Catching spring tench with a float rod

1. After the water warms up and spawns, tench almost stops feeding during the daytime. Basically, its active biting occurs during twilight and night hours. Starts 2 hours before sunset and ends 3-4 hours after sunrise. On cloudy summer days, tench can be caught at lunchtime, but it still tends to feed in quiet, windless hours during the evening and morning dawn.
2. If in spring underwater vegetation just begins to rise from the bottom to the surface, then in June and July the coastal zone and shallow waters turn, in some places, into real thickets. How to catch tench in summer if the reservoir is heavily overgrown with grass? You need to look for windows in such thickets or create them yourself - mow them down or break them with a rake to ensure comfortable fishing.
3. Before spawning, the tench “walks” along large coastal areas and itself finds bait and bait offered to it by the fisherman at the border with the vegetation. In the summer, the tench fish prefers to stay in certain areas where it spends the daytime and where it comes out to feed closer to night. Finding such a place is half the success.
4. What do tench bite on in summer Having gained fat after hibernation, tench switches to a mixed diet. In the spring, his preference was given more to animal components (worms, maggots, bloodworms, mollusks, leech...). As the heat sets in and the water warms up, tenches happily feed on plant foods. Now their diet also includes young stems of egg capsules, shoots of reeds and pondweed. Tench is not averse to “nipping” duckweed, and may also be tempted by the offered corn or dough. At the same time, animal baits do not lose their special attractiveness for red-eyed green-sided beauties even in the period from June to August.

Here we must immediately make a reservation that we are considering, first of all, the hot months - June and July, since in August the tench bite weakens, and this period is more likely to belong to the autumn, unstable period.

It is best to lure this fish with high-protein components - animal protein components: chopped worms and maggots, cottage cheese. This is described in more detail in the article catching tench with a float rod. Fishing will be more successful if you set bait at the future fishing point within 3-7 days in advance. During this time, the tench gets used to both the new “dining room” and the treats offered to it (bait), and pecks more boldly.

During summer fishing for “royal fish,” experienced fishermen most often adhere to one of two feeding tactics:

1. Abundant starting feeding - 5-8 large balls of bait at the fishing site with further feeding of one small ball after each landing.
2. Constantly (every 5-10 minutes) feeding the area with small crumbly portions.

Both of these tactics have proven to produce good results when fishing with float rods and feeders. Try and choose the one most suitable for the conditions of your pond, or come up with something new. But remember - bait for tench in summer is just as necessary as when fishing for carp.

When preparing for line fishing, do not forget that this fish requires strong gear, from the rod to the leashes. Fishing among vegetation requires forced fishing. It would also be a good idea to arm yourself with a landing net. For dessert, I suggest watching an interesting video about tench fishing in the summer with a plug rod in the coastal zone among water lilies.

Experienced fishermen know that catching tench in the summer with a float rod is June. It is at this time that he begins to eat before the upcoming spawning of tench. It is at this time that fishing for tench will not leave anyone indifferent. In this article you will learn the basics of tench fishing, namely where to look, what gear to use, how to prepare a place for tench fishing, etc.

Tench is an unpredictable and capricious fish. This fish is a rather finicky fish. The main difficulty is that its bite is unpredictable within one day. And the only time when you can successfully catch it is the time before its spawning. At this time, tench gather in schools and actively feed. Tench spawning occurs in mid-to-late May, when water bodies warm up to 15°C.

No need to wait, catch tench before the beginning of summer! The tench's habitat is in oxbow lakes, lakes and shallow river bays overgrown with grass. That is why it is almost impossible to catch it in the summer - try to pull it out of the dense thickets.

Tench habitats

The most important thing before fishing is to determine the tench’s habitat. To do this, you need to sit on the shore for some time, carefully looking at the surface of the reservoir. In areas where air bubbles regularly rise from the bottom to the surface, tench are most likely feeding.

Preparing the fishing spot

It is advisable to prepare the place for the upcoming fishing in advance. To do this, in the feeding areas you notice, you need to clear a square of approximately 0.7 by 0.7 m. This is done using a rake from a boat. Then you need to pour a couple of buckets of river sand onto its bottom. Small pieces of turf from a nearby meadow can be placed in the corners of such a square. Usually several such “squares” are prepared. This attracts tench, since the fish likes to come out of the grass into “light clearings”. And if you also feed a little, then fishing can be very successful!

Tench bite

When it bites, it rarely sinks the float right away. The fish prefers to tinker a little and play with the bait. At this time, the float shakes slightly, remaining in place.

