Chub cam
Chub
Leuciscus cephalus (L.)
ciprinidi
Names in dialect: squal, cavazin.
Chub are slender in shape, with a grey body and fins and white belly. They have a large top, silvery eyes and a wide mouth, with the upper jaw slightly longer than the lower one. Their fairly large scales have dark edges, which give them a criss-cross pattern; 41 – 48 scales can be counted along the lateral line. Chub in lakes can exceed 50 cm in length and 3 kg in body weight.
Chub are gregarious and are often found together with ordinary barbel in watercourses in valley bottoms, downstream from reaches inhabited by Salmonids. Chubs tend to be greedy, feeding on moisture invertebrates, small fish, algae, winged insects, and the seeds and fruits of plants; amateur fishermen sometimes catch them with seasonal fruit, such as blackberries or cherries.
They spawn from May to July, moving in small schools to gravel substrates in thin waters: each female lays 20 – 30,000 eggs. The fry hatch after a few weeks. They are known to build hybrids with dace and bleak.
Chub are one of the species most resistant to the degradation of water environments and indeed it is not unique to see shoals of chub arou
Great day out today with Amer on the river cam. We set out fishing for chub. We set up and within 30 minutes we had a chub in the net. We then consistently put fish in the net for about 1 1/2 hours before it went quiet for the final hour. We fished casters to the boat and finished up with 13 fish.
Really enjoyable day and can’t linger to get back.
I would really like to express gratitude Amer Jawad for his time and effort – I really appreciate it.
I would like to express gratitude Michael at www.legacytackle.co.uk for his continued support and bait.
Finished off with between 40 – 45lb.
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Most of my fishing, from October onwards, is predator-based, but every now, and again It’s good to spice things up a little. My last session out was just that, even though it was a predator we were after, it was actually a big chub and not a pike.
My approach was simple, being a steak and mince attack. I had prepared my bait the evening before and bagged it up ready to go.
For feeding, it was simply to get the cheapest mince possible from local supermarket. This was then transferred into a groundbait bucket, where I broke the mince apart with my hands, added to this was half a kilo of Bait-Tech Halibut Marine Method Mix, a liberal squirt of Bait-Tech Predator Plus Liquid and then blitzed with a drill and whisk.
What you are left with is a course mix, that will bind together well without having to squeeze too hard. All the mince is broken down, effortless to place into a cage feeder and also to feed small balls into the swim.
The hookbait is again uncomplicated, Beef Stir Fry Strips. These were bagged up the evening before, along with a limited squirts of Bait-Tech Predator Plus.
Meeting wonderful mate Jon in the car park the following morning, we both
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