. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . ally speaking, the nearest kindred of the Gudgeon on this sideof the Atlantic are the members of the genus Ccratichtliys, (or Noconus)^of which we have at least twenty species, the best known of which is our Horny Head or River Chub, Ccratichtliys bigiittatus, which is one ofthe most widely diffused of fresh-water fishes, occurring from New York toUtah and Alabama. It reaches a length of ten or twelve inches. It in-habits larger streams than the Horne
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . ally speaking, the nearest kindred of the Gudgeon on this sideof the Atlantic are the members of the genus Ccratichtliys, (or Noconus)^of which we have at least twenty species, the best known of which is our Horny Head or River Chub, Ccratichtliys bigiittatus, which is one ofthe most widely diffused of fresh-water fishes, occurring from New York toUtah and Alabama. It reaches a length of ten or twelve inches. It in-habits larger streams than the Horned Dace, which delights in littlebrooks. It takes the hook readily, and throughout the southwest is a great * Gudgeon-fishing in Maryland, American Angler, iii, 408. CARP, DA CE AND MINNO W. 423 source of satisfaction to the angler. The flesh of this and other smallCyprinidse is very palatable when fried crisp soon after being taken fromthe water. Toward the northwest another Chub, Platygobio gracilis, takesthe place of the preceding, and reaches a somewhat larger English Chub is also closely allied to its American namesake. /#•. TH1-; EXGLISH CHCB. The English Chub, Chevin or Chavender, Sgualiiis cephalus, theChevaine or Dobule of France, the Altel or Dobel of Germany is widelydistributed over Europe and Asia Minor. Frank Buckland compares it to the Yorkshiremans horse—very bad tocatch and no good when he is caught—but many old-school anglers willnot ratify his judgment. Pennell says of the Chub that, though not so mettlesome or gamesomeas the Dace, it grows to far greater size, and has the merit of taking theartificial fly kindly. The Chub is believed by many etymologists to have derived its Eng-lish name from an old Saxon word meaning head, and its Frenchname also from chef, a word of similar significance. It is also often calledthe Eoggerhead, and in Germany the Dickkopf, and in France theCabot. The word chubby we owe, perhaps, to this plump little
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