. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. for Chub answers best in the hot summer months, andalong the willow and alder-lined reaches payable sport is obtained. It isa great boon for the man, in the big city pent, to be able to get away frombusiness, and by an afternoon train arrive at any portion of the Thamesbelow Oxford m time to have three or four of the best hours fly-fishingwhich the day affords. The Chub is not fastidious in its choice of long as the lure is large and hairy ; s
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. for Chub answers best in the hot summer months, andalong the willow and alder-lined reaches payable sport is obtained. It isa great boon for the man, in the big city pent, to be able to get away frombusiness, and by an afternoon train arrive at any portion of the Thamesbelow Oxford m time to have three or four of the best hours fly-fishingwhich the day affords. The Chub is not fastidious in its choice of long as the lure is large and hairy ; so long as it bears some passingresemblance to a caterpillar or beetle or large-winged moth, the anglerschances of big fish are * Dame Juliana Berners said that the chevyn is a stately fysshe, and his heed is a deynty morsel!.f William Senior ( Kcd-spinner) Angling in Great Britain, p. 4S. CARF, DA CE AND MINNO W. 425 The Dace of England, Squaliiis Icuciscus, belongs to the same genus,which is one of the largest in this group of fishes, abundantly representedin the Palreartic region, and by at least fifty species in North THE EUROPEAN DACE. SQUALIUS LEUCISCUS. It is the Vandoise of France, the Hasel of Austria, the Haseling ofNorth Germany. The name Dace seems to be a modification of the word meaning a dartor javelin. Hundreds of years ago, according to Skat, it was calledDarce and Dare (pronounced </fl:/i;-) by our English forefathers,names clearly, related to the old French dard and the Latin dardits. TheBretons call this species the Darz, and in parts of England it is stillknown by the name Dart. Pennell tells us that it is a bright, graceful fish, glancing about in theclear, and quiet streams which are often barren of trout or salmon, andis in full season from October to January when these are spawning, andthus, he continues, a red-letter days sport is often to be obtainedwhich would otherwise have had to be left blank in the anglers readily rise
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