Features of catching tench on a feeder - tactics, equipment and bait

To successfully catch tench on a feeder, an angler needs to adapt to the habits and behavioral characteristics of this fish. This red-eyed beauty is careful, feeds selectively, special tactical measures are used for fishing - initial feeding and transition to casting with a sinker, beyond the point, followed by careful tightening of the rig onto the bait spot. The slippery gourmet prefers certain types of attachments, baits and aromatics in bait. Let's look at how to catch tench on a feeder correctly, what equipment and rigs to use in the gear.

Line on the feeder

1. More often, anglers catch this fish with float gear in the windows of the thickets. You can catch tench on a feeder near the shore using light picker tackle. With the right approach, this method of fishing is no less successful than using a fishing rod.
2. In some shallow water bodies with vegetation, the tench stands further from the shore, in the bottom mud and algae. In such cases, it is convenient to fish with a feeder and other bottom gear for long-distance casting.
3. Tench leads a bottom life in thickets, in relatively shallow water. You should not search in the current, depth or bare bottom. This is a grass fish. Any thickets, cramps, mud, water lilies are promising places. The green gourmet is thermophilic; in winter it goes into suspended animation, and it is possible to catch it at this time only in the south, at random.
4. In the spring, when green grass begins to grow along the banks, the slippery glutton becomes active, and summer is the best time for fishing for tench. The main methods of fishing are fishing rod, donk and feeder. In any case, it is important to feed the fish correctly, not make noise, and wait for a bite. Tench can peck measuredly and sluggishly, slightly testing the bait. In this case, the angler should be patient and hook only when there is a clear pull.

Tackle and rigging for tench

For fishing in still water, it is advisable to take a rod that is not very long (for example, three meters). The upper limit of the test is 40 g. This is enough, because tench are very shy, so a small feeder will be used. The reel is a regular spinning reel with a spool that holds 80-100 meters of fishing line.

Feeder equipment for line By the way, the line can be of different diameters depending on the fishing conditions. If you plan to throw the tackle into the thick of aquatic plants, then its thickness can reach up to 0.3 mm. This diameter is enough to carefully remove the hooked fish along with a heavy bunch of grass. When fishing in relatively clean areas, you can use a thinner line.

It is worth talking in more detail about the installation of feeder equipment intended for tench fishing. As already mentioned, this is a shy fish, and fishing with a feeder involves frequent casts/recasts with the feeder hitting the water surface. In this case, they occur just above the fishing point. One only has to imagine the morning silence, regularly broken by loud splashes of pieces of iron falling on the water, to doubt the success of the undertaking. But, fortunately, not everything is so bad. With the right approach, you can effectively catch tench on a feeder, especially if you listen to the two tips below:

1. Feeder equipment should be as delicate as possible. The optimal choice would be a miniature feeder that moves freely along the main line. Thanks to the running installation and the small size of the feeder, the fished object will not feel much resistance when biting. In still water, fishing with such “thimbles” is even more comfortable, but the starting feeding can be done with a regular-sized device.
2. You can even remove the feeder immediately after the starting feeding, and instead put a 10-gram sinker. This will make it possible to serve the bait almost silently: the rig is cast a little further, behind the feeding spot, and then slowly pulled towards it. With this method of feeding, the lines that have gathered to feed are not afraid and continue to sit on the hook one after another. If the intensity of the bite begins to fall, you can put the feeder back up and deliver another portion of complementary food to the point.

There is an opinion that tench eats everything, from greens to larvae and worms. This is true, but his taste preferences change with the weather. In cold or rainy periods, it responds better to small animals, and on clear, hot days it readily eats various cereals: pearl barley, corn, semolina.

Sometimes success comes from an exclusive offer - sandwiches consisting of plant and animal ingredients. For example, a dung worm with a pellet of bread soaked in anise drops.

Now about bait for tench. Store-bought mixtures are not the best choice for feeder tench fishing. In store-bought formulations there are always many different ingredients, among which there are those that quickly kill his appetite.

Therefore, it is better to prepare bait for tench with your own hands, taking into account the tastes of this gourmet. It may contain boiled potatoes, rolled oats and millet porridge, corn grits, steamed peas, and sunflower cake.

Makukha sometimes works great alone, without additional components. And some fishermen are trying to keep such an effective additive as cottage cheese secret, but it has not been a secret for a long time. The dairy product really attracts tench, but only if it is fresh and not sour.

