BAIT
At The Mead, we regularly feed the main lake and our stock pond 2-3 times per week to give our carp a balanced and nutritious diet. This helps maintain their health and vitality, giving our carp angling guests the best possible fight and adrenaline rush when catching large carp anywhere in the country. Our flavoured boilies and feed boilies are unique to Olivemead Lake and are made using only the finest HNV base ingredients. These ingredients provide easy digestion for the carp, allowing them to quickly absorb all the macro and micro-nutrients available in the recipes, which in turn maximizes the benefits they get from all the food we feed into the lake.
As all our HNV food stuffs are fed into the lake regularly, they soon become a natural food source for our carp. The carp can then become preoccupied with The Mead’s baits. As a result, it made sense to start selling our baits to our anglers. This has been a great success over the years, and we believe it’s one of the main reasons why The Mead’s carp are so healthy and fit, fight hard and long, and have significant weight gains. One example is the current lake record, a young mirror carp weighing 47lb 2oz, achieving a weight gain of almost 6lb in only 10 months. This fish is not an exception. Many of our bigger carp are now gaining weight at a very healthy yet quick rate.
Here is an example of just one of our own, homegrown Olivemead Stockies that was stocked into the main lake from our stock pond back in 2022 and has since flourished in a highly competitive environment. This carp has made some exceptional weight gains this year (2024) alone, with Corey catching this example in April 2024 at 13lb+ and his partner Courtney catching the same carp in September 2024 at 15lb+. This shows a weight gain of 2lb+ in just 5 months and over a 12 month period this carp has gained in excess of 5lbs. This might not look like a lot to be talking about but this carp is still very young and as mentioned above lives in a very competitive environment. It just goes to show that with the right HNV baits being fed in alongside the abundance of naturals that “The Mead” boasts, the correct lake management and having the right established, mature lake environment, the fish will always grow at a heathy rate, year on year.
The success of our feeding program is evident by the large number of big carp that reside in The Mead. The lake, which spans across 3 acres, boasts over 90 20-pounders, 50 different 30-pounders, and 6 DIFFERENT 40-pounders. If you’re planning to visit The Mead, you can order any of our bait in advance, and we’ll have them ready for you upon your arrival. The current cost and range of our baits that we stock is as follows:
All our boilies are roughly 15mm/16mm in size. 14mm OM Flavoured Boilies will be available very soon!
PLEASE NOTE: Our OM boilies are delivered fresh. We freeze them immediately upon delivery and sell them to our anglers frozen. Additionally, we prepare our OM particle mix fresh on-site and freeze it. If you let us know in advance or order in advance when booking, we can take the particle mix out of the freezer the night before your arrival to ensure it has thawed and defrosted properly, ready for you to use on your arrival date.
OM Flavoured Boilies: £10 per kg – Our four current flavours are: Cranberry & Caviar, Blended Nut, Spicy Fruit Special and BRAND NEW JUST LAUNCHED (17/08/24): Curry Spice flavour
OM Feed Boilies: £7.50 per kg
OM Particle Mix: £6 per 2.5kg
Mixed Size Feed Pellets: £2.95 per kg
OM Carp Bait Bundle: £10.50 per bait package (2.5kg of bait in total)- The OM Bait Package consists of 1.25kg of OM Parti Mix, 500g OM Feed Boilies, 500g MIXED size Feed Pellets and 250g of OM Flavoured Boilies.
The Parker Baits Range that we stock at Olivemead Lake
We at Olivemead Lake are excited to announce that we have taken the decision to start stocking some of the Parker Baits range alongside our own range of bait for our anglers to purchase either on-site and/or when ordering in advance whether that be when you book with us or if you get into contact with us before your booking is due to commence (to contact us to put in an order please click here), to avoid disappointment we strongly recommend you order at least 2 WEEKS before you are due to arrive at ‘The Mead’.
We have decided to offer some of the Parker Baits range due to popular demand from our anglers, as Parker Baits has contributed to numerous Carp catches at ‘The Mead’ during the 2024 season so far. Additionally, we admire that Parker Baits is a family-run business like ours and we appreciate their bait-making process. Unlike the standard boiling process, Parker Baits steam their baits and double dusts their boilies, which retains more nutrients which is more beneficial to the Carp as a food source and deemed more attractive to the Carp.
Find out what is in the OG Parker Baits flavours down below⬇️
What is in the OG Fish flavour and what is it like? – The OG Fish is a classic fishmeal/robin red based bait, perfect for temping big carp. The base is made up of high-quality LT94 and CPS90 plus a combination of bird seeds, cereals, and protein-enriched blood plasma. Not to mention the Robin Red which finishes this bait off with a distinctive sweet spice kick. The OG Fish is packed with intensely nutritious ingredients and flavoured with old-school squid and octopus, then jazzed up for maximum appeal by a explosive chilli spices and flavourings. – It’s a classic big carp fishmeal bait.
What is in the OG Fruit & Nut flavour and what is it like? – The OG Fruit & Nut is a nut/birdseed based bait. As a base mix, Parker Baits have included alluring ingredients like crunchy tiger nut, premium peanut proteins and an irresistible mix of bird seeds, superfoods and cereals. – Everything that a carp needs to sustain a healthy diet throughout all seasons. The OG Fruit & Nut flavour is often likened to the classic Snickers chocolate bar. It’s a mix of flavoursome coconut, chocolate, orange and peanut. It has all of the hallmarks of a successful bait which can be used throughout all seasons but becomes particularly suitable in the colder months.
Freezer Boilies:
14mm & 18mm OG Fish flavour and OG Fruit & Nut flavour – £12.99 per 1kg pouch
Hook Baits:
Wafters
Mini Magic Bean Wafters (12mm)- OG Fish flavour and OG Fruit & Nut flavour – £6.99 per 150ml pot
Magic Bean Wafters (15mm)- OG Fish flavour and OG Fruit & Nut flavour – £6.99 per 150ml pot
Mini Natural Magic Bean Wafters (12mm)- Monster Crab flavour – £6.99 per 150ml pot
Natural Magic Bean Wafters (15mm)- Monster Crab flavour – £6.99 per 150ml pot
Match The Hatch Wafters (14mm)- OG Fish flavour and OG Fruit & Nut flavour – £6.99 per 150ml pot
Pop-Ups
Match The Hatch Pop-Ups (12mm)- OG Fish flavour and OG Fruit & Nut flavour – £6.99 per 150ml pot
Hard Hookers
Supercharged Hard Hookers (14mm & 18mm)- OG Fish flavour and OG Fruit & Nut flavour – £6.99 per 150ml pot
Liquids: (PVA-friendly)
We highly recommend combining these liquids with our OM particle mix to enhance its effectiveness even further!
The Sauce (500ml)- OG Fish flavour and OG Fruit & Nut flavour – £10.99 per 500ml bottle
Flat Spot (100ml)- Fruity flavour – £6.99 per 100ml bottle
Flat Spot (100ml)- Monster Crab flavour – £6.99 per 100ml bottle
Magic Dust:
Magic Dust (300g)- OG Fish flavour and OG Fruit & Nut flavour – £9.99 per 300g pot
Parker Baits Range Product Gallery at Olivemead Lake
