There's no fish pulls harder than a chub, not in the ordinary way of fishing.

A chub he'll pull just like a little pig; he will indeed, if you believe me." "And a jack, uncle," put in Minnie, who liked to please the old man.
"Doesn't a jack pull hard ?" "Well, it's like this, my dear; it depends on the bottom when it's jack.

If the bottom's weedy--see ?--you must keep your line tight on a jack.

Let him run and you're as like as not to lose thirty or forty yards of your line." "And the lines are expensive, aren't they, uncle ?" "Well, my dear, I give eighteen and six for my preserved jack line--hundred yards.

Eighteen and six!" There followed one of his old stories, of a jack which had been eating up young ducklings on a certain pond; how he had baited for this fellow with a live duckling, the hook through the tips of its wings, got him in twenty minutes, and he turned the scale at four-and-twenty pounds.
Roach and perch were afterwards discussed.