11 tench in 48 hours from 100-acre pit - Joe Royffe

“I decided to focus my spring tench campaign on a 100-plus-acre pit local to my Hertfordshire home, where I know that big tench can be found.

“My plan was to up my personal best, and with this fish of 10lb 10oz I did just that, beating my old PB by 4oz. I banked 11 fish in total during the 48-hour session. 

“The first one fought really well, so well that I wrongly had it down as a carp as it dug deep and tried to shed the hook in the marginal weed.”

For tench, I find PVA bags of casters fished over a bed of hemp and caster is a really effective tactic.