Pike And Perch With Notes On Record Pike And a Chapter On the Black Bass Murra
Pike And Perch With Notes On Record Pike And a Chapter On the Black Bass Murra
Alfred Jardine
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143 pike after the last day of February and before the 3Oth of June. The trophies pf anglers, and of the members of Angling Societies, are seldom mounted without some kind of pictorial embellishment ; and among the best examples of modern taxidermy were specimens of very fine pike at the 1883 Inter- national Fisheries Exhibition, South Kensington, Among other grand fish were pike of 37 lb. , 36* lb. , 35* lb. , 32 lb, 3oJ* lb. , 28* lb, and downwards to 20 lb, the weights of which were all auth...entic : but the weights of many others ex- hibited (as specified on their glass cases) were, to say the least, doubtful. When taking plaster of Paris " casts " of fish it is very different, for they cannot be " faked " and made to appear larger, than when alive in the water. The wet plaster of Paris is simply poured on the fish, and moulds itself to the exact length, girth, and contour of the specimen, perfectly reproducing every fin, scale, and muscle. Casts were made by the late Mr. Frank Buck- land of my above-mentioned pike which are marked *, also of some of my large perch and a fine grayling, which were painted by my artist friend, the late Mr.
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