Sunken barge home to enormous summer chub

JUST a week after catching a personal-best 7lb chub from the tidal River Trent, Macclesfield angler Ian Potts returned to slip his net under an even larger specimen weighing 7lb 6oz. 

He targeted a gravel run next to a sunken barge, using a straight lead set-up and a 14mm Spicy Furter pellet hookbait. 

“When this one took my bait I thought it was a small barbel as the bite was an absolute screamer – so I was shocked to see this giant, fin-perfect chub surface,” he tells us.

Ian Potts with his second 7lb-plus Trent chub of the season