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PIKE. 



Ahdoviinales Malacopterygii. Esocida. 



[Esox Indus.) 



Local names : Jack Luce, Gedd, Pickeral, Haked, Lid, Pod. 

 Welsh: PenJnctjad. French: Lc Brocket. German: Der 

 Hecht, Hak, Schnock, Wasserwolf. Dutch: Greepvisch, 

 Snoek. Norwegian : Gedde. Italian : Luzzio, Lucio, and 

 Brochette. Danish : Gjedde. Swedish : Gadda, Gadda 

 Snipa. 



The best name of all the above applied to the Pike is 

 the Waterwolf. 



From the days of Gesner downwards, more lies — to 

 put it in very plain language — have been told about the 

 pike than any other fish in the world ; and the greater 

 the improbability of the story, the more particularly is it 

 sure to be quoted. Among these stories there can be no 

 greater fabrication than that of the pike that is recorded 

 to have lived two hundi-ed and sixty odd years. An ac- 

 count of this precious fish can be found in almost every 



PIKE. 



angling book published. We are now in 1880, and 

 supposing the fish to have been caught in this year, it 

 follows he must have been put into the lake in 1630, 

 the sixth year of the reign of Charles I. This story 

 might have done very well years ago, but will not do 

 now. 



I now proceed to put on record the largest pike tliat 

 has come under my own personal knowledge. 



