Esterfruit/ esterberyy boilies

[mikench]

I have spoken to a few Anglers on my current favourite water about catching the elusive tench and the best bait to do so. I will get some worms later and have hemp and sweetcorn mixed with gb.

A couple of of blokes recommended boilies( and I have loads) in general and esterfruit favour in particular. Does anyone have experience of these and are they good for tench?

I am sure Pete Shears uses them but I had never heard of them. I have a swim picked out which is supposed to have them.

 

[103841]

I reckon those boilies have caught quite a few Mike.

 

[rayner]

I catch Tench on casters or pellet without trying too hard. If you are struggling to catch a few perhaps your chosen fishery doesn't hold enough.

 

[108831]

Elderberry boilies are a good tench bait,but it is more likely a matter of finding the right way to feed and fish your water,that is if there are a fair head of tench to target...

 

[iannate]

A few years ago on a good tench water, the guys were using spicy prawn boilies for the tench (I saw the bags - it was secret, but they couldn't help showing me their catches), they did alright on them; I found my own paste (made from cat food) was alright as well so didn't bother using boilies.

I fished it over a bed of hemp with thumbnail pieces of the paste as loose feed.

Just my twopeneth!

 

[Pete Shears]

Yes,I use esterberry boilies when I am after tench but these days Richworth do not make the 10 & 6mm match boilies so I trim down 15mm ones and boost them if needed with Esterberry Essence from C C Moore.Having said all that strawberry cream boilies ,they also did these in 6mm, are good baits and accounted for my best ever roach at 2lb 2oz first time I ever used them.Should I need any more I think a cheap 50/50 mix with red colouring and either of the above flavours would be good enough but where tench are concerned their palate seems to change by the day if not by the hour.

 

[mikench]

I have my doubts about the head of tench in a variety of waters I fish. I catch several each year but never more than two or three at a time. I have enough boilies so will stick to the tried and trusted baits. One needs an ambition to fulfill.

Thanks for all your contributions.

 

[S-Kippy]

Esterberry certainly has a good track record for tench and spicy prawn has done well on my local big tench water. That said casters and red maggot are my go to tench baits.I did well earlier this year on the rubber casters fished T rig stylee but on another water it was maggot all the way.

Cockles can be devastating....or rubbish. For some reason it seems to depend on the water. Sadly bream like them too...but bream seem to like bloody everything.

 

[Hugh Bailey]

A long while back,I had great success on Richworth Tutti-frutti for tench in mini size - maybe 6mm. At the same time, I used a maggot/ caster feeder. Think the best results came from the feeder but the boilies definitely caught some fish.

 

[John Keane]

I have a box full of old mini boilies like strawberry, tutti frutti, pineapple, krill that I’ve had for years. I’m going to chop them up and mix with some pellets and put them in PVA bags and stick them with out with a 12mm wafter on one of my DV Specialist rods and see what comes along. I’m not a big boilie fisher but I’ll have a look at these Esterberry thingummyjigs.