Catch Reports
B5 now nails the Big Dink!
Posted in Catch Reports on 05th March 2008Now here’s a nice story…Jason Woods from Dorking, Surrey has been fishing the Cemex Longfield Road lake with his cousin Dan Chart, who recently banked the venues other forty, ‘Clover’ at a weight of 41lb 8oz (pictured above). Since the capture of Clover Dan has continued his quest for the Big Dink and has had a number of other fish from the difficult venue since switching over to the B5.
Now Jason, not wanting to miss a trick, asked Cousin Dan if he could try some of this B5 stuff that seems to be producing all the goods. Dan kindly obliges by giving Jason a kilo of the B5 – and we all know what’s going to happen next!! Yep, out go twenty-five B5 freebies to a silt spot at 15-yards close to two small islands and bingo!! Within a short space of time Jason is smiling at the camera with the Big Dink at a weight of 41lb 10oz! Top B5 bombing yet again.
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.
