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B5 nails another UK fifty!

Posted in Catch Reports on 09th August 2008

Long time carper and BCSG member Andy Trim from Glos has recently banked the fish of a life time in the shape of this stunning UK fifty from a difficult Southern gravel pit. The big mirror pulled the scales around to 50lb 6oz and is a new fifty from the venue. ‘Trimmy’ has been carp fishing for over 34-years now and has been a good friend to Mike and the Essential team during this time. Being a little ‘old school’ he normally keeps his successes very close to his chest, but this was such a big personal milestone in his angling career, we finally persuaded him to publicise the capture and are extremely grateful to him for doing so.

The monster mirror fell to a bed of 16mm Shellfish B5 boilies fished towards the marginal slope of an island at approx 100-yards range. Mike and the Essential team would like to congratulate ‘Trimmy’ on his recent success and wish him continued success for many more years to come. Well in little fella – top B5 bombing!

Good quality food baits

Ben Thompson with a stunning 47lb 5oz pb mirror caught on B5 freezer boilies when the fish seemed totally pre-occupied with naturals!

I can't begin to stress the importance of using a high quality food bait when it comes to catching carp on a regular basis. A bait formulated with nutritional ingredients will be sending out food signals long after the liquid attractors have been dispersed, this due to the fact that the ingredients themselves will be breaking down and sending out messages of food into the surrounding water.

Cheaper baits that have little or no nutritional value might sound more attractive on the pocket, but they will cost you dearly when it comes to producing the goods. Once any liquid attractors have dispersed, the bait will not be sending out any food signals at all, but further to this, will have no nutritional benefit whatsoever.

Carp, like all other fish, soon learn to recognise a food source and will continue to eat it again and again if it provides them with a sense of nutritional satisfaction. They have the ability to detect a nutritional food source prior to consumption (food signals coming from the bait) and after ingestion. With this in mind, we have developed what we believe to be the highest quality range of nutritional food baits available, and the success of the B5 alone has certainly gone some way to proving this.