Aqua Dynamix at Les Quis

By Andy Blower

End of work on Friday 1^st July could not come quickly enough the car was already loaded with the gear ready for the 3 hour journey south to Dover.   After negotiating the wonderful M1 roadworks during rush hour I met up with my good friend Joe Tighe at Toddington services.  Toilet break and a burger king devoured we continued south to join the M25 and to be greeted with brake light hell................... it was Friday and we all know the M25!!!

The traffic eased after the Dartford crossing and I was closer to Dover, the feeling of a kid on Christmas Eve began to kick in,  eventually we reached our meeting point and all the gang were present in the shape of Rob, Joe, Paul, Buster, Mandy, Bob, Griff, Craig, Adey and Nick the Greek all having a well deserved beer or Two. 

The coach arrived at 11.30pm and all the gear was packed into the coach and trailer and off en route to our home for the week in the shape of the Les Quis complex (www.lesquis.com).

Arriving at 8.30am the following morning, and a little sleepy, we all bounced off the coach with a great air of expectation.  Scouse and Spook, our bailiffs for the week, soon got down to business with the introductions and rules etc and a brew in hand we all scurried off for a good look around the lakes and taking note of our favoured swims.

Back to the main lodge and the draw took place, I was drawn 12^th and quickly the favoured and infamous pegs were soon snapped up.  I chose a swim on the Elf Lake called the 1^st Hanger, and after reading the previous weeks catch reports from this peg with only 1 fish caught from it for Two weeks you can imagine my discontent.  But I had 40 Kilo of Aqua Dynamix Oyster  with me and Hard hookers that Rob Johnson and the team at Aqua notched up for me, as well as the new excitingly anticipated bait from Aqua Dynamix called “The Edge”.

Slowly setting my home up for the week and with my eyes fixed firm on the water I was beginning to see signs of showing fish already and as you can imagine my excitement was back and all the thoughts of the previous weeks catch reports were now a long a distant memory.  Sitting down with a brew in one hand and a B&H Silver in the other I spent the next hour sitting, watching and listening and the jigsaw was beginning to slowly but surely piece together.  After a hour or so with the marker rod I had found some spots at about 60 – 70 yards out that were silty and on the edge of gravel so I baited up with around 4 kilo of 16mm Oyster  and 3 kilo of the 20mm version over a wide area.

My aim was to get these Les Quis lumps moving around picking up the bait and building confidence as they progressed.   Soon enough it was time to meet up at the lodge for a very welcome pie and mash along with a few cold beers and then back to it.  As I arrived back at my swim I stood there smoking my post dinner B&H and wow............................... my baited area was like a carpers dream, bubbles galore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

Quickly re baiting each rod with a 20mm and 16mm Oyster Plum snowman blow back style to a size 6 gardener mugga and nash missing link and a 8 bait stringer they were placed onto the spots and the waiting game began, but not for long............... a couple of bleeps on the RS1s and the bobbins twitching like a nervous wreck the middle rod roared into action, the line was moving at a very slow pace across the water to my left and my head telling me “Blower this is a good fish”.  Composed and concentrated she was bought to the net and on the scales at 40lb 60z I was over the moon and my first 40 on Aqua Dynamix.  

The flurry then began and I had another closely after in the shape of a mid 30lber, rods back out, a brew and another cigarette chatting to my mate Joe we knew that possibly sleep was not on the cards that night and it proved to be the case with another 6 fish filling my nets............ the Oyster  was “Doing the Business”.

Next evening my focus was on the new addition to the Aqua Dynamix range of bait called “The Edge”, consisting of several natural extracts as well as a whole GLM digest this has closely been developed by a recent addition to the Aqua team in Ed Betteridge a class angler in his own right who has proven in his own fishing that natural extracts are instant triggers.  And boy oh boy this was proven to be an instant trigger, after a few hours of the free offerings being introduced to an un-fished spot I had found, I dropped “The Edge” hookbait to the spot consisting of a double 16mm bottom bait and a few more free offerings.

Bobbins set and just turning round to reach for yet another brew a single bleep sounded from the very rod I had just put out, dismissing this for the line settling I sat down to enjoy the delights of an evening cuppa with Joe when off she roared and the shape of a 35lb mirror was in the net.  Photographs done and the rig was back out on the same very spot, 40 minutes later a low 30 was in the net courtesy of the Edge.   Sat down in awe of what had just happened on a bait that, 1 – hadn’t been introduced to this lake ever before, and 2 – I had never used it before I then wished I had bought more than a couple of Kilo!!!

The sun was dropping and the night sky was upon us so while I still had what light was left the rod was again armed with the edge and dropped back onto the very spot.  All was calm until around 2:15am when a double bleep widened my sleeping eyes, as I got out the warm and comfortable surroundings of my sleeping bag to investigate a one toner graced the silence and we were off again, a short battle commenced and took me tight to my right hand margin heading to the sunken sanctuary of a willow tree, she turned and was in the net.  The scales settled round to a new PB Mirror of 46lb 40z and pictures done and slipping her back to the dark depths of the Les Quis Elf Lake I sat back and pondered on what magic this bait had produced.   

Before long my supply of the Edge was evaporated and it was back onto my very, very trusted Aqua Oyster  and before long another Three 40s in the net including a 44lb 80z new PB common of which the boys gave me a good old soaking for.  

Aqua Dynamix have proved their worth in a high quality and proven bait, I have been using it for around 12 months now and out of all the baits I have used including the renowned and established brands out there I can positively say that this certainly has the edge in my mind.  Full of natural extracts which our beloved quarry cannot and will not resist and on the waters I have used it has caught me the better sized fish than anglers have been on other baits, as well as my angling mates, who I have introduced it to and they also now firmly believe in it and when these guys believe in something it has to be a winner !!!  “another falls to the Aqua Dynamix”

In what other way can I prove this than my weeks catch at Les Quis consisting of 21 fish including 7 x 40’s to 46lb 40z and a PB Common of 44lb 80z, 4 x 30s, when the previous week the very swim that I was fishing had only produced 1 fish all week!!!!!

I would like to thank my good mates  Joe Tighe (who had an awesome week including a monster 64lb 40z Mirror), Rob Jennings, Craig Large, Ade Tweedy, Bob Milne, Paul Cook, Buster Cook, Richard Griffiths, Nick The Greek and of course the lovely Mandy as well as Two more good friends made in the shape of Scouse and Spook, the bailiffs, who ensured our trip was to be a memorable one.  

Tight lines and get on the Aqua Dynamix range..........................  it’s the way we roll.

   Andy Blower.