I can finally say my Tench season is well and truely underway !!!

Got a carpet of Brown Crumb and Mollasine Meal down in the swim. Chucked in a full tin of Green Giant. Lobbed the float out (lift method, two lumps of corn on a size 10) and sat back and enjoyed a the fresh evening air. Nothing happening until about 9:00 PM when the bubbles came up. Had to check to see if anyone was throwing in the Alka Seltzer there were that many bubbles.

Then the bubbles stopped and off went the float towards the nearest lillies !!! A nice fat Male Tinca in the net a few minutes later. Weighed in at just over 5lb. Between 9PM and 10PM two Tench in the net (the other Tench was just short of 5Lb - Another Male), two lost in weed and one lost 'cos the hook bent straight.

Got stocked up on better hooks, Brown Crumb, Molassine Meal and Corn. Guess what I'm doing tonight???

Tight Lines.

Chris

Good luck

Don't forget the camera....

Er Chris , what's molassine meal :confused:

John,

Sorry for the delayed reply. Meant to reply the other day but work got in the way...it was the end of lunchtime

Molassine Meal - Not sure what the base ingredient (looks like a bran based meal) is but needless to say it's loaded with molasses. Very sticky and sickly sweet smelling. A quick look on GOOGLE brings up a load of Equestrian websites and the meal is used as a horse feed suppliment. Sampling a few of the other site brought up by the search reveals it can also be used as a dog food supliment too.

The meal mixes very well with brown crumb and the smell the two make is quite strong. I initially mixed it 1Kg Brown Crumb to 1/2Kg Molassine Meal. I thought this would be strong enough to attract any Tench in the area. And it was.

If you want to give it a go, try your local pet food supplier or equestrian supplier. It certainly beats trying to mix liquid molasses into your groundbait.

I haven't tested it thoroughly and have only used it once, but first impressions were that it certainly got the Tench interested and held them there. The bubbles kept dying off but the fish were still there. Then the bubbles would start again after about 10 mins.

I'll certainly be giving it another go later on this week.

Tight Lines.

Chris.

Hope it goes/went well mate.