Re: Red loch bream
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:04 pm
By total accident I left sweet corn in a tub for a day in the summer,it went all sticky and I thought of chucking it in the bin.i ended up using it and the roach loved it,just goes to show.Vole wrote: ↑Sat Apr 01, 2017 4:57 pm Bread would be my first choice, unless it always got snaffled by tiddlers. A bit of wet, pressed Warburtons on a #12 for starters, going up to a quarter-slice of fresh, rolled up tight and lashed onto the back of a #6 with several turns of white or cream cotton ( or silk, so long as it will rot) if tinies prove problematic. Yes, the latter is big and buoyant, and may need a shot to get it down, but any roach that takes that won't be a nuisance fish, and any bream worth catching will not reject it without good reason.
A mate always lets his groundbait ferment a few days, and his bream catches, which are a by-catch from the carp he's really after, are often quite something. Sometimes he gets them on two one-inch cubes of meat, hair-rigged on a size two; when he steps down to one cube on a four, he's getting serious about them. Two pinkies on a #20 is definitely only for highly pressured bream!
Of course, he might have got them so drunk that they drop their guard...
I've had roach on big bits of bread so I don't see why a really big piece wouldn't catch a big bream.well I'm back up the loch tomorrow so hopefully I will connect with something more substantial,the doubles are there,it's just a matter of time and patience.to be high pressure tomorrow so I'm not holding my breath but you never know,I will try bread and see what happens.ive got the hemp oil added to the brown crumb along with some tracix to darken it.