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This is a dedicated thread for discussing article: Chub Fishing – The Back End
Enjoyed that Christian. Here's a question on blown baits that I don't really have an answer to. Like you, I've had to change one of my staple baits as I'm getting increasingly nervous responses to it. That's why I now use blue cheese rather than luncheon meat.
One bait that never seems to blow and always gets a positive response is bread flake. Now this puzzles me as it's a large bait with a distinctive look (white and fluffy) and flavour so my own logic would say it would tend to blow quite quickly. Yet it doesn't.
Has anybody got any ideas on this?
Sean, do you notice how much fitter and stunning our Suffolk Chub are in comparison to those long skinny washed out Yorkshire things
Aye but them Suffolk chub are soft. Up `ere the chub get up and climb out of t` river and work all day in t` fields cutting t` grass wi` nowt but t` lips . . .
Perhaps they see so much of the stuff, I almost classify it as a particle bait - therefore less likely to blow.
I reacon a float could certainly open up the sections of river others avoid ledgering on due to crayfish - But I really hope you get a big 'seven' or even that 'eight' before the close of season.....
Those big fish in the papers skew the reality on how tough some of these big fish rivers are.