Catch Reports
B5 blitz on Linear St Johns!
Posted in Catch Reports on 10th July 2012This has to be one of the best catch reports of 2012 and just goes to prove how much of an advantage a high quality food bait will give you on a busy circuit water.
Ben Thompson from Taunton recently visited St Johns lake on the Linear complex and completely smashed it to pieces with an incredible 44-fish haul - and if that wasn't enough, Ben also managed to bank a new lake record common in the shape of this stunning 43lb 15oz specimen known as 'The Box Common'! The impressive tally included twenty fish over 20lbs, including this cracking 36lb 15oz mirror (pictured below).
Ben presented his B5 pop-up rigs over Shellfish B5 16mm freezer boilies fished to clear patches amongst weed and varying ranges and topped up the spots with 100-freebies between each capture. Well done Ben from all at Essential. That's an incredible session and puts you in pole position for our 'Top Catch' competition.
Mike on Bag 'n' Stick Liquids
The main function of liquids is to boost food signals in and around your baited rig and increase the chances of fish being pulled into the area. Stick Mixes, Method Mixes and Ground bait can simply be mixed together with water, but by adding a liquid food as well, you will be increasing the food signals coming from the bait. On many occasions I’ve witnessed carp being pulled down from the upper layers on to the baited spot, and I have no doubt that this has been due to the liquids sending out attractive food messages through the water column.
Of course these liquids can be used for a number of other useful applications as well. For example, coating pellets with these liquids will disperse quicker/better messages of food than pellets used on their own, and a single Pop-Up launched out into the middle of nowhere will undoubtedly benefit from being soaked in a liquid for a few hours first.
I can honestly say that these Bag ‘n’ Stick Liquids have caught me a number of ‘bonus fish’ when I’ve been pretty much convinced that I would have struggled without using them. There will be a time and a place to use them, but ignore them at your peril!
