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and rather insipid. The best plan to angle for 

 them would be with a very fine gut line, a 

 No. 9 hook, baited with a couple of small red 

 worms or two gentles, thrown into the water 

 where they are, very cautiously, and keep well 

 out of sight. Let the bait sink a short way 

 from the surface, and draw it gently towards 

 you, using at the same time a very long rod, 

 rather stiff. Strike immediately they take the 

 bait, gently, and play them as you would a 

 trout on the fly. 



CHUB. 



The Chub is rather a handsome fish when 

 in season, and those caught with the artificial 

 fly in many parts of the Thames, are very 

 brilliant and pretty to look at ; but, un- 

 fortunately, they are full of very small bones, 

 when cooked the roe is wholesome. 



They haunt the deepest pools and rivers 

 under shaded banks overhung with trees, the 

 sides of weirs, and in ponds where a small 

 spring runs in and out of them, with rather a 

 rocky or gravelly bottom. Autumn is the best 

 season for them, although I have caught them 



