Specimen Tench Quest

[Droppenfish]

My quest for a Specimen tench continues tonight after work, as I'll have a chance to fish "the Little" again. I was speaking to one of the regulars down there earlier this week and he tipped me off that prawns are the bait to use if I want to latch onto the really big fish - He's had one of 8lbs out last weekend. At first it struck me as a rather expensive bait, but actually you can get a big frozen bag at tesco's for £2.00 these days. I've left them to defrost in a bucket of water, I'll then use the water to make up some fishy smelling groundbait..with a bit of luck it should pull plenty of fish into the swim. I'll post on here and let you know how it goes.... Wish me luck!

[Fishing Forum Admin]

Good luck to nice mate and do not forget good old lobworms with them copped up for ground bait. Mmm can see thoughs bubbles rising now. Head les king prawn of the fish counter are worth a look at to

[Lazarus]

I always add a good cupful of molasses to my groundbait when I'm after Tench. It works with brown crumb and the usual sample hookbaits but I'm not sure how if would blend with prawn juice. It might overpower it altogether. Best of luck.

[Norfolkboy]

Good luck mate, always liked prawn as a bait for tench.

[baitmaster]

good luck

tightlines

kevin

[Droppenfish]

didn't get any tench I'm afraid..couple of nice carp though..I have a feeling that the drop in water temeratures has sent all the tench into deep water!

[baitmaster]

yes the weather change did not help recently did it

i used to bag up on tench years ago by baiting up and using cockles fantastic tench bait in my opinion

tightlines
kevin

[Droppenfish]

At Last I got one!!! It's was my 4th attempt to connect with one of the big tench and this time it was succesful. I chose a new swim where the water is quite deep right up to the margins and fed some nice dark fishy based groundbait and some mashed prawn.
It took about and hour and a half to get the first bite but it was well worth it as i struck into a very heavy fish which headed straight for the flag iris beds. At one point I thought it was stuck, but a poke with the landing net handle did the trick and eventually my new PB Tench was gasping on the bank..all 6lb 2oz of it




Later on I managed a little 3lb Mirror (that will be another 1.5 points for the saucy minnows!) and a really good sized common,



but it was the Tench that made my night!! Now I just can't wait to catch some more!!

[Greenheart]

Cracking fish Droppenfish. I bet it gave a good account of itself on that Centrepin reel....

[Twiddler]

a cracking tench, well done my biggest so far has been just over 2lb , can't seem to get anything bigger