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THE CHUB. 



taken, on lecord, was caught in one of the bays in Long Isl- 

 and, and weighed sixteen and a half pounds. They also, in 

 some instances, grow very large in fresh water streams, and 

 have been taken from seven to ten pounds weight. They 

 are not game, but occasion the angler much trouble wherever 

 he drops his line, by sucking off his bait or insisting upon 

 being hooked; when, with all care, the most experienced 

 sportsman seldom escapes without great derangement of 

 tackle. When sought after, he is taken (we say taken, be- 

 cause no difficulty is ever experienced where he is) with any 

 kind of tackle and any bait. The most common mode, how- 

 ever, with those who make a practice of taking him, is with 

 a common drop-line, and a small black-fish or eel hook, No. 

 8 or 9. 



A singular and beautiful description of the eel, if any 

 beauty can be attached to the tribe, is found in some of our 

 fresh water streams, called the lamprey or seven-eyed eel. 



OF THE CHUB. 



This beautiful fish is found, according to Smith, in some 

 of the western sections of Massachusetts. "It is taken with 

 a hook baited with an angle-worm. In winter it may be 

 caught through the ice by baiting with cheese and Venice 

 turpentine. 



" The head is large, the back of a dusky green, the sides 

 silvery, the abdomen white, the pectoral fins yellowish, and 

 the ventral and anal fins tinged with red. This fish seems 

 to be very timid, and the angler therefore, in fixing himself 

 in a good position, over some deep hole, where the chub 

 conceals himself under projecting long roots of trees, is ob- 

 liged to move very cautiously, or he will frighten it away." 



He is also taken in the Passaic river, N. J., Otsego lake, 

 Fishkill creek, and many other parts of New-York and Penn- 



