Deadbaiting for Chub

[Now there's a right un.]

I have never targeted Chub with deadbait.

However:

 

Althought they were not my target species I did once have 3 Chub, of which 1 was landed, who decided that the Minnows I caught were quite appealing. The Chub were not overly large with the one landed weighing in at 1 1/2lb in wieght.

 

Other fish like Roach were totally ignored.

[Brian Carragher]

I do a fair bit of chub fishing with dead minnows, the bigger the better, and I find that a good fresh big dead minnow will sort out the better chub. They have to be dead though as a live one will hide under any rock or cover and be pretty much useless as a bait but fresh dead ones really do produce the goods

 

Fished in snags or deep pools or holes a big chub will confidently take a dead offering when it ignores everything else in front of it

 

A size 6 Drennen specimen fished on mono with a swivel and free running lead id the method of choice and when you get a bite its not the tentative chub tap but a full on wrench down of the tip

[Worms]

I do a fair bit of chub fishing with dead minnows, the bigger the better, and I find that a good fresh big dead minnow will sort out the better chub. They have to be dead though as a live one will hide under any rock or cover and be pretty much useless as a bait but fresh dead ones really do produce the goods

 

Fished in snags or deep pools or holes a big chub will confidently take a dead offering when it ignores everything else in front of it

 

A size 6 Drennen specimen fished on mono with a swivel and free running lead id the method of choice and when you get a bite its not the tentative chub tap but a full on wrench down of the tip

I use minnows a lot....live ones though.....I usually trot them past a likely hole under a float when they have no chance to hide!