Catch Reports
Croptail Linear falls for Finan!
Posted in Catch Reports on 13th October 2010Consistent catcher of big carp and Essential Bait consultant Martin Finan has been targeting a group of big fish this season and recently managed to bank one of the known ‘A-team’ in the shape of this stunning 37lb 8oz linear known as ‘Croptail’.
Martin has been making the long journey back and forth to the pressured venue on very limited time availability but is still managing to get amongst the fish and you can be sure that his main target fish of ‘upper-forty’ proportions is only a matter of time away. Once again, Martin’s ever faithful Shellfish B5 frozen ready mades are doing the bizz as usual. Martin will be providing a few ‘angling blogs’ on his consultancy page as soon as our new website goes live in November – watch this space.
The use of Food Oils
Richard Kelly is certainly no stranger to big carp, but that's because he understands the importance of a well balanced nutritional food bait. It's paid dividends for him on numerous occasions, as proved again here with another UK forty.
We firmly believe that a well balanced nutritional food bait will completely out fish baits with little or no real food value, and the inclusion of a food oil will help to provide the essential fatty acids required for the carp’s dietary requirements. Further to this, the inclusion of a lipid source will also have a sparing effect on the proteins used within the bait, thus allowing the carp to assimilate the available proteins far more efficiently. In short, food oils will increase nutritional values and provide an extra source of attraction to the finished bait. In short, the fish love them, they increase nutritional values and to cap it all off, they make the bait easier to roll!
Top tip
If making your own baits, reduce the oil content by 50% during the colder months and add a nutritional emulsifier.
