Catch Reports
Colin Hunt's 'em down!
Posted in Catch Reports on 07th November 2011We've recently received a couple of belated catch reports from long term Essential Bait user Colin Hunt. The first from ealier in the year from a notoriously tricky Glos gravel pit where he used our customised B5 with Squid & Black Pepper to extract a gorgeous looking mirror known as Moonscale at a weight of 39lb 12oz.
More recently, Colin visited 'The Manor' in Oxfordshire and once again, using our B5 with Squid & Black Pepper was rewarded with another very big fish. This one, known as 'The Football' went 41lb 6oz and was part of a meritable six fish catch. It doesn't seem any fish is safe once the B5 hits the water! Good work Colin.
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.
