Catch Reports

You can't keep a good man down!

Posted in Catch Reports on 05th June 2013

Here's a face some of you might recognise. It's Andy Waller with another massive UK caught carp - a stunning leather of 45lb!! This was just part of an incredible 9 fish haul from an extremely difficult water, whereby if you had that many in a season you would be doing well! All of Andy's fish, including the big leather, fell to our ever-consistent Shellfish B5 freezer boilies.

Andy and his fishing partner Rich Kelly had a remarkable season on the B5 last year and it looks very much like this year is going to follow the same pattern! Top B5 bombing lads...


Backlead use

Back leads can be very advantageous in certain circumstances, particularly on venues that receive lots of pressure from anglers and you need to pin your line down to the lake bed. On such venues, any fish that bump into your lines, can often mean the kiss of death. To avoid this, it's best to pin your lines down. Yes, this can be acheived by using slack lines, but the big disadvantage there is that you will also lose vital bite indication. By dropping on a back lead, you can pin your lines down, yet still keep them semi-tight to register bites. They also minimise the chances of you catching your other lines whilst playing fish back to the bank.

The problem with most back leads however is that in the event of hooking a fish, they don't slide down the line very well, but we can assure you there's no chance of that happening with these!