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Chub. One yard of fine round gut will be sufficient tackle. 

 The hook should be a No. 5, lapped on with white silk. Let 

 your bottom shot be twelve inches from the hook ; this will 

 complete your tackle for bottom fishing. 



THE AET OE BOTTOM FISHING FOE CHUB. 



It is no use Chub fishing unless the water is clear, the wind 

 blowing behind you, and the day cloudy or misty. A bright 

 sunny day is very unfavourable. Chub are very shy and difilcult 

 to get at when the sun is bright. If you happen to catch one 

 all the rest are off in a moment ; but when the water and day 

 are favourable you may catch them to a fish, as the saying is, 

 " you can clear the whole out." Before I go into the art of 

 catching Chub, I will show to what perfection we have already 

 reached in the art, but I am convinced that still greater perfec- 

 tion win ere long be attained, and that though some of us fancy 

 that we can fish better than others, and are in possession of 

 a few points which three parts of the angling fraternity are not 

 up to, the time will come when the anglers of the present day 

 will be thought mere " duffers," and babies in the art, for 1 can 

 see boys from twelve to fourteen years of age figuring as well 

 as some of the old veterans did twenty years back, and are 

 promising to become first-rate artists in the gpntle craft. The 

 following anecdote will show my readers that Chub fishing is an 

 art that requires learning, and that the Chub fishers of the 

 present day are not altogether novices, but go to work with 

 confidence and in a masterly style. I was not a witness 

 to what I shall relate myself, but I can vouch for its truth, 

 and I think a more masterly display of the art of Chub 

 fishing was never witnessed in so young an angler. A pupil 

 and friend of mine, who is passionately fond of Chub fishing, 

 not for the sake of the fish, but for the sport, and who has had 

 but five years practice, seeing the day and water all right, started 

 for a Chub water with some scratching for bait. He had not been 

 at the water above a minute, and was only partly tackled out, 



