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I'll add my congratulations to the others on the capture of a beautiful looking fish lutra.

Along with a 2lb roach, a 6lb chub is a thing that I've been within a few ounces of, but never achieved.

 

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I'll add my congratulations to the others on the capture of a beautiful looking fish lutra.

Along with a 2lb roach, a 6lb chub is a thing that I've been within a few ounces of, but never achieved.

 

John.

Thanks John and others.

 

Most lads that put the time in with things like bread and cheese paste at night seem to have had a 6 at some point on the Ribble, it is a good big chub river. One lad i know spent a season trying for a 6 and got there in the end with a 6lb 15oz. So i should think even a 7 isn't impossible. Not bad for a river without crayfish, maybe i should thank the cormorant's. 2lb roach next.:)

 

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What strength of line were you using??.... :)

 

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Its been a great afternoon on the river trotting with the water just starting to clear after a good few feet of flood water mid week, things looked great. I fished my first spot for about 30 min's without a bite in return for the maggots i gave it, so i moved on. The next and last spot was just a different story from the off with a 1lb+ sea trout first trot. I kept the maggots going in and the fish slowly kept coming out. One more sea trout and six nice chub up to about 5lb over the next 90 min's or so at which point i gave the swim a good hand full of maggots and stopped for a brew.

 

I did toy with the idea of calling it a day as i was only going to have a couple of hours, but as i was catching......( i think you will know how that one go's). Anyway a few of minutes on, fag and brew over i was back in the river. Second trot down the run and bang i was into something that wasn't doing anything and i could feel it had some weight about it. My first thought was barbel, but it wasn't doing enough for one of them and the next minuet or two didn't see it do a lot more. It just stopped deep and plodded slowly up stream, playing into my hands really even if couldn't get it off the bottom. After a couple more minutes and to my surprise with little in the way of hard running it just gave up and surfaced right next to me, game over I think they say. I looked down into the landing net and my gob just fell open, as there lay the biggest chub I'd ever had hold of.

 

Well Ive got there in the end on my local river (the Ribble) with that 6lb chub Ive been dreaming of.

 

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6lb 2oz on the pin with a home made float and go old maggot as bait has just made it that bit more special to me.

Nice one,,i was on the Ribble a day before,trotting maggots under a stick float but all i managed to catch was some of your fishes offspring,along with a couple of roach and a dace,,still very enjoyable though

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Nice one,,i was on the Ribble a day before,trotting maggots under a stick float but all i managed to catch was some of your fishes offspring,along with a couple of roach and a dace,,still very enjoyable though

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All the small stuff (small dace are the killers) has made fishing maggots hard work this summer, so I've been fishing corn quite a bit, it seemed to help find the better roach at times with the odd chub.

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Now things are getting a bit colder the different species and sizes seem to be shoaling up separately so its easier to target different species just by moving so I've gone back to maggot.

 

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