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Updated: May 28, 2025
"The tench is a fish that knows how to keep itself safe by a philosophical taste for an obscure existence in deep holes and slush." SIR PETER. "No, Mivers; the fishes are dace, a fish that, once introduced into any pond, never can be got out again.
He always did catch horned dace and shiners, which he despised, and sometimes he snared a monstrous sucker a foot and a half long. But in the summer the sucker is a flabby fish, and John was not thanked for bringing him home.
Fish forms an inappreciable portion of their food, with the two notorious exceptions of the goosander and merganser, though anglers are much exercised over the damage, real or alleged, done by these birds to their favourite roach and dace in the Thames.
There, too, was the great jack, set up to the very life by the skilful hand of Master Whatcot. He appeared to be cleaving a bunch of reeds to pounce on a dace, just as he had done once too often on that memorable day.
They all came to the meeting bream, and perch, and roach, and dace, and gudgeon; yes, and the little ersh with his spiny back. The silly roach said, "Let us kill the pike." But the gudgeon looked at him with his great eyes, and asked, "Have you got good teeth?" "No," says the roach, "I haven't any teeth." "You'd swallow the pike, I suppose?" says the perch. "My mouth is too small."
"I have no doubt that Spotty Bamber chuckled with joy when he got outside. I should like to think so, to feel that our pleasure was mutual. For as to me, my feelings can only be appreciated by some patient angler who, after a long and fruitless sitting, has seen his "'quill or cork down sink With eager bite of perch or bleak or dace. "Spotty was on the hook.
The innocent lambs, free from care, were leaping and frisking about some in the sun and some in the shade while their more sober dames were either grazing, or quietly masticating the food they had previously collected. Half encircling these premises was a fine stream of water, varying from three to seven yards in width. It was supplied with dace, trout, roach, and perch.
"Yes," said the bream; "but you will have to go into his throat to put them there, and he'll swallow you all the same. Besides, we have not all got prickles." There was a lot more foolishness talked. Even the minnows had something to say, until they were made to be quiet by the dace.
Miles a day he runs in the keen air with his bait pail and skimmer and however many fish he catches I am quite sure he eats them all at the next meal. And not all his catch are sure to be pickerel. Down below there in the twilight of the warmest water next the bottom are perch and dace, bass and eel, and all these are likely to hunger for shiner.
Dace were our main catch bright silvery fish, about three to the pound, for they do not run large in the tideway; but they were in perfect condition, and quite as good to eat, when cooked, as fresh herring. For some reason the Jews of London prefer these fresh-water fish; they eat them, not as the old Catholics did, on fasts, but for feasts.
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