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well worth while, especially when the 

 higher class fishes are not to be found, 

 or refuse to bite. The weight depends 

 mainly on the habitat, as the chub of 

 the brook is usually quite small, while 

 in larger streams specimens of good 

 size are frequently taken, sometimes 

 from eighteen to twenty inches in 

 length. For still fishing use a grass- 

 hopper or grubworm; and for fly- 

 fishing, a lure with big red body. In 

 trout streams where the chub is also 

 an inhabitant he is more or less of a 

 nuisance, as he is likely to take the 

 fly eagerly just when the angler has 

 reason to expect a rise from a brook 

 trout, and in some cases the chub 

 seizes the second fly when the fisher is 

 almost ready to land the trout he is 

 playing on the other fly. Good old 

 Thad. Norris relates interesting inci- 

 dents of this kind in connection with 

 trouting on the Beaverkill and other 

 streams. 



The *Shiner 



Ranking low on the list among 

 American fishes that take the hook, 

 the shiner is by no means least in the 