Large fish usually finish this game in a few seconds, but individuals up to 0.5 kg can fiddle with the bait for a minute. In any case, they hook either when the float is completely immersed in the water, or when it moves to the side.

Bait for tench

Bait for tench is needed when fishing closer to summer. In the spring, during the feeding season, you don’t have to feed the tench. The main thing is to find the place where it is! Also, do not forget that this fish is very cautious and shy, so silence and maximum camouflage when fishing for tench are very important.

Tips for catching tench

1. It is useless to look for tench in reservoirs with sandy or clay bottoms. This fish lives only in places where there is silt. Rummaging in it, he gets his food. „
2. It is also known that tench often appears among horsetail thickets. If there are such places on the reservoir, it makes sense to fish there too.
3. This fish does not like currents. It should be caught only in standing water at shallow depths - up to 1.5 m.
4. The weight of tench sometimes reaches 3-4 kg, but fish of this weight are found only in river bays or in flowing lakes and ponds. In closed reservoirs, with rare exceptions, the weight of tench does not exceed 0.6-0.8 kg.
5. The beginning of spring zhora near tench coincides with the beginning of lilac flowering.

Tench belongs to the carp fish family. It can be found in many reservoirs in Russia and Europe. The fish grow quite large, and individuals weighing 4-7 kg can often be caught.

Tench meat has an irresistible taste, which makes catching it an even more enjoyable event. This fish tries to stay in the coastal zone, where the ichthyofauna is not as rich as in the depths. Thanks to these habits, fishing for tench with a float rod from the shore always gives an excellent result, which can be the envy of other fishermen on boats sitting near ditches and edges.

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Installation of a float rod on a line

A float rod is perhaps most appropriate for fishing such an interesting fish as tench. It is necessary to clearly understand that tench is a strong fish that is found mainly in vegetation. When hooking, she tries to get the tackle into the reeds or grass.

If when fishing on a clean bank, where there is little grass, the fisherman has operational space, then in secluded, one might say intimate places, there is no room for maneuver. Often you have to use short rods 4-5 meters long and rather rough rigs. The fishing rod should be able to absorb the jerks of the fish well and cast the tackle accurately. If we speak in feeder or spinning slang, then the fishing rod should have a parabolic action and bend almost the entire length. This type of rod allows you to control the fish well and keep it out of the grass. Hard poles are suitable if there is a little room for maneuver. With the help of soft rods you can make a neat hook, and you control the process, not the fish.

It is better to use transparent fluorocarbon fishing line, which is almost invisible. As a last resort, brown or black carp are used. They imitate branches or old grass at the bottom. We place a float on the fishing line with a blind rig or with two attachment points. Goose floats with a barrel of polystyrene foam work well.

It won't be difficult to do it. Take a feather and paint it with varnish on top to make a strip 6 cm wide. Thread a wire through the end of the feather to make a ring. We put a barrel of foam on the float. It can be made from a wine cork. Trim the edges of the cylinder so that it is more or less even. Slightly trim the edges with sandpaper and the float is ready. Don't chase aesthetics. The fish don’t care whether the float is beautiful or not. It will fly the same.

If you don’t have such a float, then use sports ones like this:

This float is stable on the water and makes accurate casting easy. This has long been tested in practice. Its carrying capacity varies from 2 to 4 grams. In principle, if the line is taken, it will be visible on any float. If we fish at shallow depths, then of course we use light 2 gram floats. In such places, the tench is quite timid, and if it feels any heaviness when taking the bait, it immediately spits it out. The essence of catching this fish lies in the angler’s ability to wait patiently for it, while maintaining absolute silence.

The leash used for catching tench is quite thick, from 0.2 to 0.25 mm. It will be more reliable this way. The length of the leash is 10-15 cm. We set the hook No. 8. We set the weights with olives or pellets, sliding and deaf. We put one blind in front of the knot, and after it we put a sliding one.

Many fishermen, when loading a float, use several pellets mounted on a feeder. The weights are evenly spaced from each other. First, the largest pellet is placed at the very top, and a smaller one is placed behind it. Sometimes the depth is adjusted in such a way that the equipment is located a little higher from the bottom, as if attracting fish. In some cases, this brings good results, and the active tench, as far as this definition is applicable to this fish, takes the bait in the water column.

How to assemble tench fishing tackle

The tench fish prefers to take food from the bottom of the reservoir near the shoreline. That is why float tackle is ideal for catching it. Simple installation of equipment is used, but you should still approach the choice of materials responsibly, since otherwise the trophy will go away along with the hook.

