264 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 
hook (see p. 11), or a red or black gnat, will kill Dace 
if they are disposed to rise. It often happens when 
Dace are rising shyly that a gentle used on the point of 
the hook acts as a provocative of appetite. 
THE CHUB. 
fly-fishing. 
Although I have known instances of both Dace and 
Chub being found in ponds, the river is their common 
and natural habitat.. Unlike the Dace, however, the 
Chub is rarely taken by bottom fishing throughout the 
summer, during which period, the fish is to be looked 
for either on gravelly shallows, especially when they run 
under bushes and hollow banks, or in back waters, and 
slow-running streams overhung with bushes and trees. 
In either of these positions the Chub may be taken with 
the artificial fly—by far the most killing method of 
summer fishing—so long as the weather continues warm. 
' The fly-rod (either double or single-handed, according 
to fancy), and the reel, line, &c. should be the same as 
those described for Trout fishing. The mode of work- 
ing the fly is also similar. When fishing under boughs, 
the great art is to cast as near to them as may be—or 
under them, if possible—without getting foul. Indeed 
I have often found it a good plan when fishing from a 
boat to let the fly light actually on the fringe of boughs 
sweeping the stream, the fly thus slipping off into the 
