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width ; a painting of this pike was preserved at 

 Perry's Park House. 



Mortons Nat. History of Stafford. 



A large male pike was caught in Exon park, be- 

 longing to the Earl of Gainsboro, length four 

 feet, girth two feet and a half, weight, thirty-seven 

 pounds ; it was the largest ever taken in these 

 waters. Gent. May. vol. Ixvi. 



Pike were taken in Whittleseamere, and in Blen- 

 heim lake, of twenty pounds weight, and of thirty- 

 five pounds in Winandermere. 



New Monthly Mag. 1820. 



Mr. Waring, when trying for roach with a 

 single gut line, and strong hook, was suddenly 

 seized and carried away. The tackle was let go, 

 and art resorted to to tire the fish ; but the punt 

 was obliged to be let go, and the fish took punt and 

 every thing down the stream for some distance, 

 without appearing to lose any of his strength. 

 By great skill he was at length brought to the 

 top of the water, and got home just as he arrived 

 at some weeds, where he must inevitably have 

 liberated himself; it proved to be a pike of six- 

 teen pounds and a half weight, hooked under his 

 vent-gill, leaving him power to escape. 



Sporting Mag. June, 1835. 



