What’s your favourite early season chub bait?

[barbelboi]

[FONT=&quot]For me - Free lining lobworm by a mile – especially after rain.[/FONT]

 

[steph mckenzie]

Raw Stewing Steak on the Hook with Mince in a Feeder.

 

[walney1956]

Have to agree, lobworm did the trick on three chub this morning. In fact lobworm is my favourite bait for barbel, perch and is liked by most other species of fish. Maybe that's why some people don't use it, not selective enough. It looks like a damp evening tonight may visit the playing fields to build up my stock.

 

[dannytaylor]

shallow diving crankbaits

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Have to agree, lobworm did the trick on three chub this morning. In fact lobworm is my favourite bait for barbel, perch and is liked by most other species of fish. Maybe that's why some people don't use it, not selective enough. It looks like a damp evening tonight may visit the playing fields to build up my stock.

Thats what i will be doing later.............................sad i know mg:

 

[Alan Tyler]

Slugs. And I get brownie points for ridding the garden of them. Bonus!

 

[barbelboi]

Have to agree, lobworm did the trick on three chub this morning. In fact lobworm is my favourite bait for barbel, perch and is liked by most other species of fish. Maybe that's why some people don't use it, not selective enough. It looks like a damp evening tonight may visit the playing fields to build up my stock.

Good thinking - got to get back in the action of holding the torch with one hand and working out which end to squeeze with the other.mg:

 

[Dave Slater]

Bread in the daytime and cheese in the evening. Lots of other baits work well but these are my favourites.

 

[Frank Elson]

It's more than 20 years since I fished for chub - next week I will have a go and I see no reason not to use what I did all those years ago -cheese and/or bread.

 

[chav professor]

Luncheon meat in all reality - naturals are a fun distraction and allow me to stalk visible fish - but come dusk, a lump of flavoured meat takes a lot of beating.

Anyone out collecting lobs tonight?

 

[walney1956]

The spirit was willing but having been up since 2.30 am this morning the flesh craved its bed. Always tomorrow, forecasr is wetter. Good night.

 

[Bob Hornegold]

Bread

In all it's forms ?

Bob

 

[Peter Jacobs]

Much the same as Dave, Bead flake early on and either cheese or worm in the evenings.

In the summer then floating crust works well on my stretches of the Avon, my two best Chub, both 5lbs 15oz have been on crust.

 

[jack sprat]

I've always found casters the supreme summer chub bait.

 

[Fishing Gimp]

A big black slug, freshly extracted from my Hostas. Chub get really violent with them so i use 6-8 lb bs line or you get the 'line wafting in the breeze' syndrome.

 

[watatoad]

1: a sandwich made with white (yes white) bread and dairylea cheese paste (even if its not all that cheesy), remove the crusts and scrunch it up into a sort of paste.
2: Slug
3: Worm