chav professor
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filmed some footage yesterday.. the usual Chub feeding hard over hemp and halibut pellets. Ground up a few crusts of bread to produce a course 'crumb' - fed it into the swim and there was an instantaneous response... Sheer panic!
Sure, the odd fish did venture in over time and lifted the odd piece here and there......
I guess the problem with a shoal of fish, if one has reason to be fearful about something, it shares this with the rest of the shoal. In any given population I often ponder if there are bold individuals, really cautious, fearful fish, quick learners and chancers.
Its not uncommon for someone to write words to the effect 'Chub will eat ANYTHING'..... mmm, Chub will eat anything, but also chub might learn through association with negative experience to not eat SOMETHING.
I do suspect that older, more experienced Chub do learn to avoid certain baits or presentations.... either that..... or exert such caution that makes waiting for a bite impractical.
I have seen a similar effect with white bread.... chub fleeing from the sight of the stuff, or drifting towards it, circling and then letting it drift down stream. A switch to brown bread? Its game on!
It does influence my approach.....which is why I am happy to explore the possibilities with flavouring Cheese paste with Banana etc...... and certainly being very critical about my methodology on presenting baits.
In a nut shell:
Summer: Shoal fish respond best to particles, singular fish respond well to natural baits, surface fished bread can be devastating if you throw in the odd googly here and there
Here is the footage..... you can compare and contrast.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLEYUpGsbPk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Kkd6wyxsg
Certainly food for thought whilst watching a static quiver tip...........
Sure, the odd fish did venture in over time and lifted the odd piece here and there......
I guess the problem with a shoal of fish, if one has reason to be fearful about something, it shares this with the rest of the shoal. In any given population I often ponder if there are bold individuals, really cautious, fearful fish, quick learners and chancers.
Its not uncommon for someone to write words to the effect 'Chub will eat ANYTHING'..... mmm, Chub will eat anything, but also chub might learn through association with negative experience to not eat SOMETHING.
I do suspect that older, more experienced Chub do learn to avoid certain baits or presentations.... either that..... or exert such caution that makes waiting for a bite impractical.
I have seen a similar effect with white bread.... chub fleeing from the sight of the stuff, or drifting towards it, circling and then letting it drift down stream. A switch to brown bread? Its game on!
It does influence my approach.....which is why I am happy to explore the possibilities with flavouring Cheese paste with Banana etc...... and certainly being very critical about my methodology on presenting baits.
In a nut shell:
Summer: Shoal fish respond best to particles, singular fish respond well to natural baits, surface fished bread can be devastating if you throw in the odd googly here and there
Here is the footage..... you can compare and contrast.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLEYUpGsbPk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Kkd6wyxsg
Certainly food for thought whilst watching a static quiver tip...........