Chaotic session topped by 10lb tinca - Matt Fernandez

“My fourth tench trip since fishing returned couldn’t have gone much better! I arrived at the lake at 4.30am after prebaiting a good-looking spot the evening before with hemp, halibut pellets, and 14mm crushed and whole dumbbell boilies coated in salmon oil and worm extract. 

“There was no need to put any additional bait out other than what was in my helicopter-rigged feeders baited with single dumbell hookbaits. 

“My rods were in the water at 5am, and by 6am the tench bites were coming thick and fast! The fishing was chaotic all morning and bites and runs only died down around 2pm. I landed a total of 24 tench, the biggest of which went 10lb.”

A 10lb tench, the highlight of an incredible morning’s fishing