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 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...I fished a little lake of fifteen acres in Buckinghamshire. The weather was very stormy and tempestuous. My punt was rather small and shallow; and the gale increasing, it was dangerous to keep out in the middle of the lake exposed to the full force of the wind. I therefore shifted to the leeward side of an island, where in ten feet of water I expected to find a monster pike, which some nine months previously had smashed up the rod and tackle of a brother angler, who was then fishing with me. I baited with a half-pound dace and cast it into the open channel between some weeds, and waited but a short while before I had a run, and drove my snap-tackle well home. The pike immediately made a mad rush, taking nearly a hundred yards of line off my reel, and leaped some feet out of the water; this was several times repeated, but my salmon gut trace held firm. I had the pike well in hand, and in twenty minutes it was gaffed and safe in my punt. The fish measured 47 ins. in length, 25 ins. girth; and that afternoon, in the presence of Mr. W. H. Brougham, late Secretary of the Thames Angling Preservation Society, weighed 37 lbs. This pike was probably induced by the tempestuous weather to feed fearlessly, and thus lost its life. It and another of 36 lbs. (both set up in the same glass case) adorn my collection of specimen fish. The relative temperature of the water and air has much to do with success when pike angling. As a rule the air should be a few degrees higher in temperature than the water, so that it is above freezing point. Even in severe frosts pike may be caught in rivers which flow too fast to freeze, but the line may become so completely enveloped with ice that it will not run through the rod-rings, when, if a fish of any size is hooked, a breakage is cer...

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