After enduring a difficult winter, Steve Wilkinson’s persistence paid off in spectacular style with this 8lb 9oz chub. It was taken from the River Kennet on a piece of link legered bread flake, fished alongside liquidised feed. He found the river running up and coloured so baited a few likely… Read more

Having received a few twitches on the tip and reeling in to see the imprints of a chub’s lips on his cheese paste hookbait, Buckinghamshire angler Jonathan Pomroy switched to a lighter lead and was rewarded with this 7lb 10oz chub. He was fishing on Hertfordshire’s River Colne and had… Read more

Steve Fenton has enjoyed a blistering end to the river season on the Lee He’s had a string of quality chub, with fish of 6lb 15oz, 6lb 6oz and 6lb 1oz before finally slipping the net under a PB for the venue in the shape of this 7lb 13oz specimen…. Read more

Whilst its famous for its big barbel, the King’s Weir stretch of the River Lea has an excellent spell of fishing towards the end of the season, in the same week as Ricky Woolf landed a 19lb 12oz barbel, Peter Davies also landed this huge 8lb 9oz chub! He told… Read more

Anglers who had a big chub in their sights at the back end of the season would have found few better venues to target the species than the Thames, as Kent specialist Daniel Woolcott found on a recent trip to the venue towards the end of the season, when he… Read more

After having six months off fishing, James Hook returned with a bang, landing this 8lb 8oz chub on a bit of link legered breadflake. He was fishing a low-stock stretch of the River Thames where there are some very big fish. In his first swim he snagged up, so James… Read more