Catch Reports
Kingsmead success...
Posted in Catch Reports on 16th May 2011Paul Court's latest long distance journey from Somerset to Berkshire's Kingsmead 1 venue was made all the more worthwhile when he had one of those sessions to remember! Armed with the ever consistent Shellfish B5, Paul managed to bank mirrors of 28lb 2oz, 29lb 8oz, 37lb 10oz and 39lb 8oz.
Paul stayed mobile during his session and intercepted moving fish by presenting chod rigs tied up with orange B5 fluoro pop ups fished over light scatterings of B5 freebies. Well angled Paul and once again, top B5 bombing!
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Corker Pop-Ups
Cork dust pop-ups have a number of advantages over other pop-ups.
1) Made with identical ingredients/attractors to free offerings and send out the same food signals.
2) More durable and less prone to ‘theft’ from nuisance fish, crayfish and birdlife!
3) They can be pierced with a baiting needle without losing buoyancy.
4) Brilliant for ‘snowman’ presentations where you can trim down the corker pop up with scissor blades to achieve the perfect level of buoyancy required.
5) Ease of use.
Top tip for long term buoyancy
When fishing pop-up rigs in deep water for long periods of time or on waters where bird life can be a problem, drill out a cavity in the corker pop up with an 8mm drill bit then plug it with Gardner Tackle’s cylindrical high density rig foam (yellow). Then pierce the corker pop up on to your hook/rig, making sure the baiting needle goes up through the yellow foam first, then secure with boilie stop. I guarantee you that you can leave your pop up out there for 3-days if needed with no loss of buoyancy! Further to this, in the unlikely event that a diving coot or tufty unknowingly pinches your pop up, you are still fishing a nice visual yellow ‘fake’ bait.
