Catch Reports
Creaming It!
Posted in Catch Reports on 11th August 2006During November Colin Hunt from Bristol decided to turn his attention to a tricky Wilts venue that contained a stunning looking linear that had a reputation of being ‘quite elusive’! After two quick pre-bating sessions where he introduced 1kg of Cream-CSM barrels on each visit, he returned to the venue to set his traps for a ‘day only’ session.
After introducing 30 free offerings over each rod, It wasn’t long before Colin experienced a frenzied period of fish feeding activity and went on to bank fish of 23lb 4oz, 27lb 14oz, 26lb 8oz and 25lb 12oz, followed by the big linear at 36lb 2oz…….all by mid-morning!!! Not a bad bait that CSM!!
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.
