concept
Golavl (chub)
chub
also: голавль, chub, squalius cephalus
The chub (golavl), a freshwater fish that will occasionally take bait cast without a sinker on top of the water, though rarely -- one of the several fish species Denis Grigoryev names in his long, guileless explanation of why a fisherman needs a nut for a sinker.
Reading notes
- The Malefactor §46 a chub comes
Here the Russian is голавль (golavl), the true chub -- a distinct species from the shilishper/asp discussed a sentence earlier -- which will occasionally, rarely, take a surface bait cast without a sinker.