Chasing big chub.....update...

[jpbfly]

Everytime I post a pic of chub on the forum some of you are surprised by the size of the fish we have here.Big chub are very exciting to fish because they are very spooky(that's why they get old)their cone of vision is wider and their abitlity to feel vibrations is better than the ones of trout.We fish them on sight either on dry(usually Batistou special) or on nymph(chub special)It's not rare to catch fish between 20' and 24'....last week I hooked the "chub of the year" but I couldn't land him ....
Here are some pics of big guys.You'll notice some are silver others golden...

 

[mcnerney]

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JP: Great looking fish, congrats!

 

[fishtheworld]

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Great fish. I've caught them a lot when I lived in the UK. Where abouts are you catching these.

 

[stenacron]

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Gotta love chubs!

 

[theboz]

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Gotta love big fish of any species! That's a monster! Looks like our fallfish. Nice one!

 

[thorsten]

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Hello JP,

Congratulation to that pretty nice chub :clap::clap::clap:

We have similar sizes in my "home river Dill", but as you already mentioned, they are extrmely sensitive and it not easy to catch such a nice fish. I am always sneaking along the river and mostly I get one with a long distance cast with a big nymph or a fat dry fly.

 

[Ard]

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There were some big chub in Pine Creek and the West Branch Susquehanna River at the mouth of Pine Creek when I fished those places JP. Usually I caught the biggest ones on streamers but have no photos of them. The fish you are catching are huge for small stream chub.

 

[madjoni]

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Great chubs JP

 

[fly_guy12955]

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Is chub a good eating fish ? Our chubs just dont get very big,,,,mostly 6 inches or so..not much more than that. Are chubs a good eating fish ? The chubs here,,we seine and use on lay-lines for catfish. (Yep, I have a little redneck in me at times LOL,,actually, I just love eating catfish) The chub you guys are showing,,just boggle my mind,,I had no idea they got that huge.

 

[jpbfly]

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Thanks for your comments...glad you enjoyed the pics guys

Fly guy,I haven't heard of many people eating chub....though my friend the fischmeister told me he used to catch some for people who were starving during the war...and I know gipsies sometimes poach chub to eat.As for me I catch and release all the fish regardless of species

 

[littledavid123]

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Thanks for sharing jpbfly, the chub is a very powerful looking fish.

Dave

 

[thorsten]

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Hello Chub Specialists,

We have guy over here, who loves to eat the chubs. But he perpares something like a fish burger from the meat and I can tell you that these burgers are fantastic. Here I will try to explain the recipe:

1. Cut the filets and sprinkle them with fresh lemmon juice. Then pack them for a while into the fridge.

2. Grind the filets together with some pieces of bacon, onion, white bread and parsley.

3. Mix this mass with egg, salt, pepper and maybe some flour so that it becomes a little bit sticky.

4. Form some meatballs (flat disks => diam. 3", thickness aprox. 1") and fry them in butter in a pan.

Hope you will get an idea about the recipe, I did it just one time, but it was really unexpected good

 

[jpbfly]

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Thanks for posting this recipe ThorsenIt sounds(tastes) good

 

[thorsten]

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Hello JP,

You are welcome - it was a pleassure We do have many chubs in our river and they get too much. Now, I decided to take some out, but I do not like to kill a creature without any use. Because of that I will lay down some of the smaller chubs to feed the wild pigs or the foxes. Some big ones I will take to prepare meat balls :fishing:

 

[jpbfly]

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Was lucky to have a little hatch today,caught some bows and...big guys started feeding on olives...seeing them quietly rising and opening their big mouths is very exciting...this one a bit folded in the net was... really fatalthough I'm now retired I'm still like a kid when I fish

 

[cowger10]

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Those are some nice looking fish. It looks like a great day on the water.

 

[Guest1]

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Great fish JP. :thumbup: I actually gained a great deal of respect for the Chub after watching a show recently about them. In fact I sent JP a PM mentioning it to him as he is the resident Chub Master. :thumbup: Chub as big as the one JP has there are not common and they are hard to catch. Seriously, a 5 pound Chub the way the show made it sound was like the Holy Grail of Chub fishing. :worthy:

Thanks for posting that.

I should also say that in that same show, they caught Dace, which when small are almost identical to Chub. There is a way using one of the fins. One curves in, the other out.

 

[diamond rush]

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Is chub a good eating fish ? Our chubs just dont get very big,,,,mostly 6 inches or so..not much more than that. Are chubs a good eating fish ? The chubs here,,we seine and use on lay-lines for catfish. (Yep, I have a little redneck in me at times LOL,,actually, I just love eating catfish) The chub you guys are showing,,just boggle my mind,,I had no idea they got that huge.

My mother grew up eating whatever her family caught out of the creek. Trout, chub, and sucker all went into the skillet equally. She claims her father preferred chub over trout.

 

[jpbfly]

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Great fish JP. :thumbup: I actually gained a great deal of respect for the Chub after watching a show recently about them. In fact I sent JP a PM mentioning it to him as he is the resident Chub Master. :thumbup: Chub as big as the one JP has there are not common and they are hard to catch. Seriously, a 5 pound Chub the way the show made it sound was like the Holy Grail of Chub fishing. :worthy:

Thanks for posting that.

I should also say that in that same show, they caught Dace, which when small are almost identical to Chub. There is a way using one of the fins. One curves in, the other out.

You're too kind Dan:icon_redfdace are even more exciting to fish than chub...they're smaller but very selective ...haven't caught or seen one for a while still too cold...will post some pics after dinner you'll see the differences

 

[nick k]

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Just as long as no one posts a picture of a half chub.....