Catch Reports
Two sessions, two baits, one lake record and two PB's!!
Posted in Catch Reports on 21st August 2011What a story we have here! After recently joining a new syndicate lake Mike Ryan wanted to use a very high quality food bait but couldn't decide between the B5 or the Black Snail - so he purchased both!!
After catching a few twenties on both baits, Mike then had two sessions he will never forget! On the first of these it was the B5 that came up trumps and yes, you've guessed it, in typical B5 fashion he smashed the lake record with the capture of a new PB mirror of 42lb 14oz.
Just two weeks later Mike was making the long 320-mile round trip back to the venue in question and having run short of the B5, he decided to put the Black Snail through its paces. After spreading 3kgs of Snail over the same spots as he caught the lake record from 2-weeks earlier, Mike was soon doing battle with another big fish. This time the end result was a new PB common at a weight of 41lb 15oz!! The biggest mirror and the biggest common on the bank in two amazing sessions!
Top angling Mike and this wins you our latest 'Top Catch' competition hands down. Well done from all at Essential...
Corker Pop-Ups
Cork dust pop-ups have a number of advantages over other pop-ups.
1) Made with identical ingredients/attractors to free offerings and send out the same food signals.
2) More durable and less prone to ‘theft’ from nuisance fish, crayfish and birdlife!
3) They can be pierced with a baiting needle without losing buoyancy.
4) Brilliant for ‘snowman’ presentations where you can trim down the corker pop up with scissor blades to achieve the perfect level of buoyancy required.
5) Ease of use.
Top tip for long term buoyancy
When fishing pop-up rigs in deep water for long periods of time or on waters where bird life can be a problem, drill out a cavity in the corker pop up with an 8mm drill bit then plug it with Gardner Tackle’s cylindrical high density rig foam (yellow). Then pierce the corker pop up on to your hook/rig, making sure the baiting needle goes up through the yellow foam first, then secure with boilie stop. I guarantee you that you can leave your pop up out there for 3-days if needed with no loss of buoyancy! Further to this, in the unlikely event that a diving coot or tufty unknowingly pinches your pop up, you are still fishing a nice visual yellow ‘fake’ bait.
