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Went out for a bit of urban fluff chucking earlier this evening and armed with my #4 fly rod, i set up on the beautiful river Ely, 
where i was greeted with the usual riverside adornments that the local brain dead chav kids seem to relish pushing all the way through a wood and a large field just to push in the river,
But undeterred i headed further downstream to where a good riffle runs through the center of the river with pools either side,
after chucking out small dries for an hour or so, all i managed to catch were immature brownies so i decided to change to Czech nymphs, i spent half an hour trotting these down the riffle to no avail
I then decided to try using a gold head Montana, fished across stream towards the far bank and let the line get caught in the riffle and carried downstream thus pulling the fly out of the pool and into the flow, when on my 2nd cast, "WALLOP, FISH ON"
and after a bit of a tussle i landed something that i couldn't positively identify (til showing it to some of the lads on here, cheers fellas
) and it turned out to be a Chub,, which i didn't realise (til tonight) could even be caught on a fly..
Not a huge fish by any standard, but still a bonus to my new found love of fluff chucking..
Just need to get a big brownie now, and i'll be stoked!!! Tight 'uns,,, Marc..
where i was greeted with the usual riverside adornments that the local brain dead chav kids seem to relish pushing all the way through a wood and a large field just to push in the river,

But undeterred i headed further downstream to where a good riffle runs through the center of the river with pools either side,

after chucking out small dries for an hour or so, all i managed to catch were immature brownies so i decided to change to Czech nymphs, i spent half an hour trotting these down the riffle to no avail
I then decided to try using a gold head Montana, fished across stream towards the far bank and let the line get caught in the riffle and carried downstream thus pulling the fly out of the pool and into the flow, when on my 2nd cast, "WALLOP, FISH ON"
and after a bit of a tussle i landed something that i couldn't positively identify (til showing it to some of the lads on here, cheers fellas
Not a huge fish by any standard, but still a bonus to my new found love of fluff chucking..

Just need to get a big brownie now, and i'll be stoked!!! Tight 'uns,,, Marc..