silver tench

[ndeezy]

I caught a silver tench at Frank Lakes on Saturday, are these common at all? I've seen golden tench but never silver. It weighed about 1.5 lbs (sorry, no photo).

 

Also, I deep hooked a few bream using waggler and luncheon meat. I didn't think I was particularly late on striking but what's the typical pattern of a bream bite? Should I have struck at smaller movements? Ah well, thank God for barbless hooks.

 

Cheers

[Anderoo]

I caught a silver tench at Frank Lakes on Saturday, are these common at all? I've seen golden tench but never silver. It weighed about 1.5 lbs (sorry, no photo).

 

Also, I deep hooked a few bream using waggler and luncheon meat. I didn't think I was particularly late on striking but what's the typical pattern of a bream bite? Should I have struck at smaller movements? Ah well, thank God for barbless hooks.

 

Cheers

 

I've never heard of a silver tench.

 

Bream bites on a waggler should be fairly confident affairs - it's the set-up of the float and the shotting pattern which determines how the float behaves. If you're fishing on the bottom, you only want a couple of inches of line actually on the bottom, a couple of small tell-tale shot near the hook (say, one at 4" and another at 8") and then a bulk shot at 3/4 depth. Having said that, sometimes you will deep-hook the odd fish, and as long as you can use a disgorger there's nothing to worry about. If you're deephooking a lot of fish, however, something's not right, and you should make some changes like using a more delicate float and striking earlier.

Edited June 18, 2008 by Anderoo

[WickerDave]

I caught a long, lean, pale grey tench a couple of years ago. It jumped out of the water completely during the fight, I thought I'd got a trout on at first .

 

More waters are stocking the ornamental strains, so there's more chance of catching unusual colourations, such as http://www.fishingmagic.com/forum/forummes.../last/1/V/9/SP/.

[Kappa]

I caught a silver tench at Frank Lakes on Saturday, are these common at all?

 

No not common! I've seen a picture of one once!

 

Rich

[ndeezy]

No not common! I've seen a picture of one once!

 

Rich

 

Balls, if they weren't so slimy I'd have got my camera out. Maybe it was an albino? Can't tell because they've got red eyes anyway.

[gazza01]

Nice catch mate, but you cant beat a perfectly formed deep green monster. I think waters are becoming more and more filed with cross specied fish. I have seen tench with coi carp colors for example, people may disagree but i think its a shame as i like the original species in original colours.

 

what does everyone else think?

[Steve Burke]

Also, I deep hooked a few bream using waggler and luncheon meat. I didn't think I was particularly late on striking but what's the typical pattern of a bream bite? Should I have struck at smaller movements?

 

One of the things you can try is to move the bottom shot nearer the hook. This will show bites more quickly. Try doing this a little at a time. If the shot is too close you'll start missing bites.

 

You may have to change the distance during a session, let alone from one trip to another.