fredcromer wrote:
:: I like to think a nicely baited bread-crust is the best type of
:: off-the-top carp baits, but for the 1st time, I tried the phoney
:: sweetcorn, used usually for ledgering, and the amount of 'takes' I
:: had was astonishong, considering i was 'playin' really. This is one
:: i'll be using again...I still have not found the best type of bread
:: that has a crust that doesn't split when threading the hook thro'

Get yourself a bait needle - or make one from a long needle with the end
bent double to form a long thin hook - push this through the bread, hook
your fishing hook and pull it through the other side of the bread - I use
them all the time for meat, catfood, bread and lots of other baits.

:: it, although an unsliced one from asdas comes pretty close,and like
:: i posted before, some roundish,triangularish, dog biccys from wilkos
:: that cost about 20p for 200...( If you pour boiling water on 'em the
:: night before,..drain...wrap in dry newspaper and stand overnight ...
:: they become hookable, and don't come off with a longish
:: cast.),..also another from wilkos looks exactly like the 'chum
:: mixer' but costs a lot less......and 'no' i don't work for wilkos, i
:: don't work period.....All the best...FRED C

Get your self a small bag of expanders from the tackle shop, these are made
for soaking and using as a hookbait for pole fishing (you cant cast them
when they're soaked-they're like snot) but when un soaked they bring all the
carp to the top - they can't resist 'em.......I just go along the bank and
drop a few handfuls no more than a few inches from the bank before I set up
and they are into 'em almost immediately - I then sneak up and drop a piece
of bread in their path, it rarely fails and the only problems come from the
'feathered menace'.

When summertime draws on, you may notice that chum mixers lose their
effectiveness - a good idea is to flavour the water that you use to soak
them in, I've used vanilla essence and strawberry flavouring to good effect
and even oxo, you can buy flavourings from a cake making shop or any good
supermarket for about 30 - 50p - don't go to the tackle shop or he'll try to
charge you a fiver for 40 pence worth of flavouring (but it does have a
picture of a big fish on it though!)