Catch Reports
Instant success!
Posted in Catch Reports on 25th October 2012Young up-and-coming carper angler Ben Thompson is having a terrific year since switching over to our B5 freezer boilies. Ben recently blitzed Linear St Johns with a 44-fish haul on the B5 (see catch report below) to win our 'Top Catch' competition and has recently carried on where he left off by banking this lovely 39lb 6oz common on just his second visit to a tricky estate lake!
Big commons must have a certain attraction to Ben because he smashed the St Johns common record with a 43lb 15oz monster before catching this near forty specimen! But then again, the B5 has such an impressive 'Big Fish' record it's almost inevitable that the whackers will fall sooner or later - in Ben's case it seems to be the sooner! Top B5 bombing again Ben.
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.