Fishing for tench using a feeder is an exciting game of chance, in which the reward goes to the one who manages to outwit the timid and cautious fish. Now you know how to properly catch tench on a feeder - no tail, no scales!

Often, tench hide in oxbow lakes, lakes, and ponds overgrown with reeds and other vegetation. Sometimes it can be found in a reservoir or small river. In spring, it actively searches for food, showing amazing mobility and moving between different parts of the reservoir.

Where and how to catch tench in summer? In dry and hot weather, it goes into the depths, or cools down in the shade (tall grass, trees, shore ledges).

The feeder is most effective for summer fishing. During this period, such fish show excessive caution, ignoring baits near the shore. In spring, she is not so picky, and is ready to profit even in the river current.

On small rivers, it happily falls for various donks and ordinary hooks. But a modern feeder with a feeder will provide a stable and impressive catch.

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Habitats and finding a point for a feeder

Tench lives in thickets at depths of up to 3 meters in places without current in any body of water. Therefore, wherever an angler tries to catch a slippery gourmet with a feeder, we choose relatively shallow, quiet, overgrown places - the coastal zone of lakes and ponds, bays and oxbows of rivers, shallow standing reservoirs with a uniform bottom and algae.

1. In rare thickets, you can catch tench with a feeder in windows or in found clean areas among the grass, where the equipment does not get tangled. If the vegetation is too dense, continuous thickets or water lilies, we are looking for a point for the feeder on the border of clear water and writhing.
2. On vast overgrown coasts, where there are obvious promising places everywhere, we rely on bait. We feed two points - at a distance of 7-10 meters, right in the thicket or on the border, and also under the near edge, at 15-20 meters.
3. In the chosen place for fishing with a feeder, you cannot make noise, move too much with marker weights and stir up trouble. We quickly feed and then quietly catch.
4. If a pond, bay, or oxbow lake is completely overgrown with water lilies, egg capsules, horsetail, pondweed - anything except elodea, and the bottom is approximately uniform, the depths are shallow, the tench feeder can be cast at any point, in search mode or for bait. The fish could be anywhere. Far from the shore, the splashes of the feeder do not frighten the fish as much as they do near the shore, so you can catch with large feeders.
5. A sign of tench feeding is rising bubbles from the bottom. Among the uniform thickets, we pay attention to such places.
6. In rivers we look for backwaters without a current - there are almost no red-eyes on the stream.
7. Catching tench with a feeder in summer can be successful in very shallow water areas with thickets - at depths of no more than 50 cm. In such places you need to be especially careful and not make noise when casting the feeder.

What you need for successful fishing

The successful outcome of catching tench on a feeder depends on many factors:

• choosing the right location;
• the presence of a large number of baits;
• pre-feeding of fish;
• correct fishing tactics.

If all these conditions are met, then you can count on some result. It should be said right away that these conditions can apply to catching any fish, since without a serious approach and preparation, you can hardly count on a good result.

Feeder fishing or bottom fishing is a very interesting form of recreation. This is dynamic fishing, as you constantly have to check the feeder for food. This is very important if fishing is carried out on the current. The consistency of the feeder should be such that it is washed out of the feeder within 5 minutes. Then the bite will be maintained at the proper level, and the fish will not leave the feeding area throughout the entire fishing period, which in turn will ensure the effectiveness of the entire fishing trip.

Line feeder tactics

When fishing near the shore, we use a light picker - with such a feeder it is easier to throw equipment into windows or onto the border of vegetation. It is advisable to start feeding two points - the second one a little further, on the first edge. If the reservoir is large, mostly shallow and covered in grass, we fish with at least one tackle in search mode, without food, systematically checking various points.

Tench is a cautious fish; the general rule for fishing with a feeder is less noise and delicate equipment. At the same time, you need reliable tackle. Tench is a strong fish, and weighing a kilo or more will give the angler a hard time in the process of fishing. If there is an abundance of aquatic vegetation, we use thicker leads – up to 0.2 mm, transparent or green-brown. In clear water we use thinner feeder leads - 0.14, 0.16 mm.

We feed the point right away, so as not to frighten the fish later with loud splashes when recasting. We throw 5-20 feeders to the point. In spring and autumn - finely divided food with a minimum of large particles, in summer - with porridge, chopped worms, corn, depending on what bites. In cold water it is important not to overfeed the fish, but in summer it’s the other way around – we deliver up to 50% of the total volume of bait from large, tasty feed fractions to the point.

