My first tench

[bazzab]

Well having Thursday and Friday off work to fish. Going to manor fisheries biggleswade again. Thursday on Damsel lake. Had 8.5lb common, a couple of bream and my first ever tench. What a lovely looking fish. Can see myself targeting these in future.

Going back in a min. Going to fish match canal. Lets see what today brings.

 

[murv]

Congratulations, one of my favourite fish, Tench, I'm out after work to have another go at them

That's a fair old scar on it's back!

 

[bazzab]

Thank you mate. Having never had one before i had no idea how much fun and how nice they are.

Ye sure looks like he picked a fight with something sharp.

 

[blounty65]

nice fish, imo one of the best looking fish and they will always put up a hell of a fight my biggest is 5lb and that was a battle had me all over the lake i was like a dog with two willies

 

[bazzab]

Wow 5lb i bet that awesome. I have to say they are defiantly one of my favourites now. Going to have to learn more about fishing for them and target them at some point. Got any pics of the beast?

 

[blounty65]

ive been catching them on 8mm pre drilled halibut pellet topped with fake corn on a hair and using the drennan method feeder ferocious bites will sort the piccy out its amongst loads on my phone lol

 

[murv]

This is my recent PB at 4 3/4, bit mangy looking though!

Far prettier fish although smaller:

No piccys from the last two sessions as they were complete blanks :wh

 

[bazzab]

Wow stunning fish. That top one must have gone like a train. Thank you for posting them mate.

 

[murv]

Funnily enough it didn't fight that hard, the smaller bottom one was a real handful but the larger one gave up fairly quickly!

Edit: Oh, and it's three blanks on the trot now since the last one...