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CHUB v. DACE. 



will make liim sink instantly. It will be found that he 

 has a very large air-bladder, which enables him to 

 ascend and descend in the water at will, with great 

 rapidity. 



The chub is found about mills, piles of bridges, weirs, 

 in eddies, steep banks overhung with willows. He is a 

 greedy fish, and will eat almost anything that falls into 



CHUB. 



the water. "When trolling for pike with a gorge bait 

 below a weir, I had a run, and instead of a jack I 

 caught a chub. When the chub is not full grown it is 

 very difficult to know it from a dace {Leuciscus vulgaris), 

 A writer in the Fisherman's Mofjazine (No. 10, p. 14) 

 gives the following diagnostic marks : " It is not in the 

 proportions of the two fish, but in their colom-, that the 

 most ready and convenient mark of identification is to 

 be looked for. By bearing the following rule in mind no 

 fisherman can ever be in doubt as to whether the fish 

 he has in his basket is a chub or a dace. The ventral 

 (or belly) fins of the dace are greenish with a slight 

 tinge of red, whilst the anal fin has no red about it 

 whatever. In the chub both these fins are of a brilliant 

 pink colour." 



