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water with a more natural descent, and just in the 
position where a Chub would be likely to be on the look- 
- out for a caterpillar or cockchafer. 
The angler should be slow rather than quick in strik- 
ing a Chub with the fly—the fish, especially when large, 
being as I have said, somewhat slow and clumsy in its 
movements, and having remarkably white lips which 
are often visible at 10 or 15 yards off as it opens its 
mouth for the fly. When once hooked, and the first 
powerful rush for the boughs checked, the Chub very 
seldom escapes, being remarkably tough and gristly 
in the jaws and lips, or as it is termed “leather- 
mouthed.” 
As for all the other species of fly-taking fish, the in- 
genuity of anglers has contrived a vast variety of artificial 
lures for the Chub. Of these manifold products of nature 
and art—or of art without nature—the best are the black 
and red palmer and the Marlow buzz. These owe their 
chief killing properties to the fact that they have more 
legs (hackles) than the rest ; and as I have already ex- 
plained, @ propos of Salmon and Trout, the movement and 
lifelike appearance which legs give are amongst the 
most important of all the characteristics of an artificial 
fly. This “movement” is, in the case of Chub flies, of 
additional importance, owing to the quiet, comparatively 
stagnant waters in which they are frequently employed. 
Trout and Salmon flies are, it is true, very commonly 
used on lakes, where there is no current whatever ; but 
