CHUB. COMMEMORATING TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF THE CHUB STUDY GROUP. Edited by Len Cacutt.

1994 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppx,228. B/w photographs, illustrations by Stewart Allum, jacket image by Maurice Pledger, bibliography. Maroon cloth, spine titled in silver-gilt.

A collection of papers, articles and stories about chub and chub fishing, compiled by Graham Cornish. The most comprehensive chub fishing book published to date as you will see from the following list of contents. Chapters include:- Chub study by Graham Cornish; A scale reading exercise by Brian Lloyd and David Moore; Big chub: nature's design? by Bill Brown; The Peterborough Specimen Group Chub Survey by Jim Gregory; Unusual chub behaviour by Charles Landells; Shapely chub by Alan Owers; Low population chub fisheries by Stuart Shepherd; How chub find your bait by Tony Carter; Chub from the Wye by Paul King; The Yorkshire chub by Jon Wolfe; Summing up by Tim Marshall; A study of the Hampshire Avon by Bill Neal; Fighting back by Stuart Shepherd; The stillwater scene by Peter Stone; Close encounters with stillwater chub by Graham Cornish; Locating big chub by Graham Cornish; Locating chub in summer by John Wilson; Locating chub in winter by Tony Miles; Rigs for chub by Kevin Smith; Fishing flood rafts by Tony Miles; Slugs and slug fishing by Charles Landells; Summer chub by Dick Walker; Plugs: A chubby alternative by Dave Ivey; The crust way by Alan Rawden; Fly fishing for chub by J.W. Martin (the "Trent Otter"); Weirpool fishing by Chris Caller; Night fishing by Alan Rawden; Match tactics on the Lea by Charles Landells; Big chub in flood conditions by Graham Cornish; Deep slow-water chubbing by Matt Hayes; Feeder fishing for chub by Bill Neal; Exotic baits for chub by Steve Plumb; First experiences with whitebait by Steve Burke; Mild days, frosty days by Stewart Allum; Summer fishing by Dave Slater; Long-trotting by Bruce Vaughan; Big chub can be 'Twitchers' too by Jack Hilton; Minor tactics on a spate river by John Aston; Big chub from the Lower Ure by Andy Dalby; Very big chub - an unknown quantity by Stewart Allum; It ain't necessarily so! by Paul King; Never ignore the urge! by Bruce Vaughan; Uncaught monsters by Peter Stone; A fresh perspective by Matt Hayes; A monster chub and the questions it poses by Alan Owers; I thought I saw... by Ian Bates; The six o'clock swim by Fred Sykes; A look at the group records by Graham Cornish; 'Rook Run' by Fred J. Taylor; Further thoughts on deadbaits by Peter Stone; Halcyon days by Dick Walker; A season at the pit by Derek Hack; An uncatchable chub in the fallen alder swim by Alan Owers; Chub by Dick Walker; Thoughts and reflections from the Annan by Fred Sykes; A monster chub story by Patrick Chalmers.