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abborra says:

now the dust has settled and i have had time to reflect on our holiday,,,,,which we enjoyed because we both caught plenty of fish ronnie enjoyed what she does best catching fish,,,,,we fished a lake that was full of carp to 30lb mainly mirrors,,,,,but something shocked me...the club that owned the water also owned another large lake not to far away,,,which was we were told full of Tench and was available to fish at 15euros a day this high charge was because the lake was put and take members and permit holders were allowed to take 5 fish a day for the table,,,,,can you imagine eating Tench needless to say we didnt fish it,,,,,i also found out the law regarding live baiting was very strict and the only fish allowed as livebait was the tench,,,,infact you could purchase them live to use from certain shops and bars as i said Not My Cup of Tea

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ALLROUNDERGREG says:

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When I was a kid about seven I scounged a little tench about four inches long from a bloke over the chase he had hooked it in the back with a treble hook. I took it home and the next day I took it to school and put it I the class aquarium and there it stayed for the next four years in that time it grew to about seven or eight inches and its back healed up. When I went to Bishop wards they had a shool ornamental pond and it went in there and I never see it again little tench are MAJESTIC in minature

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ALLROUNDERGREG said:

When I was a kid about seven I scounged a little tench about four inches long from a bloke over the chase he had hooked it in the back with a treble hook. I took it home and the next day I took it to school and put it I the class aquarium and there it stayed for the next four years in that time it grew to about seven or eight inches and its back healed up. When I went to Bishop wards they had a shool ornamental pond and it went in there and I never see it again little tench are MAJESTIC in minature

when i was a kid they called them the doctor fish are they still known as that???? but eating them is behond me i used to have a small one in a goldfish bowl untill it grew to big and then it went into the garden pond along with the chub and roach which we caught from the river Avon at Stratford upon Avon as the Yanks call it

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Posted 319 days ago (04 July 2012 19:04)

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CCDGator says:

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Not my cup of tea, either. I've never really thought about eating coarse fish (except possibly perch for some reason), and definitely not tench. I've never heard of tench as live bait either.

Stratford-upon-Avon, abborra? I know it fairly well. My mother still lives about 12 miles from it and goes there about 3 times per week.

Posted 317 days ago (06 July 2012 20:29)

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CCDGator said:

Not my cup of tea, either. I've never really thought about eating coarse fish (except possibly perch for some reason), and definitely not tench. I've never heard of tench as live bait either.

Stratford-upon-Avon, abborra? I know it fairly well. My mother still lives about 12 miles from it and goes there about 3 times per week.

My favourite venue in the 50s especially the lido water and in the park opposite the memorial theatre always caught fish and easy to get to from snow hill station in brum

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ALLROUNDERGREG says:

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CCDGator said:

Not my cup of tea, either. I've never really thought about eating coarse fish (except possibly perch for some reason), and definitely not tench. I've never heard of tench as live bait either.

Stratford-upon-Avon, abborra? I know it fairly well. My mother still lives about 12 miles from it and goes there about 3 times per week.

Top livebait for cats these days evidently I think it was a case of what you could drag out in the weed when I had the little Tinca.

Posted 317 days ago (06 July 2012 22:01)

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CCDGator says:

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ALLROUNDERGREG said:

CCDGator said:

Not my cup of tea, either. I've never really thought about eating coarse fish (except possibly perch for some reason), and definitely not tench. I've never heard of tench as live bait either.

Stratford-upon-Avon, abborra? I know it fairly well. My mother still lives about 12 miles from it and goes there about 3 times per week.

Top livebait for cats these days evidently I think it was a case of what you could drag out in the weed when I had the little Tinca.

Thanks, Greg. I didn't know that.