Catching perch with bread?

[bingo]

I was a bit surprised when reeling in a fish caught on legered bread in a local river that it was a perch! A half decent one too (1lb something).

 

Is this common?

[BREAMAGAIN]

Might have hit it as it flashed thru the water thinking was small fish !

 

Have caught Pike that way (not deliberate!)

[Tony U]

I have caught them on all sorts of oddball baits, Bread, Cheese (particularly good at sorting out bigger specimens for some reason), Sweetcorn and Luncheon Meat.

I reckon the Perch is an opportunist feeder just like any other fish and whilst I would not recommend any of the above as a banker they will catch fish if they are feeding.

[bingo]

Interesting. I presume it just saw the white of the bread flake and went for it!

[edd]

ive seen a 4lb perch caught on bread and ive caught perch over a lb on sweetcorn but very rarely bout twice a year

[fantasticfisherman]

catching perch on luncheon meat is quite common because it's happened to me a few times, i presume because perch are predatory they like the meat's smell

[argyll]

Saw a pike caught on a small trout pellet several weeks ago. Prior to that the bait was being attacked constanty by crayfish. I think the pike was after the crayfish and picked up the pellet instead. Had a pike on two maggots which was being hit by grayling. Reckon if I'd have landed the pike it probably would have had a grayling in its mouth. Lost count of the number of times a perch or a pike have followed a breadflake caught roach or gudgeon back to the boat. Had the pike hit the bait earlier, I might have claimed a pike on bread flake.

[Russell Fitzpatrick]

fed a big shaol of weirpool chub some left over hemp the other day,there in full view was a stripey(only one about 1lb+) fedding on it amongst em,and my mate say's they dont eat hemp...-bowlocks!

 

[ 20. September 2005, 06:27 PM: Message edited by: Ratty Fitzpatrick46 ]

[zedhead]

its not just perch that are caught by accident on suprising baits, eels also come out to bread, roach to 14mm boilies, pike on halibut pellets etc. personally the only similar experience ive had is a perch taking luncheon meat whilst rolling for barbel.

[Steve Burke]

I've very occasionally had perch on bread myself, including static. I've much more often had them on sweetcorn. However, I'd describe neither of these as good perch baits.

 

I've also had pike on bread, but only once, and it was a "jacklet". However I recall the late Bill Keal, a well-known writer and photographer of his time, had a bigger pike from Crystal Palace Park Lake on bread paste. Its weight - 32lbs!

 

[ 20. September 2005, 07:10 PM: Message edited by: Steve Burke ]