shilishper

Updated: May 7, 2025

One has to understand all that, of course! For example, take the eel-pout. It is not a delicate fish it will take a perch; and a pike loves a gudgeon, the shilishper likes a butterfly. If you fish for a roach in a rapid stream there is no greater pleasure.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - The Witch and other stories