Santiago wrote:If you're really into bread as a hook bait then I highly recommend reading LA Parker 'Roach :How to Catch Them ' where he describes in depth how it was used most effectively by Thames roach anglers of the past etc.etc. By using an underwater telescope he even observed just how fish take bread, and found fresh bread to be not the best since the roach don't bite confidently, whereas with pre-soaked wet bread bites are confident and much easier to hit. Now the trick to using wet bread is in the hooking, and the information is all there in his wonderful little book. In the summertime I tried it and found it was true ; especially traditional wet flake (not what one thinks as flake, not the white, it's actually just the brown crust with all white removed).
I love roach,enjoy using bread in all its forms......and thanks to Trevor I have now ordered a second hand copy of this book to continue the enjoyment our sport offers.
-Nige.
