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THIS cracking 8 lb 1 oz chub rewarded Leighton McDonell’s patience in trying to avoid the


attentions of crayfish. The Great Ouse stunner fell to a bait compiled to a recipe in a book 24 years old.


Big chub on vintage paste


BEN WEIR reports A


N old school bait book helped Leighton McDonell bag an 8 lb 1 oz Great Ouse,


Bedfordshire, chub. The Tring, Hertfordshire-based all rounder


accounted for what is believed to be the second biggest ever chub reported from the Great Ouse.


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Leighton said: ‘I was fed up watching all my very expensive milk protein boilies getting eaten by crayfish, which even ate the metal putty I was using to balance the baits. ‘To save on costs I dusted down a 24-year-old


copy of Kempastini’s Book of Baits and chose a recipe. I then added two fresh liquidised


ingredients and threw in 20 mm balls of paste half an hour before fishing. ‘I fished four evenings in a row for two hours and


on the first two nights I pulled out on the strike, so decided to tie on a Nash Fang Uni Size 4 as opposed to Fang Twister size 10 on 6 lb line. I also put on an SSG shot on a running link to create some angle of slack with three SSG shot in front. This was fished with a Drennan Quiver Rod twinned with Grice and Avon Centrepin. ‘The paste hook bait was moulded around two


12 mm hair-rigged cork balls to avoid crayfish. ‘Then on the third evening I struck and got broke


at the same time, as the line had become frayed on an underwater snag in a previous swim. ‘The fourth evening in the same swim, the bite


came after just four minutes. The fish held water in midstream, locking up the rod. I was forced to take two steps backwards to shift it, then it stormed a weedbed at my feet. ‘The 8 lb 1 oz chub measured 23 inches long but was very deep and broad.’


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