Bread Rigs

Why use bread you may ask? It’s artificial and not naturally found in the water. All I can say is that bread has been used by many anglers all over Australia, for many years, with great success. I even try using it when I go overseas and it works. Not only does it make a great bait, it’s also great as a burley, either by itself or added in with other ingredients.

Personally, I prefer to use white bread rather than brown or multi grain. It can be fresh or stale, it doesn’t seem to matter once you have added a bit of water to it.

There are heaps of fish that I target that can’t resist the temptation on chowing down on some bread, including bream, trevally, mullet, drummer, yellowtail, slimy mullet and even luderick.

Technique 1

If you are fishing where there is a bit of current, mould the bread (no crust) around the whole of the hook into the shape of a tear drop. In doing this you will cover (yes cover) the point, barb, and eye of the hook.

Before doing this, I would grab the Pro-Cure Scent of your choice (I prefer Garlic Plus or Aniseed) and warm the bottle up so that it is a bit on the runny side. Then I pour some over the bread and knead it into it. It’s then just a matter of moulding it around the hook and getting it in where the fish are.

This bait can be either used unweighted, with a running sinker, on a long leader or suspended under a float or bobby cork. What tends to happen is that the fish will be attracted to the bread and start picking at it, then once it gets a taste of the bread and the scent it will tend to swallow it.

Technique 2

Cut the bread into a rectangle shape of about 4 x 2cm. Place the hook, with the line attached, onto the bread and it fold over so that it is now a 2cm square. Pinch the bread together for 1cm of the bread and mould it to the eye of the hook. Leave the bottom half untouched.

You will find that when you cast this unweighted bait into the water it will float and then after a short time, if a fish hasn’t already devoured it, it will slowly sink through your burley trail.

Bream, trevally, drummer and even luderick will readily take this bait off the surface. When doing this make sure that you burley with either soaked white bread or breadcrumbs.

Rigging Diagrams

In the diagrams you will find one bread bait has been moulded and the other is only half moulded onto the hook. The one on the left (top) will give you that extra casting distance you may need when fishing unweighted, while the rig on the right (bottom) will allow the bread to float or slowly sink.

Bread is inexpensive, easy to get your hands on and is a favourite of mine when it comes to targeting mullet, garfish, bream, drummer, luderick and even carp.