Show A savage fish of alie savagery ot the pike says the london week there aro plenty of instances two or tarco cases of fish having seized swans by the head and choking themselves and killing the swan on record few pike of any experience have not found pike dead having been choked in trying to swallow another pike or some other fiah nearly aa large as themselves formerly the unfortunate notion existed in scotland that where the trout were abundant and small in a lake they would be much improved by the introduction of and this certainly waa so for a few years until the trout wan improved liiko altogether unless very vigorous campaign was opened and prosecuted against the piko infinitely better would it have been to have used the net pretty freely BO as to reduce largely the stock but if once you get pike into a lake or n pool it is by no meana easy to bcd rid of thorn again |