Bait Angling for Common Fishes 



There is so much similarity between a small 

 chub and a large dace that it may be as well 

 here to point the most distinguishing fea- 

 ture of each. In the first place the mouth 

 of the chub is much wider and the scales 

 are larger than the dace, and the color is 

 also darker, though in some waters where 

 the dace grow large in size their color 

 becomes quite dark on the back, losing the 

 silvery hue. The difference between it and 

 the chub is so slight as to render it ex- 

 tremely difficult sometimes for the young 

 angler to determine whether he has caught 

 the former or the latter chub in some 

 waters grow to the weight of five or six 

 pounds. On bright days a fly is the best 

 method of catching this fish, and good sport 

 may be had from an anchored boat, by 

 throwing a fly just under the bushes, which 

 overhang the banks of the stream, it being 

 characteristic of this fish to lie under trees 

 and bushes, waiting for insects which drop 

 from them. A good method of angling for 

 chub is to hook a live grasshopper through 

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