After feeding, we change the feeder feeder to the smallest one or even put a sinker of 5-20 grams - to minimize noise. We equip the bait and throw the feeder to the point. There is no tempo fishing. At least 10-15 minutes should pass between feeder casts, and up to half an hour for large fish. The tench approaches slowly, without haste, and spends a long time trying the bait.

The quivertype of the feeder trembles slightly at the same time. Only when there is a clear pull should you hook – this can happen 10 minutes after the start of the bite. Sometimes the tench simply exhausts the soul with its long bites. However, sometimes it bites like an ordinary crucian carp - a couple of jerks and a stretch.

For especially cautious fish in shallow water, the tactic of recasting further from the point and tightening the equipment to the stern spot will help. To do this, we unclip the feeder, release 3-5 meters of fishing line, and clip it again. When casting the feeder, the equipment will now fly these 3-5 meters further.

After casting, carefully tighten the feeder rig onto the stern spot. This is necessary so as not to splash the line with casts directly over the head of the tench - if frightened, it may not return to the point. Between casts we experiment with baits and dips (garlic or some sweet aromas).

1. Tench on a feeder in summer is best caught early in the morning or in the evening before sunset, and in some places at night. In spring and autumn, on fine, quiet days, the bite with varying intensity usually lasts all day.
2. At long distances we use standard feeder tactics for feeding a point. However, we remember that you don’t need to re-cast the line often. We use feeders with minimal feed capacity, even the smallest sports thimbles. The lack of current allows this to be done.
3. In search mode, we try to catch tench and flat using the method. Flat can also be thrown onto a fed window. It is important to choose bait here. Tench reacts more often to the worm, but on the pay sites it willingly takes pellets and boilies, which are common in such reservoirs.

Lure

The approach to bait for feeder fishing for tench is similar to catching spring crucian carp - it is advisable not to add any unnatural smells and a lot of large fraction, maximum - a handful of porridge and a few chopped worms for the rest of the base. It is better to start fishing with natural aromatics. The bait you need is heavy, inert, as for all bottom fish. A cloud of turbidity is more likely to attract small roach or bleak, rather than tench, and feed bloodworms - ruff or perch. It is advisable to darken the bait for tench with soil from the shore or immediately use dark mixtures.

Catching tench on a feeder in summer, in warm water, requires a larger amount of feed fraction in the mixture. We add to the food what the tench likes in that particular body of water. On the hook we fish with the same bait, larger and more noticeable. That is, if there is a bunch of dung beetle on the hook, there are chopped worms in the bait. If the corn contains maggots, add crushed grains and chopped maggots into the mixture. Fish in the summer need to be put on point. It is necessary for her to find food and start eating, rummaging in the grass and mud.

In different bodies of water, tench may react to some special additives:

• Boiled potatoes;
• Honey;
• Cottage cheese;
• Steamed grains - wheat, rolled oats (oats), pearl barley, millet.

Among the flavoring agents, we are experimenting with scents:

• Chocolate;
• Coriander;
• Caraway;
• Dill;
• Cinnamon;
• Vanilla;
• Garlic;
• Vegetable oils – sunflower, hemp, corn, flaxseed.

Baits and baits

More often, tench are caught on a feeder using a worm - a dung worm, a rain worm, or a crawling worm. However, you need to try maggots and bloodworms, and in the summer - plant baits and their sandwiches with worms, maggots or bloodworms. The bait for tench can be dipped, vegetable baits can be sweetened with honey or sugar. In summer, tench love sweet smells and tastes. In addition to animal feeder baits, in the summer we check:

• Steamed peas.
• Canned corn.
• Pearl barley or wheat.
• Crayfish meat or shrimp
• Mastyrki made with semolina or flour with the addition of peas, mashed potatoes, and cottage cheese.

Nozzle No. 1 is a worm in a bunch, so we try it first. Nozzle No. 2 - a sandwich of maggots and corn, smeared with honey (or dipped in this smell and sweetness). Then we check the other options. Read more about attachments for tench fishing.

Where to fish?

Tench is purposefully caught in reservoirs where it is bred or where good conditions have been preserved for this fish - clean, quiet reservoirs, with rich coastal and underwater vegetation.

This is a bottom-dwelling fish that likes to feed near the shore or not far from it at shallow depths. Float and feeder tackle are excellent for catching it. If you fish with a feeder, it is better to use a picker; it is more convenient for them to cast over a short distance.

