Chubbing the battle of the baits

[lutra]

Great videos!

One or two more floaty chub ones for ya.

 

Maggot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZH9-dzTOoE

 

Bread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ISf1oAbwyQ

 

Meat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvfxGSvRz6c

 

Pellet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuoe00tYrSY

 

And yet to grow a beard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0gB0Z32wjI

[The Flying Tench]

On bigger rivers like the Thames, baiting up with mashed bread and then fishing bread has worked well for me, I think because the mash pulls them upstream for quite a distance.

Andrew, how do you get the mashed bread into the swim? Do you use a bait dropper? The only time I tried it I balled it in by hand. it certainly went miles downstream, but there wasn't any in the chosen swim! Maybe I hadn't squeezed all the air out.

[Anderoo]

If it's slow and shallow enough, balling it in by hand is fine. Otherwise, I use a big feeder. Using the feeder takes a lot longer but at least you know it's in the right place.

[Phone]

All,

 

Do you ever use a bread punch?

 

Phone

[Anderoo]

I've never used a bread punch for chub - big lumps of fresh, fluffy flake on a size 6 hook is pretty standard.

[Steve Walker]

Phone, in the UK bread punch is mostly seen as a "dink" method - and very good it is too. I've seen people make giant punches out of empty shotgun cartridges, but most bread punches make discs of bread maybe an eighth to a quarter of an inch across.