Chub are very curious fish usually responding to a splash on the water investigating a source of food like an insect hitting the water, usuallly this will happen in the summer when the Chub are usually ravernous in their intentions and feeding can be only described as a feeding frenzy at times.
The Chub are very wary also and usually you have to be very careful when treading on the bank. The Dorset Stour is reknowned for big Chub and Barbel and my advice would be to locate the fish before you fish for them.
Due to the water being Clear and very Low at this time of the year particularly, my way would be to stalk the fish trying various places, (Easier if you can see them)keeping well back from the bank and freelining a Lobworm can be a KILLER for Chub.
Locating the Chub and seeing where the Chub feed is ultimately the way to go and a great weapon in the stalkers armoury in catching that 5 or 6 pounder.
Feed a few Lobworm pieces and move on to fish another swim and then return to the swim you baited up (best if you have 4 or 5 of these spots, catching 2 or 3 fish then move on as Chub are a shoal fish which tend to group up tightly and they become wise and get spooked when fish are taken out of that group) later but keeping well back and dropping a Lobworm to them. I have lost count of how many Chub I have caught fishing in this way.
Places to look for Chub are Long glides, undercut banks, overhanging trees, far bank bushes or any other far bank cover, in between streamer weed, eddies or any place that there is a change of flow caused by a obstruction or what is commonly known as a 'Crease', will all hold fish .
Hope this helps you in your quest, good luck.
Ricky
[ 21. June 2005, 11:42 PM: Message edited by: Richard04091979 ]