76 ANECDOTES OF FISHES 



his mouth open ; and, putting a snood over his 

 snout, we wisked him into the upper air like 

 winking, and laid the fourteen incher on the 

 table. Oliver's Fly Fishing. 



Encouragement to Pike Fishers as an incen- 

 tive to Trailers, ^rc. Of the following instances 

 of killing large pike with hook and line many 

 are of recent date ; they are of particular interest 

 now, as good sport may be obtained at this present 

 time. Editor. 



At Broadford, near Limerick, a pike was said 

 to be killed, of the astonishing weight of ninety- 

 six pounds. Angler in Ireland. 



The largest pike ever known to be caught by 

 trolling was by Colonel Thornton, in Loch Pen- 

 tuliche, it weighed within two ounces of fifty 

 pounds. A fine engraving of this fish is to be seen 

 in Daniel's Rural Sports. It took the colonel 

 an hour and a quarter to kill him ; and had not 

 he been in a boat, and by that means humoured 

 the fish, it is very probable it would have been lost. 



The next large pike was taken by the troll, by 

 Mr. Bent, at the pool at Packington ; weighed 

 thirty-four pounds. 



Mr. Wilson caught a pike in the Driffield ca- 

 nal, near Brigham, which weighed twenty-eight 



