Chasing chub....

[Ian Woods]

Sounds like a plan, I will definitely shorten up.

& No crayfish present i don’t believe Ian, and the bites are not like the bites I get from crayfish on other rivers I fish. Im sure chub are the culprits.

Cheers

Maybe pike?
I've had pike on legered cheese past in years past.
Personally I can't see it being chub. I know they have pharyngeal teeth but after pushing my finger in their throats they felt soft to me.

 

[Jon Bedford]

Maybe pike?
I've had pike on legered cheese past in years past.
Personally I can't see it being chub. I know they have pharyngeal teeth but after pushing my finger in their throats they felt soft to me.

There are odd pike in the stretch, it’s a possibility.

I do remember getting quite a badly cut finger, as a youngster when feeling for a small hook down a 2/3lb chubs’ throat when I’d lost my disgorger.

 

[Tim Marks]

Peter Stone wrote about chub bite-offs 50 years ago. He ended up using braided hooklinks I think.

I’ve had issues with bite-offs from tench when using longish nylon hooklinks. The solution was the short heli-rig that is standard issue these days. My current chub rigs reflect that and are always pretty short, sometimes very short.

 

[Jon Bedford]

I’d been considering braid. I thought I’d sussed it with the 11lb powerline, though there was always the thought that I’m fishing way too heavy for finicky chub! But when that went the other week…

I’ll try shorter hooklengh and maybe braid and see if the bite offs stop, it’s been getting frustrating and I hate leaving tackle in fish.

Cheers