. American angler's guide : or, complete fisher's manual, for the United States: containing the opinions and practices of experienced anglers of both hemispheres ; with the addition of a second Fishing. 218 THE CHUB. taken, on iecord, was caught in one of the bays in Long Isl- and, and weighed sixteen and a ludf 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 ins bait or insisting upon being hooked; when, wi
. American angler's guide : or, complete fisher's manual, for the United States: containing the opinions and practices of experienced anglers of both hemispheres ; with the addition of a second Fishing. 218 THE CHUB. taken, on iecord, was caught in one of the bays in Long Isl- and, and weighed sixteen and a ludf 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 ins bait or insisting upon being hooked; when, with all care, the most experienced sportsman seldom escapes without great derangement of tackle. When sought after, lie 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 ur !). 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 seveu-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 Look 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 u 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-. Please note that these ima
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