AUGUST. 



CHUB FISHING. 



BY E. T. SACHS. 



IT is a fortunate thing indeed for the Chub that it is the least 

 toothsome of all fresh-water fishes. Were it as much an edible 

 dainty as it is the reverse, its extermination would be a mere 

 question of time, for certainly a more omnivorous fish does not 

 swim, nor one which adapts itself with greater complacency to 

 every kind of water. Of most fish it can be said that they have 

 their particular fancies and are to be found only in certain portions 

 of rivers according to the flow of the water, but the Chub is 

 everywhere. No depth or condition of water comes amiss to it, 

 and the angler is equally likely to catch one when spinning for 

 trout in the tumbling waters of a weir, in the depths of a barbel 

 swim, or in the seclusion of overhanging boughs. I have caught 

 numbers with the fly in the stiller portions of the crystal trout 

 streams of Luxemburg, or in the Continental rivers, with the 

 cockchafer and grasshopper, and I have seen the native angler, 

 using worm or pellet of bread paste, drag the fish out from near 

 sewage outlets, much as small roach used to be caught by the 

 hundred at the Kingston sewer. To go still further afield, I have 

 caught the Chub (nearly the same species as our own) in the 



