Catch Reports

Mid-Winter Whacker

Posted in Catch Reports on 10th December 2009

We’re so please to report this next one. Long term Essential Bait user Paul Wortley from... Read more

One bait, one angler, three 50's!!

Posted in Catch Reports on 19th September 2009

Martin Finan from Glos recently re-wrote the record books by becoming the first angler to catch... Read more

Gigantica monster

Posted in Catch Reports on 15th September 2009

It’s not often you will see foreign fish pictured on here but Andy Clark has had his fair... Read more

The Leopard strikes

Posted in Catch Reports on 12th September 2009

Carp just don’t get much better looking that this absolute stunner of a fish known as The... Read more

Over the full moon

Posted in Catch Reports on 02nd September 2009

Mike Edgeworth has been dreaming of catching his target fish from a large Glos gravel pit for... Read more

Long Distance Whacker!

Posted in Catch Reports on 29th August 2009

Eddie Johnson from Conwy, North Wales has been making the 480-mile round trip to St Ives lagoon in... Read more

Welcome back!!

Posted in Catch Reports on 21st August 2009

Essential Bait boss Mike Willmott is having a tremendous year with a number of big fish from... Read more

Horseshoe Haul on B5

Posted in Catch Reports on 18th August 2009

Chay Williams from Somerset recently had a session to remember at Horseshoe lake in Glos. Chay... Read more

Yet more B5 success

Posted in Catch Reports on 11th August 2009

There’s not many anglers that can boast they have had more than fifteen UK forties, but Glos... Read more

Back with a bang!

Posted in Catch Reports on 31st July 2009

After a short break from the big carp scene following his capture of the Black Mirror, Essential... Read more


Good quality food baits

Ben Thompson with a stunning 47lb 5oz pb mirror caught on B5 freezer boilies when the fish seemed totally pre-occupied with naturals!
 
I can't begin to stress the importance of using a high quality food bait when it comes to catching carp on a regular basis. A bait formulated with nutritional ingredients will be sending out food signals long after the liquid attractors have been dispersed, this due to the fact that the ingredients themselves will be breaking down and sending out messages of food into the surrounding water.

Cheaper baits that have little or no nutritional value might sound more attractive on the pocket, but they will cost you dearly when it comes to producing the goods. Once any liquid attractors have dispersed, the bait will not be sending out any food signals at all, but further to this, will have no nutritional benefit whatsoever.

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.