Hi Guys,

Not trying to repeat a thread here - but what I'm after is a little knowledge specific to stillwater chub.

Specifically nymphs, and sub surface (if they're on top I can get em with a dry). If there's nothing showing on top - what tactics (sunk line etc?) and what flies?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Duncan

Fly fishing for stillwater chub must be rarer than I thought! haha

hi i only fish for chubb a couple of times a year on my pilgramige to the wye.
Thoug when fishing them i always take bread flies for surface or small white gnats.
If fishing sub surface then i tend to use sinking bread flies or chezch nymphs, and fish then under a big dry new zealand dropper style.

for still water i used an intermediate wf7 line and had some succes on BH white wooly ****** ( 10, 8 and 6 size hooks) fished deep ( 2-3 m) and black spiders ( up to 1.5 m deep) but with smaller chubs atacks
cheers

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sorry...didn't know that word means something ...xxx

My first choice for stillwater chubs will be a chironomid pattern for my local waters , a red one size 12

Thanks for the replies guys!

I'll have to get tying, and kitting myself out. Wouldn't have thought of a BH white wooly bug...ger. haha I'll have to see what I've got!
I'm kitted out with heavy nymphs, so that's covered. Thanks Swffer

The chironomid in red. How do you fish that Nymphist - static near the surface, on the drop, or slow retrieve? I wonder if a rubber bloodworm pattern would work...

I'll start adding some flies to my box over the next week, and look forward to trying them out!

the rubber bloodworm pattern with a red marabou tail saved my fishing trip in this winter .
Only that it was on a river
cheers

the most productive approach in my fishing was with a simple unweighted all red fur pattern . The way to fish it is not too different I think from the way you may fish for stillwater rainbows in UK. I cast as far as possible from the shore and all I do is to wait and count - most often the strikes from the fish was when Im close to 60sec of counting. No such luck with weighted chironomid lravas or other colores - I dont know why If there is no strike from the fish I recast again. I fish this way if the chubs are not interested in surface flies - mainly foam beatles, ants etc. The choronomide larva was quite succesfull in my local waters especialy from the second half of October and November and the strikes were hard mainly from bigger chubs

Managed accidental chub catches on 5 separate occasions at Farmoor 1 over a number of years when it was run as a club water, all fish were caught on a weighted cased caddis, floating line fished slow near/on the bottom.

All were nice fish, three at about 4lb and the other two were embarrassingly big, wont say how big, I will only be accused of exaggerating, but if anyone else has managed to catch chub from F1 they will have an idea of the size

Plumpy

the biggest I landed on chironomid larva was around 3lb, but I had several fierce strikes that broke the tippet when the fish hit the fly that I think were from bigger chubs. My biggest wasnt on a subsurface fly , but on a dry size 8 foam beetle, around 5lb stillwater chub. You may mistake them with a carp while playing them before landing especialy the bigger ones.