Preparing bread for fishing
Bread
Bread as bait is most often used when fishing for fish from the carp family. This attachment seems very simple, but there are still a couple of nuances in its preparation. The main task is to ensure that the bread bait stays firmly on the hook and creates maximum attractiveness for the fish. Below we will tell you about several ways to achieve this:
- First way.
Mix vegetable oil with bread crumb and knead the resulting mixture with ordinary pharmacy cotton wool. This attachment will hold perfectly on a fishing hook. - Second way.
Stir the bread in hemp, cottonseed or linseed oil, and then lower it into boiling water for half a minute. As a result, a viscous mass is formed, exuding an aroma that is very attractive to underwater inhabitants. - Third way.
Fishing bread can be moistened with plain water and then squeezed out with a small cloth. The result should be a mixture of high consistency. Before putting the bait on the hook, you need to roll small balls out of it (the tip of the hook should not be visible). - Fourth way.
Wheat bread should be moistened with water, squeezed in gauze and crumbled onto a plate. Boiled potatoes (without peel) are also placed there. Proportions - 1:1. The ingredients are mixed until a homogeneous mass is obtained, to which vegetable oil is then added. The result is milky white balls.
Bread for fishing
can be mixed with flavorings - vanillin or special vegetable oils. Then the fish will react to the bait more actively.
Bread "sandwiches"
For more successful and productive fishing, you can use “sandwiches”, which use bread with other ingredients.
- Bread with giblets
. Rinse cow or sheep entrails well and boil. Then grind through a meat grinder along with a crust of black bread. Roll the resulting mass into balls and freeze. The balls need to be placed in the holes a couple of days before fishing. It is best that the bottom in the fishing area is clean - clay or sandy. Pieces of boiled intestines are suitable as bait. This bait is ideal for catching bream, roach and, in particular, perch. - Bread and potatoes
. A small piece of white bread crumb and well-cooked potatoes are combined in a ratio of 5 to 1. It is necessary to mix until a homogeneous dense dough is obtained. Then add a little margarine or fat so that the dough acquires the necessary viscosity. This will also help prevent the dough from drying out or becoming soggy when exposed to water. You can also add a pinch of honey, sugar, saffron, and soft cheese to the resulting dough. Fishermen say that this potato-bread dough is an excellent bait for carp fish, and of course the carp itself. - Bread and honey
. For this attachment option, it is best to take a loaf. Mix the loaf pulp with honey in a ratio of 10 to 1 and knead thoroughly to obtain a homogeneous mass. The resulting bait attracts carp fish, and roach and crucian carp are especially fond of it. Honey perfectly binds the mashed loaf, it becomes sweet and aromatic, which attracts fish. - Bread with blood
. Soak a piece of white bread with the crust cut off in fresh animal blood. To make the attachment sufficiently viscous, you need to mix the crumb soaked in blood with coarse wheat flour or clean, fresh bread. The bread not only becomes reddish in color, but also acquires an aroma that is attractive to fish. This bait attracts not only carp, but also attracts perch, by the way, regardless of the time of year.
Several fishing sandwich recipes
Quite often, experienced fishermen use combined baits, so-called sandwiches. Let's look at several recipes for their preparation.
Recipe No. 1
The bread pulp is mixed with boiled potatoes in equal proportions and kneaded until a homogeneous mass is obtained. After this, fat (margarine can be used), a little sugar, a little honey, and soft cheese are added to the mixture. The fat prevents drying out and gives the bait viscosity. Carp are successfully caught with this bait.
Recipe No. 2
For this attachment you will need a loaf and literally a drop of honey. The ingredients are combined in a ten to one ratio. Honey sweetens the product and binds the ingredients together. Now all that remains is to form a crumb and go catch crucian carp with roach - fish simply adore this bait.
Read: Bait for feeder fishing for bream
Fishing with bread
Fishing with bread Usually they catch with bread on large rivers where there is a strong current; fish such as roach like to stay in a seething stream and therefore become a frequent trophy of floaters.
