Catch Reports
Mahooooosive Mirror!!
Posted in Catch Reports on 13th October 2010We recently had a call from Tim Smith saying he was going to Luke Moffatt’s lake ‘Graviers’ in France and wanted to take a bait that stood him a good chance of catching a big fish or two! For obvious reasons we recommended the B5 and delivered a batch of ESL (extended Shelf life) B5 boilies to him just days before his trip.
The next thing we know, the following week he’s on the phone (whilst still on the bank at Luke’s lake) enquiring what is the biggest carp ever caught on the B5!! It was obvious he’d banked something very special. Indeed he had, it was the ‘Brown Fish’ at a massive 82lbs! And if that wasn’t enough, he’d backed it up with fish of 48lb, 49lb and 52lb! That’s four carp for a total of 231lb – amazing stuff and top B5 bombing Tim. Congratulations from all at Team Essential HQ.
Fluoro pop-ups
Whilst carp are not generally recognised as sight feeders, there are undoubtedly times when they are visually drawn to a food source and bright pop-ups are a classic example of this. It's not surprising therefore, that fluoro pop-ups have proved very effective, particularly if just using a single bait with no free offerings. The winter and spring months are a classic example of this and a single fluoro pop-up cast to a 'showing' fish has resulted in the downfall of many a carp.
But it would be a mistake to think fluoro pop-ups should be just restricted to single bait presentation. Quite often, a fluoro pop-up fished over a bed of bait can fool the wariest of carp and a little 10mm fluoro pop-up mounted above a standard bottom bait can act as a very good visual sight and lead to a bite or two when other methods fail to produce.
