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Tench 2025

A very brief summary of my Tench fishing this season;

Two waters fished, sixteen sessions, five blanks, sixteen fish, best fish 7lb 7oz smallest 4lb.

Most fish to maggot feeder.

Bonus fish; Catfish 55lb and Eel 4lb 9oz pb
 
Tony Koziol said:
A very brief summary of my Tench fishing this season;

Two waters fished, sixteen sessions, five blanks, sixteen fish, best fish 7lb 7oz smallest 4lb.

Most fish to maggot feeder.

Bonus fish; Catfish 55lb and Eel 4lb 9oz pb
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Brilliant mix and variety . Well done. Something to remember with pride. I would be very happy with that!
 
Hi Alec,

My rod was a Drennan Tench and Bream 2lbtc, main line 8lb which was then upped to 12lb, 6lb hook linked then upped to 10lb and a size 8 Drennan Specimen hook.

It took about twenty minutes to land and swam off strongly.
 
Tony Koziol said:
Hi Alec,

My rod was a Drennan Tench and Bream 2lbtc, main line 8lb which was then upped to 12lb, 6lb hook linked then upped to 10lb and a size 8 Drennan Specimen hook.

It took about twenty minutes to land and swam off strongly.
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How have you liked the rods, Tony? (Presumably the ones you got off me?). Handy to have that power if a massive cat is a possibility! How did you get that in the net?? Nice tenching by the sounds of it - got to be happy with 7s up here in the north.
 
Chris Jones said:
I've had 8s further up the A1 than York. There's also the odd water where there's a slim chance of a double.
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They are certainly possible but definitely still rare though, Chris! I’ve said on here before how ‘big’ tench have to be classified differently up here, say north of a diagonal line from Manchester to Nottingham. In my opinion, an 8 is achievable for a ‘serious’ tencher and can turn up for a lucky bloke. But i haven’t seen many convincing photos of 9s from Yorkshire and, like you say, chances of a 10 must be slim. I just hope tenching doesn’t become the new barbelling 🤣
 
Matt Smith said:
How have you liked the rods, Tony? (Presumably the ones you got off me?). Handy to have that power if a massive cat is a possibility! How did you get that in the net?? Nice tenching by the sounds of it - got to be happy with 7s up here in the north.
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Hi Matt, hope you are well, are you still in that lovely village I picked the rods up from ?
So yes they are your old rods and I find them superb and as you say power when needed.
As for netting the Cat I always have a 42" net made up in case of carp I also have history with Cats so not really a problem but another pair of hands would have been helpful.
Reasonably happy with this year's Tenching but the water does have them to 10lb so maybe I should done better as the school report read !!!
 
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