THE CHUB. 0/ 



is done by simply putting one loop through the other, the 

 bait through the opposite one, and pull tight ; they are per- 

 fectly fast, and can be easily undone when you want to rebait. 

 This bait is cast on the stream as far as it can be thrown, and 

 allowed to float down. It should then be held stationary 

 until it works across stream to the bank on which you stand, 

 and if there is a chub anywhere about the water over which 

 the bait has travelled, he will most certainly take it. Here 

 is one instance out of many where that bait has played a 

 leading part in making a good bag of chub. Some years ago 

 an angler went down the river below JN^ewark to fish the 

 water that ran beside a rather long field ; he had forty-three 

 locusts with him, and when he got down to the bottom of 

 the field he had taken a chub with every locust but one. 

 Forty-two chub with forty-three baits, in three hundred yards 

 of water was not bad sport, and his tackle and method of 

 baiting was exactly as I have described. Warm evenings 

 during July and August are the very best times in which to 

 use this bait, although years ago when the chub were upon 

 the shallow spawning beds, during the latter end of May or 

 the beginning of June, an angler using this bait has drawn 

 out as many as a dozen chub without shifting a yard. These 

 have been in a gravid state, however, and ought not to have 

 been taken. The use of this bait properly is not generally 

 understood by anglers, so I have been particular in my in- 

 structions. 



Another good plan of taking chub is with the artificial fly. 

 For this work some anglers use a single-handed fly rod, but 

 I prefer a double-handed one. The rod that I use is four- 

 teen feet long ; the butt is of hickory, and the other two 

 pieces are lancewood. It is of a medium gauge, neither too 

 stiff", nor too whippy. A fly reel and a waterproof fly -line is 

 necessary, and the cast should be about three yards of 

 middling stout gut. Some use two or three flies on their 



