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Perseverance pays off for Paddy

Posted in Catch Reports on 19th July 2010

We absolutely love this story of success. We recently had a call from Paddy Knapper from Stoke on Trent who had packed in carp fishing some 9-years ago, but in 2009 he got the ‘bug’ back again. He wanted to target a big common from a local lake and decided to have a go for it. After reading about the track record the B5 has got for nailing the bigger fish he decided to purchase some in his quest to catch his target fish. After catching several of the lake’s residents he then suffered the heartache of losing the big common just half an hour after setting up but his bad luck didn’t end there. Disaster struck again some time later when he had his garage broken into and all his gear stolen!

However, this wasn’t going to deter him and he eventually managed to get his new kit sorted out ready for the summer and on July 20th he awoke early to find fish bubbling all over his baited area but unfortunately had to leave for work. However, before leaving he topped up the swim with 2.5kg of 16mm B5’s. He returned 48 hours later for an overnighter between work and had a 19lb mirror at first light. Just one hour later he was doing battle once again, but this time it was a much bigger fish!

After a spirited fight the big fish eventually succumbed to Paddy’s waiting net, and yes, it was the big common at a weight of 41lbs exactly! Well done that man and what a great story of perseverance. Paddy left us with this comment: “I have decided to pursue a new target fish and I shall be confidently using the B5 to do it all again” Well we don’t think anyone can blame you for that Paddy!

Customising Boilies

Whilst I still believe the original recipes we produce are still the best ones to use for most situations, I can see why our custom bait rolling department is so popular. It gives you the chance to use the very best food baits available, but with a completely different attractor package to what most others are using.

This can be useful if you feel others may take advantage of your baiting campaign or it could simply be down to the fact that you just want something a little different. We have listed some good examples but feel free to email me if you want something different again. We even have customers sending us their own attractor packages to incorporate into the bait, which of course we are happy to do with complete confidentiality guaranteed.