Catch Reports
Big Winter Brace on new bait
Posted in Catch Reports on 25th November 2008It’s been no big secret that Essential Baits have been formulating one or two new baits over the past couple of years with a view to releasing them in 2009 or 2010. On a recent ‘overnighter’ Essential bait boss Mike Willmott decided to put one of the cold water versions to the test, and within the space of an hour managed to bank a lovely deep bodied mirror of 33lb 1oz shortly followed by a very elusive common known as ‘Tyson’ at a weight of 27lb 1oz.
Amazingly, the common had only ever seen the bank once before and this was over two and a half years ago! Commenting on the development of the new bait Mike added “I’m very happy with the way things are going at the moment and we have some very exciting new products coming out over the next 18-months or so. It’s too early to give too much away at this stage, but if results over the past year are anything to go by I’m very confident that a new blockbuster bait to rival the impressive B5 may not be too far away” Watch this space!
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.
