 | Thomas Tod Stoddart - Fishing - 1847 - 472 pages
...fish, a bold, eager, voracious grasp ; quite the contrary, it is a slow calculating grip. There is nothing about it dashing or at all violent ; no stirring...tail — no expressed fury or revenge. The whole is mouth- work ; calm, deliberate, bone-crashing, deadly mouth-work. You think at the moment you hear... | |
 | Thomas Tod Stoddart - Fishing - 1847 - 474 pages
...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...contrary, it is a slow calculating grip. There is nothing about it dashing or at all violent ; no stirring of the fins — no lashing of the tail —... | |
 | Thomas Tod Stoddart - Fishing - 1853 - 402 pages
...fish, a bold, eager, voracious grasp ; quite the contrary — it is a slow, calculating grip. There is nothing about it dashing or at all violent ; no stirring...revenge. The whole is mouth-work — calm, deliberate, but bone-crashing and merciless mouthwork. You think, at the moment, you actually hear the shutting,... | |
 | Fisheries - 1865 - 520 pages
...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;...it dashing or at all violent ; no stirring of the fine — no lashing of the (ail — no expressed fury or revenge. The whole is mouth-work ; calm, deliberate,... | |
 | 1865 - 526 pages
...attack of a pike at the gorge-bait can easily forget **• 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 gvip. There is usually Nothing about it dashing or at all violent ; no stirring of the fins — no... | |
 | Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell - Pike - 1865 - 296 pages
...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 calculatr ing grip. There is usually nothing about it dashing or at all violent : no stirring of the... | |
 | Thomas Tod Stoddart - Fishing - 1892 - 244 pages
...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;...contrary, it is a slow, calculating grip. There is nothing about it dashing or at all violent ; no stirring of the fins — no lashing of the tail —... | |
 | Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell - 1893 - 502 pages
...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...deadly mouthwork. You think at the moment you hear the action—the clanging action,—of the fish's jaw-bones ; and such jaw-bones, so powerful, so terrific... | |
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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... 