In article , Brian Soper
wrote:

Re-ordered to convention.

Hi Gandalf

I'm surprised at the lack of answers they must all be fishing.

Maybe - I haven't been able to find the river (OK, I found a different one
and went trout fishing but that's OT here.) so I've yet to go coarse fishing
this season.

The easy one. I need someone to recommend a good eyed hook. I am going to
be using maggot, worm, corn and bread in the main and just be still water
fishing in the main.

Hooks, I trust implicitly, Drennan Super Specialist hooks in all sizes,
never let me down.

Bait, they find it hard to resist a lobworm, either whole, half or just a
tail. Under a float fished slightly over-depth.

I usually remove my hooks from their packets and transfer them to
easy-to-get-my-thumbs-into boxes for the trip to the waterside so I rarely
know which make I'm using. Tench don't have powerful jaws so just about any
hook will do - but if you're using lobworms (first class bait - agreed)
you'll need barbs.

Second, harder, question. When did tench become so damn smart. In my, long
lost, youth I could catch them without too much trouble. Feathering a
couple of red maggots by likely spots or a light lead and sweet corn if I
have to fish at distance.

I looked back over an old fishing diary the other day. I remembered many of
the red-letter days but the number of less productive ones in between was a
bit of a shock.

None of that works any more and I even had one tench come up and eat a few
floating casters as I left the swim at the end of the day, now tat was
just nasty.

So anyone got a cast iron method of getting them during the summer.

Cast iron? no. But raking in the evening and fishing from first light still
works often.

Cheerio,

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