Catch Reports
14-fish B5 haul!
Posted in Catch Reports on 07th July 2013Richard Kelly has recently had a fantastic result on his syndicate water with a 14-fish haul topped by this cracking 40lb 12oz common. After catching that many fish during a single session, most would be forgiven for thinking that it's an easy water, but this couldn't be further from the truth, and if you caught that many during the whole season it would be considered as being a successful one!!
Richard and his fishing partner Andy Waller have had phenomenal success from the venue since they started using the B5 and have had repeat captures of most of the big fish on several occasions.
Top B5 Bombing once again!
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.
