Here's one chub from yesterday's session. It's not my first in flood conditions. My PB was caught in a raging river and the water was as dark as chocolate, so I like to fish in those conditions as safely as I can. Its a good time to catch a specimen chub, so long as your bait presentation and rig is right. In flood water conditions I will still only use split shot, so when the Gt Ouse is up to it's highest, a 3SSG would be my maximum weight on my line to hold bottom.
I fish the edge all the time and that doesn't change in flood conditions. Anyway, there's so much to cover, so I'll keep my post short, but if you can, then try fishing for chub in high water, but do it safely and only on a river you know well. Chub will still be on the feed and the bigger girls will be scavenging those nearside banks.
High water chub
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High water chub
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It is important to be aware that every fishing story...depends on the honesty of those telling it, the accuracy of their memory and the realibility of their interpretation of the circumstances.
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Re: High water chub
Nice fish!
My best Chub came from the Ock in Abingdon two days after the highest level. Still highly coloured but less flow and far safer to fish for a bloke with duff knees.
Well done.
My best Chub came from the Ock in Abingdon two days after the highest level. Still highly coloured but less flow and far safer to fish for a bloke with duff knees.
Well done.
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Wow ! What weight would that be ?
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Re: High water chub
Continuing to catch an amazing stamp of fish Vito! Top drawer chubing sir 
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Well done CC and some sound advice on safety.
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Ian, that's so true. Its the high undercut banks that give way, I always position myself well away and cast up or downstream from them.
It is important to be aware that every fishing story...depends on the honesty of those telling it, the accuracy of their memory and the realibility of their interpretation of the circumstances.
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Re: High water chub
Well done Vito!! Another beautiful chub!