Afternoon all ,
Since now got some more time for myself i would like to do a bit of barbell and chub fishing and never done barblell fishing before and only caught chub of smaller rivers , so a few questions here .
1, I am from Swindon in wiltshire and looking for a River / and section of river that it good to get into a few , not after size of course just barbell but a 5lb plus chub would be nice ! so any recondations ?
2 , Rods and reels , i have 3 Powermesh specialist rods 2 and 1.75 and 1 at 1.5 , reels are shimano x aero 4000 baitrunners loaded with 10 and 8lb line . Im guessing use the 1.75 with 10 lb and start with 1 rod ?
3 , feeders and leads , i know there can be a huge aray of feeders and leads for the circumstances ... feeders or pva mesh bags ? I do have some gripper leads , will dig them out and see what i have .
4 , hooklengths , braid vs flourocarbon . Well i only fish with uncoated braid if im using solid bags with the lead inside the bag otherwise i prefer flourocarbon . But what sort of lengths and then its if your fishing with meat or pellet .
5 , last one if fishing with meat i seen videos which seems to use a fairly big chunk of meat lets say 2" cubed or more and then pellet big donkey chokers or smaller 8/10mm on a band ? I guess the smaller ones you will end up with chub but have been told a longer hair helps get over the chub .
I know may seemed to answered a few of questions there but more me just thinking out loud and asking to be steered in right direction .
cheers , Matt
Since now got some more time for myself i would like to do a bit of barbell and chub fishing and never done barblell fishing before and only caught chub of smaller rivers , so a few questions here .
1, I am from Swindon in wiltshire and looking for a River / and section of river that it good to get into a few , not after size of course just barbell but a 5lb plus chub would be nice ! so any recondations ?
2 , Rods and reels , i have 3 Powermesh specialist rods 2 and 1.75 and 1 at 1.5 , reels are shimano x aero 4000 baitrunners loaded with 10 and 8lb line . Im guessing use the 1.75 with 10 lb and start with 1 rod ?
3 , feeders and leads , i know there can be a huge aray of feeders and leads for the circumstances ... feeders or pva mesh bags ? I do have some gripper leads , will dig them out and see what i have .
4 , hooklengths , braid vs flourocarbon . Well i only fish with uncoated braid if im using solid bags with the lead inside the bag otherwise i prefer flourocarbon . But what sort of lengths and then its if your fishing with meat or pellet .
5 , last one if fishing with meat i seen videos which seems to use a fairly big chunk of meat lets say 2" cubed or more and then pellet big donkey chokers or smaller 8/10mm on a band ? I guess the smaller ones you will end up with chub but have been told a longer hair helps get over the chub .
I know may seemed to answered a few of questions there but more me just thinking out loud and asking to be steered in right direction .
cheers , Matt