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a small dace we were drawing out, and shook 

 it with all the boldness of a large jack, and 

 would, we think, have pouched it if we had let 

 him, but we would not, because he would only 

 have broken our single hair line. But we 

 changed our line in two or three minutes, and 

 put on a strong gut and a large bait of graves, 

 and manoeuvred it about the swim, something 

 like trolling; and had not done so many 

 minutes, before he took it, and we took him ; 

 and a handsome fellow he was, weighing above 

 three pounds. 



After that incident, and knowing that there 

 were a good many chub in the water, we tried 

 to catch some others in the same manner, but 

 did not succeed. 



Chub will take a bait at any time in the 

 year, but are generally fished for most in the 

 winter. At Broxbourn, and other parts of 

 the Lea, they are to be taken at that season in 

 the deepest parts, when the water is in good 

 condition. Graves, at that time of the year, 

 are generally used for bait, both for the ground 

 and the hook ; and they are found to succeed 

 well. But the regular old-fashioned way of 

 fishing for chub in the winter, is with bullocks* 

 brains; and it is decidedly the most killing 



