Would you be allowed to go fishing on your wedding anniversary? Andy Pulley felt he was lucky to be on the bank during his but was rewarded with this superb 12lb 3oz tench. It was caught from a large southern stillwater where the High Wycombe angler was initially fishing three… Read more

During the National Tench Championships, hosted by the Tenchfishers on Oxlease Lake of Oxfordshire’s Linear fisheries, Mike Simpson not only won the event outright, but landed a superb PB in the shape of this 10lb 15oz fish, and what a photo to match! Mike told us “I went into Sunday… Read more

Norfolk based angler Stephen Gibbons has continued his spectacular run of form from last season with a brace of tench, weighing 11lb 13oz and 11lb 3oz. They were caught from a water in Kent, where Stephen targeted a spot 40 yards out to the right of a shallow bar, where… Read more

Matthew Clayton got off to a flying start on a recent tench session where he landing this stunning 11lb 15oz specimen. Targeting a midlands pit, Matthew found a slight plateau at around 80 yards with a light bed of weed so opted for a worm kebab rig with scalded pellets… Read more

Tench are famed for being a morning-feeding fish, and James Crosby showed exactly why when he had no fewer than 16 takes, capped by this specimen of 11lb 1oz.   James, who caught the current British Record barbel last winter, was fishing a Kent stillwater where he targeted the near… Read more

Simon Hollinshead decided to take a feeder rod down to a Cambridgeshire pit that he’d fished for pike over the winter, to see what else was in there. To his surprise, he caught several nice rudd to just under the 2lb mark, and having never caught a two-pounder, decided to… Read more