Catch Reports
Hip, hip, hooray for Hepper!!
Posted in Catch Reports on 06th June 2013Proper old school anglers are very few and far between these days, but here's a genuine one! Jim Hepper from Kent who some may remember from his early day exploits at Cassein with Rod Hutchinson is still getting amongst the big fish and has been targeting a notoriously difficult Surrey venue in recent years. Secret squirrel Jim has managed to bank the lake's big 40+ common twice on the B5 and lose it at the net on another occasion!
However, Jim's real target has been the elusive big mirror and after losing it last year he was finally rewarded with the magnificent specimen at an impressive 49lb. This fish rarely sees the bank but just like all of Jim's other big fish, it was only a matter of time before she succumbed to our B5 freezer boilies. This just has to be one of the catches of the season. Well done Jim from everyone at Essential - you can now go back underground!!!
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.
