Given all my effort on the Barbel front as I pursue my "Forty Rivers Challenge" I have also come across quite a few Chub on my travels up and down the country with a handful being what I consider to be of specimen proportions. Taken on a number of techniques I'd say the catch rate is pretty similar to my Barbel returns and quite often when I have had Chub or where I have had Chub I have also caught Barbel.
Given the amount of time I have spent out on the banks, the last couple of months have been very difficult and apart from the odd Grayling and Pike trips I have caught nothing, blanks are certainly order of the day! The warmer months were certainly a lot kinder to me, now the trips to the rivers just seem to have become a blankfest.
Here are few photos from this season so far of Barbel bait robbing culprits, and also the odd targeted specimen. I suspect as the winter gives way to early spring before the season finishes that I will come across more, I just need to get out more!
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| 6.02 R.Lea |
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| 6.07 R.Derwent |
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| 7.04 (PB) R.Derwent |
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| 6.01 Great Stour |
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| 5lb+ R.Ivel |
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| 6.06 R.Colnbrook |
Not a bad as a byproduct of another challenge :-)
ReplyDeleteI know, on 8 rivers now that have produced 6lb+ specimens:
DeleteD.Stour, H.Avon, Thames, Derwent, Wandle, Colnbrook, Lea and Kentish Stour.