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0:00 fishing baits can sometimes be quite expensive so today's challenge is to catch three different species from three different venues on these three super cheap supermarket baits [Music] whilst you can fish with bread uh sinking by squeezing it tightly or liquidizing it what i'm actually going to do to start this session is fish on the surface and to try and get those fish feeding up on the top i'll take a little bit of bread break it up into small pieces start scattering it out over the surface one little trick which i'll show you now is if you break off a load of pieces of bread small
0:46 pieces they're like a couple of centimeters maybe an inch in size break up loads of them give them a squeeze together not really tight into a block but tight enough to sort of just clamp together then you throw it you can get it out way further once it hits the surface it breaks up and spreads out and therefore you get your little chunks of bread a bit further out than you would do a little bit at a time now unlike me and my brother alex not all bread is created equal there's a specific type of bread which just works so much better for fishing for a couple of reasons the bread that we like to use is thick sliced white bread now brown bread is definitely healthier and definitely
1:34 better for you some people will say it tastes better too but for fishing brown bread doesn't stick to the hook as well it doesn't grip the hook it's not so squishy and like tacky for this reason we'll always go for the white bread the other reason why we use white instead of brown is the fish just seem to notice it better like brown bread sat on the surface yeah you'll catch but they just seem to notice the white bread and come up and feed on it more readily might be something to do with the fact that it's full of salt but i can't really be certain but yeah when you're out in your shop looking for bread to use check out a thick slice because the thick slices make better hook baits and also yeah keep your eyes out for white bread too the other good thing about bread it's so cheap
2:19 this loaf i think cost me 70p or something and that'll do me for a day of surface fishing so what's not to love about that but these fish have proven a little bit tricky so i'm gonna have to put in a little bit more time try and find where they are hopefully i can catch one [Music] a lot of people will ask in the comments on this channel or how do you put bread on because mine always falls off after one cast well to be honest it's the same for me bread will pretty much always fall off after one two casts if you're lucky but if you want it to float you take the crust little
3:05 gopro bread holding shelf here and slip it through the bit where you folded it over i tend to find that means it's gone through one bit of crust and then another bit of crust and therefore it stays on just that little bit better the other thing is for casting you want it to be a bit more dense so that you can get the weight to cast so i give it a little squeeze not like a really tight squeeze because that will make it sink but a little squeeze and that will cast just fine if you've got a crusty loaf you know one of those um you know home-baked sort of things you get from the bakery rather than sliced that can be really firm and crusty that that bread you want to hook dip in the water and then make the cask because by dipping it will get more weight if you dip this yes it will get a bit more weight but it'll probably fall off the hook
3:51 conversely if you want to fish on the bottom or slowly sinking a piece of bread then you take the middle bit you take that lovely white soft stuff give it a little squeeze slip it onto the hook but for fishing on the surface peel off a bit of crust fold it over slip the hook through give it a little squeeze and then cast out oh crumbs there they are there they are funny isn't it how you can go ages only see a few fish and then they're all showed up in one area wow [Music]
4:40 yes finally hey i've hooked one yes caught one on the bread a little bit of bread crust on the surface it was tricky but we caught one part one of the challenge is complete [Music] well there we go that is a carp caught on a little bit of bread the next two baits corn and spam also work quite well for carp but i think we'll change things up we'll go to a different location and target some other species with those baits
5:29 we are now going to a day ticket fishery called latchettes where i'm going to float fish we've got josh in the back alex in the passenger seat and i am driving the fishmobile to our next destination [Music] well this section of the video is sponsored by tesco's own sweetcorn now i've got about half a bag left because i've used this on a previous session this single bag if i can remember correctly it's 50p i think which is amazing value for money given that it's almost a kilogram of bait in
6:14 here what i'm gonna do is feed a little bit of this and then fish a wagler float over the top don't know what i'll catch hopefully something exciting [Music] so what i've done is taken a loaded wagon float which means it's got some weight already on the float and pinched two small split shot either side of it to lock it in place that shots the float right down so that only the very tip is visible further down the line i've got
