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Bread

Alex Gowney

Alex Gowney

Senior Member & Supporter
Have any of you ever done any good using bread for barbel? Either intentionally or while fishing for chub? It seems generally a fairly rare occurrence yet reading the books and great articles of Martin James he catches lots of barbel on bread. I met him on the Teme once many years ago and he was mixing bread mash ready for a barbel session then. And in his book, At the Waters Edge, a fair bit is about catching barbel on the Kennet on bread. That is a river where I thought I had got one on bread but it turned out to be a violently fighting chub of 5.7. I have also never caught a barbel on cheese, though I have tried a few times.
 
I have had Barbel on Cheese Paste when after Chub, so I would think that nothing is off the table where a hungry fish is concerned .

David
 
I’ve caught them on bread but granted they were not the desired species.

very high water/flood conditions i actually favour cheese for them over other more classic barbel baits. I’ve had quite afew on cheese by design yet it’s another not really associated with them.

To be fair you could catch em on a bare hook laying on the gravel.
When they are heads down rooting about everything goes in that gob
 
I too have caught Barbel on bread whilst chub fishing.

A few years ago, I recall watching an amateurish fishing video on YouTube. In the video, the guy was moulding flake around the hook and then dipping it, in tinned steak and gravey, acting as a glug. He actually caught a few Barbel, but I just couldn’t take it seriously! 🙃
 
Ive caught 12 barbel in a day when i was intending to fish for chub on the middle severn couldnt get a touch on pellet
 
To be honest , if feeding Barbel, will eat almost anything that's put in front of them , bread included .I have caught Barbel both by design and by accident on sweetcorn , worms , maggots , casters, hemp , tares , spam , luncheon meat , meat balls , raw steak , pellets , boilies , wasp grub/cake , cheese , sausage , salami, pepperami ,liver , dead minnows ,bread the list goes on .The phrase in the old angling books was certain fish have a ' catholic taste ' , Barbel are such a fish , they are a basically greedy and a little lacking in the guile department ! Having said all that , I have caught other species on a huge variety of baits , chub and tench in particular will take almost anything if in the mood , however they soon ' go off' a bait , where as the good old Barbel just keeps on munching whatever lands in front of them . Bread like many baits is none selective , i.e. most fish will eat it , I certainly don't think that Barbel have an aversion to bread , just that very few anglers go Barbel fishing with bread as there main bait , therefore it is not seen as a Barbel bait
 
Ian Grant said:
In a word no ! over maybe 100's of sessions fishing for chub, and Roach..... It's all I use for Roach ! I've never once had a Barbel take it ! If you forced me to use it, I'd make a stiff paste and flavour it ! ;)
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That roughly squares with my experience - lots of bread fishing for roach and I’ve hooked 1 barbel (on the B Avon) in all that time. It was quite fun on a light trotting rod.

I’d rather use a dead fish than a bit of bread……
 
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