CHAPTER VI. 



THE CHUB 



(CREVIN, CHEVENDER, LARGE-HEADED DACE, 8KELLY), 



Attributes — Habits and Haunts — Flies and Fly-fishing — Bait- 

 casting — Fishing with Frogs — Bibbing — Legering — Notting- 

 ham Fishing. 



RIGHT good fish to angle for, and a foul 

 bad one to eat, is the chub. By fly-fishers 

 he is ranked between the family of which 

 the salmon is the head, and the bright, 

 dashing, silvery little dace. To both bot- 

 tom-fisher and fly-fisher he affords capital 

 sport, and, but for his lack of flavour, would 

 have been exterminated long ago, being far 

 from difficult of capture. As it is, the pot-hunter usually leaves 

 him alone ; so let us be thankful that our brave friend is as bad 

 in a dinner-plate* as he is good when connected with the angler 

 by a line of fine silk and a fragment of bent wire. 



The chub is not found in Ireland or the North of Scotland, 

 but is common in other parts of the United Kingdom, Norfolk, 

 Devon, and Cornwall excepted. He comes under the German 

 term " white fish," and is easily distinguished from his silvery- 

 sided, white-bellied brethren, roach, dace, bream, and rudd, by his 

 broad, short head, and generally chubby appearance. By his 

 black tail, also, and pinkish-white lips, may you know him, and by 



* If you vrill eat him, let it be on the day he is caught. Fillet him, egg and bread- 

 crumb the fillets, and fry in butter. There is another good recipe in the 

 "Compleat Angler." 



