muskallonge
Americannoun
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We heard of 35-pound specked trout, of lake trout twice as large, and of enormous muskallonge.
From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Ralph, Julian
Then the fish commissioners decided to stock the lake with muskallonge, in the hope that the latter would destroy the voracious carp, and eventually afford good catches themselves.
From Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 by Various
Catch and name ten different species of fish: salmon or trout to be taken with flies; bass, pickerel, or pike to be caught with rod or reel, muskallonge to be caught by trolling.
From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
Soon afterwards some employés of the commissioners drew a net across the lake to see how the muskallonge were getting on.
From Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 by Various
Where the fisher spreads his wiles, And the muskallonge goes through!
From Their Pilgrimage by Warner, Charles Dudley
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