I hope his catch is verified, but regardless, I will still tell my grandkids that it was my fish… just re-caught by someone else a few years later! Some ‘facts’ about Chub At the time of capture this fish had absolutely no belly, it felt hollow, and would have easily reached seven pounds a few weeks later after it had fattened up again for winter.Īlthough not yet recognised as a new British record fish, an angler has very recently reported catching a monster 10lb 11oz chub from exactly this same stretch of the river. I always tell everyone who will listen that it was at least seven pounds long but unfortunately only five pounds deep. It was caught a few years ago from the River Severn on waters managed by Rowley & District Angling Association at Coalport. In this article I am going to explore a little more what makes chub so interesting and alluring for an old match angler like me, and along the way I hope we can all reflect a little on, and also give a little praise for, one of the most enigmatic and interesting species of fish out there. Here I mean ‘proper’ chub, not those ‘thirty-two to-the-pound’ chublets that infest the far side of every river I seem to fish.
If that is true for me is it the same for you too, I wonder? Whilst I have spent my life catching innumerable roach, dace, perch, gudgeon, bream and carp, etc I count myself lucky if I have a day where chub turn up. Yet when I consider the reasons why they hold such a place in my heart I have to acknowledge, first and foremost, that of all the most common species out there – and chub are most definitely a common species – it is for me chub that are the most elusive. I am most definitely one of those anglers who feels this way. For the rest, if chub are not actually their favourite, they certainly ought to be up there in the ‘one-two-three’.
There will be many anglers who would count chub as their favourite fish.
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