session on trent

going down on apeg called "the bend" which is basically a turning corner on the river! im going to take my 11ft quivertip rod and target the chub. does anyone have any bait tips or methods i could use??

[Viking Lord]

Yes i do alot a chubbing on rivers. I arnt framiliar with the trent only fished it a couple of times. But fish for chub weekly on either the swale, tee's, wear, derwent and ouse. Some are better than others. You want a good strong line, around 6lbs is what i use, its rare i go above this even if there are barbel around still seems to handle them. Chub arnt hook shy, size 4 to 10 hooks are about rite for the bigger fish and baits. Sometimes i use Braid when feeder fishing. Put a weaker hooklink of about 4lb/5lb just for the chubs safety. I usually use mashed up bread in the feeder, if you can ball some into your swim. Chub like features like undercuts, overhang, rafts (they love these), and where two currents meet.

Method as you say feeder fish it if thats your style, it does work, location and feeding are both important give them something to feed on to get them in.

Baits Chub will eat anything may personal top 10 chub baits in no order are :-

Lobworm
Bread (anyform although flakes prob best)
Stilton
Danish Blue(a great winter bait)
Meat
Sausage
maggot (good but problems with fish size)
minnow deadbait
mini boilie
Slugs(big black ones the best)

tight lines

Originally Posted by Viking Lord

Yes i do alot a chubbing on rivers. I arnt framiliar with the trent only fished it a couple of times. But fish for chub weekly on either the swale, tee's, wear, derwent and ouse. Some are better than others. You want a good strong line, around 6lbs is what i use, its rare i go above this even if there are barbel around still seems to handle them. Chub arnt hook shy, size 4 to 10 hooks are about rite for the bigger fish and baits. Sometimes i use Braid when feeder fishing. Put a weaker hooklink of about 4lb/5lb just for the chubs safety. I usually use mashed up bread in the feeder, if you can ball some into your swim. Chub like features like undercuts, overhang, rafts (they love these), and where two currents meet.

Method as you say feeder fish it if thats your style, it does work, location and feeding are both important give them something to feed on to get them in.

Baits Chub will eat anything may personal top 10 chub baits in no order are :-

Lobworm
Bread (anyform although flakes prob best)
Stilton
Danish Blue(a great winter bait)
Meat
Sausage
maggot (good but problems with fish size)
minnow deadbait
mini boilie
Slugs(big black ones the best)

tight lines

theres tons of perch in the trent which would nail a lobbie everytime!, ivecaught smaller chub on breadflake so im guessing that would work, thanks for the tips, i oiften use a fishbased dark groundbait and hemp in the feeder, is this a good idea?? wish i had a food blendr!

[Viking Lord]

Originally Posted by michael 1992

theres tons of perch in the trent which would nail a lobbie everytime!, ivecaught smaller chub on breadflake so im guessing that would work, thanks for the tips, i oiften use a fishbased dark groundbait and hemp in the feeder, is this a good idea?? wish i had a food blendr!

Perch rule out lobs, mags and minnow Db, still quite a bait list id be looking at meat (good for barbel too) bread and cheese maybe slug.

Fishbased is ok but not particularly important, as i say all i use is white crum, but normally white bread blended and mashed, if you have time you can do it by hand, or with a grater. Groundbait colour and flavour is not a massive issue with chub like it is with bream as chub eat anything, aslong as it gets them down there and keeps them there. experiment. Hemps Again not important, its likely to attract alot of non target fish such as small roach.

ahhh! good point, might do a load of mashed bread tonight then (if i can be bothered) then get a tinof meat and try flake and stuff, i got a pint of bronze jus in case fishing gets slow though soo

[Viking Lord]

Originally Posted by michael 1992

ahhh! good point, might do a load of mashed bread tonight then (if i can be bothered) then get a tinof meat and try flake and stuff, i got a pint of bronze jus in case fishing gets slow though soo

Its worth the effort, although as i say location etc is more important on rivers, is the bend a good swim?

Incidentally balling in abit of bread or groundbait with mags in it and trotting maggot over it is good for smaller schooling chub and good roach bags on rivers.

P.S whatever you use bread or groundbait or both put afew hook bait samples in it.

alright then but its pretty difficult to put breadflake in a mix with breadcrumb?

[Viking Lord]

Originally Posted by michael 1992

alright then but its pretty difficult to put breadflake in a mix with breadcrumb?

well since breadcrumb is bread i wouldnt worry lol, putting hook samples in the mix just gives the fish a taste for the bait.

i uderstand mate lol! cheers for the tips!
just to keep the thread going, whats the weirdest fish in your river??
for me, reports are that the burbot is back in the trent!, anyone beat that??

[Viking Lord]

Originally Posted by michael 1992

i uderstand mate lol! cheers for the tips!
just to keep the thread going, whats the weirdest fish in your river??
for me, reports are that the burbot is back in the trent!, anyone beat that??

Burbot lol ud get a shock if you got one of them. There isnt any really weird fish sometimes get the odd trout thats the biggest shock, just chub, barbel, eels, roach, dace, perch, pike, gudgeon, bleak, minnows i can think of, the odd carp, bream and tench....oh and of course grayling.