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TENCH. 



Tench, like carp, are mostly found in ponds and 

 still water s, and afford very little sport to the angler. 

 They are said to prefer a "brandling worm, and may 

 "be angled for "by those who wish " to kill" a weary 

 hour, though with small chance of killing fish, in the 

 same manner as for carp. 



CHUB. 



This fish, when young, in colour, shape, and ge. 

 neral appearance, is so like the dace or dare, that 

 even experienced anglers are sometimes at a loss 

 to decide whether the fish which they have caught 

 is to he called a chub or a dace. In such cases, if 

 the head appear large in proportion to the "body it 

 is commonly decided to he a chub. In the Eden, 

 the chub is known by the name of the skelly; and 

 shoals of them may "be observed lying near fords 

 and places where cattle are accustomed to drink. 

 Though chub are usually described as fish which 

 never leave the fresh water, we have frequently seen 

 them caught in a salmon-net at the mouth of a 

 river, in salt water. The last salmon net which we 

 assisted to haul, contained, in addition to five fine 

 salmon, a grey mullet, and a chub or skelly eighteen 

 inches long, with scales like mother of pearl, and 

 weighing three pounds. Whipping for chub is the 

 favorite amusement of the fiy-fishers of the Lea, and 



