Catch Reports
A Common Occurrence!
Posted in Catch Reports on 16th January 2009Gary King has been fishing for carp for over 26-years, but until recently has never had a thirty pound carp grace his net. We think it’s fair to point out however that Gary probably fishes less in a year than most carp anglers do in a month!
The elusive thirty pound barrier was soon put well and truly behind him this winter though when he caught the two biggest commons in the lake on consecutive trips! The first was a deep chunky common that settled bang on the 30lb mark, whilst the second was a long lean specimen that recorded a weight of 30lb 2oz.
Considering the long hard winter we’ve just had, with most lakes freezing up for long periods of time, two cracking winter thirty commons are a right result in anyone’s book, let alone when you’ve waited 26-years for them! Both of the big commons tripped up on the cold water version of the legendary Shellfish B5 – as you would expect!
Nutritional Base Mixes
Rob Fielding knows the importance of using a high quality food bait and as soon as he switched over to using Essential Baits, it completely transformed his fishing.
It almost goes without saying just how important I believe a good quality nutritional base mix is when it comes to catching carp on a consistent basis. You’ve only got to look at the success of the B5, year after year, to understand that a good quality food source will completely out-fish baits with lower nutritional values.
One of the most important things to remember is that carp have the ability to search out and recognise food signals prior to consumption. In other words, a good quality food source will spell the word FOOD as it releases ‘attractor signals’ into the surrounding water.
Baits constructed with little or no food value are unable to do this, and once any added attractors have been dispersed into the surrounding water, there will be no more food signals coming from the bait. In short, a good quality food bait will continue to send messages of food long after other baits have stopped working, and will continue to prove more successful, both short term and long term.
