It is probably not a good idea to import this thing but I bet this writer could conjure up some pretty terrifying descriptions of bass and pike if he put his mind to it.
Check out this:
| Professor Spencer F. Baird wrote in 1874 in the report of the United States Commission on Fish and Fisheries: "There is no parallel in the point of destructiveness to the bluefish among the marine species on our coast, whatever may be the case among some of the carnivorous fish of the South American waters. The bluefish has been likened to an animated chopping machine, the business of which to cut to pieces and otherwise destroy as many fish as possible in a given space of time. All writers are unanimous in regard to the destructiveness of bluefish. Going in large schools, in pursuit of fish not much inferior to themselves in size, they move along like a pack of hungry wolves, destroying everything before them. Their trail is marked by fragments of fish and by the stain of blood in the sea as, where the fish is too large to be swallowed entire, the hinder portion will be bitten off and the anterior part allowed to float away or sink. It is even maintained with great earnestness that such is the gluttony of the fish that, when the stomach becomes full, the contents are disgorged and then again filled." |