A few hours hunting tinca's, without much sucsess

[Andy Macfarlane]

I can happily catch Rudd like that one all day. I sometimes do in my own lake, if I can avoid the Carp.

Any suggestions for a bait that the carp won't take but the Rudd will?

 

I don't know that there is such a thing but dry-fly was also my first thought.

[Rob Ward]

Tigger, I had the same issue on that water.

 

I upped the hook size considerably and fished a lump of halibut pellet paste, seemed to work that time.

[Tigger]

P and me had a float fishing session yesterday evening with intentions of catching some decent tinca's. It was a perfect evening for targetting them with the float tackle, no wind and decent temp's. We did have lots of rudd with a number of quite decent fish going over 1 1/2lb. We had a few perch also but we only had a couple of small tench, but tench is tench no matter what the size .
A couple of snaps of some fish and an old vagrant who we met living rough who wanted to hold Petes rudd .

[Latimeria]

Sausage fingers, what sausage fingers? Was huuuuuge, I tell ya!

[Tigger]

Another tench attempt yesterday...caught lots and lots of rudd again with some really nice one's amongst them. I did catch a couple of sluggs but they where only small ones, one being 3lb 4 ounces and the other probably nearer to 4lb so nothing special size wise, but still they put up a tremendous show for themselves !...





Notice the two different shades of green of the fish....similar to Steves colour variations in his Wingham tench.

[Andy_1984]

they change colour very quickly. when I left the house this morning and came back at 10:30pm my tench in the tank was much lighter than he was in the morning.

 

they two probably been hangin about in totally different areas for a day or 2.

[wunnus]

The blown maggots will soon bring up the Rudd.

Then put a plastic red maggot on a small hook and chuck that out on a floating fly line (or use it to fish on the drop from a controller float).

Concentrate on the edges of the boiling water.

This is a brilliant technique at dawn/dusk. You will soon see what the largest fish in the shoal is like.

 

If you want a sedentary snooze session this is not for you because the action is a bit frantic. The race is between the rudd grabbing the hook end and you straightening the line to get a chance of setting the hook. If the lake has been quiet that day then you will soon draw a crowd so the fly rod becomes a great visual aid, you might want to use the crowd to sell dodgy watches, time share etc