Chub - a fish belonging to the family of cyprinids. She is a freshwater inhabitant of the rivers. The chub is also found in the lakes, but much less frequently. Individuals have different sizes. Some of them reach 80 cm in length and 8 kg in weight. A very interesting feature of the chub is a thickened head. It was because of her that he received such a peculiar name. If you evaluate the behavior of the chub, it can be noted that this fish is pretty shy. She does not like excess noise.
Habitat
Chub - fish, which is the object of both amateur and sport fishing. You can meet it in clear rivers with rich ichthyofauna, with many fallen trees and with large boulders. Behind such barriers, the fish most often hides, waiting for its victim. In winter, the chubs knock together in flocks and wait for the cold in the wintering pits. In the spring, these representatives of the cyprinids family seek to find small streams for spawning.
After spawning, chubs settle on rifts, in whirlpools with overhanging bushes above the water and at the boundary of currents with a sandy or stone bottom. In fast and narrow sections of rivers, fish are very active and shy. As soon as the river becomes wider and calmer, the chubs practically disappear from sight.
What does the fish feed
Chub is not picky about food. He eats almost everything that falls into the water. In the spring, when the flight of the May beetle begins, the fish is very active. At this time, it feeds mainly on these insects. Closer to summer, the remaining representatives of beetles appear. The chub begins to feed on them. Along the way, he uses green algae (the so-called tina).
When berries begin to sing near the river (cherry, mulberry, rose hip), the chub settles nearby - under bridges or other shelters. That is, he chooses a place where fruits fall into the water. He with great excitement, flying out of the water, grabs them. Also, the fish eats grasshoppers, locusts. Large individuals also eat fry. In general, this fish can capture everything that is in the water. There are even cases when a chub captures an abandoned cigarette butt or husk of seeds.
Places and nuances of fishing
Fishermen are looking for a chub most often visually. Small individuals get together in small groups, hide under overhanging grass or in the shade, and are quite curious at the same time. Large individuals are much more timid and cautious. They most often live alone (and in extreme cases - 2-3 individuals), live in large snags, rifts with boulders.
Sometimes you have to look for a chub literally on your knees, so as not to frighten away the shadow or rustle. It is important for anglers to know that:
- in spring, fish spawn in small streams;
- in the summer it lives where it is possible to shelter from a strong current and the scorching sun;
- in the fall, a representative of the cyprinids family becomes voracious and eagerly consumes the trifle of white fish;
- the chub on the arrival of winter huddles in groups and hibernates in wintering pits.
Fish feed mainly in the morning in the summer and almost until dark in the autumn. One of the main places for chub hunting is roll. Many anglers make a fatal mistake: they stand on the seashore and disperse the fish. In fact, the chub is often next to the roll. It is right to become 10-15 m from the rift, and then go down from it down the river.
Fishing methods
Catching a chub is often carried out on 3 types of equipment:
- on spinning gear;
- on a float rod - in the wiring or on an mormyshka with a side nod;
- on the bottom tackle with or without food.
It's no secret that the chub can just be seen in the river, walking along the shore. That is why the most productive fishing methods include spinning. Taking the tackle in his hands, the fisherman travels many kilometers in search of fish. Thus, it increases the chances of a capture. Float and bottom fishing are inferior due to local fishing of one point, even if bait is used.
Do not forget about the method of catching this cunning, beautiful and strong fish when rafting on a boat downstream. Sitting silently in a boat and throwing a spinner or lure under the bushes, you can easily outsmart this shy fish and catch a decent trophy.
Catching a chub on a spinning gear
Spinning tackle involves the use of ultralight spinning rods, small inertia-free reels, a strong cord and many lures in the form of small to 5 cm wobblers, oscillating and spinning lures. In the process of catching the chub in the by-catch, there may be a pike, so a leash of fluorocarbon fishing line will not be superfluous. Wobblers, as a rule, should hold the stream well, not fall over on their side and have a rattle. The color of the wobbler is selected according to the fishing conditions or to certain preferences of the chub. If fishing occurs in the early morning or evening, you should choose a brighter color, and if fishing occurs during the day under the scorching sun, you need to choose the color of dark shades.
If fishing is carried out during the departure period of a certain type of beetle, the color of the bait should be in the same colors as the insects. Examples of wobblers for the chub are Salmo Tiny, Jackall Chubby, Yo-Zuri L-Minnow. When choosing a particular bait, you need to consider that they are floating, sinking and hanging in the water column - with neutral buoyancy. Floating wobblers for the chub are more often used when you need to fuse the bait downstream to a specific place or under a snag and start wiring. Sinking models are conveniently immersed at a certain depth, which is needed in this situation. Wobblers with neutral buoyancy are suitable for long pauses in wiring.
The technique of catching a chub on wobblers implies uniform wiring with pauses. Sometimes this is posting on the verge of disruption of the game of the wobbler, sometimes vice versa - an increase in the speed of posting. In a given situation, these manipulations make the predator attack the bait. In recent years, catching a chub on vibrating and rotating spinners of small sizes has become very popular.
Catching a float fishing rod and a fishing rod with a side nod
The chub fishing rod should be lightweight, as fishing in the wiring means keeping the tackle in your hand at all times. The fishing rod is equipped with a light float, sinker and hook. The nozzle most often is a handful of earthworms, a pair of maggot maggots, May beetle larvae, bread and peas with corn or ripe berries.
For fishing on a float rod you will need a bait, consisting of both small parts and large ones. Most often this is some kind of groats (peas, millet, corn, breadcrumbs or biscuit) or a ready-made purchased bait. In the bait must be present particles of the attachment, which is fishing.
Fishing with a side nod occurs using mormyshki for the chub. This type of tooling is used in early spring and sometimes in summer with large cliffs. The principle of fishing is the same as for a winter fishing rod with mormyshka.
Bottom gear
These types of gear are divided into bottom gear with and without a feeder. Feeder fishing chub with a feeder involves tempo fishing. A reboot occurs every 5 minutes.
Each casting is done with a complete feed trough. When washed, the feed is carried downstream and thus attracts the chub. At the same time, a leash with a nozzle should walk in the water, and not lie with a stone at the bottom. The use of bottom tackle without a feeding trough is a similar fishing process, but without feed and without frequent reloads.
Folk fishing method
It is also worth mentioning catching a chub on a fishing line with a hook without loading and a float. In this way, our grandfathers caught quite successfully. A live bumblebee, a hornet, or a May beetle clung to a hook and was released into free flight. If the chub was in the water, then when the live nozzle was splashed, an immediate attack occurred. Now they continue to use this method. This is an interesting type of chub fishing.
Recently, this large, beautiful, strong and cunning fish (chub) has become much less likely to fall into the hook of a fisherman. Due to uncontrolled catches and poaching networks, individuals of 5 kg and more are very rare now. To remedy this situation, take care of nature and let the handsome man caught if you do not need him.