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TENCH AND BREAM Old Bury Hill’s Old Lake produces some of the south of England’s biggest bags of specimen tench and bream year after year, making it the only place to visit for a net full of prime slabs or tincas.Catches of up to 200 lb are not uncommon with bags to 300 lb plus being very possible during the spring and summer months, and with bream averaging 3-5 lb and tench averaging 5 lb apiece with good numbers of fish to 8lb+ and even the odd double, it’s easy to build very big weights quickly once a swim comes alive. Waggler and ground bait feeder are the reliable methods for bream weights with pegs on the front bank fishing into slightly deeper water consistently producing 50-100 lb hauls. Tight feeding and regular casting to introduce free offerings brings action even on difficult days. Maggot, caster, corn, chopped worm and particularly pellet are all successful baits. Pole tactics also score with little and often feeding over an initial introduction of ground bait. Tench can be caught using much the same tactics, with early morning a key feeding time, and baits such as casters, corn, meat, hemp and red maggots presented close to the lilies down the long bank proving the downfall of many hard fighting fish. Scaled down carp tactics can also be productive with softened pellet paste over small balls of fishmeal groundbait catching steadily even on the hottest days, and smaller boilies hair rigged and fished with small PVA bags of pellets also bringing regular action and, often, bigger fish. Simple float tackle is preferred from the punts, the lift method or laying on with larger baits like soft hooker pellets, corn and worms catching plenty of tench and bream, particularly close to overhangs or lilies. Don’t go too light with tackle, main lines of 4-6 lb and hooks from 10-14 will stop those Bury Hill tench making a fool of you, especially when hooked close to cover in the productive Jungle. Milton is the other lake on the complex where tench can be targeted with fish running to 7 lb. A smaller water than the Old Lake, both waggler and pole with strong elastic work well fishing soft paste baits over small pellet close to the lilies or rushes.
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FISHERY REPORTS Bream and carp catches resist weeks downpour! - 13 July 2008 Despite some pretty grim weather, all lakes fished reasonably well with the Old Lake seeing some good bags of bream and carp reported regardless of the weather whilst the two smaller lakes also saw some reasonable action. Picture shows bailiff Eric Bailey rushed off his feet between customers... PHOTO GALLERY
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