Catch Reports
A Cut Above!
Posted in Catch Reports on 09th April 2006Adge Mercato is another West Country angler that has benefited from using the Shellfish B5. The Bristol based hairdresser had been targeting an elusive big fish without much success – that was until he decided to switch over to the B5!
The scissor happy carper then returned to his chosen venue and fished over a bed of Shellfish B5 boilies. It wasn’t long before Adge was soon engaged in battle with his target fish – a stunning 46lb 12oz mirror. Well done that man!
Backlead use
Back leads can be very advantageous in certain circumstances, particularly on venues that receive lots of pressure from anglers and you need to pin your line down to the lake bed. On such venues, any fish that bump into your lines, can often mean the kiss of death. To avoid this, it's best to pin your lines down. Yes, this can be acheived by using slack lines, but the big disadvantage there is that you will also lose vital bite indication. By dropping on a back lead, you can pin your lines down, yet still keep them semi-tight to register bites. They also minimise the chances of you catching your other lines whilst playing fish back to the bank.
The problem with most back leads however is that in the event of hooking a fish, they don't slide down the line very well, but we can assure you there's no chance of that happening with these!
