Catch Reports

Rick's Back!

Posted in Catch Reports on 24th February 2009

Following a few months break from fishing, Essential Baits stalwart and well know big fish angler Rick Golder has decided to get the rods back out, and it certainly didn’t take him long to get back amongst the big fish! Opting to use our Creamseed frozen ready-mades with a Black Pepper combo, Rick visited a Surrey gravel pit for an ‘overnighter’ before work, and soon found himself locked in battle with a stunning mirror of 37lb 8oz. Welcome back Rick!

Note: Just as we compile this catch report, we’ve had a call from Rick to say he’s been out again and nailed another ‘thirty-seven’! You can’t keep a good man down.


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.