Catch Reports
River whacker for Lee
Posted in Catch Reports on 14th August 2011This report slipped through the net and should have gone up last month, but big UK river fish are a rare event and a thirty from the river has got to hold a similar credibilty rating than any fifty pound lake fish in our book.
After a short baiting campaign using the B5 Lee Willmott took advantage of some nice falling air pressure and fished a short afternoon/evening session to open up his river account this season with this gorgeous 32lb 8oz mirror. The big river mirror was one of Lee's target fish this year so he was obviously well pleased to have put the fish on the bank considering he can only fish about one night a month at the moment. Well in mate!
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.
