Pre-baiting

[RUDD]

In the warmer months try van den eye Expo groudbait or whizzo stench.

I have read an article by one of the "real tench fishers club"

he pre baited with over two kilos of groundbait!

I mix in liquidied sweetcorn, fishmeal, brasem, casters, squats, pellets and sweetcorn.

 

For early season tench try feeder fishing with groundbait. Plug one end of your feeder and add a pinch of fishmeal, a smear of syrup and a few freebies (pellets casters etc) then plug the other end of you feeder.

Try worm or sweetcorn (red works well) as a hookbait.

[gilbertron]

black pudding is my number one bait for tench, even better than corn!

[Chris Plumb]

Gilbertron - care to tell us more? - I've heard of Black Pudding as a good tench bait - never spoken to anyone who'd had succes with it though.

 

 

Chris

 

[ 25. February 2003, 02:32 PM: Message edited by: Chris Plumb ]

[gilbertron]

not much to tell! try to get the sort with bigger fatty lumps in it, because these are good for hooking it, but pretty much any kind will stay on the hook. thats it, no secrets!

[Chris Plumb]

Do you pre-bait with it? How quickly are they 'turned on' to it?

 

 

Chris

[Ed Matysiak]

I was told smalll prawns were a great hookbait but prawns are expensive!

[gilbertron]

to be honest i've never prebaited with black pudding, but bites always start pretty quickly, chuck in a few freebies and the tench seem to find it quite quickly.

prawns are good too, and not as expensive as people think, a bag of frozen ones from tesco or wherever is a couple of quid, and quite often they have them buy one get one free, but even at normal price they'll last you a few sessions, cheaper than a lot of stuff in the tackle shop!

[gilbertron]

to be honest i've never prebaited with black pudding, but bites start pretty quickly anyway, chuck a couple of freebies in and the tench will find it, must be the blood i guess, smells quite strong.

prawns are good too, they're not that expensive, couple of quid for a bag of frozen, quite

[RUDD]

Chris Plum and Gilbertron

 

I have caught Tench on cockles, luncheon meat (normal, strawberry and spicy flavours), pepperami, bacon rind, cat meat, dog meat and spam.

I think most fish like meat baits as I have also caught chub, rudd, roach, carp, bream, perch, barbel and eels on them!!!

I have heard steak is also good.

[Ed Matysiak]

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