Mike’s Diary
Hectic but enjoyable!
Posted in Mike’s Diary on 14th August 2011Despite wanting to get my rods out through this extremely busy period for us, it has proved extremely difficult, although I did fish for half a day last week!! In fact, come to think of it I'm so glad I did, because I was on the bank to witness Lee catch his UK pb common of 39lb 2oz and what a stunner it was!
If anyone I know deserves to catch carp it has to be Lee. Few people realise how much effort the lad puts in to roll our boilies to absolute perfection every single day. I know I couldn't do it and he has single handedly rolled somewhere in the region of 12-tons of boilies since the start of the year!! This has a massive minimising effect on his fishing time yet he always has the knack of getting amongst 'em when he gets out. Last year he won Frampton's carp angler of the year award, despite only managing about 12-nights fishing! This year he's only done half of that yet he's still managed a river target fish (32.08) and a new pb common. Credit where it's due.
I even managed to catch one myself during that significant half day session - a plump 17lb 8oz common. Perhaps just enough to keep me seine during this hectic life spell whilst working all the hours God sends back at Essential HQ and building a new house! Talking of which, the roof trusses have now gone on and things are progressing nicely. If all goes to plan I might be able to get the rods out during the latter part of the year. My thanks go out to all those who regularly enquire as to how things are progressing with it all. Some of you have been in the same boat and know how stressful and time consuming it can be, yet the rewards once finished will be fantastic.
And lastly, massive thanks to everyone for their support during these hectic times. 2011 has been our busiest ever year and as usual the baits seem to be smashing lake records and catching personal best's all over the place. Long may it continue......
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.
