1877, January 5, 21 lbs., caught with snap, in Thames, Sonning, by A. Jardine.

1877, February 24, 36 lbs., caught with snap, at Maidstone, Kent, by A. Jardine.

1878, January 3, 201 lbs., caught with snap, in Thames, Sonning, by A. Jardine.

1878, January 30, 271⁄2 lbs., caught with paternoster, in Thames, Hampton Deeps, by Mr. Barker.

1878, February, 29 lbs., caught with snap, near Norwich, by Mr. English.

1878, February 4, 22 lbs., caught with paternoster, in river Frome, Dorset, by A. Jardine.

1878, February 17, 22 lbs., caught with gorge tackle, at Bardney, river Witham.

1878, February 23, 30 lbs., caught with pike fly, in Lough Erne, Ireland, captor not known.

1878, February 24, 36 lbs., caught with snap, near Norwich, by Mr. F. Thorne.

1878, February 27, 23 lbs., caught with snap, near Petworth, Sussex, by A. Jardine.

1878, March 14, 221⁄2 lbs., caught with paternoster, near Chippenham, by A. Jardine. ·

1879, February 14, 21 lbs., caught with snap, near Petworth, Sussex, by A. Jardine.

1879, February, 24 lbs., caught in Eastwell Park, Kent, by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh.

1879, February 28, 241⁄2 lbs., caught near Chippenham, by Mr. Pallison.

1879, September 4, 37 lbs., caught with snap, near Amersham, by A. Jardine.

1880, March 8, 22 lbs., caught with snap, near Petworth, Sussex, by A. Jardine.

1880, April 10, 27 lbs., caught at Halberton, by Mr. Frost.

1882, January 3, 23 lbs., caught with snap, in river Frome, Dorset, by A. Jardine.

1882, February 23, 30 lbs., caught with paternoster, near Glynde, Sussex, by A. Jardine.

1883, July 2, 24 lbs., caught with worm while barbel fishing in Marlow Pool, Thames, by Mr. J. Bedford.

1883, November 27, 243 lbs., caught near Norwich, by Mr. English.

1884, January 19, 23 lbs., caught with paternoster, near Chippenham, by A. Jardine.

1884, January 19, 21 lbs., caught with snap, near Chippenham, by A. Jardine.

1884, January 19, 201 lbs., caught with snap, near Chippenham, by A. Jardine.

1884, January 19, 191⁄2 lbs., caught with snap, near Chippenham, by A. Jardine.

1884, January 19, 19 lbs., caught with snap, near Chippenham, by A. Jardine.

1887, February 15, 26 lbs., caught with snap, near Chippenham, by R. B. Marston.

1887, February 15, 23 lbs., caught with snap, near Chippenham, by Mr. S. W. Searle.

1887, February 15, 22 lbs., caught with paternoster, near Chippenham, by A. Jardine.

1888, November 25, 22 lbs., caught with snaptackle, at Maidstone, Kent, by A. Jardine.

1888, November 25, 19 lbs., caught with paternoster, at Maidstone, by A. Jardine.

1892, 33 lbs., caught in Lough Mask, Ireland, by Mr. W. F. Laurie.

1893, 37 lbs., caught in river Shannon, Ireland, and presented to Mr. R. B. Marston.

1894, January 16, 25 lbs., caught with live-dace snap-fishing, near Maidstone, by Mr. J. Sheather.

1896, February 19, 20 lbs., caught with worm on gut perch-paternoster, near Chippenham, by A. Jardine.

1896, February 19, 18 lbs., caught with snap, near Chippenham, by A. Jardine.

1896, November 22, 30 lbs., caught in Dagenham Lake, Essex, by Mr. Waller.

The following is an extract from a letter which appeared in the Fishing Gazette of January 30th, 1897-"I opine that nowadays a pike of 20 lbs. may be considered a big fish, and that the capture of one that weight is the ideal which most fishermen set themselves, and hope to accomplish some day. Yours, &c.-F. N. S."

