Not surprisingly...

Welcome to the first post of our blog.

As things often turn out, we're running slightly behind schedule by about a week. We were hoping to be at Cassien for Thursday this week but after rolling 100kg of bait, we are still waiting for some of the dry ingredients for the base mix to roll the other 100kg, which has put the brakes on proceedings for the last four days but hopefully we'll be able to start rolling again tomorrow.

Regarding bait, we're taking three flavours, around 65kg of each all in 22mm - peach melba + black pepper oil, chicken + black pepper oil and the last one is just black pepper oil. Its a good quality fishmeal bait with robin red and a few crunchy goodies in there also.

We are using a preservative in our bait for this winter, not something that we do usually but all things considered, it was a choice of either air drying the baits harder than we would of liked or using the preservative. We opted for the preserved bait to keep it softer and therefore easier to digest in the colder temperatures.

The flavours and preservative are supplied from Bevo's Bait and although we don't pretend to be bait experts when it comes to the finer details of the science, we know that if John says its a high quality presevative, it is. I've used bait with the same preservative in England for a few months a caught some nice carp out of a very low stock water so we have every confidence in it.

For the record, the bait has cost roughly 2.50 euros per kg, not too bad at all for a high quality bait.

Our aim now is to arrive at Cassien for next Wednesday and although we have lost some time, when its a three month session its not the end of the world.

Right chaps and chapesses, thats the end of the first, and slightly uninteresting post but hopefully the fun will start next week.

See you soon