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!
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.
