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chubber Newbies Offline I like fishing Posts: 12	Re: What Weight would you say is agood CHUB?? Reply #30 - Jan 1^st, 2010 at 8:47am Having fished for Chub on Norfolk rivers for over 20 years I would say a fish over 6lb is an achieveable target. However a seven although possible, would be a fish of a lifetime. Saying that, one Norfolk angler I know of has caught at least 4 different sevens.
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bill rowley Newbies Offline I like fishing Posts: 27	Re: What Weight would you say is agood CHUB?? Reply #31 - Jan 1^st, 2010 at 6:44pm my friend had a 4lb 2oz yesdy from the severn...thet was a good chub 4 this time of the yr.....so was the 3 barble i had
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Reply #32 - Jan 2^nd, 2010 at 2:26pm

chubber wrote on Jan 1^st, 2010 at 8:47am:

Having fished for Chub on Norfolk rivers for over 20 years I would say a fish over 6lb is an achieveable target. However a seven although possible, would be a fish of a lifetime. Saying that, one Norfolk angler I know of has caught at least 4 different sevens.

that will be mr hunt i recon?
are you percy the hair stylist ?? Grin

7lb 10oz is fish of a lifetime Cheesy

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Reply #33 - Jan 2^nd, 2010 at 4:13pm

kc wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2010 at 2:26pm:

chubber wrote on Jan 1^st, 2010 at 8:47am:

Having fished for Chub on Norfolk rivers for over 20 years I would say a fish over 6lb is an achieveable target. However a seven although possible, would be a fish of a lifetime. Saying that, one Norfolk angler I know of has caught at least 4 different sevens.

that will be mr hunt i recon?
are you percy the hair stylist ?? Grin

7lb 10oz is fish of a lifetime Cheesy

Actually, he's had 5 DIFFERENT 7's, lucky so and so! Cheesy

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chubber Newbies Offline I like fishing Posts: 12	Re: What Weight would you say is agood CHUB?? Reply #34 - Jan 2^nd, 2010 at 7:13pm Yes Keith I was that hair stylist. My fish of a lifetime was 7.9, actually one of S H's sevens.
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dario stolly Junior Member Offline darryn stolworthy Posts: 61 Norwich Gender:	Re: What Weight would you say is agood CHUB?? Reply #35 - Jan 2^nd, 2010 at 7:37pm chubber wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2010 at 7:13pm: Yes Keith I was that hair stylist. My fish of a lifetime was 7.9, actually one of S H's sevens. a mug fish then
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chubber Newbies Offline I like fishing Posts: 12	Re: What Weight would you say is agood CHUB?? Reply #36 - Jan 2^nd, 2010 at 8:07pm Darryn I think you may have caught it at 3lb.
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Reply #37 - Jan 2^nd, 2010 at 11:37pm

I think most of the posts are wide of the mark here, It wasnt that long back that 5lb chub regularly featured in the angling mags. It has only been in recent years that 6s and 7s filled up with boilies and pellets have become more common. I think this is a true gauge of a big chub. On rivers that dont see lots of pressure and more importantly large amounts of high protein baits going in, a big chub is still 5lb.

This poses another question, which would you prefer, a true natural chub at 5lb or a boilie gut loggerhead at 7lb? I think I would prefer a natural 5 over a boilie 7.

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WOODSY God Member Offline Cats and Pike Posts: 1080 OXFORD Gender:	Re: What Weight would you say is agood CHUB?? Reply #38 - Jan 3^rd, 2010 at 2:32pm Zanderholic ive been lucky enough to catch a few over 5 1 6 and a 7 and all of them fish put on the weight eating crayfish not pellets or boilies and all of these fish i caught were with traditional methods liquidised bread in the feeder and danish blue on the hook
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Reply #39 - Jan 3^rd, 2010 at 5:27pm

Most of the Wensum Chub over 6lb and one of over 7lb I have caught came from stretch'es that hardly ever saw a pellet or boillie. The main cause of weight gain in Wensum Chub is that there is so little competition for available food. Also now that we have a sucessfull re-introduction of otters into our river system the numbers of Chub are falling, we can only hope that the Signal Crayfish also multipying in numbers can achieve some kind of balance. As I see things at the moment we are seeing the end of a fantastic era of Chub fishing on the Wensum. Sorry for all the doom and gloom but I have seen the best of the Wensum.

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WOODSY God Member Offline Cats and Pike Posts: 1080 OXFORD Gender:	Re: What Weight would you say is agood CHUB?? Reply #40 - Jan 3^rd, 2010 at 5:45pm Same down my way chubber the floods in oxford wiped it out 3 years ago before that the fishing was cracking for big chub and perch.
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Reply #41 - Jan 3^rd, 2010 at 7:34pm

WOODSY wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2010 at 2:32pm:

Zanderholic ive been lucky enough to catch a few over 5 1 6 and a 7 and all of them fish put on the weight eating crayfish not pellets or boilies and all of these fish i caught were with traditional methods liquidised bread in the feeder and danish blue on the hook Wink

Are signals a natural food source? Ok i will accept these as they are crustacea but dont like the look of their passports. But surely that you have caught only 1 6 and 1 7, that they are in fact exceptional fish, not just good fish. A good chub is still a 5lber in my book and I am generally satisfied with any chub over 4 but consider a 5 a good fish and a 6 or above exceptional.

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markyboy PAC God Member Offline WE ARE THE NORFOLK MAFIA....RESISTANCE IS FUTILE! Posts: 2557 Narfuk Gender:	Re: What Weight would you say is agood CHUB?? Reply #42 - Jan 3^rd, 2010 at 9:40pm Agreed, but if you were to put the time in, the tally of 6's and 7's around this way would rise
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Reply #43 - Jan 4^th, 2010 at 5:55am

zanderholic wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2010 at 7:34pm:

WOODSY wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2010 at 2:32pm:

Zanderholic ive been lucky enough to catch a few over 5 1 6 and a 7 and all of them fish put on the weight eating crayfish not pellets or boilies and all of these fish i caught were with traditional methods liquidised bread in the feeder and danish blue on the hook Wink

Are signals a natural food source? Ok i will accept these as they are crustacea but dont like the look of their passports. But surely that you have caught only 1 6 and 1 7, that they are in fact exceptional fish, not just good fish. A good chub is still a 5lber in my book and I am generally satisfied with any chub over 4 but consider a 5 a good fish and a 6 or above exceptional.

not really there an alien species Shocked

but yes the chub DO eat them and they defo do get big on them, if you look at lea chub..you have the fishers green chub (those that are left) they have got big on both signals and pellets/boilies...

go down to the navigation part of the lea and 6's and 7's even 8's are caught, 6's and 7 's being a seasonal feature, the chub in the navigation definetly dont see a huge amount of pellet/boiles at all, there dining on the crays amongst other natural food sources, dotn forget chub are predators..or more to the point omnivorous..they eat everything! Wink

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Horatio Nelson God Member Offline Clampdown. Posts: 833	Re: What Weight would you say is agood CHUB?? Reply #44 - Jan 4^th, 2010 at 4:04pm rumours about that the chub record has gone last week with a river fish of 10lb plus. I'll be interested to see the photos as it's not from the usual rivers that produce a good few 7+. rob
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