Catch Reports
One bait, one angler, three 50's!!
Posted in Catch Reports on 19th September 2009Martin Finan from Glos recently re-wrote the record books by becoming the first angler to catch three different 50lb plus UK fish from the same water and all this in just 18-months!
His blaze of success started in March 2008 when he banked a new lake record 54lb mirror before setting his targets on another very big resident that resides in the 50-acre gravel pit. He eventually banked the elusive fish at 52lb 10oz just over a year later when he braced it alongside a stunning 37lb linear.
Martin continued to introduce the Shellfish B5 on a regular basis to catch a very impressive tally of 30lb and 40lb fish from the venue and it seemed only a matter of time before yet another 50lb carp graced the bank. The inevitable happened just recently when after a very hard scrap as daylight broke, Martin managed to steer another huge fish into the folds of his waiting net – it went 51lb exactly!
To catch one UK 50lb carp in a lifetime is a fantastic achievement, but to catch three in just 18-months is phenomenal! Once again the B5 has been responsible for setting new standards in the bait world after breaking history in 2007 by catching the UK’s biggest ever brace - further proof indeed that the awesome B5 has to be the most successful and consistent ‘big fish’ bait ever developed.
Well done Martin from all at team Essential….
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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.
