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Another recent post about using peeled prawns for Perch prompted me to remember when I first started using them for Chub 40 years ago after leaving the RN Fleet Air Arm and starting work in a large freezer food storage depot that stored them in 1977. In those days no-one seemed to use them other than Salmon anglers. I remember thinking that they would be a great Chub bait and decided to try them especially as I had a ready supply of them from the freezer depot I worked in. I remember turning up on a sweltering hot afternoon at Dobbs Weir on the river Lea and finding every swim taken; I decided to wade in next to a sunken barge and caught 5 nice Chub in the first half hour on peeled prawn while everyone else was struggling to catch anything in the heat. The guy to my right asked what bait I was using and I gave him a few of my prawns, and he too started to get Chub. That's how good the prawns were in the early days. The bites used to be violent too. I also caught my first 5lb Chub from Kings Weir on peeled prawn in 1980. Nowadays peeled prawns are a fairly common bait, and for other coarse fish like Perch, Tench and Carp too; and they no longer seem to be such a magic bait; but I still look back to when I first started using them for Chub 40 years ago. The following diagram shows the way I preferred to hook them for Chub which always seemed to hook the Chub soundly in the corner or middle of its lower lip. Tight lines Keith (BoldBear)