To assemble float tackle for a line, you need to use:

• rod;
• main line 0.18-0.25 mm;
• driving material 0.12-0.18 mm;
• float;
• lead pellets for the weight;
• hook No. 5-8.

The first step is to select a fishing rod. It can be of any type, so every angler planning to catch tench can use almost any form. It is still recommended to use long rods up to 6 m.

They will allow you to fish the coastal zone in the best possible way. The angler will have the opportunity to ensure accurate casting into the windows between aquatic plants. Typically 4-5m rods are used as they offer the best balance of length and weight.

Reference!

You can use fly, Bolognese and plug rods. The number of bites does not depend on this choice. The main thing is that the form is reliable and can withstand the jerks of a large line.

Installation is done in the most primitive way without swivels and beads. First, a leader material about 40 cm long is taken and a hook is tied to it. Next, a float is attached to the main line.

Almost any model will do. It is important that it is sensitive and noticeable. A fishing store may offer a special float for tench, but you can also use a carp float.

Photo 1. Float for catching tench.

Next, a prepared leash with a hook is tied to the main line and a load of the required weight for the selected type of float is installed. The lead pellet is clamped at a distance of 20 cm from the hook. The required amount of fishing line is unwound and its free end is attached to the tip of the fly rod or wound through the rings of the Bolognese rod to be fixed in the reel.

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Tackle

Content

Of the entire variety of fishing gear, only a float rod or donka is suitable for catching tench. Of course, we are not talking about poaching or fishing gear. At the same time, fishing with float gear is more comfortable and effective, because the tench is kept in heavily overgrown places with a muddy bottom.

Fishing for tench does not require long casting, and banks overgrown with reeds or bushes will most likely not allow you to manipulate a plug rod. It is best to use a fly or Bolognese fishing rod as gear for catching tench.

Float rod for tench fishing

Choosing a location in spring

Typically, tench fishing in spring starts quite late. The fish behaves very passively in cold water and refuses to bite the float. The peak of spring activity varies from region to region, but typically occurs in May just before spawning begins. The spawning process begins during the flowering period of the viburnum, so you can navigate by the condition of this plant.

Promising places for casting in the spring are:

• crowns of fallen trees;
• snag;
• muddy areas of the bottom;
• border of clean water and reeds.

Advice!

Sometimes in the spring the tench comes right up to the shore and can be caught at a depth of 0.5 m. If the bite at distant shelters is not active enough, you can throw the tackle very close, perhaps the tench is there.

Fishing for tench before spawning is the most active. Such a bite is not observed in summer or autumn, so if you want to have a great time catching trophies, you should definitely go to the reservoir in the spring. It is best to choose a calm day, although tench sometimes bite well in cloudy weather.

Usually the fish are active from dawn to 10 am, and then from the second half of the day. If there is no bright sun, then the lunchtime lull does not occur.

The search for tench in the summer should be carried out in places where it is caught in the spring. In addition, the fish begins to stick to the shade more, so casting into windows between dense thickets of water lilies and other floating plants turns out to be very catchy. During this period, fishing is most active in the morning and at sunset.

In the warm season, a lot of sedge and young reeds appear on the reservoir. If you observe them, you can see the unnatural movement of the stems. This indicates that fish are touching them. These are the places you need to cast in the summer. In addition to tench, carp or crucian carp may swarm at the roots of the plant, but since all these fish prefer the same bait, a bite will be guaranteed in any case.

Fishing for tench in September until the biting stops completely in late autumn is not so exciting when looking for promising places. The fish tries to stay in shallow depths with calm water. At this time, floating aquatic plants settle to the bottom. The water becomes clear again, freed from green microalgae. You need to take a closer look to see if there are clouds of turbidity or rising air bubbles at the bottom. They mean that fish are swarming there, perhaps even tench. It is in such areas that you need to throw the hook. Note!

In autumn, it is better to go fishing in warm, calm weather. If there is wind, you can usually not count on an active bite.

Tench is a rather interesting fish, although it is quite rare these days. Most likely, this is due to the fact that the reservoirs are gradually overgrown, and they are not suitable for the habitat of this fish. Tench prefers reservoirs with moderate vegetation, but with a depth of about 0.5-0.8 meters. Therefore, in reservoirs suitable for tench, you can try to catch it at depths that are located at a distance from the shore within 4-10 meters.

Currently, you will have to make a lot of effort to find a pond with tench. It is well caught in ponds or lakes, where it prevails over other species of peaceful fish, such as carp, crucian carp, etc. Tench used to be considered the king's fish and therefore can be a worthy trophy for a lover of a regular float rod.

