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or when the daylight begins to fade. This is the 

 best time of the whole day for fly-fishing for Chub, 

 as the cockchafers, moths, &c., on which they prin- 

 cipally feed during the summer, are then beginning 

 to come out. 



All Chub flies are improved by placing a small 

 piece of white kid glove about the size of a large 

 gentle on the bend of the hook. I have never 

 succeeded in making out why this should be ; un- 

 less indeed it is on the well-approved principle, 

 that " there is nothing like leather." In Chub 

 fishing no more than a single fly should ever be 

 used ; and as this is heavy, owing to the plump- 

 ness of its body, it should in the largest size be in- 

 variably dressed on loops, by which means both 

 the pocket and time of the angler will be saved, 

 and he will be enabled to use a finer collar than he 

 otherwise could. 



The natural grasshopper separate, or in 

 combination with gentles may be used like a 

 fly, and is a very killing bait, or it can be em- 

 ployed instead of gentles on the artificial grass- 

 hopper used in Grayling fishing. With this bait, 

 when cast like a fly, but allowed to sink a foot 



