Reports from the upper Ouse around Stony Stratford have included several good weights of perch in the 2 to 3lb range in nets topping 30lb but the odd good chub has now started to show including a stonking fish of 7lb 1oz to Phil Oxley last weekend and, the week previous to that, a 6lb 13oz fish.
MKAA matches have also turned up some excellent chevins including a fish of 6lb 4oz backed up with a 5lb plus fish to Roy Hefferon to win a contest last Sunday.
The top chub from an MKAA beat of the river in the past week was an absolute lump of a fish weighing 7lb 12oz, which fell to Northants Specimen Group’s Jamie Cartwright who floatfished double maggot on a size 18 Super Specialist hook to 6lb line beneath a Crystal Avon float. Jamie is no stranger to big Ouse chub and netted a PB fish of 8lb 1oz from the river at the back end of last season.
