Spicy boilie wins British Carp Angling Championship as competition comes down to just one last gasp fish.


This is the boilie that won the BCAC 2011, after the bait accounted for a total of 12 fish for the winning team during 48hours of intense fishing.

The victorious pair, Robert Julyan and Ashley Taylor from Northampton used the ‘Super Indian’ by Premier Baits throughout the final of the prestigious event, landing a total of 166lb 14oz of carp, included fish up to 27lb 14oz.

However, the start of the event was very different to the triumphant conclusion for the duo, who thought disaster had struck after drawing the exact peg that they had already earmarked as the one the ‘definitely didn’t want’.

“We got to the venue early so was could have a good look around and work out which of the pegs we’d most like to draw,” half of the winning pair, Rob Juylan told Total Carp. “Peg number eight was our least favorite as it was pretty tight and we just didn’t like the look of it. At the draw we were one of the last teams to pick out a peg, and it was just typical it was the one we really didn’t want.”


On the chods

Luckily for the pair, one of the guys who works for their sponsor, Premier Baits, had a good knowledge of the water and pointed out a spot on the far margin that might just produce a few fish.

“There was a swim on the far margin next to a sunken tree which when it was pointed out looked pretty good so we concentrated a lot of our effort on it,” continued Rob who works as a Gas Fitter.

“After doing a bit of homework before hand we had decided that due to the time of year that the final’s held and the fact that there could be a fair bitter of leaf litter on the bottom we decided to go for chod rigs with a smelly hookbait on each of the rods. For this we chose the Super Indian which we glugged in Indian Oil bait soak for added attraction.”

Fishing one rod to an island, one in a small bay and another to the recommended far margin swim the boys settled into the 48hour contest, but action was slow to start with.

“It took over 5hours for the first fish to come, but after that they came fairly regularly with the majority being from the far margin swim,” said Rob. “It was a difficult cast to get the bait where it needed to be, especially when the wind whipped up, and I think the amount of attempts is sometimes took did scare the fish. In the end though the winning tactic worked out to be making the cast, letting it settle for around 15 minutes and then feeding boilies over the top which the carp were by then on the hunt for.”


Fishing from midday on the Friday through to midday on the Sunday, the final day the guys new they were in for a tight finish. And when they hooked into the last fish with just 20minutes of the competition left to go, it was, as Rob describes it ‘squeaky bum time.’

‘We’d overheard a marshal’s radio saying that our main competitors had just caught a good fish and we knew that meant they’d probably just taken the lead,” said Rob, “so when we had that last run and got the fish to the net the last 20 minutes were very tense.

“When we finally found out we were the winners it was amazing. It was a brilliant feeling and I can’t wait to fish in it again next year”, added Rob.



The fish that won the BRAC 2011

FRIDAY
12:00pm competition starts

5.30pm. First fish 13lb 12oz

10:10pm. Fish 12lb 8oz

11:15pm. Fish 12lb

SATURDAY
10:50am. Fish 12lb 7oz

12:15pm. Fish 27lb 14oz

2:20pm. Fish 12lb 8oz

3:15pm. Fish 15lb 9oz

4:10pm. Fish 13lb 4oz

7:30pm. Fish 12lb 4oz

SUNDAY
6:10am. Fish 19lb 10oz

8:50am. Fish 15lb 2oz

11:40am. Fish 13lb 4oz

12:00pm Competition ends.

For more details on Premier Baits and the Super Indian boilie click here