Santiago wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 9:41 pm
The baits you think are static on the bottom may well be moving due to water being pushed and swirled around them by the fins of fish like roach and bream. The perch sees a flash of yellow and white and grabs it. Without a camera down there filming the perch eating the corn it's pure speculation as to just how static the baits like corn and bread are. I think it's more likely that they move quite a lot when other fish are feeding right next to the hook bait.
I would normally have agreed. However, yesterday I was fishing with a pole
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(black stuff) and a 2 no8 float which disappeared at the slightest movement, it didn't even bob or tremble until it went under. There were plenty of occasions during the session where it would have been reasonable to suspect a moving bait due to fish, where the float was moving.