Huge Yorkshire chub landed at dusk

Yorkshire chub don’t get much better than this 7lb 2oz specimen landed by Tony Stockdale from the River Swale.

Hitting the bank on Boxing day, Tony settled into a swim that he deliberately left alone until dusk.

“I started to get tiny indications on the tip and then missed a couple of shy bites,” Tony revealed, “but I finally hit into a heavy fish that turned out to be a new PB Chub of 7 lbs 2 oz.”

Tony added a fish of 6lb 5oz afterwards, both of which fell to breadflake fished beneath a cage feeder filled with liquidised bread.