Donkey Lea chub landed on special paste - Rob NG

“I’ve fished the upper Lea a few times trying to catch whatever I could find but this was my first session intending solely to try and catch a donkey-sized chub!

 I finished work early (2pm) last Friday to beat the traffic for my 90 minute pilgrimage to the lower Lea. 

It was my first session at the mecca chub venue and I found a peg that was plain looking and was harder to access, my school of thought was that it wouldn’t of seen as many rod hours, as I knew these fish have seen it all in their long pressured lives. 

I was ill prepared tackle wise as it was an impromptu evening session and I had to stab my rod butt into the mud to get as much line out of the water as I could. 

My GLM and crayfish meal paste that I made at work (in the Nashbait laboratory) duly made the rod tip knock at 9:15pm.  

 I had to be off by 10 and all my camera gear was still in the van!

 My head was truly obliterated into a thousand pieces by the size of this incredible 7lb 15oz specimen.”