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History of SteamerBaits


My business partner

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and myself

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have for many years, since the early eighties in fact, dabbled in making our own baits and I must admit that in the early days not always with great success, although we have had our moments, over the past few years we discussed the possibilities of steaming our baits to retain all the qualities within them, and adopted this process, as it is a known fact that boiling any food product in water will leach out the goodness to a certain extent, and it depends on the product being cooked just how much is lost, so we started steaming our baits and found that although it was more time consuming we had that extra confidence in them knowing they were not losing any properties.

Over the past few years we have taken more interest in the types of products available for use which have the right type of amino’s, not just from the angling market but from areas not
previously looked at within the consumer market for human food production, we found a wide variety of products that were not being used by others and which carried the right amino’s, binders mineral, protein and fats etc. to produce really good quality baits, particularly when steamed.

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There were also other considerations to take into account, the traditional boilie is round and most often smooth, particularly the marketed product, and yes we know that they fire out further with a throwing stick or catapult when made like this but we didn’t want to conform to the norm, if we were going to so much trouble to get the ingredients right and the cooking process lets re think the whole product.

The thinking angler knows that variation in size of the bait used can be a key factor in promoting that extra pickup we all strive for, so we decided that our baits would have a different shape, which is slightly elongated, and that we would have varied sizes available within each kg of bait marketed, if this was requested by the purchaser.

We realise that everyone doesn’t want to buy 5 kg of bait just to acquire varied size unless personal preference dictated otherwise, also our finished bait would not be as traditionally smooth as the other products on the market (another edge), which maximises on leak off, which in turn can help bank that extra fish or two.

These baits have now helped to put numerous big fish on the bank, including a new North Yorkshire record, a fish of 46 pound 2 ounces in June 2007, this fish was advertised in a June edition of Carp Talk.