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  • The pike's belly was bulging like crazy, this was a 7 pound pike!

    Catfish Eats Water Moccasin 2009

  • I don't think you tempt a pike's tastebuds with a Dardevle.

    My New Lure Color Theory 2009

  • I don't think you tempt a pike's tastebuds with a Dardevle.

    My New Lure Color Theory 2009

  • The pike's belly was bulging like crazy, this was a 7 pound pike!

    Catfish Eats Water Moccasin 2009

  • "By owning the road, Arlington will be able to speed up the pike's transformation from suburban highway to main street," County Board Chairman Jay Fisette (D) said in a statement.

    Arlington County to control Columbia Pike 2010

  • Back on our boat I had raised the oar, ready to smash the pike's head.

    Happy Ending to a Fish Tale Ned Crabb 2009

  • And by the way, *your* objection to being cast theoretically by size as a pike was the inspiration behind the line, "I'm a herring trapped in a pike's body."

    A Very Herring Christmas Fresca 2009

  • Any fish who identifies as a herring born trapped in a pike's body will, of course, stand with the herrings.

    . . . . Entering the Sneer-Free Zone Fresca 2009

  • The poet's voice, "more muffled than the bird's, but more sonorous than the pike's", as it is characterised in the poem "Comments from a Fern" (1989), is so subdued that it almost erases the difference between sound and silence, and so close to time's rhythm one can get – a rhythm that the poet can approximate with the help of meter.

    Joseph Brodsky: A Virgilian Hero, Doomed Never to Return Home 2003

  • But it's shaved as wicked as a pike's tooth and makes just as short work of a strand of 2X monofilament.

    Chew On This 2002

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