Mike’s Diary
Belgium Success...
Posted in Mike’s Diary on 12th October 2010Well we’ve just returned from our annual pilgrimage to our favourite river in Belgium and what a week it turned out to be. The party consisted of myself and Lee with his girlfriend Rosie, daughter Kelly and her fella Dean and my old mate Phil Marsh with his wife Angie.
After the long drive through the night we arrived at midday and I wanted to catch up on a few hours sleep – no chance! I chucked out a couple of hookbaits, snowman style with B5 yellow fluoro’s sat on top before getting my head down. Forty-five mins later I was doing battle with a hard scraping 26lb mirror. This signalled the start of things to come!
We managed to bank a total of 36 river carp to 47lb 4oz! The biggun fell to Lee’s rods (who else!) and was the biggest carp we’ve caught from the river to date and a new pb for Lee. Most of the other fish were 20’s and 30’s and all the carp fell to B5 ESL boilies (extended shelf life). The usual fun, sun, BBQ’s and Belgium beer flowed throughout the week and of course our annual Belgium conker championship was held on my Birthday with yours truly holding on to his title!!
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And lastly….I’ve just received confirmation that the local council have finally granted planning permission for us to build a house overlooking our lake at Springwood Fishery. It looks like my life is about to get even busier over the next year or two with fishing and all that goes with it having to take a back seat. What a project to replace it with though….here goes….have a good winter…..MW.
The use of Food Oils
Richard Kelly is certainly no stranger to big carp, but that's because he understands the importance of a well balanced nutritional food bait. It's paid dividends for him on numerous occasions, as proved again here with another UK forty.
We firmly believe that a well balanced nutritional food bait will completely out fish baits with little or no real food value, and the inclusion of a food oil will help to provide the essential fatty acids required for the carp’s dietary requirements. Further to this, the inclusion of a lipid source will also have a sparing effect on the proteins used within the bait, thus allowing the carp to assimilate the available proteins far more efficiently. In short, food oils will increase nutritional values and provide an extra source of attraction to the finished bait. In short, the fish love them, they increase nutritional values and to cap it all off, they make the bait easier to roll!
Top tip
If making your own baits, reduce the oil content by 50% during the colder months and add a nutritional emulsifier.
