Catch Reports
Long Distance Whacker!
Posted in Catch Reports on 29th August 2009Eddie Johnson from Conwy, North Wales has been making the 480-mile round trip to St Ives lagoon in search of the Fat Lady on a regular basis, but last week he finally managed to nail his target fish! Arriving on the Monday for a 4-night session he introduced 4kg of B5 boilies close to a weedbed at 60-yards and continued topping up the spot with 1.5kg daily because he saw the odd fish show including what could well have been the big one.
On the Thursday morning Jon Mac, who was fishing next door joined him for a brew and as they sat there chatting, Eddie’s right hand rod burst into life! After a spirited scrap during which the fish weeded up for a while, Jon waded out up to his waist in water to finally slip the net under what was obviously a very big carp. The look on Jon’s face said it all - it was Eddie’s target fish – ‘The Fat Lady’ at a weight of 55lb 3oz! We know Jon’s time will come, but for now it was Eddie’s moment. Well done that man, and once again – top B5 bombing!
Nutritional Base Mixes
Rob Fielding knows the importance of using a high quality food bait and as soon as he switched over to using Essential Baits, it completely transformed his fishing.
It almost goes without saying just how important I believe a good quality nutritional base mix is when it comes to catching carp on a consistent basis. You’ve only got to look at the success of the B5, year after year, to understand that a good quality food source will completely out-fish baits with lower nutritional values.
One of the most important things to remember is that carp have the ability to search out and recognise food signals prior to consumption. In other words, a good quality food source will spell the word FOOD as it releases ‘attractor signals’ into the surrounding water.
Baits constructed with little or no food value are unable to do this, and once any added attractors have been dispersed into the surrounding water, there will be no more food signals coming from the bait. In short, a good quality food bait will continue to send messages of food long after other baits have stopped working, and will continue to prove more successful, both short term and long term.
