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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE CHUB. Before the would be angler in the Nottingham style proceeds to read the following chapters on the different fish, he would do well to carefully study the preceding one. Minute details, as I have before remarked, are very important, and should be regarded with strict attention. No one can expect to be a very successful angler unless these small matters are observed, and there is nothing recommended but what I have proved by experience. I approach the subject of the chub with feelings of very great respect, if not of actual veneration, for the chub with the white spot on his tail was the first fish that our 'father' Izaak introduced to us. I remember how after I had, metaphorically speaking, swallowed that chub, how eagerly I swallowed the rest of his grand old book ; and then, like Alexander, who mourned because he had no more worlds to conquer, I mourned because there was no more to swallow! Although the chub does not enjoy a very good reputation from a culinary point of view, yet he is a tolerably handsome looking fish, and when he is in good condition and hooked, he will fight hard for his liberty. When we consider that it is absolutely necessary to fish for him with fine tackle, he is just the fellow to try an angler's patience and the strength of his tackle, especially if the fish happens to bea good sized one. The chub is found in most of the rivers of England, and likes deep, quiet holes, under overhanging banks, or willow bushes, the foundations of old walls, retired nooks, or where old piles and posts stick up out of the water, providing the water is tolerably deep, though he is not confined exclusively to such places as those. He will be found in strong rushing streams, and contending with the most rapid waters; and during very hot weath...
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