Catch Reports
Cold-Water Common!
Posted in Catch Reports on 11th November 2007Long time Essential Bait user Dave Fuidge from Glos has recently started fishing a local gravel pit which holds some cracking commons. Despite little else being caught since the arrival of the first few frosts, Dave has been receiving a consistent amount of action on the Winterised B5. This includes a hectic short overnight session in sub zero temperatures, which produced a 4-fish catch topped by this superb 34lb common.
Dave has since been back and caught a number of good fish, even during high pressure clear frosty nights, testament that the coldwater version of the awesome B5 still continues to produce the goods when all other baits seem to die off. All of Dave’s fish have come from marginal spots with just a dozen or se freebies presented around each rig.
The use of Food Oils
Richard Kelly is certainly no stranger to big carp, but that's because he understands the importance of a well balanced nutritional food bait. It's paid dividends for him on numerous occasions, as proved again here with another UK forty.
We firmly believe that a well balanced nutritional food bait will completely out fish baits with little or no real food value, and the inclusion of a food oil will help to provide the essential fatty acids required for the carp’s dietary requirements. Further to this, the inclusion of a lipid source will also have a sparing effect on the proteins used within the bait, thus allowing the carp to assimilate the available proteins far more efficiently. In short, food oils will increase nutritional values and provide an extra source of attraction to the finished bait. In short, the fish love them, they increase nutritional values and to cap it all off, they make the bait easier to roll!
Top tip
If making your own baits, reduce the oil content by 50% during the colder months and add a nutritional emulsifier.
