Thursday 3 September 2020

Clear Water Chub


The best, and probably most exciting way of fooling chub in clear water is with floating crust. Chucking out a couple of free samples I followed them downstream waiting for the chub to reveal their location - then send one down with a hook in it - very simple fishing.

Watching the chub abandon their snaggy homes for a piece of crust I bagged 6 of them, the best two going 5lb 0oz and 4lb 5oz - great stuff - really should do it more often. And three barbel fancied a piece of floating crust - always great to pick barbel up off the surface!


74/100

4 comments:

  1. Different gravy down your neck of the woods, well for the Barbel anyway. The chub can be caught like that here, great way of fishing for them, in-fact last decent chub I caught, was caught that way.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. It always surprises me when the barbel come up and feed off the surface - doesn’t happen often. And yeah, my favourite way to locate and target the chub - going to head out a few more times before the water cools down.

      Delete
  2. Replies
    1. Cheers, I’m on a bit of a chub campaign at the moment - and these five pounders are going to keep me hooked for a while!

      Delete