Underwater fishing :: Chub

Sadly this river fish is vanishing from the earth face with a catastrophical speed. Not long time ago in the Moscow River there were very many chubs, more than any other fish. There was no need to look for it, because it was enough to look under any riverside bush to see a chub. The fishes of four-five pounds were not seldom. In a very short historical period of twenty years almost all chubs vanished. It can be explained that this fish not just likes clear, running water, but can’t live without it. Mostly it takes food from the water surface, but mostly the wastes of oil products, paintwork and textile fabrics collect right on the water surface.

     The chub is a beautiful and strong fish. A beamy, powerful body is covered with big scales with dark border and completed with a big tail fin. The hunting or fishing beginner can entangle a chub with an ide though there is enough difference between them.

    Usually the chub stays in the riverside bushes. Look under them and try to get through the branches net exactly under the bank. Here, where the depth is just several tens of centimeters, a big chub can stay. Sometimes it stays in such depth that its fin appears from water.

   Seldom we had to shoot at this fish, which was staying in the grass. If the ides prefer a high grass, under which a man can get and look somehow, then the chubs hide under the grass, pressed and laid just along the bottom by the fast stream. A hunter has to open such grass if no fish back or fin appears from it. By the way, the burbots like to hide in the same grass net, placed right in the stream.

   The chub meat is soft and a broken fish goes off an arrow more often than a bream or an ide. This is a reason of meat falling from the bones at the first signs of the chub damage.