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hook (see p. ii), or a red or black gnat, will kill Dace 

 if they are disposed to rise. It often happens when 

 Dace are rising shyly that a gentle used on the point of 

 the hook acts as a provocative of appetite. \ 



The Chub. 



Fly-fishing. 



Although I have known instances of both Dace and 

 Chub being found in ponds, the river is their common 

 and natural habitat. Unlike the Dace, however, the 

 Chub is rarely taken by bottom fishing throughout the 

 summer, during which period, the fish is to be looked 

 for either on gravelly shallows, especially when they run 

 under bushes and hollow banks, or in back waters, and 

 slow-running streams overhung with bushes and trees. 

 In either of these positions the Chub may be taken with 

 the artificial fly — by far the most killing method of 

 summer fishing — so long as the weather continues warm. 

 The fly-rod (either double or single-handed, according 

 to fancy), and the reel, line, &c. should be the same as 

 those described for Trout fishing. The mode of work- 

 ing the fly is also similar. When fishing under boughs, 

 the great art is to cast as near to them as may be — or 

 under them, if possible — without getting foul. Indeed 

 I have often found it a good plan when fishing from a 

 boat to let the fly light actually on the fringe of boughs 

 sweeping the stream, the fly thus slipping off into the 



