Mike’s Diary
A busy year
Posted in Mike’s Diary on 18th September 2014Well it's now September and I would like to say it's been a busy year with my fishing, but in all honesty, it's been anything but! I've hardly fished at all this summer, mainly due to a busy personal life, which included my daughter getting married. I must say, that was without doubt the proudest day of my life. We held the event here at Springwood Fishery, and although it was a massive amount of work and effort to get the site prepared for such a big occasion, it was worth every minute of it. Seeing my daughter Kelly, and new son-in-law Dean sat looking over our lake on their happy day was the ultimate dream from my point of view.
back to fishing now, and on the catch report front it has been a fantastic year. I must admit that I'm more pro-active on facebook than on this website, so most of the reports tend to go on our essential baits facebook page, although some of them do appear on here - occasionally!! Thanks to everyone for sending their pics, it's always greatly appreciated.
For those who have enquired about Carp Life 2, I am still working on it from time to time and hope to get much of it finished this coming winter for a release sometime in 2015. But for now I'm finally back on the bank and managed a couple of high twenties within the first few hours of getting the rods out. From a fishing front however, the highlight of my year so far, was witnessing my son, Lee, catch Springwood's first ever forty at a weight of 41lb 12oz and what a stunning fish as well! 15-years of fishery management and we have now finally achieved our goal!!
Wafters as hookbaits
Ian May with one of many 40lb+ commons he's landed on Essential Baits by making sure his hookbait placement is spot on.
The name 'Wafters' can be a little misleading because we don't want these baits too critically balanced. In our experience a hookbait that's too 'buoyant' can 'waft' all over the place as a carp approaches the bait and render it very ineffective and easy to eject. What we have done with these special hookbaits is to make them slightly more buoyant than a standard bottom bait straight out of the bag. This in turn will negate the weight of the hook and the hooklink and by the time the rig is presented, it will behave the same as the free offerings surrounding it. This is exactly what you need to achieve if you think about it because the carp will be feeding on the freebies and you want your hookbait to behave in exactly the same way.
Note
Our Wafters are 'tougher' than boilies straight out of the bag and are a popular choice for anglers that prefer their hookbaits a little harder than their freebies.
