 | Thomas Best - Fishing - 1814 - 286 pages
...about an inch in a year, that is hard to determine, some grow faster,. some slower, according to the diversity of the water and their food : river fish...Pike will not bite well after a great rain, Jacks or Pickerills grow faster than great ones, and I have observed in a clear and springing brook, that a... | |
 | Thomas Best - Fishing - 1814 - 290 pages
...about an inch in a year, that is hard to determine, some grow faster, some slower, according to the diversity of the water and their food : river fish...has a good stream run through it ; there is nothing liclps so much the feeding of a Pike as fresh water. That is the reason why a Pike will not bite well... | |
 | Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell - Pike - 1865 - 300 pages
...determine, some grow faster, some slower, according to the diversity of their water and their Feed : River Fish are thought to grow much faster than pond fish ; except the pond be very large and have a good stream run through it : for there is nothing helps so much to the feeding... | |
 | Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell - 1885 - 512 pages
...determine ; some grow faster, some slower, according to the diversity of their water and their feed. River fish are thought to grow much faster than pond fish, except the pond be very large and have a good stream run through it ; for there is nothing helps so much to the feeding... | |
 | 1885 - 446 pages
...determine ; some grow faster, some slower, according to the diversity of their water and their feed. River fish are thought to grow much faster than pond fish, except the pond be very large and have a good stream run through it ; for there is nothing helps so much to the feeding... | |
 | Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell - Fishes - 1885 - 440 pages
...determine ; some grow faster, some slower, according to the diversity of their water and their feed. River fish are thought to grow much faster than pond fish, except the pond be very large and have a good stream run through it ; for there is nothing helps so much to the feeding... | |
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One of 40 inches (I said) might be of as many years old ; not that a Pike grows just about an inch in a year, that is hard to determine, some grow faster,. some slower, according to the diversity of the water and their food : river fish are thought to... 