
13 chub from this one little swim in a short session!
As the river season has now drawn to a close I thought I’d give you something to think about for the back end of next season.
I find that in the last month or so of the season with the continuous cold nights and not particularly warm days there is a lot more chance of catching a few nice chub than there is of having much success with barbel.
Now don’t get me wrong, you can still catch the odd barbel (if you are prepared to put a lot of time in or if you fish areas of the Middle Severn or Wye where there can be lots of shoal fish in certain swims) but to me one of the best fun ways to almost guarantee some sport is with small stream chub.
My first taste of really small river chub fishing came in the last week of the season in 1997 (didn’t realise it was so long ago until I checked my old photo’s). I was fishing with a good mate of mine on the tiny River Mease near to Tamworth. The river here varies from as little as about 6ft wide up to maybe 2 rod lengths, with shallow fords of 6 inches deep to the odd 8 feet deep pool. Now on only my second trip to this beautiful little river we had a really cracking days fishing. continue reading…

