Boilies for Tench

[Fergal Scully]

Hoards of small rudd in a tench water I fish so maggots, caster, corn , bread are all impossible to fish with. I've tried boilies and had quite a lot of tench, fishing method feeder with crushed boilie in the mix. I've found tench are not too fussy what flavour I've used so far. I've caught while feeding 12mm nash strawberry crush, stickie krill, and had a local bait maker make me some strawberry and scopex which also worked well. Either a pop up or wafter on the hook.

 

[Jim Brook]

Hoards of small rudd in a tench water I fish so maggots, caster, corn , bread are all impossible to fish with. I've tried boilies and had quite a lot of tench, fishing method feeder with crushed boilie in the mix. I've found tench are not too fussy what flavour I've used so far. I've caught while feeding 12mm nash strawberry crush, stickie krill, and had a local bait maker make me some strawberry and scopex which also worked well. Either a pop up or wafter on the hook.

I find that 3 grains of corn on a size 8 hook prevents the silvers? I can side hook small boilies too, and still use my preferred lift method on the float that way. Strangely I’ve never done that good with meat doing the same?

 

[Simon Archer]

Not sure if anyone will be interested, but 3FT are now doing Tench boilies.

Tinca Treats

Creating baits through extensive research, spanning over many years, we supply baits for the barbel & river angler who requires a top quality bait.

www.threefoottwitch.co.uk

I'm not connected in any way.

 

[Jim Brook]

Not sure if anyone will be interested, but 3FT are now doing Tench boilies.

Tinca Treats

Creating baits through extensive research, spanning over many years, we supply baits for the barbel & river angler who requires a top quality bait.

www.threefoottwitch.co.uk

I'm not connected in any way.

Hi Simon, they are probably good baits? But by “extensive research” I think he means copying others!

 

[Fergal Scully]

I find that 3 grains of corn on a size 8 hook prevents the silvers? I can side hook small boilies too, and still use my preferred lift method on the float that way. Strangely I’ve never done that good with meat doing the same?

The rudd and roach on my water would have the corn shredded in minutes , i like to float fish too but prefer to hair rig the boilies very close to the hook.

 

[Ady Brayshaw]

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.

Very true. Despite being warned about their deliveries (on here and angling friends face-to-face) I took a chance. Paid for last Monday on assurance that they were in stock and would be posted out on payment. The following Monday (today) and the order has still not arrived. A tad frustrating to say the least.

 

[Jim Brook]

Very true. Despite being warned about their deliveries (on here and angling friends face-to-face) I took a chance. Paid for last Monday on assurance that they were in stock and would be posted out on payment. The following Monday (today) and the order has still not arrived. A tad frustrating to say the least.

Normally take two to three weeks from my past experience, but they are quality bait mate

 

[Alex Gowney]

Why not fish with maggots, casters and worms further out? They will usually catch you more tench than boilies.

This depends, I have often found tench to be very venue specific in what they prefer. Back in the 80s I used to fish Ham Pool in South Cerney. First few trips using conventional baits like casters, corn etc. produced mainly small fish, around the two pounds mark and not many of them. A change to mini strawberry boilies was a revelation, both in numbers caught and average size, which shot up to four pounds plus. Then in the late 90s early 2000s fishing one of the numerous gravel pits around Witney, the tench simply would not look at a boilie, and all the fish came on either maggots or float fished bread. There were very few fishing the water then so possibly they hadn't seen boilies but the wild carp in there wouldn't have seen boilies either, but they loved them.