Tench fishing?

[ayjay]

I'm sure I've mentioned this on here before, but I have a friend who fishes a well known carp pit for tench in wintertime, best bag that I can remember was 19 fish to about 7.5lb. He reckons the water temp needs to be 42F or over for the tench to be feeding.Floatfished maggots or casters are normally the most productive bait.

[peterthefisherman]

I would like to be corrected but I personnally find that in Scotland we do not catch tench or any coarse fish Nov-March. Is part of the reason carp anglers catch carp in the winter the fact that they devote so many hours to their sport when lesser mortals would be in the pub etc.??

 

Peter

[peterthefisherman]

Sorry meant to relate to carp Anglers catching tench

[wunnus]

On my local lake we had a 2lb tench out on Dec 1

 

Moral of story is to wait until a day tripper has packed it in for the day. Then scuttle round and stay well back from the edge. Wang out a worm.

 

Best Wishes

[Rooney]

who cares give it a try

[TENCHMASTER#^)]

Is tench fishing any good in the winter? I might go next week.

Yes u can go fishing in Winter they wont bit has much but u will still catch them just yous ham as bait and a float try places

1-2 Meters deep that sould help

[Andy Macfarlane]

I would like to be corrected but I personnally find that in Scotland we do not catch tench or any coarse fish Nov-March. Is part of the reason carp anglers catch carp in the winter the fact that they devote so many hours to their sport when lesser mortals would be in the pub etc.??

 

Peter

 

I've surmised that Scottish coarse fishing is a very different game to that of our Southern counterparts.

For one, the temperature is much colder for a larger part of the year, we tend to have only large glacials, ressies and canals for coarse fish, none of which are easy to locate fish in a any time of year. Rivers are mostly dominated by salmonids up here, so they're more or less out of the equation.

 

Two, very few folk coarse fish at all so the species that are caught regularly down south on unusual baits, almost never see groundbait, freebies, loose-feed or any kind of food from tins and packets. As such, I believe they have a VERY naturalised diet and it can take a good 2-3 weeks of pre-baiting just to get the fish to accept something as simple as CASTERS.

 

I've done some serious coarse fishing with mixed results but i know that things are very different up here. I hear suggestions on how to target many species. Unless a water is regularly fished with such methods, I'd like to see one of the experts have a go. I think they'd see things very differently.

 

Most of the best coarse venues I know of are already fished by semi-serious coarse anglers. Many other venues may contain coarse fish but the lack of action makes them nigh ion impossible to catch without some kind of campaign.

 

This doesn't include pike....obviously.

 

....Andy....