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Summer Fly Fishing For Chub On Big Coarse River

Summer Fly Fishing For Chub On Big Coarse River

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Warm summer weather is the best time for active fly fishing for chub! At this time of the year coarse fish are very active in the water column or directly under the surface, where we can fish them with great success for both dry and wet flies in all sizes, but also for natural baitfish streamers or small nymphs. So, thanks to this gallery, let's move to the big river and see how successful and very entertaining summer hunts of these hefty and beautifully colored fish can be! After these fishing moments we leave rivers with a sense of complete fly fishing satisfaction and enjoyment of the moments spent in nature - outside civilization! I will be very happy if my gallery will inspire and motivate you to visit your favorite water soon!

Warm summer weather is the best time for active fly fishing for chub! At this time of the year coarse fish are very active in the water column or directly under the surface, where we can fish them wit ... Continue

Ála Richie

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Summer Fly Fishing For Chub On Big Coarse River

Chub are beautiful and fleshy fish! Just notice the coloring of fins and gold-brown armor made from scales! This is a beautiful and healthy natural river fish which must make every fly fisher happy!

Chub are beautiful and fleshy fish!

Great place for fly fishing for large chub, asp or bream and other interesting coarse fish. Large rivers are often poorly accessible - so look for rugged and shallower areas with slower secondary currents and slow flowing pools! Fish love such places.

Great place for fly fishing for large chub, asp or ...

Non-trout water has one great advantage - fish species variety! It is possible to catch practically the whole fish stock on flies - all kinds of coarse and predatory fish, asp, carp fish, bream, roach, tench...

Non-trout water has one great advantage - fish species variety!

Abundant shore vegetation is full of life! The trees and bushes lining the river are full of insects in all sorts of shapes and sizes, as shown in this picture! When I can fish with large dry flies imitating terrestrials, I'm so excited!

Abundant shore vegetation is full of life!

My favorite patterns is my AR Black & Peacock Foam Beetle! It seems to me that Czech fly fishermen are quite distrustful of this kind of dry flies and they prefer a traditional way. But why not make a "New Zealand conditions" in the Czech Republic? ;-)

My favorite patterns is my AR Black & Peacock Foam Beetle!

The big Goddard's caddis on 8 size hook end in the big chub mouth like nothing! I like to remember this day. I waded the river to a more distant and inaccessible shore and under the branches I caught a beautiful chub on the big dry flies!

The big Goddard's caddis on 8 size hook end in the ...

Proof that AR Black & Peacock Foam Beetle works great! Even if the chub are quite easy to fish on big dry flies, if you stay at some place longer time, be sure to change the flies! Chub are gullible, but not stupid - all the more so with larger specimens!

Proof that AR Black & Peacock Foam Beetle works great!

Another beautiful and perfect summer chub that couldn't resist the big Goddard Sedge! I love this dry fly, because it is practically universal and all year round usable pattern! Fish accept this fly with great confidence in times when caddis don't occur.

Another beautiful and perfect summer chub that couldn't ...

Asp are other beautiful predatory fosh from non-trout water that can be fished by fly great with great success! They love subtle streamers that imitate small and thin coarse fish, or special surface poppers and gurglers!

Asp are other beautiful predatory fosh from non-trout ...

Beautiful specimen of high chub exceeding 50 cm. This nice fish was caught on a larger dark wet fly using a hover fly line and 5wt fly rod. This combination is my favorite for chub and asp fly fishing on large rivers.

Beautiful specimen of high chub exceeding 50 cm.

Sometimes we can catch a really nice Ide. It is a fish quite similar to the asp, but with some features it comes close to the chub. Anyway, it's another wonderful fish species that we can catch with fly gear on non-trout water!

Sometimes we can catch a really nice Ide.

The really big mouth is ready to devour a truly diverse food. Big terrestrial or aquatic insects, larvae, pupae, small fish, petty amphibians or even sweet fruits of fruit trees... No problem for the big chub as you can see on the picture!

The really big mouth is ready to devour a truly diverse food.

AR Pink Tag Green Peacock Jig. Something between a nymph and a wet fly! However, it is an excellent fly pattern, which I like to use all year long when fishing coarse fish on non-trout waters!

AR Pink Tag Green Peacock Jig.

Beautifully colored chub from the slow flowing side stream. If you look more closely, you will see that the aforementioned AR Pink Tag Green Peacock Jig - this pattern has become fatal to him. But he doesn't have to worry, I release all my catches!

Beautifully colored chub from the slow flowing side stream.

Another excellent nymph pattern AR Bodyglass Slim Jig. I use this thin fly most often as a dropper fly. Its main task is to capture the fish under the surface and in the water column. It can be said that I fish with this pattern more like wet fly.

Another excellent nymph pattern AR Bodyglass Slim Jig.

A really big chub over 60 cm! Such a fish will make every enthusiastic hunter of chub pleasure, all the more when it is caught on a wet or dry fly. Quick photo together with used fly gear quickly back into the stream to recharge!

A really big chub over 60 cm! Such a fish will make ...

Bigger fish are usually more tired after a fight than smaller fish. Therefore, hold them in the stream until you feel their strength and muscle activity return to your body! It's a beautiful feeling when a fish go back, smarter than before.

Bigger fish are usually more tired after a fight than smaller fish.

Even smaller chub eat streamers. This fish could not resist my AR Skinny Fry Streamer, a simple and very effective thin streamer tied from pearly tinsel and natural colored white-brown bucktail. All on the traditional streamer hook with a long shank.

Even smaller chub eat streamers.

Big golden chub with typical red fins and dark tail. This fish is photographed next to the rod in shallow water to avoid injury if it decides to get out of the "danger". This is certainly the right method when you want to make a picture of your catch!

Big golden chub with typical red fins and dark tail.

Slightly cloudy water in and nice stream near a bushy shore. Ideal contitions for wet style with dark patterns. Cast the flies into the shore and let them drift slowly in the water column. And don't worry that you wouldn't recognize the strikes! ;-)

Slightly cloudy water in and nice stream near a bushy shore.

The perfect chub! I caught him under overhanging branches on a thin streamer. A large dark shadow came out from under the dark bush after the fly hit the surface and then grabbed it. Under overhanging branches, the appearance of large chub is almost 100%!

The perfect chub! I caught him under overhanging branches ...

If you go fishing alone - like me - you have 3 safe ways to take a picture of your catch. 1. "Fly & Gear" - you can see on previous photos. 2. is THIS - a photo of fish in your hand. 3rd way is the most gentle - don't take a picture! :-)

If you go fishing alone - like me - you have 3 safe ...

A huge 80 cm asp attacked my tiny fish streamer in a very poorly accessible place. Quick metering and photos matching terrain conditions and this powerful fish can quickly go back - to live its hard fish life of the fearless silver river predator!

A huge 80 cm asp attacked my tiny fish streamer in ...

Have a great time, see you soon and remember to read related articles under the gallery! Bye, Aleš ;-)

Have a great time, see you soon and remember to read ...

Ála Richie

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