Do chub eat other fish?

Do chub eat other fish?

In really big chub, up to 30% of their diet could be other fish (including eels) and some chub stomachs have even been found to contain water birds!

How do you target a chub?

Look for swims with plenty of cover to hold fish. Weir pools, deep holes and big overhanging bushes will be good spots to target. If these features are on the nearside bank you can use this to your advantage. Cast tight to the edge of the overhang or snag and hold the line tight.

How do you lure fish for a chub?

I would say very early morning and a couple of hours before dusk when You can see lots of insect flying above the water.

1. Cast Your lure below the tree. The most important thing is to locate the fish in the water.
2. Chub hit the lure. Nice water splash, Chub took the insect lure of the surface.
3. Lure on water surface.

What’s the best bait for barbel?

Best Baits Effective baits include luncheon meat, maggots and sausage. Barbel often lurk in holes during the day, calling for fine tackle with small baits in order to tempt them out. Worms are generally considered the best bait for barbel.

How do you hook cheese paste?

Cheese paste can be freelined as it is relatively heavy. Just flick the bait into the water tighten up up your tip and away you go. Best used in minimal currents otherwise it will get swept away. I normally link leger the stuff, a couple of swan shot or as per my latest idea, plastercine squeezed on the line.

Do carp like cheese paste?

Cheese is also a good additive for making cheese paste baits. Cheese is an effective bait when ledgered, float fished or free lined and cheese is a very effective fishing bait for chub, carp, tench and barbel.

Does Barbel like cheese paste?

Cheese paste has a better consistency than bread and is attractive to most of our species of fish, I’ve had trout and eels and a mate had a pike on the stuff! But, in the main, I use it for chub and barbel although it is a top bait for carp and roach.

How do you make a fish cheese paste for a chub?

Chub love it. Add the bread and cheeses to the beaten egg in moderation to form a nice thick paste. Keep kneeling it till the cheese has completely squashed in and it’s all one colour/texture. nothing new or special about it just a good cheese paste.

Can you use cheese to catch fish?

Cheese. Be it sharp (like cheddar), stinky (like Limburger), or processed, cheese (broken up into small pieces or balls) has a great track record of landing trout and catfish.

How do you make Barbel paste?

1/3 fishmeal (something like provimi 66), 1/3 ground pellet (ellips or halibut), 1/3 ground hemp. You can use exactly the same mix in the feeder. Caught a lot of Barbel with that, summer and winter.

How do you make meat paste for fishing?

Andy Findlay used an almost dry meat mix of paste. Bit of hemp, bit of crushed pellet and lots of meat pushed though a riddle several times. Just a small amount of water to hold it tgether. The mix is then squeezed on the hook and lowered in to the water in a pole cup.

Do fish like Spam?

SPAM is full of oils that attract fish. You can also use it with cheese cubes for added flavor and scent. The downside to SPAM is that carp love it too, so you have to frequently check your bait. SPAM can be difficult to keep on the hook because of its moist consistency.

Do carp like Spam?

Luncheon Meat / Spam Luncheon meat has been used as a fishing bait for many years and is a fantastic bait for chub, barbel and carp.

Do carp like luncheon meat?

The bane of schoolboy’s sandwiches, luncheon meat is actually one of the most versatile baits the angler has, working for everything from carp on commercial fisheries to hard-fighting river barbell and chub and even 60lb plus catfish!

What do carp like to eat the most?

Common carp is a typical peaceful omnivorous fish which consumes a range of different natural foods, including planktonic crustaceans, insects (including their larvae and pupae), the tender parts and seeds of water plants, and also fish eggs and larvae, as well as smaller fish (Table2. 1, Table2. 2 and Table5.

Is red meat good for fishing?

Most red meat works well for bait. Roo meat is also pretty good as you can buy it cheap from pet food stores and if you get a bit with a sinew it stays on the hook for a long time even with little rats picking at it.

What fish can you catch with luncheon meat?

Species like carp, barbel, chub, crucians, bream and tench love flavoured meat, particularly in coloured water. Flavoured luncheon meat specifically produced for angling also tends to be a bit tougher, so it stays on the hook better.