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I had two on for a second, and had a number of touches from small Mahseer that I saw following the minnow, but failed to land anything, so alas! I can't swear I've caught a Mahseer yet or killed a jungle fowl my two small ambitions just now. G. collected seeds and roots of wild plants to send home, so she had a better bag than I had.
Why should the minnow not be happy? I am a hawk; well but I am a very good hawk. But these reflections were not what occupied his mind as he sat with his second cigar in the reading-room of his quiet club.
And we may no longer angle with worm for him, nor with penk or minnow, nor with the natural fly, as was your manner, but only with the artificial, for the more difficulty the more diversion. For my part I may cry, like Viator in your book, 'Master, I can neither catch with the first nor second Angle: I have no fortune.
In the case of fishes, again, I might say much on the curious fact that the Cyprinidae, or white fish carp, etc. and their natural enemy, the pike, are indigenous, I believe, only to the rivers, English or continental, on the eastern side of the Straits of Dover; while the rivers on the western side were originally tenanted, like our Hampshire streams, as now, almost entirely by trout, their only Cyprinoid being the minnow if it, too, be not an interloper; and I might ask you to consider the bearing of this curious fact on the former junction of England and France.
His great delight was to watch from the depths of some cave-like hollow under an overhanging bank until a star-gazer, or a herring, or a minnow, or some other baby-eater came in sight, and then to rush out and swallow him head first. He took ample revenge on all those pesky little fishes for all that they had done and tried to do to him and his brethren in the early days.
The fishing is not particularly good, and if great anticipations exist on this score, I must say that they will not, in my opinion, be realized. Small fish on which the trout feed are abundant, as also the cadis worm and fly, and the trout do not take readily an artificial bait, either fly or minnow. I cannot, therefore, say that I think many trout can be caught.
Two of them were guests like ourselves, both men of the north. One ruddy, and of a full habit of body, with copious black hair and beard, the intrepid hunter of France, who thought nothing so small, not even a lark or a minnow, but he might vindicate his prowess by its capture.
"For one I'm glad to hear that," said Felix; "I can hike as well as the next fellow; but just the same when I'm off for pleasure I don't like to keep moving all the time. This suits me first-rate. Then I expect to do some paddling when we find the right sort of a log, with Josh at the bow casting his flies, and Tom at the stern trolling his phantom minnow along."
"They say there were trout here once. But now there's nothing bigger than a minnow." Peter Mink nodded. "That's the truth," he said. "If this brook has a fish that's as meaty as you are, I've never seen him." "Ah!" cried Master Meadow Mouse. "You'd far rather catch me than catch a fish in this pool." Peter Mink grinned at him brazenly. "I won't deny it," he replied.
And yet this man is possessed of an unshakable faith that by some mysterious legerdemain of chance a fish, with ten thousand square miles of water to swim in safely, will seek out the little minnow less than an inch in length which he has lowered beside the breakwater. And so, the victim of preposterous conviction, he sits and eyes the tip of his fishpole with unflagging hope. It is warm.
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