Catch Reports
A Common Assault!
Posted in Catch Reports on 09th May 2012Many anglers up and down the country have reported numerous personal bests and massive changes to their catch rates since switching over to Essential Baits but few more so than Giles Butt who recently had a dream session to remember, which included breaking his pb common twice and catching his first ever forty - all in just a single day's fishing!!
Giles recently switched over to our Shellfish B5 freezer baits and started to catch consistently from day one. Last week he visited the tricky venue for a short day session and managed to bank a couple of nice 20's, but applied a couple of kilo's of B5 in anticipation of a return visit just 4-days later, but judging by what he caught, it looks like the carp were also eagerly awaiting his return!!
Giles arrived shortly after first light for a day only session, but despite limited time he soon found himself getting amongst the action and during the course of the day managed to bank eight carp, which included commons of 24lb 8oz, 27lb 12oz, 36lb 14oz and a stunning 42lb 4oz specimen! Now that's what we call a bloody good day's hauling by anyone's standard!!
One again the awesome B5 has 'blitzed' another venue and proved that even during short session fishing, it has the capability of turning dreams into reality! Well done Giles, congratulations for everyone at essential and top B5 bombing....
Footnote: Giles has just returned from another short session and banked a lovely 33-pounder...you can't keep a good man down - keep 'em coming Giles...
Corker Pop-Ups
Cork dust pop-ups have a number of advantages over other pop-ups.
1) Made with identical ingredients/attractors to free offerings and send out the same food signals.
2) More durable and less prone to ‘theft’ from nuisance fish, crayfish and birdlife!
3) They can be pierced with a baiting needle without losing buoyancy.
4) Brilliant for ‘snowman’ presentations where you can trim down the corker pop up with scissor blades to achieve the perfect level of buoyancy required.
5) Ease of use.
Top tip for long term buoyancy
When fishing pop-up rigs in deep water for long periods of time or on waters where bird life can be a problem, drill out a cavity in the corker pop up with an 8mm drill bit then plug it with Gardner Tackle’s cylindrical high density rig foam (yellow). Then pierce the corker pop up on to your hook/rig, making sure the baiting needle goes up through the yellow foam first, then secure with boilie stop. I guarantee you that you can leave your pop up out there for 3-days if needed with no loss of buoyancy! Further to this, in the unlikely event that a diving coot or tufty unknowingly pinches your pop up, you are still fishing a nice visual yellow ‘fake’ bait.
