strikes 1st again.
The first fish of the year from a particular South West venue has fallen
to the Atlantic Heat again. We make that 4 years on the trot now! Alan
Moore the proud captor of a 30lb+ mirror. Alan used a 20mm Atlantic
bottom bait soaked in the awesome dip and introduced 20 baits during his
two night stay.
The Video can be seen on our new
Club Baitworks section.
Check out the
Barons Diary for the latest goings on at Baitworks HQ.
Well done Alan.
Apr 09
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 Base
Mix result
Dan sent us through this recent capture
of a 25lb common that had taken
a liking to his custom Atlantic Heat base mix. The Cotswold angler mixed
his own flavours/oils and rolled his own little baits.
Our base mixes are now available for general sale in the "boilies"
section
Now you can purchase the mixes and personalise them for your own
fishing.
Endless combinations.
Apr 09
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 Dave
Ellyatt
Had this pic sent through from Dave this week. Fishing with the Atlantic
Heat at an undisclosed Southern venue, the E-S-P front man wasted no
time in getting off the mark with this 29.14 common.
18mms fished at short range accounted for the action.
Apr 09
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 Champions
(again)
The annual ECHO (English Carp Heritage Organisation) AGM is an event that
I like to attend every year.
If you remember last year Giles and I were playing for Advanced Carp (DHP)
(sponsored by Born&Bred) in the 5-a-side competition. We managed to win
that one last year and this year we only won it again!
I will not go into too much detail on how I had a massive bearing on the
outcome(!), but lets just say I managed to save 6 penalty's (Giles missed
his) in the semi final shoot out and then scored the winner in the
final!!!
Word spread to the upper football circles, and I had a missed call from
a certain Scottish manager during the presentation!
What a great day and an event that will hopefully draw more anglers
over the years.
Until next year.....I will keep my knees well oiled with salmon oil.
Mar 09
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Another
for the Oily Fish Mix.
 I managed to nip out for a couple of single over night sessions
the other week.
After looking around the park for a suitable lake I settled on a venue
that I hadn't fished before. After introducing 50 x 18mm free baits I
settled in for the session to see what might occur.
On the second night this fella took a liking to the new bait and
was soon in my waiting net. 27.7 of big pit mirror and to my knowledge
the first fish out since Oct 08!!
Top result for myself and the new bait.
Back to the rolling....
Mar 09
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 40
Knocks.
Clive Roberts has done it again, 42lb mirror! What a session on
the Atlantic Heat...82lb for two fish!
We are not to sure what more we can add!
Top Result Clive.
Mar 09
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 Clive's
Comeback.
I had this photo sent through from Clive
this week.
This 40lb+ mirror was just rewards for the likable Swindon angler.
Fishing at 50 yards range Clive set about introducing 20 Atlantic
Heat bottom baits to his chosen feature. Later that session the rod
ripped off and Clive was on it in a flash, moments later his first forty
lay in his net.
Mega result Clive....The smile says it all.
Mar 09
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 Winter's
over!!
I do say this with a huge amount of optimism! With the most
miserable winter on record we can all now look forward to the spring and
summer season.
Most of the lakes up and down the UK have been frozen then un-frozen
making for a very frustrating winter.
I did manage to have myself a very good winter with fish
of 24,25,33,35,38,39 all gracing my net from Dec - Feb from a number
of different venues. Some of these were caught on the new prototype bait as well....very encouraging.
Well, good luck to everyone for the coming season, may your next be your
best.
Mar 09
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  Kicking
off.
Justin Badman popped over to his local lake this week.
With all the fish now waking up, the Bristol boy wasted no time in
catching these two twenties on a short day session.
Monster Red pop ups fished over 10 free offerings scoring again for our
Justin.
Feb 09
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|
 During
December and early January, Simon Scott and Dan Gale from the
Sparsholt College Fishery Section ran a series of industry visits
for their National Diploma Fish Management students to the Cotswolds
based carp bait company Baitworks. The aim of this trip was to show
the National Diploma students what is involved in running a small
business in the fishery sector and secondly to let them gain an
insight into carp bait development and manufacture.
 The
boss of Baitworks, Mark Bryant, gave the students an excellent and
highly informative insight into the way he began and now operates
his business. He then showed the groups how he manufactures the
famous Atlantic Heat Boilies which have helped his business to
become so popular.
The students were then given the opportunity to roll a few of their
own boilies! For about an hour the Baitworks factory looked like a
scene from Masterchef, before finally all of the students had a bag
of freshly rolled bait to take away with them!
 The
visits were hugely popular with all the students that went and
despite the cold weather that we have had since we ran the trips,
several of the students have caught large carp on the baits that
they rolled with Mark!
Many Thanks to Mark Bryant for giving us the time.
For further information about courses in
Fishery Management at Sparsholt College please visit
www.sparsholt.ac.uk
Report from Simon Scott
Feb 09
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 Over
nighter.
With the lakes now thawed from the week long freeze, myself like
many others were itching to get out of the house. The opportunity to
fish on a guest session at a large southern venue proved too much for me
to pass up.
With no winter captures to date I knew a quiet night and a good
nights sleep could be on the cards!!
After many hours searching I settled on a silt/gravel mark at long
range.
Trailing a new bait for the first time this year, I introduced 15
free baits in total.
In the small hours the left hand rod was away, and after a hectic tussle
this 25lb mirror was a very welcome landing.
Great to start 2009 off with a proper winter fish......
Feb 09
Checkout the video in conjunction with
click here
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 Here
we go again.
With the terrible cold weather we are having, it is giving me a chance
to look at some new and exciting products. Watch this space over
the next month or so as some interesting new features will appear on
the Baitworks site.
The pic above is from a social event that a group of us had at one
of the local lakes.
The day started off ok, but by 1am and a midnight game of rugby, we are
all a little worse for wear by the morning!!
We will never learn!
One fish was caught by Ben Smith, great result for team Baitworks!!
Jan 09
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  Barter
continues.
Lee sent us through his latest winter instalment.
Fishing long range spots with mixed sized Atlantic heat boilies round
each rod.
Lee fished over a 48 hr session taking two fish of 26lb 14oz and a
32lb mirror.
A great result for this time of year Lee, top man.
Jan 09
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