Bread Bait

[Dirty]

Hey there Ausfishers!

Just wanted to know how to use bread for bait... the best methods or reciepies?

A few years back I made a bread / cheese dough and caught about one 35cm Bream...then I found it would disintegrate too quickly esp. where there was tidal influence.

I want to target Bream and was thinking about targeting some Talipia or whatever strikes...maybe mullet. I will be trying this out this Thursday so any responses would be appreciated.

My idea was to use a tiny hook and about 25cm of normal 10ib mono for a trace..hanging off a float...am I on the right track? Speaking of which are there any size limits for Talipia?

George

[tiny_tinny]

Many years back I was fishing in the Noosa River and ran out of bait. I had a Vegemite sandwich, though, and used a bit of the crust as bait - and caught a legal sized bream. I don't know if it was the bread or the Vegemite that did it, but it worked! Never tried it since.

Mike

[Freeeedom]

No legal size for Tilapia - they are noxious species and all must be killed no matter what size. They should not be returned to the water, even when dead.
Bread is a good bream bait, especially in quiet water. Use sections of the crust as bait and the white crumbled up for berley. It is deadly around jetty pylons when you can let it sink unweighted, or with a tiny split shot, just to take it down. Watch for your line to start moving away to indictae a bite because you can't keep in touch wth the unweighted bait in the normal way.
When after mullet or garfish squeeze some of the fresh white of the loaf into a ball around your hook and use the crusts for berley
Cheers Freeeedom

[Noelm]

Bread is an excelent bait, if you want to catch Mullet and stuff in rivers and lakes, just squeeze some freshish bread into a little ball with little or no air, put onto a small hook and after some bread burley you can get quite a few to eat or for bait, around the rocks, bread is great for drummer and the like, Bream love it too.

[Tuggerah_LAkes_man]

Hi mate,

Try this.

Use 9lb line conected to a swivel and a snap with a small free running sinker and Tiny suicide hook.A Trace has to many reflections off the sun and may deter fish from the line.Only try and use a trace when fishing for one specific species, eg eels,sting rays,Baracoutta's sharks which have raiser sharp teeth that can chew through mono line.

Will do some research on Talibia for you.I have not had much experience with this species of fish.

Kind Regards,

Nick

[favourite_whiting]

Hi,
What that fish look like??? Tilapia???? Do you have a picture of that fish that you can put on this chatroom so we can know what kind it is look like as we have looked at books but cant find it.
Happy fishing,
Hobbywhiting

No legal size for Tilapia - they are noxious species and all must be killed no matter what size. They should not be returned to the water, even when dead.
Bread is a good bream bait, especially in quiet water. Use sections of the crust as bait and the white crumbled up for berley. It is deadly around jetty pylons when you can let it sink unweighted, or with a tiny split shot, just to take it down. Watch for your line to start moving away to indictae a bite because you can't keep in touch wth the unweighted bait in the normal way.
When after mullet or garfish squeeze some of the fresh white of the loaf into a ball around your hook and use the crusts for berley
Cheers #Freeeedom

[Freeeedom]

Hi,
What that fish look like??? Tilapia???? Do you have a picture of that fish that you can put on this chatroom so we can know what kind it is look like as we have looked at books but cant find it.
Happy fishing,
Hobbywhiting

[quote author=Freeeedom link=1153232713/0#2 date=1153259373]No legal size for Tilapia - they are noxious species and all must be killed no matter what size. They should not be returned to the water, even when dead.
Bread is a good bream bait, especially in quiet water. Use sections of the crust as bait and the white crumbled up for berley. It is deadly around jetty pylons when you can let it sink unweighted, or with a tiny split shot, just to take it down. Watch for your line to start moving away to indictae a bite because you can't keep in touch wth the unweighted bait in the normal way.
When after mullet or garfish squeeze some of the fresh white of the loaf into a ball around your hook and use the crusts for berley
Cheers #Freeeedom

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Have a look at this thread

http://www.ausfish.com.au/forum/YaBB...3257;start=all

Cheers Freeeedom

[Dirty]

Thanks for all your responses....

I will get my gear together and head for the local estuary...after I hit the city reaches of the river for a early morning fish... will be targeting the Talipia around 10am.

POST later in the the estuary reports section... thanks again.

George.

[brooksey]

here is what the Tilapia looks like,

as for catching bream with bread,

i just use the inside of the loaf, crust dont sink well enough

just a single hook and squash bread so its a ball and thread it onto hook

[Dirty]

cheers for that everyone!

I will give it a go next time im able!