The foregoing list was supplemented by the following captures :

1884, November 20, 21 lbs., caught with spoonbait in Sowley Pond, near Lymington, Hampshire, by Mr. C. Butler, junior.

1884, November 20, 28 lbs., caught with spoonbait, in Sowley Pond, by Mr. H. Ritchie.

1888, November 14, 22 lbs., caught spinning a gudgeon in the Hayward Wide-water, near Stafford, by Mr. H. Evans.

1890, February 1, 20 lbs., with snap-tackle in Hayward Wide-water, by Mr. B. Preece.

1891, December 17, 19 lbs., with snap-tackle in Hayward Wide-water, by Mr. William Osborne.

1892, December 1, 221 lbs., with snap-tackle in Hayward Wide-water, by Mr. William Osborne. 1893, November 13, 211⁄2 lbs., with snap-tackle in Hayward Wide-water, by Mr. I. Evans.

1892, May 27, 261⁄2 lbs., caught trailing with trout in Lough Arrow, co. Sligo, Ireland, by Mr. Rothwell. Note! pike spawn in April, therefore as this

pike was out of season," the capture was unsportsmanlike.

1894, April, 32 lbs., caught trailing with "Blue Devon," in Lough Conn, co. Mayo, Ireland, by Mr. E. H. C. Smith, of Clifton College. Note! More flagrantly unsportsmanlike than the previous instance.

1895, December, 21 lbs., caught with livebait, in Barratt's Pool, Moire, Leicestershire.

1895, December, 25 lbs., caught with snap-tackle in the River Dove, near Tutbury, Staffordshire, by Mr. J. C. Wright.

When Whittlesea Mere was drained in the early part of this century in order to reclaim the land and place it under cultivation, as the waters receded a huge pike was left nearly "high and dry," and captured ; it weighed 49 lbs.

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Curious experiences sometimes happen to anglers when pike-fishing, in the shape of singular captures. As an As an instance of this, two friends were fishing in a lake at Amersham, Buckinghamshire, when one of them had his livebait dents taken, and almost immediately the other in pike had a run" from a good fish that took fishing line rapidly off his reel; but the two lines seemed to draw together, and at last converged to one point, when it became evident both anglers had hooked the same fish. The pike was gaffed and landed; it had taken both baits and was hooked by both tackles. It was a handsome fish of 21 lbs. I saw it in the evening, when it was christened "The Union Jack." A similar incident occurred twice on the same day to myself and a companion when fishing the Dorset, Frome. One of the pike weighed 17 lbs., the other 9 lbs.

When fishing Loch Tay in 1870, Mr. Cramp saw two pike struggling and fastened together by the insertion of the head of one within the jaws of the other. Whether this was brought about by charging at one another when fighting or by both dashing at the same bait, and having got up steam, had too much way on them to avoid a collision, cannot be determined, but the head of the smaller fish was fixed up to its pectoral fins, in the mouth of the larger; and so they were gaffed through both their heads by Mr. Cramp's - boatman, and sent thus (undivided in death) to Mr. Frank Buckland, who made a cast of them for his fish museum. The two fish weighed. 19 lbs.

Unwary young pickerel have been known to be choked by attempting to swallow sticklebacks; and, if not completely choked in infancy, get wiser possibly after what Dr. Badham calls an attack of “sticklebackitis." At what size or weight does csox junior become a pike? Walton says at 2 ft. ; Sir J. Hawkins at 3 lbs. ; Salter at 3 lbs.; Hofland, 3 lbs., or when it exceeds 24 ins. in length; Piscator (Practical Angler) says 4 lbs. ; “ Ephemera,” in his Handbook on Angling, 3 or 4 lbs.; Blaine, 4 or 5 lbs. Mr. C. Pennell favours a 3 lb. qualification, at which jack "might assume the dignities of pikehood."

Mr. Frank Buckland's opinion (as often expressed by him to me) was 5 lbs. ; also that jack were infertile and incapable of reproducing their species Age of until they had attained the weight of at pike least 3 lbs.; and the fact that so many young fish under this weight, or say 24 ins. in length, are