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former.* The Chub having a large mouth, you 

 should fish with No. 7 or 8 hook, keep off the water, 

 and when you have taken a good fish, which will 

 generally alarm his companions. I should recom- 

 mend you to go to another swim for a while, after 

 throwing in a little ground bait; it is not a bad plan 

 to fix on two or three spots, and fish them alternately 

 if you can prudently leave, Chub being very shy. 



Where you find Chub once you will find them 

 again; hence the old proverb, " Once a Chub hole, 

 always a Chub hole." 



They are also taken in the summer by whipping 

 and dipping, the former with a stiff rod and a large 

 fly in imitation of a wasp, bee, grasshopper, cock- 

 chaffer, &c , and by dipping with a stout rod and 

 short line, trying under bushes and banks, keeping 

 always off the water, with a natural bait, cockchaffer, 

 humble bee, &c. Their haunts are holes shaded 

 with trees, under hollow banks, or in any deep shady 

 place, sometimes among weeds in deep water where 

 there is a stream. The Mole about Esher, the Colne, 

 near Harefield, and Drayton, the Lea, in most of 

 its fisheries, and the Thames produce many Chub. 

 1 have taken Chub near five pounds at Esher Copper 

 Mills, and in the Spring of 1832, two friends took 

 Icwt. at Harefield Broad water, in the Colne. 



The Chub is in temper much like a pig, for if you 

 want him to go one way, pull him the contrary, and 

 you will generally accomplish your object. 



* Chub are sometimes taken with Minnows, and frequently whentiolling 

 with the gorge hook in this way. I have seen them take their own ipeciei. 



