Keith Standley Carp Fishing » Tips

Balanced Baits

keith-standley — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:44:45 +0000

I have been using the Red Crustacean from Berkeley Gulp in 20 mm size with great success over in France but I have found that I have got more fish on the bank by balancing my hook bait. I used a core drill and took out the centre of a 20 m bait and replace this with cork. This doesn’t create a pop up but will balance a bait so as when a fish is feeding about it with free offerings around it the hook bait will be sucked in to the fishes mouth first.

Also something else I have been doing is once I have put this cork infill in the bait I then soak them in the Red Crustacean dip, the longer the better it certainly put some fish on the bank for me. So why don’t you give it a try.

Drafty

It is Tuna Time………….

admin_uk — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:11:44 +0000

I have been out on the bank lately using the Gulp Tuna Spice Boilies in 16 mm to good effect. The rig that has been working for me is using the cocoon gravel and sand hook link braid stripped back by the hook to create a hinge effect and a connect size 8 3 mbt hook with a rig ring creating a blow back effect. This is then finished off using a 16 mm bait tipped with an 8 mm bait tech sweet coconut fluro pop up, this small sized pop up just lifts the boilie up to great effect. This style rig was the down fall of the two fish attached, a lovely 27.10 mirror

Followed by this 31.14 mirror, and the following rigs were used with approximately 50 freebie baits around it

See how you get on.

Drafty