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hole where Chubb congregate, and as they are 

 a gregarious fish, where you find one you are 

 as likely to find twenty or thirty. When you 

 have discovered a haunt of this kind, keep 

 as far from the edge of the stream as you can, 

 bait your hook (which should be of a good size) 

 with a cockchafer or grasshopper, drop it gently 

 on the surface of the water, and if they are on 

 the feed you are sure of taking a good dish of 

 fish. Should you hook one of large size, take 

 him away from the hole down the stream, as by 

 his playing he would otherwise frighten the 

 remainder of the fish. You need be under no 

 apprehension of losing him, being a leather 

 mouthed fish, he rarely breaks away after being 

 once hooked. They seldom afford amusement 

 except to the young Angler, but are exceedingly 

 annoying to the more expert fisher, as they 



