The chub that frequent these barbel bare waters just seem to be getting bigger and bigger year on year, and although I didn't catch this 7lber, to be honest its nice knowing they are there to be caught.
It took my ages personally to catch a 5lber and yet now I've lost count on the numbers of 5lbers I've caught.
My best is 6lb 2oz. which was caught from a recently polluted stretch where many of those big chub sadly would have ended up in fish heaven. The stretch just seemed to be home to really big chub. I used to fish it in the early days of my blog where looking back it was always home to a good head of chub.
When I reacquainted myself with the stretch because of the new syndicate I was on I was amazed just how big the chub were. Those short session I do was perfect to target them especially as most of the stretch I could park behind the peg and fish a night session if I really wanted to.
I was just getting in to targeting them on the float too, with the biggest 5lb 10oz if I recall but then come the new season the farmer decided that he wanted to do horse trials on his land instead, so the syndicate was no more.
Anyway with another blank for chub during this session, I am looking for new areas to target so after been given literally the what3words location where the 7 lber was caught, that will certainly get some attention. The chub were nowhere to be seen on this session however after some small rattles on the tip in 1 of the 3 swims I fished I lifted the cheesepaste off the bottom where I'm stuck solid.
I thought it was a big branch or something but I managed to ease whatever it was off the bottom slowly where a 7 or 8lb pike appears from the tea coloured depths. After and one look at my ugly mug its dived under and bit through the line in the process !!! And that was that !!! not going well is it this fishing lark, I need to get the maggots out.
Bloody fish chaser 🤣
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