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Trio of thirties for Jim Shelley

By Angling Times

Fish Catches

09 January 2012 13:55

Jim Shelley has a reputation as being one of the best big carp catchers in the business, and he’s certainly lived up to that title so far this winter landing three 30lb-plus commons to 34lb 12oz during a 24 hour period on the Woolpack Fishery Lake 7.

The biggest of the trio was taken on one of the Suffolk-based carp tutor’s ‘salty meshed specials’ – a hookbait which he has used to great effect over the years but previously kept under wraps.

“Carp love salt and will actively search it out,” explained the Sticky and Vision consultant. “Therefore if you can incorporate it into your hookbaits you’re onto a winner. I use pop-up hookbaits for most of my fishing and to give them a salty boost I wrap a thin layer of paste around the pop-up which I then coat with rock salt and mesh with a section of women’s

via gofishing.co.uk

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