EnerGize – Two Trips That Have Strengthened My Confidence
There is nothing quite like a run of results to give you confidence in a bait.
Over the last couple of trips to Airfield Lake, my confidence in Nutrabaits EnerGize has gone up another notch. I’ve been fishing it hard, in very different conditions, and the results have been more than encouraging.
For me, confidence in a boilie isn’t simply about catching a few fish. It’s about seeing how the bait performs over a period of time, how the carp respond to it, and whether I can arrive at the lake knowing that I have something in my bucket that I genuinely believe the fish want to eat.
EnerGize has certainly reached that point for me.
Back to The Big Pit
The recent sessions have been based around The Big Pit on Airfield Lake, an area I’ve been keen to explore properly as the water levels have continued to fall.
The low levels have revealed more and more of the lake’s features, particularly the boulders and bars that make fishing this water both fascinating and challenging. Using Deeper Maps+ has allowed me to build a much clearer picture of what is actually in front of me, while careful observation and a marker rod have helped me fine-tune the areas I wanted to fish.
On the first of these recent trips, I settled into an area I’d already had my eye on. There was only around 3½ feet of water in the area I wanted to fish, but importantly, it led away towards deeper water.
Rather than piling bait in, I wanted to keep things controlled.
I used a mixture of Nutrabaits boilies alongside Jurassic Particles, concentrating the bait around the areas I believed the carp would naturally visit.
And the EnerGize did the rest.
The results speak for themselves
The first night produced a 10lb carp and a tench, before things really started to develop.
Over the session, I went on to land carp to 25lb 13oz, with another good Common of 18lb 8oz also making an appearance.
For me, this is where EnerGize starts to become particularly interesting.
It wasn’t simply a case of putting a single hookbait over an isolated pile of bait and hoping for a bite. The boilies were being incorporated into the overall feeding strategy, and the carp were clearly prepared to feed confidently over them.
That is something I look for in any bait I use.
I want a boilie that can be used as a genuine food source rather than something that relies purely on an instant attraction hit.
That is very much the philosophy behind EnerGize. Nutrabaits developed it as a hybrid bait, combining premium fish meals with a low-temperature-produced meat meal, milk and whey proteins, Sluis CLO, vitamins, minerals, liquid food and the company’s spice blend, with a subtle garlic element.
On paper, that’s an impressive nutritional package.
But ultimately, what matters to me is what happens when it hits the lake.
And the carp seem to approve.
The second trip
The following trip reinforced that confidence even further.
By now I wasn’t fishing EnerGize simply because it was a new bait or because I was part of Team Nutrabaits. I was fishing it because I had already seen what it could do.
That’s an important distinction.
I’ve used a lot of different boilies throughout my fishing career. Some have caught plenty of fish, while others have looked fantastic on paper but never quite delivered the results I wanted.
EnerGize has started to fall into a different category for me.
It is becoming one of those baits I can confidently build a campaign around.
The 24mm boilies have been particularly useful on Airfield. With the lake containing plenty of nuisance species, the larger diameter gives me a much more selective presentation while still allowing me to introduce a reasonable amount of food.
I also like the fact that I don’t need to complicate things.
A good boilie, presented in the right area and introduced sensibly, is often all you need.
It’s not just about attraction
One of the things that initially interested me about EnerGize was that it isn’t trying to be another conventional fishmeal boilie.
It’s a genuine hybrid.
The combination of meat and fish meals gives it a different nutritional profile, while the milk and whey proteins, liquid food ingredients and amino-rich components add another dimension. The distinctive spice profile and subtle garlic note then give it an identity that is immediately recognisable.
And I think that is important.
Carp spend their lives encountering different food sources. I want my bait to provide enough nutritional value that the fish are happy to eat it repeatedly, rather than simply investigate it once because it smells interesting.
That’s why I am increasingly comfortable putting EnerGize into the lake in reasonable quantities.
The recent sessions have given me the confidence to do exactly that.
Confidence is everything
There is another side to all this that is sometimes overlooked.
Confidence.
When I’m sitting behind the rods in the early hours, watching the water and waiting for something to happen, I want to know that everything I’ve done makes sense.
The swim has been chosen for a reason.
The spots have been found carefully.
The rigs are doing what I want them to do.
The hookbaits are right.
And the bait is something I trust.
When all those pieces come together, fishing becomes much simpler.
Over the last two trips, EnerGize has certainly earned its place in that equation.
I’ve had multiple carp, fish into the mid-twenties and, more importantly, I’ve seen enough to convince me that the carp are happy to feed over it.
That’s ultimately the biggest test of any boilie.
Keeping it simple
My approach with EnerGize on Airfield has been deliberately straightforward.
I’m not looking to create enormous beds of bait or cover half the lake in boilies.
Instead, I’m trying to identify where the carp want to be and then put a sensible amount of good-quality food in front of them.
The 24mm EnerGize boilies have been particularly useful for this approach, and I’ve been happy to combine them with Jurassic Particles where I feel the situation calls for it.
The particles give me another food element, while the EnerGize provides the foundation of the boilie programme.
It’s a combination that has certainly worked for me recently.
Two trips, plenty of confidence
Looking back over these last two sessions, the thing that stands out isn’t one particular fish.
It’s the consistency.
21 x 20s
11 x doubles
The fact that they came while fishing an area of the lake that is changing dramatically as the water levels fall.
That gives me confidence that I’m not simply relying on a lucky bite.
I’m starting to understand how EnerGize fits into my fishing.
And that’s probably the biggest compliment I can give a bait.
After more than four decades of carp fishing, I’m certainly not looking for excuses to change things just for the sake of it. If something works, I want to understand why it works and then make the most of it.
Right now, EnerGize is working.
The last two trips have reinforced that.
And with The Big Pit now firmly on my radar for the coming months, I’m looking forward to seeing just how far I can push it.
EnerGize is no longer simply a new bait in my armoury. It’s becoming a bait I genuinely trust.
And on a difficult water like Airfield Lake, that confidence is worth an awful lot.
Until Next Time
Richard
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