86 BOTTOM OR FLOAT-FISHING. 



boughs sweeping the stream, the fly thus slipping 

 off into the water with a more natural descent, and 

 just in the position where a Chub would be likely 

 to be on the look-out for a caterpillar or cock- 

 chafer. 



The angler should be slow rather than quick in 

 striking a Chub with the fly the fish, especially 

 when large, being as I have said, somewhat slow 

 and clumsy in its movements, and having re- 

 markably white lips which are often visible at ten 

 or fifteen yards off as it opens its mouth for the 

 fly. When once hooked, and the first powerful 

 rush for the boughs checked, the Chub very seldom 

 escapes, being remarkably tough and gristly in the 

 jaws and lips, or as it is termed " leather-mouthed." 



As for all the other species of fly-taking fish, the 

 ingenuity of anglers has contrived a vast variety of 

 artificial lures for the Chub. One of these manifold 

 products of nature and art or of art without 

 nature the best are the black and red palmer and 

 the Marlow buzz. These owe their chief killing 

 properties to the fact that they have more legs 

 (hackles) than the rest ; and as I have already ex- 

 plained elsewhere, a propos of Salmon and Trout, 



