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Lake record Brace

Posted in Catch Reports on 10th February 2009

Lee Woodman decided to put in his final 24-hour session of the season on his local syndicate water and what a session it turned out to be! Having landed 3 different 30lb plus commons and a 40lb plus mirror during his angling career, Lee had never banked a 30lb mirror – but all that was about to change!!

Having only had his baits in the water for a few hours, his left hand rod ripped off and following a very hard scrap, eventually managed to slip his net under an immaculate 33lb 8oz mirror to add to his CV. Less than 24-hours later Lee was packing down his kit ready for the off when one of his remaining buzzers burst into life, and after another very hard scrap yet another large mirror lay sulking in the bottom of his net. This one went 33lbs exactly!

The duo of big mirrors recorded a new lake record brace of 66lb 8oz and just like all of Lee’s previous big fish captures, the Shellfish B5 was responsible for their downfall.

Good quality food baits

Ben Thompson with a stunning 47lb 5oz pb mirror caught on B5 freezer boilies when the fish seemed totally pre-occupied with naturals!

I can't begin to stress the importance of using a high quality food bait when it comes to catching carp on a regular basis. A bait formulated with nutritional ingredients will be sending out food signals long after the liquid attractors have been dispersed, this due to the fact that the ingredients themselves will be breaking down and sending out messages of food into the surrounding water.

Cheaper baits that have little or no nutritional value might sound more attractive on the pocket, but they will cost you dearly when it comes to producing the goods. Once any liquid attractors have dispersed, the bait will not be sending out any food signals at all, but further to this, will have no nutritional benefit whatsoever.

Carp, like all other fish, soon learn to recognise a food source and will continue to eat it again and again if it provides them with a sense of nutritional satisfaction. They have the ability to detect a nutritional food source prior to consumption (food signals coming from the bait) and after ingestion. With this in mind, we have developed what we believe to be the highest quality range of nutritional food baits available, and the success of the B5 alone has certainly gone some way to proving this.