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Post by nige_LS7 on Feb 2, 2015 21:35:56 GMT
I'm going to mix up my tactics a bit and see what works for me. I've been meaning to try a few new things anyway: try fluoro, try longer hook lengths, try PVA bags instead of feeder and above all use top quality hooks more consistently! Seeing Geoff's rig has prompted me to spend a few quid to try all these. None of these surely are as important as how I present my bait on the hook, and I'm still learning the basics there - like it took me until my third (ever) outing with cheese paste the other day before I found it easy to present it like the books & websites tell me to and to keep it on the hook - mainly because the paste itself was no good until the third go! I was so pleased though just to hook into my first fish on paste the other day on the Aire in Leeds that I hardly minded at all when I lost it within about 4 seconds - seemed to have been very lightly hooked. Next lesson: how to keep crust on the hook A hair rig for chub I'm not going to try. In 'barbel season' I'll be back to hair rigs and the sinking putty may come into its own too. I'll use what's left of this winter 'chub season' to prepare and practise a bit with some new tackle & techniques but not with hair rigs.
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Post by gcb on Feb 2, 2015 21:55:10 GMT
It's all relative! I buy the best quality hooklengths - the business end - instead of spending petrol money going down to the river Trent Looking forward to getting you out river trouting in the close season cabbo - pm replied to.
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Post by grayson on Feb 3, 2015 7:56:49 GMT
Chub (not Chubb please!) fishing is 75% location , 5% timing, 5% tackle and 15% bait. Unlike carp fishing there is absolutely no need to make rigs complex- you can if you want and you can even kid yourself that your carlos fandango rig made a difference- but it probably didn't . If you are fishing properly for chub you rarely should need leads heavier than half an once in small to medium rivers and for me the key is mobility- I fish at least 6 swims in as many hours . Th best advice I can give is look at the water not the bank - many times I have fished some jungle of a swim and sitting 6' above the river if there's a nice crease in the current
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Post by Eddie on Feb 3, 2015 10:03:57 GMT
Chub (not Chubb please!) fishing is 75% location , 5% timing, 5% tackle and 15% bait. Unlike carp fishing there is absolutely no need to make rigs complex- you can if you want and you can even kid yourself that your carlos fandango rig made a difference- but it probably didn't . If you are fishing properly for chub you rarely should need leads heavier than half an once in small to medium rivers and for me the key is mobility- I fish at least 6 swims in as many hours . Th best advice I can give is look at the water not the bank - many times I have fished some jungle of a swim and sitting 6' above the river if there's a nice crease in the current Ha, you're totally correct Chub, not Chubb. Don't think my predictive text has heard of the native species of fish and I never really noticed till you pointed it out! Good advice about swim finding though. Eddie.
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Post by nige_LS7 on Feb 3, 2015 10:15:21 GMT
I fish at least 6 swims in as many hours. Do you pre-bait a few swims with any hook bait samples as you walk the bank at the start? Do other members do so for chub?
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Post by grayson on Feb 3, 2015 16:57:23 GMT
Sometimes; but the key for me is to introduce some mashed bread just before I fish. It won't feed the fish and it probably will not end up right next to the bait but what it does do is wake the fish up and get them looking round for more . In most swims if I get fish at all the first one will often be two minutes or less into the first cast .I make up the bread at home and take about a third of large bucket full.
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Post by nige_LS7 on Feb 3, 2015 19:31:50 GMT
Sometimes; but the key for me is to introduce some mashed bread just before I fish. It won't feed the fish and it probably will not end up right next to the bait but what it does do is wake the fish up and get them looking round for more . In most swims if I get fish at all the first one will often be two minutes or less into the first cast .I make up the bread at home and take about a third of large bucket full. Nice one , thanks for confirming that I've been doing something right!
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Post by smithleback on Feb 3, 2015 19:53:06 GMT
A good winter chub[and barbel] rig mate is the humble maggot and caster, with a smallish feeder.Small baits sometimes best[dont fish too light either 6lb hooklength minimum,14 hook,specimen barbless like animal very good]dont get as much small stuff hassling you in winter either,try it you might be surprised
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Post by johnboy66 on Feb 3, 2015 21:22:07 GMT
my mate used to always beat me to the first fish i.e. Chub so I asked him how why and what I was doing wrong, even if I was using the same bait.
do you no what he told me, you have to big of lead on your holding bottom to much, so I asked him what weights do you use. " I only use 1 SSG on the line let the currant do the work and sit back and wait.
do you know he maybe a daft bugger he was nearly always right Haha.
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