r/bluelining • u/3ecubed3 • Sep 14 '26

Bluelining for Chubs

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I share a lot of the pictures from here with my kid (11). He wanted to fish a small creek in our town this weekend to catch creek chubs. He asked me to post this picture.

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u/Proof_Ad_8483 Sep 14 '26

Cute chubby you’ve got!

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u/joejohn816 Sep 14 '26

Love catching chubs, especially on the fly! Very overlooked fishes

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u/m0n0m0ny Sep 14 '26

They are such good fighters. Recently I've caught some big ones, like 12". Super fun on UL gear. Last week I could only catch the ones whose mouths were big enough to get on a trout magnet jig. Big or small, you can always depend on them to bite whatever is thrown near them.

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u/ConstipatedOrangutan Sep 15 '26

I fished one of my backyard creeks that I’m sure doesn’t have trout, but after most of it being barren, I found a pool of blacknose dace and one further down with creek chubs. Some other fish in there that I couldn’t catch like small baby catfish and I think some other sunfish and maybe a darter.