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Two sessions, two baits, one lake record and two PB's!!

Posted in Catch Reports on 21st August 2011

What a story we have here! After recently joining a new syndicate lake Mike Ryan wanted to use a very high quality food bait but couldn't decide between the B5 or the Black Snail - so he purchased both!!

After catching a few twenties on both baits, Mike then had two sessions he will never forget! On the first of these it was the B5 that came up trumps and yes, you've guessed it, in typical B5 fashion he smashed the lake record with the capture of a new PB mirror of 42lb 14oz.

Just two weeks later Mike was making the long 320-mile round trip back to the venue in question and having run short of the B5, he decided to put the Black Snail through its paces. After spreading 3kgs of Snail over the same spots as he caught the lake record from 2-weeks earlier, Mike was soon doing battle with another big fish. This time the end result was a new PB common at a weight of 41lb 15oz!! The biggest mirror and the biggest common on the bank in two amazing sessions!

Top angling Mike and this wins you our latest 'Top Catch' competition hands down. Well done from all at Essential...

Good quality food baits

Ben Thompson with a stunning 47lb 5oz pb mirror caught on B5 freezer boilies when the fish seemed totally pre-occupied with naturals!

I can't begin to stress the importance of using a high quality food bait when it comes to catching carp on a regular basis. A bait formulated with nutritional ingredients will be sending out food signals long after the liquid attractors have been dispersed, this due to the fact that the ingredients themselves will be breaking down and sending out messages of food into the surrounding water.

Cheaper baits that have little or no nutritional value might sound more attractive on the pocket, but they will cost you dearly when it comes to producing the goods. Once any liquid attractors have dispersed, the bait will not be sending out any food signals at all, but further to this, will have no nutritional benefit whatsoever.

Carp, like all other fish, soon learn to recognise a food source and will continue to eat it again and again if it provides them with a sense of nutritional satisfaction. They have the ability to detect a nutritional food source prior to consumption (food signals coming from the bait) and after ingestion. With this in mind, we have developed what we believe to be the highest quality range of nutritional food baits available, and the success of the B5 alone has certainly gone some way to proving this.