Coarse Fish

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: THE CHUB. SOME of the best and most varied sport obtainable in the Thames is to be had by angling for this bold-biting fish; yet strange to say, the chub is let severely alone by the majority of Thames anglers. Only the lucky few who have, during recent years, regularly and scientifically followed up this...
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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: THE CHUB. SOME of the best and most varied sport obtainable in the Thames is to be had by angling for this bold-biting fish; yet strange to say, the chub is let severely alone by the majority of Thames anglers. Only the lucky few who have, during recent years, regularly and scientifically followed up this branch of sport know what a vast number of chub the Thames contains, the miles and miles of river over which they are scattered, and the infinite variety of swims in which they are to be found. As a general rule, wherever the river has a gravelly bed, there you may try success- . fully for chub, whether in the open stream or elsewhere, in all depths of water, remembering that your chevin prefers the shelter of overhanging banks, willows, roots, stumps or whatnot; even mere depth of water will sometimes suffice to provide a congenial haunt. When the water is disturbed by boats, heavy chub are frequently secured by changing to really deep swims, with fifteen to twenty feet of water in the river bed. In the early season of the year they chiefly resort to the shallows below the weirs; in May, if theweather be fine and warm, they are to be seen, literally in hundreds, on the gravel beds, the largest numbers in some two feet of water. The sight must be seen in the very early morning to be realised, for the whole shallow seems alive with fish. To the trout-fisher, the chub is a great nuisance, greedily taking his spinning or live bait, and repeatedly awaking false hopes. To a great extent, as the season advances, chub leave the weirs, though sport is to be had with the fly on the weir shallows well into July; but chub are not in good condition until about September. July and August are the best months for fly-fishing under the boughs. A winter or spring chub is a different cre...