Tench is a very cautious fish. Abundant starting feeds and frequent casts can scare away this fish. Therefore, often after the starting feeding they switch to the minimum size of the feeder and cast less frequently, once every 10-15 minutes.

When searching for food, tenches drip into the grass and mud of a pond. Because carp do this too. In those reservoirs where there is a lot of tench, floating bubbles can be observed on the surface of the water - an indicator of its feeding. You can feed in the places of these bubbles or on the edge.

The edge area is one of the best places for feeding tench

In the video below, Oleg feeds this greenish fish at two points:

• Long distance 15-20m, edge.
• The short distance is about 10-12m, near the border of coastal grass.

The fish must definitely come to one of these feeding points.

Equipment

For regular fishing at distances up to 60 meters, it is convenient to use light and medium feeders. There is no current in the fishing areas, and heavy feeders are not required. Heavy feeder options may only be required for long casts on wide, shallow, overgrown ponds and lakes. The equipment of the feeder depends on the casting distance and the weight of the feeder. Medium and light picker options for feeder rigs are most often used.

Feeder tackle for tench

Picker tackle for tench for short casts - a short light feeder up to 3.3 meters long with weights up to 60 grams. In this case, during the fishing process, light feeders of 10-30 grams of small feed capacity are used. Starter feeding can be done with special feeder feeding troughs. As a base, you can use either a thin monofilament 0.18-0.22 or a braided line 0.10-0.14 mm.

Braid transmits bites better, while monofilament helps to fish due to its stretchability. The choice is up to the fisherman - whoever is used to it. In clean areas you can use thinner lines, but in thickets it is better to be on the safe side so that when fishing you can pull the fish with the feeder out of the mud or reeds.

Feeder gear for medium-distance fishing - rods 3.3-3.9 meters with weights of 40-60 grams. We use the same light feeders, but throwing them at a point is easier due to the longer feeder length. When fishing, the tench vigorously resists, and even a 500-gram fish must be pulled with such tackle carefully, working with the reel’s clutch.

The reels are the usual ones in a light caliber feeder, size 3000-4000 with a gear ratio of no higher than 5.2 to 1. For long casts, it is better to take a thin cord - the reach of light feeders will be better. An article about assembling feeder gear.

Working installations

In the line feeder, you can use all available installations:

• Paternoster;
• Gardner loop;
• Symmetrical loop;
• Asymmetrical loop;
• Helicopter;
• Running feeder;
• Flat rigging method.

It is advisable to make a long leash, up to 1 meter, and after casting, pull the rig towards you so that the bait is placed on the feeding point, and not an empty feeder or sinker. However, with an abundance of underwater vegetation, this is problematic, so we put shorter leashes in the algae, 30-50 cm, so that they do not get tangled in the grass.

The diameter of the leads is 0.16-0.18 mm, this is enough to pull out any tench. The size of the hook is selected according to the nozzle. These can be standard feeder hooks for a worm or maggot with a long shank, or crucian carp with a round shank for corn or grains. Sizes - Nos. 14-16, 12 - for large fish and a bunch of worms.

How to tie a hook correctly

There is no single and universal installation. We work with the ones we know how to fish with. We select the length of the leash and hooks depending on the fishing conditions. The feeder rig on the line can be tied directly onto the braided or monofilament line. However, in the reeds at the end of the rig it is better to tie a piece of fluorocarbon 0.2-0.25 mm, it is more resistant to abrasion from debris and grass, of which there is always a lot in the tench fishing area.

Article about installation of feeder equipment:

Pickerel in the windows of the thickets

For close-range and spot fishing in windows, we use the lightest and shortest feeders with small feeders or sinkers. Before feeding, you need to examine the spots in the windows for snags on the grass. If it catches, it is better to use the flat method by inserting the hook into a lump of bait. You need to get into such windows very precisely, up to 10 centimeters. Accordingly, for this purpose the picker equipment needs to be thin - the base is no more than 0.18 mm, light weights, short leads. It is impossible to make a lot of noise and often re-cast when fishing like this.

Flat method

The flat method also works well along the line. The flat feeder feeder can be secured tightly (as originally intended) by driving the leash swivel into the groove of the sole. However, for cautious tench it is better to use the sliding version of the equipment and control the bite by placing a bead chipper between the swivel and the feeder. This is necessary because of extremely tedious and careful bites; due to the resistance of the equipment, the line can spit out the bait. After casting, we don’t cock the quivertip – we just pick up the slack. We give the fish the opportunity to swallow the hook without hindrance.

