THE CHUB. 



This is a clumsy-looking, thick-headed rascal, rather coarse, 

 and not much thought of as an edible, but he affords first-rate 

 sport, and if you fish for him with a light rod and fine line, it is 

 ten to one if you can manage to kill him, especially if there is a 

 bush or old tree in the water, or a shelving bank near, under 

 which he will bolt the moment he feels he is hooked, and if he 

 does get into any of these places, he will soon play the deuce 

 either with your rod or tackle, or both, and this is more than can 

 be said of some of the finer fish. He is a determined and 

 resolute fellow to deal with, and if he only gets a chance, and 

 you fish for him with a fine rod and tackle, he will make you 

 pay dear for your sport. 



Chub spawn about4he middle of May, but I have on several 

 occasions seen them on the spawn as early as the first of that 

 month, but never sooner. Barbel and Chub generally come on 

 together about the middle of May, and deposit their spawn in the 

 same description of places a shallow gravelly bottom under the 

 weeds. Chub bite sooner after spawning than any other fish I 

 know, particularly at such baits as the minnow and locust, which 

 he takes greedily in a day or two after spawning, and he seems 

 to bite freer and with less fear at this period than at any other time. 

 You will find the Chub for the first three or four weeks after 

 spawning in the sharpest and shallowest streams, to which places 

 he resorts for the purpose of cleansing himself. He makes his next 



