I think that a 'good' chub is a 6lb'er + , however i think that any chub over 5 and a half, you can go home with a feeling of satisfaction and a good result for the day

a 7 + is good

depnds on venue..

most venues a good chevin is 5+ a big chevin is 6+ 7's are very big..8's are leviathans!

been thinkign about doign some chubbign this year, be silly not too with the Lea on my doorstep, regualry does 7's..

i want one on a deadbait tho!

JakePAC wrote on Nov 11^th, 2009 at 6:19pm:




around 12oz and breathing still is better

I'll weigh anything i think is over 4...

between 7.02-7.03 buddy

All the best mate,you'll have em.

It's interesting to see people's different views on what's a good chub, geoff saying 4lb+ and rik say 5+ are good fish for there local river's. some angler's may have some big fish in there local river (6-7lb etc) but other's regard 4-5lb fish big where as on on other river's they're very common size fish. thanks for your opinion's  to all who replied

Hi all

I agree with Ben's last post.  I regard any chub over 6lb from a river to be a big fish.

Chris

Yes ratty that's a good point! know a couple of lakes in norfolk that contain some fish to around mid 6's. and not forgetting peter stone and the hardwick chub. open the thread up to include stillwater's. bound to be someone on ere who's caught on stillwater??

not surprising to hear that mark, one fo the water's i have seen chub is the carp lake (no3) had em feeding when tench fishing yrs ago! supposed to be in clear water too

Between Four and Eight Ounces 

Had a 5.9 of the warwickshire avon today. Which is a huge fish for the river's I fish.

It's alway's good to have a river PB where ever you are.
I mainly fish the Teme where I've had them to just over 6, but not for a few years now and I've just started to fish another small local river where I know there's 5's but havent had one as yet.

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

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

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

chubber wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2010 at 7:13pm:

a mug fish then

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.

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.

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


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.

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


not really there an alien species

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!

Horatio Nelson wrote on Jan 4^th, 2010 at 4:04pm:


i do hope so, be nice to see a river fish take the record again.

a double figure chub...can you imagine it!!

Sounds to me like someones caught another escaped grass carp

Its gone very quite on the Waveney front, will there be any surprises at the end of the season?

dario stolly wrote on Jan 8^th, 2010 at 8:49am:

I think everyone knows that the Waveney has turned up the biggest reported Chub at over 8lb.

dario stolly wrote on Jan 8^th, 2010 at 9:41pm:

No never got anywhere near that. I was led to believe that this fish was a genuine 8, although I have never seen any photos. 

The Wensum 8, was there ever any photos. I was led to believe it came within the Norwich City ring road stretch of the Wensum. Did'nt it top John Wilsons list of local big Chub.

chubber wrote on Jan 9^th, 2010 at 8:43pm:


there was some pictures of it and i think it was measured with a bit of string or a bank stick, cant remember but it looked all of 5lb's in the picture

I had a 5lb3oz chub from the Sow this morning

I've been smiling all day

Cheers mate, it certainly is