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When you take your family or friends with you on a fishing trip to show them our region, there is always the fear of being disappointed. So, a summer technique, which works quite well, is fishing with tenya using prawns.
Many species will take an interest in these prawns, as I have already seen, it is a fun technique that will bluff your loved ones and make you look like the best fisherman aroundâeuros¦
Prawns as bait
The baits are gambas, you can take those of consumption of the trade or take some at the retailers in frozen. I use those of Pexeo, they are found in bags of about thirty individuals, they are loaded with attractants and have the right size to be put on the tenya.
I cut the tail above the last shell ring, thread it onto the main hook. I use Flashmer elastic to tie the whole thing, a dozen turns, roast style, around the body of the prawn is enough. Then I put the thief hook in the last ring of shell and bring out the point in the head.
The tenya, an easy technique to implement
The tenya used are the Astunya from Astufish, made in Brittany, you will find weights from 20 to 60g which are sufficient for the funds of 20 to 40 m.
In a previous article we have already mentioned these techniques, I will not go back over them. The basic principle is to fish as light as possible according to the depth and the current, and as vertical as possible to limit the hooking on the bottom.
The catches follow one another
As we can see, this method interests many species. The conditions are right to attempt an outing in the Brest Narrows. Low tidal coefficients, 50, with a low tide at daybreak, so I will do all the rising. Nice clear weather and sunshine, a light wind at the beginning of the session which stopped around 09 h 00.
Arrived on the spot one hour after the flow change, I put in the water my first tenya/gambas of 50g, hardly at the bottom, I don't even have the time to take back my line, a pretty grey sea bream threw itself on it, it didn't haggle, it engamé everything.
After this first fish brought up very quickly in the kayak, each descent of tenya/gambas will interest the grey sea breams, the old ones (that we call Breton groupers) or the coquettes, very present also at this season.
On another drift, I will also reel in several cuttlefish, also hooked on the thief hook. This is the advantage of tying the bait on the tenya, it is more difficult to steal and therefore more efficient for the fisherman to hook his catch.
On the next drift, it is a heavy feeling on a chip felt at the end of the tip, it will be a big octopus, about 3 kilos, which will also have been hooked on the main hook. In kayak, it's fun and sport to deal with this kind of catch.
The fight of the morning, it will be with my sixth species, a pagrus pagrus. Finally arrived in the harbor, they were made to wait, but they are now there and they like prawns. A pagrus of 2 kilos on the 7/28g ça déménageâeuros¦
As you can see this technique is interesting in summer, all species are active and you would almost have to do it on purpose to come back empty-handed...
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