The bread holds well in the current, precisely on the surface, and from the surface it is always eaten by roach or the ubiquitous bleak, which does not mind eating the crumb, despite the fact that the bread for bleak is still a large attachment, this small fish does not pay any attention to the size bait. I bite her motto, but I’ll take mine: so that the bread is in the middle layers of the water, the fisherman is required to competently load all the gear, namely, the loads must be in a certain order. In such a situation, an ordinary olive, made in a sliding version, can help. It is good to fish with bread even in places with standing water. All ponds and lakes are excellent for this and are a large testing ground. The fisherman only needs to know how to correctly present the bait to the fish, and the rest depends on the fish itself, if it likes the bait, wait for a bite, if not, then there is no trial.
It is impossible to guess the mood of a fish. Therefore, on every fishing trip, we fishermen have to experiment and discover something new. Remember that everything is in your hands. The ability to properly present bait comes with age.
Conclusion. So, from the above, we should have understood that bread is a universal bait that catches white fish well. Store the bread in a suitable place. When fishing, you can keep the bread in a slightly damp cloth. With this storage, the nozzle will remain in good condition for a long time. Do not disdain different types of bread. Each crumb has its own qualities, for which it has gained popularity for a long time.
Fishing for bread has been developing for a very long time and has reached our time, and we modern fishermen are slowly modernizing it and introducing something new. Do not make simple pellets; the fish may like a flattened bait. Be sure to use cotton wool as a binding material, it will help the bread stay on the hook for a long time.
That's all I would like to say about fishing with bread, but remember bread is not a consumable material, but a noun, bread must be treated with respect, because bread is the head of everything.
What should the bread crumb be?
Every angler in childhood caught crucian carp and roach in stagnant lakes or small lakes and rivers for bread. But for some reason, not every adult fisherman can make bait from bread for fishing, which the fish would be willing to bite on. For some anglers, the bread turns out to be very hard. The spools from it sit very well on the hook. They do not fall off even after the 10th cast.
Should I expect a lot of bites when using this bait? This is only possible with a high concentration of underwater inhabitants. In this case, the fish will also take the buttons. If the fish is picky and there are a little more than a lot of people who want to catch it, then you shouldn’t count on a good catch using dense balls of bread.
How to prepare bread for fishing? You need to learn how to roll bread so that it is soft enough to resemble dough. It's easy to do. It is enough to cut a crumb out of half a loaf or soft white bread and wet it well so that it becomes like a washcloth. Then you need to knead it and roll it into a bun. It should wrinkle easily and fit easily onto the hook.
Yes, such bread is suitable for fishing on a float rod in still water, in a window among the reeds, or in places with a slow current. However, the number of bites will increase significantly. And even though you have to replant bread often, the catches will be impressive. You will not sadly watch a dead float, but you will catch fish.
When fishing with a match rod, on a feeder and on a donk, in places with a current, cotton wool is added to the bread in pieces, and it turns out to be very viscous and does not fly off the hook.
Hooking
From a small piece of bread crumb dough, make a ball in accordance with the size of the mouth of the intended fish and prick it onto the hook tip. Then they are formed on the understring or on the fore-end or completely on the hook in the form of a pea or pear.
Just like bread crumb, bread crust is a good bait for catching peaceful fish. You can fish with a bread crust on top and from the bottom. The bread crust is separated from a loaf of white bread. It is cut into cubes or oblong plates. Then fried in sunflower, hemp or corn oil.
Bread punch
Bread punch What is Bread punch?
In Russian it is “bread cutting”. It sounds incomprehensible, but in fact everything is simple: fishing is carried out using granules squeezed out of a bread slice with a special tool - a die cutter. These tools are usually sold in sets, which contain die-cuts with tips of different sizes, producing grain granules of different diameters for catching different fish.
Previously, such a tool could not be found in our stores, but now in some places die-cuts have begun to be found on sale, primarily in carp departments.
