Catch Reports
And yet another huge UK common!
Posted in Catch Reports on 08th November 2011What is it about the amount of huge commons that the B5 and Black Snail seem to attract? Matt Davies has recently banked commons of 46lb and 46lb 6oz on the B5 and now, long term Essential Bait user Charlie Goult has gone and banked this massive 46lb 4oz monster on the Black Snail!! Further proof that 'big elusive carp' can't resist a high quality food bait.
Charlie has had a break from fishing for the past 11-months but soon made up for lost time when he caught the mahoosive pb common from a Nene Valley pit during a session to celebrate his 28th birthday. Happy birthday 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.
