Catch Reports
Forty before work!
Posted in Catch Reports on 15th August 2010Rick Golder has been back in the action once again! This time a quick overnighter before work on a weed infested Surrey gravel pit produced this hard fighting 41lb 6oz mirror that took Rick over 20-mins to bank after it buried itself in a massive weed bed.
Rick has been trickling in small amounts of 16mm and 20mm B5 boilies on and off for the past few weeks, but as anyone who’s used it will tell you, once the big fish get a taste of it, they rarely seem to eat anything else! By the time Rick got his rigs into position and a kilo of B5 spread over the area, he knew the chances of landing one of the big residents before he left the lake was almost inevitable – he wasn’t wrong! Confidence in a bag springs to mind!
Liquid Flavours
A cracking forty-plus caught from a pressured venue on the B5 with Shellfish Plum flavour. Bait choice was a key factor to a very succesful campaign on this venue.
Liquid flavours play an important roll within the creation of a successful long term bait recipe for a number of reasons. They will not only help to give the finished bait it’s own unique taste profile, but also give it a distinctive ‘label’ that the carp will come to recognise through association. In other words, you will be educating them to eat the bait and recognise the 'taste' and 'smell' over a period of time.
Be careful not to get flavours confused with attractors though, because in terms of nutritional value, unlike liquid foods, they have little or no food value, however, for the reasons outlined above, they are a very important addition to any successful recipe.
