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hook of my pattern (see p. 11), and is a 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 i^ 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. 



