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I headed to the river to check out a shoal of chub James had told me about - taking the stick ‘n’ pin to winkle one or two out while I was there. But I’m pretty sure even James didn’t know how big the shoal was - hundreds of chub - the water was black with them!
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There was the odd roach and dace in the mix but it was basically a chub a cast - and even releasing them back into the shoal didn’t put them off. My morning mission was scrapped, this was going to take all day! I had 5 roach to 14oz, 6 dace to 6.9oz and a load of chub...
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Seventy of them in fact!! Ranging is size from about 6oz to 1½lb, with a lot of fish around the pound mark. My biggest bag of river fish ever (excluding pike & barbel). I worked it out on the way home - that’s a fish every 6 minutes for 8 hours - and my arm and back are killing me!
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