Catch Reports
Cracking winter common for Lee
Posted in Catch Reports on 16th November 2010Essential Bait rolling manager Lee Willmott has had a season he won’t forget in a hurry with a rake of big fish, including a personal best UK mirror at 41lb 4oz followed by a personal best Belgium river mirror of 47lb 4oz and now he’s gone and done it again with the capture of a new personal best UK common at 35lb 12oz! Not bad when you consider he only fishes about three nights each month!
Lee extracted the big common from a large weedy Glos pit where he introduced a kilo of Winterized B5 boilies to a clearing amongst weed at approx 40-yards. Even more satisfying was the fact that his ‘old man’ blanked during the same session!!
The use of Food Oils
Richard Kelly is certainly no stranger to big carp, but that's because he understands the importance of a well balanced nutritional food bait. It's paid dividends for him on numerous occasions, as proved again here with another UK forty.
We firmly believe that a well balanced nutritional food bait will completely out fish baits with little or no real food value, and the inclusion of a food oil will help to provide the essential fatty acids required for the carp’s dietary requirements. Further to this, the inclusion of a lipid source will also have a sparing effect on the proteins used within the bait, thus allowing the carp to assimilate the available proteins far more efficiently. In short, food oils will increase nutritional values and provide an extra source of attraction to the finished bait. In short, the fish love them, they increase nutritional values and to cap it all off, they make the bait easier to roll!
Top tip
If making your own baits, reduce the oil content by 50% during the colder months and add a nutritional emulsifier.
