Jack Fish

One day we were fishing and had got some distance apart, when I saw a school of large jack-fish coming down like lightning. ❋ George H. Devol (N/A)

No bait, but she had a knife; a strip of flesh was quickly cut from her own leg, a hole made through the ice, and a fine jack-fish was the food that was sent to this devoted mother. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)

Deception, and brought home great jack-fish weighing from two to six pounds. ❋ Mary FitzGibbon (1883)

Frank and Carrière vied with each other in relating their narrow escapes from accidents and scarcity of provisions, when Hudson Bay fare of "one pound of flour, half a pound of tea, and one pound of fat pork, or one jack-fish six mile long," would have been appreciated. ❋ Mary FitzGibbon (1883)

Of tea, sugar, butter, and bread we had more than enough; and besides the produce of our garden in the way of vegetables, the river and lake contributed white-fish, sturgeon, and pike, or jack-fish, in abundance. ❋ Unknown (1859)

An enormous pike, or "jack-fish," coveted that bait and took it. ❋ Unknown (1859)

And you, too, have a worthy object in view, which might well detain you from roach and jack-fish. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

a dead jack-fish; I took it up, and felt, from the keenness of my appetite for animal food, as though I could have immediately devoured it, notwithstanding it bore the marks of having been dead a considerable time. ❋ John West (1811)

We will paddle to Willow Point, and try for jack-fish on the way. " ❋ Unknown (1859)

"Wow -- wow!" he exclaimed, as Salamander's head appeared with a number of little fish struggling in his hair, and a pike or jack-fish holding on to the lobe of his left ear, "the poor cratur! ❋ Unknown (1859)