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Chub in the winter

Some brilliant advice on this thread
Typically for days chubbing I will have maggot, bread if the river is clear and lamprey
You never know what they want and it’s quite common to have to switch between baits, change hooklinks and hook size if you want to catch consistently
Maggots are quite good at ascertaining what’s in front of you in that if they are ‘spewing’ maggots there probably aren’t too many fish and a mobile approach might be better
For targeting bigger fish I have tried everything but on my stretch lamprey chunks later in the day take some beating
I had several aborted takes yesterday on half lampreys when piking - definitely chub
 
I've sort of missed out on my winter chub fishing for the past 18 months or so. Covid and surgery on both eyes have conspired to deny a lot. But now back and enjoying my trotting very much indeed. Mainly on the D. Stour (mostly Throop) and H. Avon (club venues). November and December were typically patchy for me but January and February provided some top quality chubbing. Quite a number of excellent big 5's and a few 6's (all from Throop) topped by a 6:06.

All have fallen for single red maggot on a #20 under either a 6grm/8grm/10grm balsa chubber/missile or dumpy waggler.

Might only get out a couple more times before the end but, in past seasons, that last week or so has produced some very big chub.

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Beautiful fish - some serious lumps amongst that lot.
I tried at the weekend on a rapidly dropping river and it was hard work. I forgot to get a fresh loaf of bread and ending up using pre-frozen slices. Loads of bites but didn't connect with one fish! Tried everything. One of them where I came off happy that I'd done everything( apart from remembering the bait!) I could and the chub won.
just nice to be out this time of year, the little birds were singing their hearts out and saw loads of kingfishers, grey wagtails, bullfinches, coal/willow and long tailed tits plus all the usual suspects.
 
Neil Maidment said:
I've sort of missed out on my winter chub fishing for the past 18 months or so. Covid and surgery on both eyes have conspired to deny a lot. But now back and enjoying my trotting very much indeed. Mainly on the D. Stour (mostly Throop) and H. Avon (club venues). November and December were typically patchy for me but January and February provided some top quality chubbing. Quite a number of excellent big 5's and a few 6's (all from Throop) topped by a 6:06.

All have fallen for single red maggot on a #20 under either a 6grm/8grm/10grm balsa chubber/missile or dumpy waggler.

Might only get out a couple more times before the end but, in past seasons, that last week or so has produced some very big chub.

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Brilliant Maestro.
See you Wednesday
 
I'd love to give Throop a go, must get up there one day, it's been good on my local this autumn/ winter.
Usually your lucky to get a four or two there the whole season, but I've had plenty of four pluses this season
 
Had a few biteless hours on the Cherwell on Friday. Most frustrating was baiting up a swim and settling down to give it an hour or so, as it's a pretty long stretch. Just cast in and sat back when up pops a damn otter right in front of me. It then swims out to mid river and hangs in the current before heading down stream right through my baited area. OK, back on my feet and move a few hundreds away, but all to no avail.
 
Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. When I work it out, I'll let you know!

Haven't done it for a while but I've had some success and a lot of fun trotting in the dark. My "one last trot" would often extend well past the "can't see the float" time, but still had a few. Counting the turns of the centrepin until the hot area was reached and striking accounted for quite a few. Sometimes they just wrapped the rod round. For a while I got a bit more organised and adapted a few floats with starlights. It worked but typically that just messed with my brain and sight! How they picked out a single/double maggot in the dark is a mystery. Did similar things with barbel well into dark on the Severn many years ago.


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