Mike’s Diary
Stacking 'em up!
Posted in Mike’s Diary on 16th December 2012During the months of November and December I've been finding a little bit of time to go fishing. Apart from missing the first two weeks of December I've been managing to fish about 2 days a week, with the odd baiting up mission in between! As far as the results are going I've certainly been having a few, in fact, my last 3 sessions have produced no less than 30 carp! Not bad for the middle of winter and for day's only!
To be fair it's not a difficult venue - far from it! Although spending 16-hours couped up in the back of a van at this time of the year can be an endurance test on its own! The lake holds plenty of carp, but only a handful of 'whackers' - and they don't tend to visit the bank very often! Hopefully however, it's just a case of 'when' as opposed to 'if' and if the bites continue at the same rate, surely something has to give!
In between the fishing we've been busy with the new winter bait 'Arctic freeze', and the results have been exceptionally good, including a 45lb+ mirror for one customer within the first 2-hours of using it!! We have also been busy developing a new range of clothing and will have some exciting new releases in 2013.
In the meantime I would like to thank you all for your loyalty and support throughout 2012. Have a great Christmas and on behalf of everyone here at Essential, we wish you all a happy and healthy new year.
Fluoro pop-ups
Whilst carp are not generally recognised as sight feeders, there are undoubtedly times when they are visually drawn to a food source and bright pop-ups are a classic example of this. It's not surprising therefore, that fluoro pop-ups have proved very effective, particularly if just using a single bait with no free offerings. The winter and spring months are a classic example of this and a single fluoro pop-up cast to a 'showing' fish has resulted in the downfall of many a carp.
But it would be a mistake to think fluoro pop-ups should be just restricted to single bait presentation. Quite often, a fluoro pop-up fished over a bed of bait can fool the wariest of carp and a little 10mm fluoro pop-up mounted above a standard bottom bait can act as a very good visual sight and lead to a bite or two when other methods fail to produce.
