Tench on Luncheon Meat ?

[Taffypiker]

Anyone ever pick up a slime submarine whilst carping ?

[Mattjb]

They can be pretty partial to bit of luncheon meat, I’ve even caught one fishing a river for chub.

[Kev Berry]

Curry powdered and slightly fried cubes were a fave tench bait before the boilie brigade

[peteren]

I've been bothered by carp whilst tenching on it.

[Taffypiker]

They can be pretty partial to bit of luncheon meat, I’ve even caught one fishing a river for chub.

I have never caught a tench in a river

Pond yes , Canal yes

[Taffypiker]

Curry powdered and slightly fried cubes were a fave tench bait before the boilie brigade

My mate swears bt peperami but I never get a touch

[peteren]

Tench in slow eastern lowland rivers - probably not in your Welsh torrents.

[Bob Watson]

Tench in slow eastern lowland rivers - probably not in your Welsh torrents.

Even the water hates being in Wales

[Mattjb]

They can be pretty partial to bit of luncheon meat, I’ve even caught one fishing a river for chub.

I have never caught a tench in a river

Pond yes , Canal yes

Was the lower Bristol Avon , I think they are more common in slower bits of the upper river though.

[Taffypiker]

Tench in slow eastern lowland rivers - probably not in your Welsh torrents.

The rivers into our wonderful capital city are slow in the lower reaches but mostly chub , dace , roach and perch and pike

[Taffypiker]

They can be pretty partial to bit of luncheon meat, I’ve even caught one fishing a river for chub.

I have never caught a tench in a river

Pond yes , Canal yes

Was the lower Bristol Avon , I think they are more common in slower bits of the upper river though.

That Kennett and Avon Canal must be stuffed with them

[Mattjb]

They can be pretty partial to bit of luncheon meat, I’ve even caught one fishing a river for chub.

I have never caught a tench in a river

Pond yes , Canal yes

Was the lower Bristol Avon , I think they are more common in slower bits of the upper river though.

That Kennett and Avon Canal must be stuffed with them

Yep there used to be loads around Bath on the K and A years ago. Not sure if they are still there in the same numbers now though.

[peteren]

I mourn the loss of most "classic" tench waters round here - ponds and estate lakes. Most have been "improved" by stockings of carp and bream which seem to displace the tench which I far preferred.

[Mike F]

I mourn the loss of most "classic" tench waters round here - ponds and estate lakes. Most have been "improved" by stockings of carp and bream which seem to displace the tench which I far preferred.

+1

[Mark Phillips]

Anyone ever pick up a slime submarine whilst carping ?

I've used luncheon meat for tench as a primary bait for God knows how many years. However, I think you'll find very few people use luncheon for carp these days, especially on waters with a lot of smaller bream and err... tench. Another variation on the theme, sausage meat with curry powder - I don't use that these days, but going back a few years we did really well with that. Luncheon is excellent, but you can improve on it by soaking the cubed meat in something special... not saying what mind, an edge is an edge Coincidently, I'm out tomorrow at sparrow's fart for some red eyes. Very fortunate to have some really good tench waters down my way.

[Taffypiker]

Anyone ever pick up a slime submarine whilst carping ?

I've used luncheon meat for tench as a primary bait for God knows how many years. However, I think you'll find very few people use luncheon for carp these days, especially on waters with a lot of smaller bream and err... tench. Another variation on the theme, sausage meat with curry powder - I don't use that these days, but going back a few years we did really well with that. Luncheon is excellent, but you can improve on it by soaking the cubed meat in something special... not saying what mind, an edge is an edge Coincidently, I'm out tomorrow at sparrow's fart for some red eyes. Very fortunate to have some really good tench waters down my way.

My mate swears by it for tench , bream and carp

I have had more success on bread

[Roger5]

Maggots always worked for me, biggest 8.12 also the old Richworth strawberry yoghurt 7.12 and quite a few others roundabout the same stamp

[stubbojo]

tench have seemed to have thinned out in my parts , but when i do target them i like a worm bait or red maggots on a 14 on a heli fig ....and so do the carp ...

[Sebas]

Caught loads of small tench on spam

[Stewlaws]

I mourn the loss of most "classic" tench waters round here - ponds and estate lakes. Most have been "improved" by stockings of carp and bream which seem to displace the tench which I far preferred.

Plus 2 **

[peteren]

I mourn the loss of most "classic" tench waters round here - ponds and estate lakes. Most have been "improved" by stockings of carp and bream which seem to displace the tench which I far preferred.

Had my first tench of the season - and first-ever from an estate lake in 15 years!
Often do well there for bream on luncheon meat, but that was only bait that didn't produce!
Had them on corn, bread - and the tench on a cockle.

[Taffypiker]

I mourn the loss of most "classic" tench waters round here - ponds and estate lakes. Most have been "improved" by stockings of carp and bream which seem to displace the tench which I far preferred.

Had my first tench of the season - and first-ever from an estate lake in 15 years!
Often do well there for bream on luncheon meat, but that was only bait that didn't produce!
Had them on corn, bread - and the tench on a cockle.

Nice one

[stubbojo]

Curry powdered and slightly fried cubes were a fave tench bait before the boilie brigade

and i still use it kev , but the carp like it too
.....wheres all the big tench gone ....
having said that there probably still in the waters i used to fish for them , but these days there are more carp in these venues than there was then .....

[Kev Berry]

Curry powdered and slightly fried cubes were a fave tench bait before the boilie brigade

and i still use it kev , but the carp like it too
.....wheres all the big tench gone ....
having said that there probably still in the waters i used to fish for them , but these days there are more carp in these venues than there was then .....

Tench are quite timid feeders. Carp will bully them out and if food is scarce because of the carp they just fade away and die.
None of the fish farms like rearing them...takes too long.
They get lazy in a stock pond and just eat enough to keep them going. Chuck a few carp in and it stirs them up ...too many and they give up.
Thats why all the good tench waters are fast disapearing...too many carp.
Not just carp....if bream are there they push the tench out though not as bad as carp do

[peteren]

Curry powdered and slightly fried cubes were a fave tench bait before the boilie brigade

and i still use it kev , but the carp like it too
.....wheres all the big tench gone ....
having said that there probably still in the waters i used to fish for them , but these days there are more carp in these venues than there was then .....

Tench are quite timid feeders. Carp will bully them out and if food is scarce because of the carp they just fade away and die.
None of the fish farms like rearing them...takes too long.
They get lazy in a stock pond and just eat enough to keep them going. Chuck a few carp in and it stirs them up ...too many and they give up.
Thats why all the good tench waters are fast disapearing...too many carp.
Not just carp....if bream are there they push the tench out though not as bad as carp do

Agreed, Kev.

Struggle for tench in most "classic tench" lakes around me from 40-odd years ago, after clubs' carp and bream stockings.

[Taffypiker]

Fecking carp ff sake