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an enormous pike was found, weighing upwards 

 of one hundred and seventy pounds. 



Dodsley's Register, 1765. 



A monstrous large pike taken at Loch Alva, 

 by Colonel Thornton, measured five feet four 

 inches ; weight forty-eight pounds. 



At Loch Spey a pike was killed that weighed 

 one hundred and forty-six pounds. 



Thorntons Sporting Tour. 



A large pike was caught in the river Ouse 

 which weighed twenty-eight pounds, and was sold 

 to a gentleman, of Littlepont, for one guinea, 

 the cook found in the fish a watch, with a black 

 riband and keys, maker's name Cranfield Burn- 

 ham : upon inquiry, the watch had been sold to 

 a gentleman's servant who was, unfortunately, 

 drowned. Gent. Mag. vol. xxxv. 



Sir Cecil Wray caught, in 1799, at the drain- 

 ing of the water from his lake, at Summer Castle, 

 a pike that weighed forty-seven pounds. 



A pike was caught in Bixton river, near Nor- 

 wich, which weighed forty-six pounds. 



Dodsley's Register, vol. iii. 



A large pike was caught in the Ouse, near Pas- 

 senham, fifty-nine inches long, and fourteen in 



