WITH FISH AND FISHING. 235 



had nearly succeeded in rescuing it. Mr. Wane 

 is an excellent line-fisher. Sport. Mag. vol. xlvi. 



Owl caught by Angling. We ourselves once 

 caught an owl, not with the fly, nor the worm, 

 nor the minnow, but with the live mouse. As soon 

 as he felt himself hooked, he sailed away to 

 Josey's barn, .in at a hole, and on to a balk; but 

 after a desperate struggle, and with the aid of a 

 terrier, we captured him on the hay mow, had him 

 stuffed, and he is now in the museum of our Uni- 

 versity. 



Blackwood'sEdin. Mag. July, 1835, p. 122. 



Pike and Carp. As some gentlemen were fish- 

 ing in the great pool belonging to Mr. Finch, in 

 his park near Estree, Herts, they drew up a pike, 

 of a very large size, which they opened, finding it 

 much swelled, and discovered in the stomach a 

 carp, the weight of which was eight pounds and a 

 half; the pike without the carp weighed thirty-six 

 pounds. Sporting Mag. vol. xlvi. 



Pike destroyed by Tadpoles. Twenty brace of 

 pikes, from nine to three pounds, were taken out 

 of a large piece of water, to supply a large stew ; in 

 about a month they were seized on their backs by 

 tadpoles, scaled, and flesh eaten from them ; they 

 were seen in this state at the top of the water ; they 

 were all taken out, but died. 



Sporting Mag. vol. iv. N. S. 



