I plumped for the lime mousse with craquelin (it's a rolled out
breadcrust, a bit like a thin biscuit).
The super series came from the Great Ouse and accepted
breadcrust baits on size 6 hooks, legered on ultra short links after the Binley Woods specialist had pre-baited selected swims with three mashed loaves.
But some things never change...the Binley Woods maestro tempted it with a
breadcrust offering, the supreme chub bait that has led to the downfall of the majority of his best fish.Miles said: ``In recent barbel-fishing campaigns on the Ouse I've had a lot of good chub which have taken meat, paste, and other concoctions intended for barbel.
So why did a portly 21lb 13oz grass-eater slurp a chunk of floating
breadcrust in a Cambridgeshire lake near Ely to give Roger Pleasants, 14, the catch of his young life?
But that can be a messy business and these days I prefer to either trim back a floating (pop-up) boilie to look like a mixer and hair rig it, or to fish
breadcrust straight on the hook.
His
breadcrust bait, floated out on a size 6 hook and 8lb line, is a simple rig familiar to carp anglers and attracted a slurping take from a big 8lb7oz 5dms thick-lipped mullet.
Chris Davies, of Caerphilly, went for the roach and put 14lb in his net, David West, of Llwynypia, landed carp to 6lb and Dean Booker, of St Athan, used a method feeder and
breadcrust as bait to catch 18 carp to 6lb.
His simple old-fashioned bait of surface-floated
breadcrust raised Guernsey's target by 4lb 12oz and won a Summit rear-drag fixed-spool reel in The SP and Shakespeare competition.
THERE'S an element of truth in the old wives' tale about eating
breadcrusts.
There's also an element of truth in the old wives' tale about eating
breadcrusts.