bread (5)

Jackson · 发表于 2004-12-16 09:46:00

bread (5)
Bread Crust
The very tact that the late Owen Wenttvorth
fished bread crust so exclusively for his
beloved <st1:place>Stour</st1:place> roach must be recommendation enough for this bait. Many years ago
crust was known as 'Cube' and the time
honoured method was to cut the bottom
crust off an unsliced loaf leaving a layer of crumb intact. This long length of crust was then dampened and left under two weighted
boards overnight. Once fishing, the strips
were merely cut into the desired hook size
Great care was taken to keep the crust away
from the sunlight because once it dried out
it was totally useless.
There is no doubt that this method of fishing
crust would work as well as ever but the more usual way today is merely to pull a piece of crust from a fresh loaf and push the hook through the crust so that the point comes up
into the white crumb.
Crust is, of course, very buoyant and shotting
 patterns must overcome this. It is as well
to check the bait out on the margins before
settling down to fish.
Crust is a very successful bait shotted for
roach and chub but it is also useful in still
waters, especially where soft mud or dense
fine weed is a problem. It was to overcome the
problems of disappearing baits that Richard
<st1:City><st1:place>Walker</st1:place></st1:City> pioneered the balanced crust over
forty years ago. In his classic book Still Water
Angling <st1:City><st1:place>Walker</st1:place></st1:City> writes:
'Where the bottom is very soft indeed or 
covered With silkweed, it is possible to fish a crust
sunk, With a running lead which should be as
small as possible, on the cast, stopped by a
shot an inch or more from the hook, 
according to the depth of the silkwecd or mud. The
buoyancy of the crust keeps it just above the
level of the mud or weed. If the right 
propertions of crust and paste are chosen, it can be
made to sink very slowly and will rest on the
surface of the mud, or on silkweed without
sinking into it. The bait, if properly balanced,
takes a minute or tWo before beginning to
sink. The crust should be put on the bend of
the hook and the paste moulded round the
shank. The bait then comes to rest With the
line emerging from underneath, where it is
not encountered by the lips of a fish 
investigating it.'
It was Walker, too, who developed the
method of floating bread crust for carp. Of
course, this technique had been known before
but it was Walker and his group who took it to
refined lengths. <st1:City><st1:place>Walker</st1:place></st1:City> concentrated 
particularly on margin fishing his crusts. He 
discovered that carp were very keen to Visit the
Windward shore of a lake at night to browse
on washed-up titbits. He would position
himself there at dusk waiting for the patrolling
big fish, his crust dangling from the rod tip,
ready to be lowered once a fish appeared.
Believe it or not, this method still works
very well! On a great many waters carp
become very used to floating pieces of bread
and, now that carp anglers seem exclusively
switched on to 'high tech' baits, a piece of
floating crust is often something that carp feel
very safe With. Floating crust also picks up its
fair share of big tench and rudd and, though
the bait does seem old fashioned, it is unWise
to neglect it entirely.
 
 (to be continued)

hailizi · 发表于 2013-6-25 20:01:11

Bread for fishing - good idea!

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