Lord Paul of Sheffield
Well-known member
Fishing yesterday I spent an hour trying to get a bite from one swim using maggot, sweetcorn and bread as hook baits before deciding to that the fish simply wasn't there (not even a dip on the float)and it was time to try another swim.
Casting to a different swim with bread on the hook and immediately the float began to dip and within 5 minutes a fish was on.
I then fired out a few grains of corn and half a dozen maggots and recast, again with bread as the hook bait. For the next half hour I caught steadily using bread and using maggots and corn as loose feed, then switched to maggot on the hook. The float remained still. I then tried corn and again the fish didn't bite.
Thinking the swim had gone dead I switched back to bread and again caught straight away. Over the next 3 hours I caught all my fish on bread, missing a few bites, but a change of hook bait would see now action from the fish.
So is bread the ultimate winter bait for catching fish when all else fails?