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may commence with bottom-fishing, dapping with 

 a grasshopper, fly-fishing, or in the same manner 

 as for barbel or perch, with minnows, trolling, 

 baited with gudgeon, smaller hook, and not so 

 heavy leaded, &c. &c. according to the season of 

 the year, and time of day. Most baits, both 

 natural and artificial, large baits, sometimes two 

 or three on a line, may be used with success. In 

 warm weather chub are to be found at the top 

 and mid- water ; when cold, at the bottom ; 

 ground baiting as for barbel. Fish with graves, 

 bullock's brains, or pith. Chub resort, under the 

 boughs and large roots of trees, also where cattle 

 stand in the water in warm weather, the bottom 

 being clay and sand. They sometimes are caught 

 of five pounds weight. Salvianus, however, speaks 

 of them as increasing to eight or nine pounds. In 

 proof of their prolific properties, one of a pound 

 and a half contained ninety-two thousand seven 

 hundred eggs. Editor. 



Large Chub in the Meuse. We are most par- 

 ticular and exact in making our artificial flies 

 agreeable to nature. The French, on the contrary, 

 form them to their own fancy, and catch fish 

 readily. fSee A Collection of French Flies, Sport- 

 ing Mag. No. 8. vol. xxiii. N.S.) It is not impro- 

 bable, the fish in the French rivers may be better 

 acquainted with their coarse flies, lines, and rods. 

 Now observe, no reels, or winches, hook No. 4, 



