Catch Reports

Overnight Success

Posted in Catch Reports on 17th August 2007

The likeable Rick Golder is undoubtedly one of the UK’s most consistently successful big fish... Read more

Lakes First 40+ Common

Posted in Catch Reports on 04th August 2007

Long standing Essential Bait user Mikey Edgeworth from Stonehouse, Glos has banked plenty of big... Read more

Amazing Start for Jon

Posted in Catch Reports on 27th July 2007

One of the country’s most successful big fish anglers Jon McAllister from Kent has recently... Read more

Top Marks Fudgy!

Posted in Catch Reports on 11th July 2007

Ageing carper Dave (Fudgy) Fuidge from Bristol has recently managed to bank himself a couple of... Read more

Consistent-Lee Successful!

Posted in Catch Reports on 27th May 2007

Consistent catcher of big carp and all round nice guy Lee Petty has been getting amongst the big... Read more

Back in the thick of it!

Posted in Catch Reports on 24th March 2007

Following on from his outstanding success of 2006, Martin Finan from Glos has immediately been back... Read more

The Elusive Long Common!

Posted in Catch Reports on 14th March 2007

Springwood Pool’s elusive ‘Long Common’ isn’t a fish that graces the bank... Read more

Lake Record Smashed!

Posted in Catch Reports on 10th January 2007

2007 started with a bang when we received a report from Paul Wortley from Hants who has been... Read more

Lee Nails Heather!

Posted in Catch Reports on 31st August 2006

Leicestershire based big carp angler Lee Petty has caught an impressive amount of big carp from a... Read more

Golder Strikes Gold!

Posted in Catch Reports on 18th August 2006

Rick Golder from Surrey started using the B5 last season and had the most successful season... Read more


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.