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I have just finished dinner and sit at my desk with a glass of red wine. I have spent the morning chub fishing on the river Wye. It was real winters day with a leadened grey sky, falling rain mixed with sleet and hail was punched into my face by the strong upstream wind, which…

After running around on numerous wild goose chases over the years the dream of finding a magnificent unfished spot is slowly diminishing. I know that such places do exist and have found a few, but they are rarely quite what they seem. As for the stories of uncaught monsters, well I tend to switch off…

With all this nasty Foot and Mouth disease about, many of the shore venues and the footpaths leading to them are out of bounds so many anglers are taking to the boats for their fishing. It really doesn’t matter whether you are afloat in a dinghy or in a fantastically fast and comfortable charter boat,…

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Whereas some anglers can fish for a single species constantly for years on end, I came to the conclusion a long time ago that my attention span was too short to allow me to do this. This realisation turned me from being a carp angler to fishing for a number of species and has certainly…

Chub [Species Menu] [Chub articles] Common name: Chub Latin name: Leuciscus cephalus Record weight: 8lb 10z, taken by P. Smith from the River Wear in 1994. Distribution: Found in England, except Cornwall, South Wales, and Southern Scotland. In Europe chub can be found from Scandinavia to Italy. Not reared as a food fish, so not…