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large ; the last is tlie most killing. The cast should be 

 three yard's of good gut. I always use two flies placed 

 one-and-a-half yards apart, and with the one to be 

 employed as stretcher adopt the following plan : After 

 Tiaving whipped the gut to the hook, I cover the shank 

 with a little lead, and then wrap the body material of the 

 fly on over this, which causes the fly to sink deeply and 

 is a great advantage. 



A fourteen foot, rather stiff, double-handed rod is the 

 best to use for this work. 



The first rush of a large chub is good, after that ho 

 gives little play. 



There is fair sport to be had with chub in a great 

 number of rivers on the Continent, and in the same 

 waters you often find grayling. I have often killed chub 

 in England up to three pounds weight, but very seldom 

 any larger. The two largest I ever killed were one of 

 five pounds and ten ounces ; this was killed with fly in 

 the Avon ; and one of four pounds and fourteen ounces 

 killed on the Lugg with a minnow, but I have never 

 fished in the Thames for them, where, I believe, they arc 

 sometimes taken up to six or seven pounds. Do not 

 strike at the rise of a chub, but let the line tighten first 

 and then strike hard. 



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