So how does this tool work? Take a slice of bread, place it on a hard, flat surface and stick a die cutter into it. It turns out that the depression in it is filled with bread, and due to the fact that the thickness of the slice is greater than the depth of the cutting, the granule turns out to be compressed and, therefore, then it holds more securely on the hook.
Next, the die-cut filled with bread is taken in one hand, and the hook is inserted into the bread with the other hand, and the sting should go from top to bottom, and the shank of the hook should be parallel to the die-cut. The tip of the hook pierces the bread and falls into the slot. Next, you need to turn the hook and use it to pull the bread granule out of the die-cut. Now, if you cast, the most interesting thing will happen - the bread swells and increases in size in water, the bait becomes soft, fluffy, and at the same time it holds perfectly on the hook.
Useful tips
- When you go fishing for crucian carp, don’t be lazy to take several types of bread with you. This fish has variable taste preferences. If yesterday a crucian carp was actively hooked with a pellet of wheat or Borodino bread, today it can only be caught with a piece of pancake or a sweet bun.
- Mostly only bread crumb is used as a fishing bait. However, you should not throw away the cut crusts. Grind them and add them to complementary foods.
- Don’t forget, fishing with bread baits will be more successful with properly selected hooks. Their optimal size is No. 16-18. There is no need for a long forend. Whereas the rounded shape of the hook will allow the crucian carp to better swallow the “flour” bait.
- To make the bread-shaped bait sit more securely on the hook, add processed cheese to the pulp and mix it well until it becomes an elastic and dough-like mass.
In the video we will talk about preparing bait from bread for crucian carp:
Bread bait
Many people use bread as bait when catching white fish. But bread is rarely used as bait.
Toast bread works well for this application, but requires preparation. First you need to trim the crusts with a knife, then the pieces of bread are soaked and the water is squeezed out. The resulting bread mass is thrown into small balls. The disadvantage of this type of feeding is that large pieces of bread often remain in the mixture, with which the fish quickly gorge themselves.
If you prefer a finer ground mass and want to completely get rid of large pieces in your bait, you can make “liquid bread” for feeding. To do this, remove the crusts from the toast bread slices, then cut the slices into small pieces, grind in a mixer and seal tightly in a plastic bag. The bread particles contain enough moisture that they can be pressed into dense balls, but at the bottom they quickly disintegrate, forming a cloud. Feeding with their help is justified primarily when fishing for chub and roach.
To catch chub at temperatures around zero, a medium piece of white bread is enough for fishing the entire afternoon. In the summer, on a reservoir where large roaches live, you will need about four pieces of bread diluted in water for fishing for five hours.
“Liquid bread” can not only be thrown by hand, but also filled into a feeder. This bait is used not only for catching freshwater fish, but also mullet and sea bream. When sea fishing, it makes sense to mix bread with one or two cans of sardines or anchovies to enhance the attractiveness of the bait.
Bread
Now a little about the bread used. I want to immediately warn you that not every bun, even the freshest one, is suitable for this type of fishing! “Proper” bread, as well as die-cuts, appeared in our stores not so long ago. This is the so-called shelf-stable bread or sandwich bread. It comes pre-sliced and, if kept in a sealed bag, will keep for over a month! What is the advantage of such canned bread over freshly baked bread? Everything is very simple: sandwich bread is soaked in butter and therefore does not go stale for a very long time; usually such a slice remains soft in the open air for an hour. The sun and wind try to ruin fishing by drying out the bread, so on a pond while fishing it should be stored in a fairly high container, I use a large box. If the bread begins to dry out, you need to replace it with fresh one, and you can eat the old one with pleasure 
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Usually a couple of slices are enough for me for several hours of fishing. To catch small roach using a cutter that produces a granule with a diameter of 4 mm, I used hooks No. 20 and was pleased with the result. I would like to warn against using hooks made of excessively thick wire - it is better to save them for large and heavy baits.
