The trout appeared to avoid the warm water, while the chubs and suckers appeared to avoid the cold water.
None of the chubswere infested with this parasite.
It may be that what the latter really avoided was the special preserve of the trout, since large chubs and suckers are found in abundance in the lake, which is quite cold, a temperature of 40 deg.
Likewise, isolated populations exist in the Rio Grande System, where flathead chubs are confined to the upper parts of the Rio Grande and Pecos basins, above the confluence of the Rio Grande and Pecos Rivers.
Flathead chubs could have entered the Rio Grande-Pecos system by stream-capture from the Arkansas System, in northeastern New Mexico or southern Colorado.
Hundreds of flathead chubs were collected in such pools in the Purgatoire and Arkansas rivers.
Purgatoire River indicated that loosely-organized groups of flathead chubs congregated one to four inches above the bottom of pools, and near or under protective cover such as roots of vegetation or debris lodged against shore.
Bait dealers who seine the South Canadian River in Dewey County, Oklahoma, have taken flathead chubs in abundance in some seasons, but not at all in others.
The chubs occasionally are hooked and are from half a pound to a pound and a half in size.
On the other hand big schools of suckers and chubs are seen.
Thoreau speaks of the boy who treasures the yellow perch as a real fish: "So many unquestionable fish he counts, then so many chubs which he counts, then throws away.
The boy picks out the chubs and minnows and throws them to one bird and then another.
As a boy, fishing was a passion with me, but no more for the conquest of golden sunfish and speckled chubs and horny catfish than for the haunting sound of the waterfall and the color and loneliness of the cliffs.
Whenever I get my hand on a thin, light, stiff reed pole and a long, light line of thread with a little hook, then I revert to boyhood days and sunfish and chubs and shiners and bullheads.
Creek chubs were found in all habitats in the Big Blue River Basin, but were abundant only in the headwaters of muddy streams and in clear upland creeks.
Being thus dressed, you will find him a much better dish of meat than you, or most folk, even than anglers themselves, do imagine: for this dries up the fluid watery humour with which all Chubs do abound.
Chubs has had some bruise upon his tail, by a Pike or some other accident; and that looks like a white spot.
We'll shoot the rapids, though I haven't as many of the chubs as I wish I had.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chubs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
