Spring Time Chub

Published on May 28. 2019 - 5 years ago
Updated or edited 4 months ago

Many flyfishers see in a Chub just a boring and uninteresting fish. The truth is, it's very hard to fool the big ones. In April / May when they feed Mayflies from the surface in this way, even the heavyweights become careless.
Most of the time, MP's Blue Wing Olive (BWO) CDC Mayfly on hook size 12, did a perfect job.
please watch in HD!

Originator

Christoph Wagner

Dry Fly Chub

Fell in love with dry flies, amazing first contacts with such huge Fishes as fly fishing greenhorn.
music: Son Lux - Easy (Switch Screens) feat. Lorde

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CDC Olive Dun

Mark Petitjean CDC Fly..

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Adams Hair Wing Mayfly Dun

If you are looking for a superb all round mayfly dun pattern, that is easy to tie and will work for just about any mayfly hatch, just match the correct hook size and colour - and you need look no furt

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Shark's Wasp

Bulgarian fly tyer and fly angler Radoslav Kiskinov takes another stab at imitating a terrestrial insect - this time the wasp - and with usual skill he manages to produce a very life-like fly. Bulgarian anglers and Bulgarian fish love it.

Aug 25. 2008

Small Fry, 6

The father of English fishing literature, Izaak Walton, devotes two chapters of The Compleat Angler to chubs (or “cheven” in the archaic plural), and in one scene his Piscator takes pleasure in catching the largest one of a school of twenty to the amazement of his companions, Venator and Auceps.

Aug 24. 2004

Chubby Fishing

Kasper Mühlbach started fishing for chub with small lumps of dough as a kid, but has since developed flies and techniques to take this query on a fly rod. His chub patterns are simple and will most likely catch you roach and bream too if they are around.

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Wow, that was a very nice video to watch. I love chasing chub with dry flies and this is a great example of the amount of fun you can have doing so. Thanks for sharing this video! Can you share which river this is? Or is that a secret?

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