LIVER B8 - passes the ultimate bait test with flying colours!
by Elie Godsi
If I were to ask you to come up with the ‘ultimate’ test for a new carp bait - like Shaun’s Liver B8 - what would it look like? Maybe you would fish that bait on one rod alongside your other baits and compare your captures? Maybe you could compare your results with other anglers using other brands of boilies on the lakes you fish? Maybe you could fish it on a lake that had never seen that particular bait and see what your catch rate was like. All well and good but what about the ultimate test?
Just a few months earlier I was chatting carp to my mate Richard Sanders and told him about Shaun’s new Liver B8 which was coming out soon and which I was intending to use as my main bait this year. Now I’ve been lucky enough to field test the Special Crab, Smokehouse fish and Fruity trifle bait when they were all in development phase. I had only fished the Liver B8 on one previous session (blanked) but such was my faith in Mr Harrison’s bait alchemy I stuck my neck out a bit and insisted Richard go and get some Liver B8 when it came out in the Spring, which he did. He then put it to the ‘ultimate’ test.
Imagine having very limited access to a private lake that contains carp but is never fished. By kind permission of the owner Richard is allowed on once a year for a day’s fishing. Aside from this the carp are never fished for and never see boilies from one year to the next. They spend their whole lives feeding on natural food. Now catching a carp on a boilie on such a lake - that would be something special wouldn’t it?
On the 9th May 2008 Richard sent me a text. It was 10 in the morning and he’d been fishing since about 7 that day. He’d just caught his PB and first ever 30lb common at 31lbs. He had also caught mirrors of 22lbs 8oz and 18lbs, and lost another. Not surprisingly he was elated. His mate ‘borrowed’ some Liver B8 as he wasn’t catching and promptly caught two carp himself!
Liver B8. Put to the ultimate test. No problem. Shaun, looks like this bait could be something special.
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I told you it was special Elie.
I put my head on the line last year and stated that I believed it to be the best bait I have used. Watching the fish ripping the bottom up for it on a number of pressured carp waters last summer drilled that one home. Similarly during French trips last year on waters where the carp had definately never seen the bait before.
Interestingly it does seem to sort out the larger fish quite quickly too.
I had a catch report come through last week from someone using it for the first time on a water and promptly caught the largest fish in the lake within a couple of hours.
I fished two French waters in the same week last year on the Liver B8. I caught a 54lb 4oz fish from the first lake, packed up and drove to another lake and promptly caught another fish of 54lb.
I can be 100% certain that neither of these waters had seen the Liver B8 before - I didn’t make it available untill March.