For flat fishing for tench, the best bait is a worm or sweet corn with maggots. We press the hook with a mold into the feeder so that the leash does not catch on the grass under water while the equipment is immersed. Boilies, pellets and pop-ups can also work, especially in summer and on paid reservoirs, where the fish are accustomed to such a delicacy. A worm or maggot can be lifted above the bottom by placing a foam ball on the hook. The bait can be put on a hook or on a hair rig. In wild reservoirs it is better to use natural baits.

Tackle

Tench is mainly caught in reservoirs with stagnant water, so rods up to 3.5 m long with a test weight of up to 40 g are sufficient. A spinning reel can have a size of 3000 to accommodate no more than 100 m of fishing line with a diameter of 0.25-0.28 mm. A fishing line with a diameter of 0.2-0.22 mm is used as a leash. If fishing is carried out in clean areas, but overgrown with aquatic vegetation, then thinner fishing lines can be used. The clutch is adjusted to the strength of the leash.

The hook is selected depending on the baits and attachments used: for worms you should choose hooks with a long shank; for baits of plant origin, hooks with a short shank are suitable.

Spring

Tench becomes active in the spring already when the water warms up, sometimes even later than crucian carp or carp. Active fishing for this fish with a feeder begins in May - when there is green grass around and young reeds are sprouting with might and main. In the spring we feed little, we don’t add a lot of coarse fraction, we put a worm or maggot on the hook, we use natural aromatics in baits and baits. Read more about catching tench in spring.

Lure

Feeder fishing involves the use of bait. Actually, the word “feeder” itself is translated from English as “feeder”. To catch tench, both ready-made bait mixtures and homemade bait are used.

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Store-bought bait

Some manufacturers produce bait mixtures for tench fishing, but they are quite rarely on sale. You can use crucian and carp baits. The use of universal baits is possible, but less desirable, since they contain a lot of “dusty” particles that attract small fish.

Homemade bait

Making your own bait for tench is not only out of a desire to save money. Often homemade baits work more efficiently than branded baits. Components of bait for tench can be:

• crushed grain (corn, wheat, barley);
• millet porridge;

Breadcrumbs for preparing complementary food for tench

• breadcrumbs;
• various cakes;
• oat flakes (“Hercules”).

The simplest bait option is bread soaked in water, mixed with soil taken from the shore of a reservoir.

When making bait, various flavorings should be used very carefully - too strong a smell will not attract, but will scare off tench.

Particles of attachments or baits used in fishing must be added to the bait - chopped worms, frozen bloodworms, maggots scalded with boiling water, crushed corn, etc.

Summer

The best time for feeder fishing for tench is summer. At this time, the fish are actively looking for food and feeding. Various animal baits work, as in the spring, however, small roach, bleak, ruff, and perch may not work when fishing with a worm or maggot. In such a situation, we try vegetable baits - peas, corn, pearl barley. Tench loves sweets; in summer it is advisable to add honey or sugar to complementary foods, and treat baits with appropriate dips. In wild reservoirs we work with attractants carefully - tench may not take chemicals and only bite on natural ingredients.

Baits and baits

Despite the fact that tench is a peaceful fish, it prefers food of animal origin. When fishing for tench, plant baits are used if, at the same time as the tench, its neighbors in the reservoir - crucian carp and crucian carp - are caught. The second reason for choosing baits of plant origin is the need to “cut off” small fish. Often, in the place where tench is caught, there are schools of small roach and rudd, which fiddle with the bait until they knock it off the hook. This usually happens before the tench has time to approach it.

Bloodworms are the main food of tench in spring

The most commonly used bait is:

• Bloodworms are the main food of tench in the spring, and accordingly the best bait at this time. When the tench bite is active, bloodworms are baited in bunches of 4-5 pieces, and when the bite is sluggish - 1-2 pieces each.
• The worm is the main bait for tench. It is better to use small dung worms with a pronounced pungent odor. The smallest worms are baited with 2-3 pieces on a hook.
• Maggot is a universal feeder bait that can be used to catch almost any fish. Remains mobile in the water for a long time and holds the hook well. Maggot can be combined with other baits and attachments.

The following baits are mainly used for catching tench:

• corn - often used for feeder fishing, sometimes it is replaced with peas.
• barley - steamed grains are sprinkled with sunflower cake or ground seeds. Sometimes a little honey is added to the barley during the cooking process.

