Top 5 Tench Tips

1. Be as accurate as you possibly can with both the baiting and your casting. Confining your offerings to a tight area will produce quicker bites.
2. Make your hookbait more attractive than the bed of bait you have laid out there for them. I do it by flavouring the maggots or casters that go on the hook.
3. Prepare to be mobile, if your doing everything right and your not getting bites, you cannot be on the fish. Watch the water like a hawk at dawn and dusk. Tench do reveal themselves, and if you find em, get on em.
4. When the weed is up, use strong tackle. Adequate tackle that can stop a tench in its tracks before it makes for that weedbed will improve your catch rate. I have been using 2lb Drennen Tench Rods and 10lb line.
5. Try to find inconspicuous features, this time of year can the fish can be wary, so locate places where they are more likely to drop there guard. They love weed!