Just thought i'd ask opinions. I did see an article that talked about minced beef. However back to tradition what do people see as the killer bait?

My view is for trotting - Maggots and for ledgering, which is something I haven't tried, then bread?

P.S. I also thought I'd better get a thread going before they close this section down. Last post was mine some 5 weeks ago???

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I've caught a lot of chub in my time but not since I switched to fly fishing.

Maggots or bread - well it very much depends on the venue and the water conditions, plus whether you wanted to catch one or a netful ? Bread is great in cold, clear conditions and for catching the odd lump, especially on small rivers where they will find it easily. If you want to catch half a dozen or more from a swim, then you need the "bronze rain".

You can still ctach big ones on maggots. Best I had was 5-10 in a catch of a bit over 36lbs to win a match on the Ouse at Bedford about 15 years ago.

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Bread Bread and more Bread.

Liquidized Bread in a small feeder. Punch or Flake on the hook.
you could always tip the hook with a maggot or caster if needed.



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Cheese or lunch meat on the lead
Casters or flake trotting

I used to catch a lot of chub in the Wye and pretty much agree with the comments made above. Maggots under a stick float and constantly loose fed would produce chub after chub, including the bigger fish, which seemed always to come late in the day. In early Autumn before the floods broke up the shoals catches of 100lbs in a day to trotted maggot were not exceptional.

In cold water bread crust or flake was a superb bait when legered and other baits on which I regularly caught chub included casters, worm, luncheon meat, sausage meat, sweetcorn, cheese, sand grig (baby lamprey), live minnow, live bullhead, plums (where trees over hung the river), and especially effective in coloured water was shin of beef. (Free from the butcher in those days).

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I have more luck on sweetcorn the smell and colour is just too hard for them to say no i find starting on sweetcorn then bread under a float works wonders

craig

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chub have been one of my main target species, have had many a session touch ledgering for them and without doubt cheesepaste would be my bait of choice if forced to choose one. Lobworm would also be right up there, but not half as selective.

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An old fishing partner of mine and I used to fish the Kennet, among others, in Berkshire for barbel. He'd catch barbel and I'd only ever catch chub. So I quit fishing for barbel and concentrated on "wasting my time catching chub" as he used to call it... until I pulled one out that pushed 7lBs, on a free lined lob worm near Sulhampstead.

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Maggots or casters work best on rivers where you can attract a shoal of chub. If you build up a swim with regular feeding eventually the chub will move in and you can get a fish a cast as long as you don't spook them. You have to be patient though, as it can take a couple of hours to draw the chub in and get them searching for the bait.

Bread is better in small overgrown rivers as a hit and run bait. A ten pence piece size lump of flake or crust on a size six round-bend hook direct to six pound line, a swan-shot leger and an Avon rod is all you need. First cast in each swim is your best chance, so make it count. If you get a chub, have one more cast in the same spot in case there's another one around; give it ten minutes then move.

That's not to say groundbaiting won't work, because it can. If you walk the river first and put a couple of handfuls of mashed bread into every likely spot, then return to the start and fish them in order you can pick up a chub within seconds in each spot. Put in another handful of mash before moving to the next one to keep them topped up.