Catch Reports
Just incredible!
Posted in Catch Reports on 13th October 2010Essential Bait’s consultant Shaun Jarvis won’t forget his last two fishing trips in a hurry! The first session resulted in the capture of a massive mirror from a Hants Stillwater that he’d been targeting for several weeks. After steadily applying his Shellfish B5 boilies to the venue the big mirror succumbed to his net and weighed a staggering 52lb 14oz!
After banking his personal best mirror Shaun then turned his attention to an undisclosed southern Stillwater in search of his next quest, this being to beat his personal best common, but little did he know he was about to accomplish this feat on his very next session! During a short overnight session between work, Shaun managed an amazing 14 carp haul, with the biggest being an immaculate 40lb 4oz personal best common!
Two short sessions, a fifty pound plus pb mirror and a forty pound plus pb common. Incredible stuff Shaun and top B5 bombing. Congratulations form all the Essential team.
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.
