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hook of my pattern (see p. 11), and isa fair ordinary 
size for most waters; one size smaller and one larger will 
be sufficient to provide for variations. The smaller size 
should be used when the water is very low and clear, 
and the larger, when it is high, or when the daylight 
begins to fade. This is the best time of the whole day 
for fly-fishing for Chub, as the cockchafers, moths, &c., 
on which they principally feed during the summer, are 
then beginning to come out. 
All Chub flies are improved by placing a small piece 
of a white kid glove—about the size of a large gentle— 
on the bend of the hook. I have never succeeded in 
making out why this should be; unless indeed it is on 
the well-approved principle, that “there is nothing like 
leather.’ In Chub fishing no more than a single fly 
should ever be used ; and as this is heavy, owing to the 
plumpness of its body, it should in the largest size be 
invariably dressed on loops, by which means both the 
pocket and time of the angler will be saved, and he will 
be enabled to use a finer collar than he otherwise could. 
The method of knotting on the fly-loop to the collar is 
described at p. 161. 
The natural grasshopper—separate, or in combination 
with gentles—may be used like a fly, and is a very kill- 
ing bait, or it can be employed instead of gentles on the 
artificial grasshopper described at p. 141, with which 
bait, when cast like a fly, but allowed to sink a foot or 
two each time, I have had occasionally good sport. 
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