While it is convenient to grab a tub of hookbaits off the shelf of your local tackle shop, you could be missing a trick! Everyone else has access to these baits and if you want an edge, making your own could well be the best way to trip up a big fish. After banking a giant bream last week, Adam Riches returned to the lake and fooled two more huge bream using his special homemade boilies.
“I was keen to get back to the area of the lake where I’d recently caught my 18lb 8oz PB bream so, after grabbing a few fresh supplies and charging a few bits, I returned and soon had the rods out.
“Fishing a homemade boilie hookbait on a helicopter rig over a silty area at range, I had a take early in the morning midway through my first coffee of the day!
“That was from a fish weighing 16lb 8oz and, after I’d propped the landing net up to ready some camera kit, I was interrupted by another take!
“Fortunately, I had two nets set up, and soon had a fish of 14lb 5oz on the mat alongside its bigger shoal mate, giving me the chance of a brace shot of over 30lb of big bream!”
THE BEST SPECIMEN RODS ARE PERFECT FOR CATCHING BIG FISH LIKE THESE BREAM!
