Catch Reports
A Cut Above!
Posted in Catch Reports on 09th April 2006Adge Mercato is another West Country angler that has benefited from using the Shellfish B5. The Bristol based hairdresser had been targeting an elusive big fish without much success – that was until he decided to switch over to the B5!
The scissor happy carper then returned to his chosen venue and fished over a bed of Shellfish B5 boilies. It wasn’t long before Adge was soon engaged in battle with his target fish – a stunning 46lb 12oz mirror. Well done that man!
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.
