Floating baits

[LuckyLuca]

Things seem to be split between bread and dog biscuits, with Baxters Meaty chunks the favourite.
I'm firmly in the bread camp at the moment. It's cheap, convenient and works really well.

Which is you favourite and why?

[Mark]

Some waters I go to you will not catch with bread but bakers dog biscuits work fine and other waters can be the opposite. I tend to take both just in case the carp decide to change the rules.

[Trevor]

Bread for me.
I use half a tin loaf to make sandwiches and use the other half for fishing. Lunch and bait for about a quid!
I have some Baker's dog biccies in the freezer, but I haven't used them for ages.

[Reedling]

I do like a lump of bread, be it crust of a lump just pinched on by the eye/line. I always feel confident when using it and in the scum or dangled off a reed stem there are not many carp that will turn their nose up at it. When I had my Lurchers, terrier, ferrets and softbill birds they used to love eating Beta Field... the Carp loved it also and is the only dog biscuit I have used as a bait.

[Bob Brookes]

Large Sonus oily floaters for me as hook baits. Smaller ones of the same type or dog biscuits as freebies.

Bread is good anywhere where there are no waterbirds. Where birds are present then for me it is not an option.

[Reedling]

Water Voles and Marsh Frogs like bread as well, where I fish. So if any chance of a problem I slow sink my lump of bread flake if I can or use another method altogether, you just cannot be too safe BB.

[Nigel Rainton]

Chum mixer soaked in boiling water with dissolved Marmite. Nothing refuses it :-)