7:01 another small shot smaller than the other two actually very fine one and that just helps see bites an inch or two down from that is my hook a size 14. i'm going to put a little piece of sweet corn on that obviously i'm putting a piece of sweetcorn on that because that's all i'm allowing myself to use in this part of the challenge slip the hook inside pop the point back out it's important to keep the point of the hook exposed because that will help you hook into more fish and connect with them when you get a bite i'll cast this out ping a few more grains of corn around it see if we can catch something over the years we have caught well some of our biggest ever carp with
7:46 sweetcorn we've caught big tench big breem i was kind of hoping for a nice big tench today but we'll see how it goes but i i think corn's a good bait because it's very bright it's highly visual the water that i'm fishing in today is quite murky but the you know the bright colors is pretty easy for the fish to find it seems to work well even on natural waters that haven't been fished before you know some places you'll go you chuck out boilies and stuff and they just don't really respond very well to it they don't really realize that it's food for whatever reason fish in even wild waters a bit of corn falls falls through the water in front of them and they just try and eat it so it just seems to work really really well the other thing of course is that it's cheap you can get a frozen bag of corn for less than a pound and you get
8:32 about a kilogram so that's really good value for money i'd say you get a better quality sweet corn larger grains juicier individual bits of corn if you buy it in tins but tins are a bit more expensive i'd say the main positive of buying tins of corn is that you can actually leave a couple of them in your car in your van or in the cupboards at home and then you've got bait whenever you need it you don't have to keep it frozen it stays fresh in those tins so i always like to have a tin or two of corn at home or in the car just because you never know when you might need it today i'm using corn just straight on the hook hooked side on just car straight out and that works great but if you're sort of specimen fishing maybe you're going for a big carp or tench and
9:19 you want to cast in with a ledger rig hair rigged and leave your bait out there for hours and hours small fish can nibble the corn away relatively easily so you might want to use fake corn which is basically like a plastic rubbery version of sweetcorn it looks the same you can get flavoured versions as well but it's just a bit more resilient and will stay on your hook as long as you need it yes i have a fish okay it's not big but it's silver colored oh yay my favorite fish in the world that was very sarcastic because it's green nothing against green
10:05 but these little things are very slimy lovely nice and slimy very slimy i think i'm done here to be honest it's been very very tricky the very hot weather i think is what has ruined my chances or at least that's my excuse anyway because sweet corn has produced us fish many many times before just not today in this really hot weather where we're headed next though is the
10:52 river so i failed on the second part of the challenge let's hope that the third part is a bit more productive [Music] i'm down by the river now and it's certainly a relief to get out of the sun there's loads of shade here from the trees so i'm quite happy about that but this part of the challenge is to try and catch a chub on spam spam is an amazing river fishing bait i think mostly because it's scent it's oiliness it pumps out smells into the water and when the river is murky it's especially good today the water is i don't know it's not crystal clear but we haven't had rain for a while um so it's definitely not that lovely you know murky color when you just know that you're going to catch chubbum bar well
11:37 today might be a little bit more difficult but i'm going to tie on a hook pinch on a few split shot and open my tin of spam well you can get these proper meat cutting tools that will cut perfect cubes every time i think that's quite good if you want to make really small cubes like tiny ones so if you're match fishing or something but down on the river when i'm making hook baits i just chop it up into little sections and then i can break bits apart as well but yeah a few different size pieces if it's uh very colored in the water and the fish are feeding hard a big cube is better but if the fish are quite shy like they're probably going to be today then a smaller piece of spam is probably going to be better
12:24 [Music] there's actually quite a big base that wasn't what i had in mind the bikes i was getting i thought they in my mind i thought they would just big chub playing with the hook bait but no i think they were this is fairly decent-sized days though i think i'm gonna look further downstream for those children [Music]
13:09 around a week or two ago i actually fished on this river a little bit further upstream and i managed to catch a really nice barbell using the same tactics as i've used today just a little bit of spam and a split shot pinched on the line interestingly of the three or four really big barbell i've caught on this river all but one of them have come on spam it's been a really consistent bait for me although today nothing has worked but i hope this video shows you that you don't always have to spend a lot of money on bait you can go to the supermarket pick up something like spam corn bread and uh yeah it can work you
