Catch Reports
Big Common
Posted in Catch Reports on 07th February 2008Rick Golder is certainly no stranger when it comes to catching big fish and features regularly within our catch report pages. Since discovering the awesome pulling power of the B5, Rick has caught an enviable amount of very big fish from a variety of different waters, and his latest success has resulted in this magnificent 41lb 2oz personal best common, which was caught on the first morning of a 48-hour session from a Berks syndicate water.
The big common was caught at day-break following a very cold night when temperatures dropped to -4 c, during which Rick also banked a 32.8lb mirror and lost another forty at the net!! As you would expect, the Shellfish B5 was responsible for the flurry of big fish action after Rick had introduced 2 kilo’s of 16mm’s to a silty depression at 60-yards. Rick added a further 28.6 common before leaving the following day and was the only one to receive any takes during this time.
Liquid Flavours
A cracking forty-plus caught from a pressured venue on the B5 with Shellfish Plum flavour. Bait choice was a key factor to a very succesful campaign on this venue.
Liquid flavours play an important roll within the creation of a successful long term bait recipe for a number of reasons. They will not only help to give the finished bait it’s own unique taste profile, but also give it a distinctive ‘label’ that the carp will come to recognise through association. In other words, you will be educating them to eat the bait and recognise the 'taste' and 'smell' over a period of time.
Be careful not to get flavours confused with attractors though, because in terms of nutritional value, unlike liquid foods, they have little or no food value, however, for the reasons outlined above, they are a very important addition to any successful recipe.
