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" Loch, pp. 56, 57Here are good observations on the introduction of pike to keep down the shoals of small, ill-fed trout, with a striking instance of the voracity of the ravenous luce : — ' Many people think a loch injured by pike : on the contrary, unless... "
The Moor and the Loch: Containing Minute Instructions in All Highland Sports ... - Page 169
by John Colquhoun - 1851 - 406 pages
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The Moor and the Loch: Containing Practical Hints on Most of the Highland ...

John Colquhoun - 1840 - 172 pages
...the season. The fishing in Lochs Earn, Lubnaig, and Voil, is not good till May : the trout in those lochs being small, they are never trolled except for...half-pounder among them, to a dozen fine trout from one to three pound weight, then he may count the pike his enemy ; but the latter feat will both better...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 67

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 682 pages
...shoals of small, ill-fed trout, with a striking instance of the voracity of the ravenous luce : — ' Many people think a loch injured by pike : on the...half-pounder among them, to a dozen fine trout from one to three pounds weight, then he may count the pike his enemy; but the latter feat will both better...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 67

1841 - 618 pages
...ill-fed trout, with a striking instance of the voracity of the ravenous luce : — ' Many people think n loch injured by pike : on the contrary, unless very...half-pounder among them, to a dozen fine trout from one to three pounds weight, then he may count the pike his enemy; but the latter feat will both better...
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A history of British fishes, Volume 1

Robert Hamilton - 1876 - 586 pages
...carrying the matter too far. With respect to natural waters, hear Mr. Colquhoun's sensible remarks : — " Many people think a loch injured by Pike : on the contrary; unless very numerous, I have seldom seen one worth fishing without them. If a man prefers killing eight or nine dozen, with...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 67

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 622 pages
...shoals of small, ill-fed trout, with a striking instance of the voracity of the ravenous luce : — ' Many people think a loch injured by pike : on the contrary, unless very numerous, as in Loch Meuteith, I have seldom seen one much worth fishing without them; always excepting those where the...
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