When you catch tench in an unfamiliar body of water, you should pay attention to what baits local anglers use. Tench often bite better on the types of food they are accustomed to.

Barley for catching tench

Tench in autumn

In the fall, before the weather gets colder, on calm, sunny days you can catch tench, which are fattening up before wintering. At this time, animal bait is again preferable. As the water gets colder, grass and algae die off, the water becomes cleaner, and tench become more careful. At this time, it is better to look for it a little deeper - on dumps in depth near summer fishing spots, using the most delicate equipment and sliding rigs. Read more about catching tench in the fall.

With the massive fall of leaves from the trees, the tench's bite usually stops, but there may still be occasional outings in calm and warm cloudy weather. At this time, the tench looks for wintering places and begins to burrow into the silt.

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Dependence of the bite on the season

Tench is a fairly heat-loving fish, and they begin to catch it with the arrival of real spring warmth.

In winter, tench are in a state of suspended animation and therefore do not feed.

As spawning approaches, tench begins to be actively caught, but the most favorable period is the post-spawning period, when the tench begins to really eat. Large specimens of this fish are more often found after sunset.

Spring fishing

As soon as the water in the reservoir warms up and green grass appears on the banks of the reservoir, the tench wakes up from hibernation and begins to actively feed. During this period, he gives more preference to bait of animal origin, such as a worm or bloodworm. When the gardens fade, the tench begins its spawning period and during this period the biting practically stops.

Summer fishing

When it’s hot outside, tench can be caught either early in the morning or late in the evening. It is at night that you can catch a large representative of this family. In summer, any bait and attachments can be used. Summer is considered the best period for tench fishing.

Autumn fishing

This fish can be caught until the massive leaves fall from the trees. The bite can be very active in cloudy, rainy but warm weather. During prolonged bad weather, the fish refuses to feed. In the autumn, when the fish begins to fatten, the best baits will be a worm, maggot, and bloodworm.

Catching tench with a float fly rod

You can catch tench using a float rod in reservoirs with moderate vegetation and places where the depth does not exceed 0.5-0.8 m 4-10 meters from the shore.

Tench is a very beautiful and graceful fish, but at the same time it is quite rare. You will have to spend some time looking for a pond or lake with tench. It bites much better in reservoirs where there are no other fish species besides it, or where there are peaceful cohabitants (crucian carp, carp and riding species).

Thanks to its fighting character and a tail as powerful as a paintbrush, tench is considered one of the most worthy trophies for any lover of a float rod.

A fly rod is good for catching tench, but you need to choose it responsibly. Here are the main characteristics of the gear:

Rod from 4 to 7 meters. It should be quite strong, the tench jerks very strongly, thanks to its massive tail, even a 0.5 kg fish resists very strongly. If the tip of the rod is very soft, then make sure that it is capable of bending in an arc up to 180 degrees, but if the tip is hard, it is important that it does not have the ability to bend too much (when fishing for a large tench near the shore, this can lead to the rod breaking).

A reel for a fly rod is optional and its use depends on the structure of your rod. Rods without guides do not have reels. If there are rings, then do not use spinning reels, they are massive and unnecessarily load your gear. The only advantage of the inertialess fishing rod is the friction clutch, which will help you catch large fish, but with the right selection of fishing line and rod, you won’t need it.

Fishing line. For float fishing, monofilament and fluorocarbon for the leader are used.

• Main fishing line: monofilament with a diameter of 0.25-0.3 mm (strength in the form of breaking load in kilograms depends on the quality of the fishing line. Spare no expense and buy high-quality Japanese or German fishing line and your tackle will remain intact even when biting a large tench.
• The leash in front of the hook can be made either from transparent monofilament with a 0.05 mm smaller diameter, or from fluorocarbon. Its advantage: almost complete invisibility in water, but it is 2 times less strong, so the diameter of the leader must be taken to correspond to a slightly lower breaking load than your main fishing line.

The equipment for the float rod is quite standard.

1. The float stands above all other parts of the equipment (attached through a ring and a rubber cambric)
2. Lead pellets (some of the pellets can be attached immediately after the float, but if desired, it is necessary that they can be moved along the fishing line, and one sinker, the smallest one, should be placed 20-30 cm before the hook.
3. Leash 20-30 cm long (tench is a very cautious fish, so the transparency of the leash is very important, and you should not make it too short)
4. Hook number 14-16 (according to international numbering) is excellent for catching tench of various sizes. Make sure it is sharp.

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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.