04-20-2004, 08:09 PM
Actually the one above is not the tench or the Tinka tinka. Here is a couple of pictures of a Tench.
Tinca tinca - Tench [center]![[Image: tinca_tinca1.jpg]](http://www.first-nature.com/fishes/images/tinca_tinca1.jpg)
[/center] [center]![[Image: tinca_tinca2.jpg]](http://www.first-nature.com/fishes/images/tinca_tinca2.jpg)
[/center]Ponds, canals and slow-flowing rivers with muddy beds and plenty of weed are ideal habitat for tench. They are cyprinids - members of the carp family.
Tench fishing is a summer pursuit, as these are warm weather fish and in winter they tend to become dormant. They vary from bronze through olive green to almost black, depending upon habitat. Golden tench have been bred selectively and in the wild they are very vulnerable to predatory birds.
The British record tench, caught in a Middlesex gravel pit in 1987, weighed just over 14 lb (6.4 kg). Tench do not usually live as long as carp and they tend to grow more slowly, but specimens more than ten years old are quite common. They feed almost exclusively in the sediment, taking chironomid larvae, worms and other mud-dwelling creatures.
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Tinca tinca - Tench [center]
[/center] [center][/center]Ponds, canals and slow-flowing rivers with muddy beds and plenty of weed are ideal habitat for tench. They are cyprinids - members of the carp family. Tench fishing is a summer pursuit, as these are warm weather fish and in winter they tend to become dormant. They vary from bronze through olive green to almost black, depending upon habitat. Golden tench have been bred selectively and in the wild they are very vulnerable to predatory birds.
The British record tench, caught in a Middlesex gravel pit in 1987, weighed just over 14 lb (6.4 kg). Tench do not usually live as long as carp and they tend to grow more slowly, but specimens more than ten years old are quite common. They feed almost exclusively in the sediment, taking chironomid larvae, worms and other mud-dwelling creatures.
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