7lb 15oz Chub

[Neil Maidment]

Not me! But just got back from Throop and had the privilege of seeing a monster Chub of 7lb 15oz.

A seasons best and I'm told just 5oz off the Throop record. Chris Allport immediately took the scales away and verified the accuracy.

A really good looking fish that was just about fin and scale perfect.

For what it's worth (you have to now wait for 3 months to go chasing it!), it came from around the School Bridge area.



Me? I had 1 Chub (4lb) and 2 Dace. It was tough!

[Steve Spiller]

Bleedin hell Neil, I nearly had a heart attack! I thought it was you for a minute!

That is a clonker! I would love to have seen it.

[Neil Maidment]

Give you three guesses who looked at but walked past the swim on his way to a long struggle in "Nettlebeds"??

[Steve Spiller]

You should have headed towards Freds swim!

;-)

[Neil Maidment]

Tighter pegging than Gold Valley around there today!

I'm told a couple of good Barbel came out (14lb+?) but most really struggled today.

The river was belting through, very turbulent in most places but most of the colour had dropped out.

[Adrian Walsh 2]

I watched Matt Hayes fishing on Throop last week, he had about 7 Chub between 4-6lb's on maggot...wish areas fished like that near me!

[Neil Maidment]

7lb 15oz Chub

Scroll down the page for a look.

Told you it was BIG!

[Graham Whatmore]

That certainly is one big grandaddy of a chub, I can't imagine catching one that big, eck!

Congratulations to the man, thats a realy nice looking chub.

[Claudia Crowther]

Holly mother, that is a huge chub....respect to the guy who caught it.