Red Letter Chub Session

After quite a few sessions after the predators, I fancied a change, so headed back to my local river for a spot of chub fishing. I usually do a roving session for them, but just fancied a trying a few swims which I have had success, in previous seasons. I started at my first swim, and baited up with some cubes of cheesepaste. Within minutes, I was into my first fish of the day which felt quite a lump, but unfortunately I managed to loose it in a snag, and it threw the hook. Not phased by this, I carried on and had a couple of gentle taps on the tip, and it pulled round, I had my first fish on the bank.

Happy with the result I placed it into the keep net. I gave it another hour or so, but the bites seemed to dry up. I moved to another couple of swims, but had no luck. Feeling a bit deflated, I moved to another swim I have caught in, which is on a deep bend, opposite a large tree and some overhanging hedges. I threw out some cheese paste freebies, and started to get some interest straight away. The tip twitched a few times, then it pulled round, I was into my first fish. After placing the chub into the keep net, I rebaited and threw so more freebies out. Within minutes, the tip pulled round again, and I was into my second fish. This continued for most of the session in the same swim, then I had the finickiest of bites which only pulled the tip round slightly. I struck into the fish, and was expecting to be small fish. I was wrong. the fish shot off and was going crazy, after a few minutes the mouth opened and the biggest chub I have ever seen graced my net.

After catching these four, I tried different parts of the swim, but was unsuccessful, so I moved to another swim near my car, and just before it got dark, I had another pull round and banked another fine chub.

The day ended with six fish, and was by far, my best chub session on the River Cam for a very long time!