Pike and Perch: With Notes on Record Pike and a Chapter on the Black Bass, Murray Cod and Other Sporting Members of the Perch Family |
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Pike and Perch, with Notes on Record Pike and a Chapter on the Black Bass ... Alfred Jardine No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 27 - By a river, which its soften'd way did take In currents through the calmer water spread Around : the wild fowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed ; The woods sloped downwards to its brink, and stood With their green faces fix'd upon the flood.
Page 135 - ... part of a dead frog, he suffered him to proceed upon his voyage of discovery. As had been anticipated, this bait soon caught the eye of a greedy pike...
Page 111 - A capital description of the taking of the gorge-bait is given by Mr. Stoddart in his ' Angler's Companion':— No one that ever felt the first attack of a pike at the gorge-bait can easily forget it. It is not, as might be supposed from the character of the fish, a bold, eager, voracious grasp ; quite the contrary, it is a slow calculating grip. There is usually nothing about it dashing or at all violent; no stirring of the fins, no lashing of the tail, no expressed fury or revenge. The whole is...
Page 6 - DANTE'S DIVINA COMMEDIA. Reduced Facsimiles after the Originals in the Royal Museum, Berlin, and in the Vatican Library. With an Introduction and Commentary by F. LIPPMANN.
Page 136 - ... to swim, from the invisible enemy; the gander the one moment losing and the next regaining his centre of gravity, and casting between whiles many a rueful look at his snow-white fleet of geese and goslings, who cackled out their sympathy for their afflicted commodore. At length victory declared in favour of the feathered combatant, who bearing away for the nearest shore, landed on the green grass one of the finest Pikes ever caught in the castle-loch. This adventure is said to have cured the...
Page 35 - The doctor thought this most extraordinary, but he examined the fish's skull, and found it going on all right. He then walked backwards and forwards along the edge of the pond for some time, and the fish continued to swim up and down, turning whenever he turned ; but, being blind on the wounded side of its skull, it always appeared agitated when it had that side towards the bank, as it could not then see its benefactor.
Page 112 - OP rather jerked the line towards myself, in order to create the notion that his prey was making resistance and might escape from his grasp. A moment's halt indicated that he had taken the bait, and immediately afterwards, all being disposed of at one gulp, out he rushed, vigorous as any Salmon, exhausting in one splendid run nearly the whole contents of my reel, and ending his exertions with a desperate somerset, which revealed him to my view in all his size, vigour, and ferocity ; the jaws grimly...
Page 135 - Dumfriesshire, kept a gander, who had not only a great trick of wandering himself, but also delighted in piloting forth his cackling harem, to weary themselves in circumnavigating their native lake, or in straying amidst forbidden fields on the opposite shore.
Page 135 - ... pikes are ; there is no doubt of sport, with great pleasure, betwixt the goose and the pike; it is the greatest sport and pleasure that a noble gentleman in Shropshire doth give his friends entertainment with.
Page 136 - ... of the water ! For some time the struggle was most amusing — the fish pulling, and the bird screaming with all its might — the one attempting to fly, and the other to swim, from the invisible enemy — the gander...