Huge Dorset Stour chub fights like a barbel - Connor Threadingham

“Before the river season started, I spent numerous evenings travelling down to my local Dorset Stour to watch the water for signs of fish and to bait likely spots with a mixture of Elips pellets and squid boilies.
“One swim that took my fancy featured a narrow gravel run on the edge of some streamer weed, so I planned to fish an overnight session there to see what I could catch. It turned out to be a blinding session for chub and I walked away with a new personal best weighing 7lb 5oz, also catching fish of 4lb, 5lb, 6lb 1oz, 6lb 2oz and 6lb 4oz for good measure!
“To make my hookbait look more like a pellet, I trimmed one of the squid boilies down to a dumbell shape before attaching a PVA bag of pellets to the hook and lowering my rig on to the spot.
“From the way my new PB took off with the bait I thought I was playing a small barbel, but as the fight developed it lost momentum, yet still tried to take me into every snag possible!
“When I saw it go over the net I knew it was a new PB, but never thought in my wildest dreams it would go 7lb 5oz.”