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THE CHUB. 
taken, on iecord, 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 oft* 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 bo 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 tho ice by baiting with cheese and Venice 
turpentine. 
11 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 tho chub 
conceals himself under projecting long roots of trees, is ob- 
liged to move very cautiously, or ho will frighten it away.” 
Ho is also taken in tho Passaic river, N. J., Otsego lake, 
Fishkill creek, and many other parts of New-York and Penn- 
