i caught this today while "trout" fishing. rubbish camera phone pic but my biggest chub ever and on the fly at 5lb 9oz.

From one chub fan to another, that's a cracking fish! Well done!

what a monster! it looks like a carp!! congrats

on a dry fly ?

i was fishing new zealand style,it took the nymph and only 3.4 lb tippet.

Well I've seen a few "big" chub that my not have been quite as big as their captors thought but this one looks every ounce of 5lb 9oz which coincidentally is exactly the same weight as the best one I've had weighed.

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the place where i caught it there are 3 that hang around together...this was the small one many hours ahead trying for the big one(est 7-8lb) when the season starts now that one does look like a carp!

Well done sir! That's a corker! I also know of a top secret location where two giants of the chub world hang out, and I'll be there come the glorious 16th. My best chub is around 3 1/2lb, on a sedge last autumn, but my favourite, just a couple of weeks earlier was only around 2lb. I stalked him for most of the afternoon - either he wasn't interested in the fly, or I couldn't sight the fly under the bushes where he lived, or one of his smaller relatives attacked before he got a look-in. Then when he finally took, he crash dived straight into the water lillies, and a long game of patience ensued. Eventually I let the line go slack, he tiptoed out, and I got him to the surface. I then found I had an audience of small boys, one of whom netted the chub for me and remarked: "My brother had one twice that size last week." Ho hum........
But was it worth it ? Yes it was !!
Dave.

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