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  • This old, wooden Huskie Pikie plug by Creek Chub is a good example of a nice tag-sale get from a few years back, complete with original box.

    On Collectible Lures 2009

  • Ratebeer. com bears him out: Oskar Blue’s Old Chub is the top-rated Scottish ale on that Web site, and Dale’s Pale Ale is the No. 8 American pale ale.

    Balloon Juice » 2006 » February 2006

  • In addition to the shop, they have a vending machine outside called the Chub-o-Matic, so if you need truffles at midnight, you can get 'em.

    Archive 2009-09-01 tinylittlelibrarian 2009

  • In addition to the shop, they have a vending machine outside called the Chub-o-Matic, so if you need truffles at midnight, you can get 'em.

    I'm back! tinylittlelibrarian 2009

  • Oh, Sir, a Chub is the worst fish that swims, I hoped for a Trout for my dinner.

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • The Chub is a very timorous fish, utterly worthless as food except during the winter months.

    The Teesdale Angler R Lakeland

  • The French, which call the Chub Un Villain, call the Umber of the lake Leman Un Umble Chevalier; and they value the Umber or Grayling so highly, that they say he feeds on gold; and say, that many have been caught out of their famous river of Loire, out of whose bellies grains of gold have been often taken.

    The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation 1653

  • This is the work of Bernard "Chub" Clark of Michigan.

    Hey! The Friendly Giant Has a Rosary Suzanne 2006

  • a Chub is the worst fish that swims; I hoped for a Trout to my dinner.

    The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation 1653

  • Our Black Bass is known locally as "Chub" and "Welshman" and in the extreme southern part of the State he is even called a "Trout."

    North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896

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