Catch Reports
The Leopard strikes
Posted in Catch Reports on 12th September 2009Carp just don’t get much better looking that this absolute stunner of a fish known as The Leopard. The lucky captor was team Essential member Martin Finan who recently managed to bank the impressive creature from a Glos gravel pit at a weight of 36lb 12oz.
Just days before the capture Martin introduced a couple of kilo’s of B5 into some snags and watched The Leopard bully the other fish out of the way to get to the bait so he wasn’t surprised to see it end up in the bottom of his net on his next session. Great observation, great fish and a great bit of angling.
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.
