retain or return

[jacques]

A long time ago i was told by a now long gone angler when chub fishing always retain what you catch. Release your chub and it will frighten all its chubby mates away.
So when roving should I catch a chub I always either retain it in my landing net or transfer to my keep sack. Never carry a keep net when roving.  I release my fish when I move swim.
Also always loose confidence in a swim should I hook and loose a fish in play. Same if I miss a  bite in consecutive casts.
For sure I have caught after loosing fish but in most cases it kills the swim.

[Deleted]

Seems like it's agreed by most chub anglers that the fish should be released in a different peg or retained.
I never carry a keepnet and have never bothered moving a fish to a different swim,I leave it in my landing net until I'm happy it's fully recovered then release it.
If I'm roving I don't really expect to catch more than one from a peg before moving on so maybe it doesn't matter much to me anyway.

[Mick]

I have mixed views on this, as I have caught multiple chub from the same swim without retaining them, both on the Tees and the Swale, for instance a few years ago I sat in one peg on the swale all day and caught 14 chub all over 4lb and roughly half of them over 5lb, I was even casting to the same area also, i do now take a retaining sling when on the Tees, but is it making a difference or is it just a mindset I've now gotten into ?? I guess I'll never really know 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[kev g 1953]

I put my chub back in the same swim after resting(the chub not me!!).


I've never been lucky enough to drop onto a shoal of chub on the Tees in all the years I've fished it, they always appear to be loan chub, or not more than two or three others in the same swim, but I think that's just the section I fish. Hence re Yorkshire rivers where chub do appear to shoal in more locations.