140 NATURALISTS CABINET. 



Simple, and caught without difficulty. 



" Now he's in stew 



For public gout, 

 And fed with lettuce-coss, Sir, 



In hopes the town 



Will gulp him down, 

 With good humbugging sauce, Sir !" 



These fish are very simple, and are usually 

 caught with a line without difficulty. The baits 

 generally adopted are the small red worms taken 

 out of rotten tan, wasp maggots, or marsh worms. 

 The season for angling is from September to 

 June. The fish will bite during the greater part 

 of the day, but the expert angler generally at- 

 tends as early and late as possible. 



THE CHUB. 



THIS fish, which is also called chevin nob, or 

 boiling, very much resembles the carp, but is of 

 a longer form, the body is oblong, rather round, 

 and is of a pretty equal thickness in the greater 

 part of the slope ; the scales are large ; the irides 

 silvery ; the cheeks of the same colour ; the 

 head and back of a deep dusky green ; the sides 

 silvery, but in the summer yellow; the belly 

 white ; the pectora] fins of a pale yellow ; the 

 ventral and anal fins red, and the tail forked, of 

 a brownish hue, but tinged with blue at the end. 

 It is altogether a handsome fish ; but not in. 

 esteem for the table, being very coarse, and whea 



