Tench on Luncheon Meat ?
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Tench on Luncheon Meat ?
Anyone ever pick up a slime submarine whilst carping ?
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Re: Tench on Luncheon Meat ?
They can be pretty partial to bit of luncheon meat, I’ve even caught one fishing a river for chub.
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Curry powdered and slightly fried cubes were a fave tench bait before the boilie brigade
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Re: Tench on Luncheon Meat ?
Tench in slow eastern lowland rivers - probably not in your Welsh torrents.
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Re: Tench on Luncheon Meat ?
Taffypiker wrote: ↑Thu May 05 2022 19:56 -Was the lower Bristol Avon , I think they are more common in slower bits of the upper river though.
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Mattjb wrote: ↑Thu May 05 2022 21:23 -That Kennett and Avon Canal must be stuffed with themTaffypiker wrote: ↑Thu May 05 2022 19:56 -Was the lower Bristol Avon , I think they are more common in slower bits of the upper river though.
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Re: Tench on Luncheon Meat ?
Taffypiker wrote: ↑Fri May 06 2022 07:28 -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.Mattjb wrote: ↑Thu May 05 2022 21:23 -That Kennett and Avon Canal must be stuffed with themTaffypiker wrote: ↑Thu May 05 2022 19:56 -Was the lower Bristol Avon , I think they are more common in slower bits of the upper river though.
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Re: Tench on Luncheon Meat ?
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.
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Re: Tench on Luncheon Meat ?
peteren wrote: ↑Fri May 06 2022 08:47 -+1I 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.
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Re: Tench on Luncheon Meat ?
Taffypiker wrote: ↑Thu May 05 2022 13:09 -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.Anyone ever pick up a slime submarine whilst carping ?
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Re: Tench on Luncheon Meat ?
Mark Phillips wrote: ↑Fri May 06 2022 22:50 -My mate swears by it for tench , bream and carpTaffypiker wrote: ↑Thu May 05 2022 13:09 -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.Anyone ever pick up a slime submarine whilst carping ?
I have had more success on bread
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Re: Tench on Luncheon Meat ?
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
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Re: Tench on Luncheon Meat ?
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 ...
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Re: Tench on Luncheon Meat ?
peteren wrote: ↑Fri May 06 2022 08:47 -Had my first tench of the season - and first-ever from an estate lake in 15 years!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.
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.
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peteren wrote: ↑Thu Jun 09 2022 15:37 -Nice onepeteren wrote: ↑Fri May 06 2022 08:47 -Had my first tench of the season - and first-ever from an estate lake in 15 years!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.
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.
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Re: Tench on Luncheon Meat ?
Kev Berry wrote: ↑Thu May 05 2022 13:29 -and i still use it kev , but the carp like it tooCurry powdered and slightly fried cubes were a fave tench bait before the boilie brigade
.....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 .....
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stubbojo wrote: ↑Thu Jun 09 2022 22:22 -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.Kev Berry wrote: ↑Thu May 05 2022 13:29 -and i still use it kev , but the carp like it tooCurry powdered and slightly fried cubes were a fave tench bait before the boilie brigade
.....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 .....
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
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Re: Tench on Luncheon Meat ?
Kev Berry wrote: ↑Thu Jun 09 2022 23:12 -Agreed, Kev.stubbojo wrote: ↑Thu Jun 09 2022 22:22 -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.Kev Berry wrote: ↑Thu May 05 2022 13:29 -and i still use it kev , but the carp like it tooCurry powdered and slightly fried cubes were a fave tench bait before the boilie brigade
.....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 .....
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
Struggle for tench in most "classic tench" lakes around me from 40-odd years ago, after clubs' carp and bream stockings.
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Re: Tench on Luncheon Meat ?
Fecking carp ff sake