80 examples of pickerel in sentences

Just as the big, flopping pickerel was hauled out on the ice, Mab cried: "My bell is tinkling!

His bell jingled quite loudly, and when the string was pulled up through the hole there was a fine, large pickerel on the hook.

The lunch things were packed in the basket, and then Hal and Mab went back to where the pickerel fish they had caught were left lying on the ice.

There must be pickerel and bass here.

" Now the fun was doubled; and some of the pickerel they pulled in reminded Dabney of small blue-fish, while the bass and perch were every way as respectable as ordinary porgies and black-fish, except for size.

" "Want some of these?" "Wouldn't rob ye,but you've got a-plentythat pickerel?

One string for the minister?" "Yes," said Ford, "a bass for Mr. Fallow, a small pickerel for Mrs. Fallow, and a perch or a pumpkin-seed for each of the six little Fallows.

" "All right; and that big pickerel I caught, for Dr. Brandegee, and the biggest bass in the lot to keep it company.

" They would have been late indeed, if they had stopped to talk with every one who wanted to admire Dab's big pickerel and Ford's remarkable bass; but a little good management brought them to Dr. Brandegee's in not much more than five times the number of minutes needed to walk the distance.

It is a shallow lake, upon the American side stretching out into what are known as the "Flats," a vast area of wild rice with deep blue waterways through them, the haunt of the pickerel and black bass and of duck and wild geese.

"Did a pickerel jump?" "No," replied Mark, "the pickerel know me of old, and don't come about for fear that I have a hook and line in my pocket.

"Did a pickerel jump?" "No," replied Mark, "the pickerel know me of old, and don't come about for fear that I have a hook and line in my pocket.

An' it'll take great thumpin' jumps sometimes, an' run along the tops of the trees, carrying its partner with it, an' then droppin' him jest as a fish hawk'll drop a pickerel to kill it before eatin'.

"Used to take me pickerel fishing, Billy didone of my heroes.

that sly little fish, like a salt water pickerel, nipped the tail of that great clumsy porpoiseporpusso hard, I heard the big fish grunt.

The teeth of a pickerel are fearfully long and sharp.

There are flags and pickerel weed and cardinals here already.

"All the parallel veins that you've spoken of are like Ethel Blue's lily of the valley leafthe ribs run from the stem to the tipbut there's another kind of parallel veining that you see in the pickerel weed that's growing down there in the brook; in that the veins run parallel from a strong midrib to the edge of the leaf.

" James made a rush down to the brook and came back with a leaf of the pickerel weed and they handed it about and compared it with the lily of the valley leaf.

The Pickerel Pond: a double pastoral.

Once, in the winter, many years ago, when I had been cutting holes through the ice in order to catch pickerel, as I stepped ashore I tossed my axe back on to the ice, but, as if some evil genius had directed it, it slid four or five rods directly into one of the holes, where the water was twenty-five feet deep.

Its pickerel, though not abundant, are its chief boast.

From a hilltop you can see a fish leap in almost any part; for not a pickerel or shiner picks an insect from this smooth surface but it manifestly disturbs the equilibrium of the whole lake.

And then they'd lie in wait all day for the darting pickerel in the little Stream of Shadows above; and when it came June, up the river he went trolling for bass, and he used a different sort of bait from the rest,bass won't bite much at clams,and he hauled in great forty-pounders.

My father and brothers tramped with snare and gun on snow-shoes through the woods, securing occasionally a partridge or squirrel, and semi-occasionally a deer, or pickerel from the lake.

80 examples of  pickerel  in sentences