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Boilies for Tench

Alan Palmer

Alan Palmer

Senior Member & Supporter
I tend to mainly float fish for Tench but one of the pits I fish the larger fish tend to come from about 50 yds to some bars (mainly to carpers) so I want to try the boilie and feeder approach this season. I’ve had some success in the past using tutti fruiti or CCMoore live system but was just wondering what others would recommend boilie wise for Tench?
 
I did ok with these from mainline, last season alongside strawberry corn,
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but that was on the float.
 
Matt Smith said:
Why not fish with maggots, casters and worms further out? They will usually catch you more tench than boilies.
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Don’t know about the original poster, but where I fish the small stuff just muller the maggot and worm, and after a while the tench become wary of plain yellow corn so I change to red strawberry corn often tipped with red maggot when they do, then switch it up with the strawberry boilies to deter the small stuff when they become a problem with the corn and maggot cocktail baits that I prefer.
 
Huanzhou Zhu said:
What about this
www.hookbaits.com

Tincaberry - The Hook Bait Company - Specimen Tench & Bream Bait

Tincaberry is a new bait primarily designed for tench. Designed in conjunction with Drennan Cup winner Iain McDonald as a bait for tench and bream...
www.hookbaits.com www.hookbaits.com
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I was thinking of trying these last year as I’ve used the hook bait company baits in the past for chub and barbel and been impressed with the results, only thing I would say is if you go with them order well in advance as I have had to wait quite some time for them to arrive for various reasons but they have always come.
 
Matt Smith said:
Why not fish with maggots, casters and worms further out? They will usually catch you more tench than boilies.
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Hoards of ravenous Rudd
Jim Brook said:
I was thinking of trying these last year as I’ve used the hook bait company baits in the past for chub and barbel and been impressed with the results, only thing I would say is if you go with them order well in advance as I have had to wait quite some time for them to arrive for various reasons but they have always come.
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i was already contemplating these in the 12mm, might just give them a go.
 
Jim Brook said:
I was thinking of trying these last year as I’ve used the hook bait company baits in the past for chub and barbel and been impressed with the results, only thing I would say is if you go with them order well in advance as I have had to wait quite some time for them to arrive for various reasons but they have always come.
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Yeah, I like their bait, but the delivery time is a pain, last time took me nearly a month to get it.
 
Huanzhou Zhu said:
Yeah, I like their bait, but the delivery time is a pain, last time took me nearly a month to get it.
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Yes it’s been the same the 3 times I’ve ordered, the last order was worse but it wasn’t there fault because the package 📦 got damaged and a liquid got spilled so was returned to them by the courie, I could tell it had leaked when I finally received it, but they topped it back up and gave me some of there flakey hook baits in the same flavour as the boilies so all was good in the end.
 
I know the wisdom is strawberry/fruity but I’ve done well with “conventional” boilies/pellets (think the source & Robin red). Another favourite is sticky baits bloodworm pellet. Tench love ‘em, the ravenous rudd don’t although if there are big bream about you might have another problem.
 
Thanks all, delivery time of the tincaberry sounds an issue so think i might start with Dynamite Robin red on some local advice and order some tincaberry to try alongside
 
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