Catch Reports
Mid-Winter Whacker
Posted in Catch Reports on 10th December 2009We’re so please to report this next one. Long term Essential Bait user Paul Wortley from Bournemouth has been enjoying a very successful season on a local gravel pit with several big fish in recent months on the ever consistent Shellfish B5, however, his latest success came in the shape of this proper cold water whacker that pulled the scales around to an impressive 46lb 10oz!
The big mirror was caught at 5.30am next to a submerged weed bed at approx 80-yards after baiting up the spot the previous evening with a mixture of chopped and whole winterised B5 boilies and beat Paul’s previous personal best by 4lb 8oz. Congratulations Paul, good angling and further proof that if you put the B5 in the right spot the big fish will follow.
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.
