Tench in Canada — catches, stats & how to catch

Bite calendar for Tench

The best days and hours to fish — a bite forecast factoring in pressure, wind, temperature, and the moon phase.

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Where to find Tench through the year

Spring
Warm shallows with silt and weed, 0.5–1.5 m.
Summer
Weedy bays, holes among lily pads and pondweed, right on the bottom.
Autumn
Moves onto silt a little deeper, 2–3 m.
Winter
Burrows into the silt and barely feeds.

A guide to the species' habits on typical lowland waters; on any particular water the depths and spots are its own.

Where else Tench lives — species ranges

Ice fishing — what bites under the ice