What bait is good for fishing tench? Choose the right bait and catch fish more easily
The tench is a freshwater fish, usually living in slow-flowing fresh water, especially in lakes and the lower reaches of rivers. So, what bait should be used for fishing tench? What are their living habits?
1. What bait should be used for tench?
There are many choices of bait for fishing tench. Generally, earthworms, bloodworms and the like are used as meat bait, or homemade dough bait can be used, mainly made from soybean cake, fish cake and rapeseed cake.
2. The living habits of tench
The tench has a wide diet, feeds slowly and is easy to domesticate. It is an omnivorous fish, mostly foraging at night, feeding by pulling up
algae and invertebrates from the bottom of the water. It likes to eat plankton, benthic organisms and plant debris in the water, feeds on decaying plant residues and aquatic insect larvae, and also readily eats artificial feeds such as soybean cake, fish meal and rapeseed cake (meal). The food competition between tench and silver carp and bighead carp is very intense, while the conflict with grass carp is relatively low.
Zooplankton is the most important food type for 1-year-old tench, among which small cladocerans dominate. When the body length exceeds 5 cm, tench mainly feeds on copepods, rotifers, benthic animals such as chironomid larvae, and aquatic mollusks. As body length increases, the proportion of artificial compound feed in the tench's diet continues to increase. Zooplankton and benthic animals are the main food of 2-year-old tench, and various compound feeds can be fed in artificial breeding. While 3-year-old tench prefers granular food.
It likes to inhabit still-water areas with muddy substrate and abundant aquatic plants. It has a strong ability to adapt to changes in oxygen content in the water, and likes to inhabit, shelter, feed and live in waters such as fish ponds, mountain ponds, reservoirs, rivers and lakes with sufficient dissolved oxygen. Its skin has a respiratory function, and it has relatively strong cold resistance. It is often active at night, and in winter in the north it can burrow into the mud bottom to overwinter, burying its body in the mud in a dormant state.
Once you have mastered the living habits of tench, fishing will be twice as effective with half the effort. I hope all anglers have a good catch when fishing for tench.