Customer David Cunnington has reported a new personal best weighing 15lb 14oz. Davids lovely common carp was caught at Mill Farm on a Nash Scopex Squid Liver boilie topped with rubber sweetcorn. The rig David used was a blowback rig tied using a Korda Longshank X Hook . David also used a PVA bag filled with chopped boilies to tempt his new PB. Well done!
Best fishes
John
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Customer Rob O’Brien used Korda Hybrid Stiff to hoodwink these French beauty’s weighing 32lb and 36lb respectively. Rob was fishing Etang Rendevouz in France and also caught carp of 25lb,22lb,18lb and 15lb in his week long session. Using a snowman blowback rig consisting of size 4 hooks tied to a Korda Hybrid Stiff hooklink Rob cast tight to the margins of an Island. Hookbaits were 3 pieces of maize topped of with a piece of Enterprise Pop-Up Sweetcorn these were put into a pva bag along with 20 freebies. Rob reports that he encountered every weather condition possible on his trip including hail and snow and winds from all directions. This week see’s Rob back at Etang Rendevouz, so hopefully we will have some more photos’ and catch reports from him soon. Good Luck Rob!!
Best fishes,
John
Starting with PVA mesh which comes on tubes for easy bag making. PVA mesh is available in a range of sizes, for example Korda do PVA mesh in 3 different widths, Standard funnel web for tying up small golf ball size bags of pellets and crushed boilies etc, Boilie Funnel Web PVA for making up bags of boilies instead of a stringer or dynamite sticks of groundbait which can be threaded down your hooklink and prevent tangles as well as leaving a neat little pile of groundbait next to you hookbait and finally there is longchuck funnel web which is designed for making smaller dynamite sticks which can be cast further distances. This presentation using PVA mesh is preferred by many due to it being quick and convenient.
Solid PVA bags such as the ESP PVA Bags is the next method which involves placing your whole rig including your lead into a bag which is filled with free offerings and can be used in any situation, even cast straight into weed. Solid bags need to be punctured once tied to make sure that the bag sinks to the bottom and doesn’t float.
PVA tape for example Krystons’s Super Grip Stringer Tape can be used to make up bait stringers where several baits can be threaded onto the PVA and hooked onto you rig to present a small amount of baits tight to your hookbait. They can also be used to tie your hair to the shank of your hook to prevent tangles when casting.
PVA nuggets such as Gardner’s Rigwise Dissolving Rig Foam are the last of the PVA products used by carp anglers, they can be used to prevent your hook snagging on any lakebed debris when casting to areas which aren’t that clear as well as using them as a marker to fire baits at once you’ve cast your rig into your swim.
Tight Lines
David