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Barry Fleming
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For the rest of this season at least, I am trying to make a bit more contact with the chub on the Ribble. I can catch the barbell easy enough, (on pellet) but the chub are a different ball game. On the Dane which I have fished for some years I can usually get them crawling up my rod on most baits.
But I am struggling on the Ribble, which is a much bigger river.
Last week I started on paste and had a chub in twenty minuets. For some reason I switched to pellet and then had nothing for the next seven hours, as pellet is the usual bait on the Ribble I think I was panicking over the barbell and possible bigger chub that I could be missing out on.
If maggot or caster is used then I would be plagued with eels, so I am thinking of entirely blocking any thoughts of barbell out and concentrating on bread flake and paste, which will be more attractive to the chub.
The other problem is, with the Ribble being a lot wider, where do I start, in these summer months would it be better to look for faster swims with streamer weed, or the deeper channels, which are much slower. And do the chub switch position in the river once dusk falls.
If we can go back to the Dane for a while, I misfired some hempseed and meat into shallow water, and within about fifteen minuets there were seven chub hoovering it up which I could see quite clearly. When I put a hook bait to them, a chub picked my hook bait up then immediately spit it out. This happened another two times, then after that not a single chub came within two feet of my hook bait. They all swam around it; as though there was a sign on it saying danger keep away. I moved the hook bait about two feet, and a chub picked it up straight away, but this time I was waiting, and struck when the chub had it in it?s mouth. It was a nice 4lb fish. The thing was there was not so much as a movement on my rod tip all the time the chub were mouthing my bait.
Sorry about this jumble, but now we go back to the Ribble. During the last few hours into darkness, I decided to touch ledger, so pointing my rod at where my bait was, I held the line between my fingers. All I was experiencing were very gentle plucks on the line, (I had pellet on again.) when I reeled in my bait was gone, could this be the same thing as what was happening on the Dane or could it have been eels, as the eels usually give a more savage pluck.
Once again I?m sorry it?s a bit jumbled, but hope you can help me out.
Cheers
Barry.
But I am struggling on the Ribble, which is a much bigger river.
Last week I started on paste and had a chub in twenty minuets. For some reason I switched to pellet and then had nothing for the next seven hours, as pellet is the usual bait on the Ribble I think I was panicking over the barbell and possible bigger chub that I could be missing out on.
If maggot or caster is used then I would be plagued with eels, so I am thinking of entirely blocking any thoughts of barbell out and concentrating on bread flake and paste, which will be more attractive to the chub.
The other problem is, with the Ribble being a lot wider, where do I start, in these summer months would it be better to look for faster swims with streamer weed, or the deeper channels, which are much slower. And do the chub switch position in the river once dusk falls.
If we can go back to the Dane for a while, I misfired some hempseed and meat into shallow water, and within about fifteen minuets there were seven chub hoovering it up which I could see quite clearly. When I put a hook bait to them, a chub picked my hook bait up then immediately spit it out. This happened another two times, then after that not a single chub came within two feet of my hook bait. They all swam around it; as though there was a sign on it saying danger keep away. I moved the hook bait about two feet, and a chub picked it up straight away, but this time I was waiting, and struck when the chub had it in it?s mouth. It was a nice 4lb fish. The thing was there was not so much as a movement on my rod tip all the time the chub were mouthing my bait.
Sorry about this jumble, but now we go back to the Ribble. During the last few hours into darkness, I decided to touch ledger, so pointing my rod at where my bait was, I held the line between my fingers. All I was experiencing were very gentle plucks on the line, (I had pellet on again.) when I reeled in my bait was gone, could this be the same thing as what was happening on the Dane or could it have been eels, as the eels usually give a more savage pluck.
Once again I?m sorry it?s a bit jumbled, but hope you can help me out.
Cheers
Barry.