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fishing line

Main

You can use monofilament as a fishing line, as well as a fluorocarbon leader. The thickness of the fishing line is selected depending on its quality and can have a diameter from 0.25 mm to 0.3 mm. A good result can be expected from a foreign-made fishing line, which has better line thickness and different loads, in contrast to domestic ones.

Leash

As a leash, you can use a piece of regular monofilament fishing line or fluorocarbon. The diameter of the leader line should be smaller, about 0.05 mm. At the same time, fluorocarbon fishing line has a lower breaking load, and this property should be taken into account when choosing a leash.

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Equipment

This may be standard equipment, without any innovations.

The float is attached first using a rubber cambric and a ring. Lead pellets are used as weights, with one, the smallest, located at a distance of 20-30 cm from the hook.

The length of the leash can be within 20-30 cm, but not less. Since tench is a rather cautious fish, it is better to make it from fluorocarbon. It is desirable that the hook is very sharp and not very large.

Hooks No. 14. . No. 16 (on the international scale) is just suitable for tench fishing.

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Lure

When catching tench, as when catching other types of fish, it is necessary to prepare bait or use bait with the smell of ordinary worms purchased at a fishing store. If the bait is prepared independently, then the main condition is that it contains maggots or chopped worms. Steamed corn won't hurt either, but not in large quantities.

It is advisable to throw bait very accurately and not in large quantities. To do this, you can use special devices that will allow you to feed tench quite quietly and accurately, since fishing is carried out close to the shore.

Groundbaits containing animal ingredients show good results.

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Bait and baits

In spring tench fishing, bait plays an important role.

You can make a classic pea-millet mixture, which is often used in the summer, but more effective in this case would be bait made from pea porridge, maggots with the addition of regular vanilla sugar. The amount of bait should be small, it is important not to scare away the fish.

As for baits, it is better to use baits of animal origin. For example, spring tench bite well on a worm or the same maggot, and pieces of crayfish meat are also used. Among baits of plant origin, it is worth highlighting corn and pearl barley.

Baits and lures

Tench is a fish that at any time of the year (except winter) prefers a dung worm to any other bait. If the worm is pierced in several places, it will begin to emit its own special aroma, which will certainly interest the tench. The same result can be obtained if you bait a hook with parts of a worm cut off at both ends.

Tench doesn’t mind eating red maggots, but he is little attracted to white maggots, and sometimes he refuses them completely, but he can peck at pearl barley, various doughs or corn. But this is most likely an exception, which happens very rarely.

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Fishing with a float rod from the shore and from a boat

In most cases, fishing with a float rod is done from the shore, especially since the tench rarely moves away from it. But often the shore near promising places is swampy or overgrown with a solid wall of reeds. In such places it is better to fish from a boat.

The boat is anchored in such a way that the cast is made towards the shore. This will allow the tench to be diverted away from the thickets immediately after hooking. When choosing a place to install the boat, it is advisable to take into account the direction of the wind. Throwing light equipment in a headwind or sidewind is not very convenient.

Guide to fishing

1. For greater efficiency, you need to decide on a place and start feeding the tench with small portions of bait consisting of corn, maggots and chopped worms. The tench will certainly sense the food and approach the fishing spot. Since fishing is carried out on a pond or lake, any suitable place is suitable for fishing, as long as nothing interferes with casting a fishing rod and landing fish.
2. In order for the tench to actively peck, you should throw the bait very accurately, without scattering it throughout the water area. You also definitely need to cast the bait, otherwise good fishing will not work.
3. The tackle should be cast very accurately and carefully so as not to create noise, since tench is a very cautious and timid fish.
4. For fishing, it is necessary to use a rod that has a minimum weight; this is the only way to ensure accuracy when fishing for tench.
5. To carefully remove the tench from the water, you definitely need to use a special landing net. This will help get rid of excess noise, which will not scare away the fish.

Source.

Sources:

• ryba-lin.ru
• rybsoveti.ru
• fishelovka.ru
• rybalka.temaretik.com

Rod

There are not very many requirements for a fishing rod for tench fishing. It should allow you to cast the equipment and withstand the resistance of biting fish. Since when fishing for tench there is no need to constantly hold the rod in your hands, it can even be made of heavy fiberglass. Of course, it is much better if the rod blank is made of low-modulus carbon fiber. Oddly enough, it is better not to choose professional rods with a high modulus of elasticity for tench fishing. In addition to the high price, their disadvantage is fragility - such a fishing rod can break if it hits a branch or reed stem. And the potential of sports gear during leisurely coastal fishing will not be revealed.

For fishing from a boat, choose rods 4–4.5 m long. For fishing from the shore - up to 7 m.