The flies presented here were designed and are used to catch Chub on my local rivers (Berounka, Mže, Radbuza, Úhlava, Úslava). They can be used on any river with success.
It may be noticed that they are not limited to terrestrial dry flies – in fact I use very few of that style of fly – they are mostly wet flies and nymphs.
These Chub flies are not limited to catching only Chub either – most flies fished and presented in an attractive way, will be effective with most river and stream species.
The Chub Flies
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Jessica’s Return
The Jessica’s Return nymph Chub fly is tied using a guinea fowl hackle and rabbit fur, both died pink, a bit of ice dubbing and wine-red 140d thread.
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Pheasant Tail R’n’B
The Pheasant Tail R’n’B is a fairly standard, weighted PT nymph but with a thorax tied with red and black PT fibers.
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Red & Olive Bug
The Red & Olive Bug is a very buggy nymph tied with olive rooster feather and olive and red rabbit dubbing.
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Brass Head Nymph
The Brass Head Nymph is inspired by Hans van Klinken’s Lead Head Nymph he used to fish fast, deep water for Grayling.
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Pheasant & Peacock Maggot
Another in the maggot nymph series, the Pheasant and Peacock keeps the simplicity theme going while remaining a tempting morsel for our Chub.
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Purple And Peacock Maggot
Tied with the Radbuza Chub in mind but can be effective for any of our river species.
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Weighted Red Spider
The weighted Red Spider is tied on a nymph hook with a tungsten bead. The hackle is softish.
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The Rudolf Spider Bomb
The Rudolf Spider Bomb is so named because of it’s red nose. It’s a very attractive weighted wet fly nymph.
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Shiny Red Tag
A must-have red tag variant wet fly / nymph tied in sizes 16, 14 & 12.
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The Kelly B
The Kelly B is a small streamer tied to attract the Radbuza Chub.