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Maize for Tench.

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I was wondering if whole cooked Maize kernels would be a viable bait for Tench.

I'm asking this as there's a water I've started fishing that contains Tench but also thousands and thousands of small Rudd which mop up any small food items including sweetcorn in no time.

I was looking for a larger food item that the Rudd might struggle with and thought of maize, has anyone used this bait for tench?

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Maize works well for Carp and I'm sure that Tench would take it but I've done well with Tench using peanuts, which are equally Rudd-proof.

 

I've not used Maize on a good Tench water, (I use it for Carp to avoid the Rudd), .but on a different Carp water with a good head of Tench, using Peanuts for the Carp one evening, the Tench were climbing up the rods.

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Are you concerned about the loose feed or the hookbaits? Fake plastic baits are one way of avoiding too much attention from small fish.

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Cockles will work for tench ... as will messels and prawns, but they also seem to attract bootlace eels to the point of insanity. I'm reluctant to say this, but the most obvious way forward (avoiding tiddlers) is likely an appropriately sized / flavoured boilie ... and class any incidental carp as 'nuisance' fish :D

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Cockles will work for tench ... as will messels and prawns, but they also seem to attract bootlace eels to the point of insanity. I'm reluctant to say this, but the most obvious way forward (avoiding tiddlers) is likely an appropriately sized / flavoured boilie ... and class any incidental carp as 'nuisance' fish :D

 

I should have also said, I was looking for a cheap option, there are no carp in the lake ;-)

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I should have also said, I was looking for a cheap option, there are no carp in the lake ;-)

 

Then, I would go with Steve Walkers idea. Feed cheap sweet corn and fish plastic on a hair rig. Jobs a goodun.

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Had the problem on a lake that was so overrun with small rudd you could catch them on a bright bare hook. Used half inch cubes of luncheon meat and weight to get it to the bottom quickly. A handful of corn thrown in at the same time kept the rudd busy so the meat could plummet down to the bottom

The two best times to go fishing are when it's raining and when it's not

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