piscators

Sunday, the juvenile piscators of Bathurst muster strong upon the piers, and no policeman bids them move on.

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

But just then a tremendous flouncing in the water took place, and something seized Peter's hook, and "yauked it arter him, pole, line, nigger and all," so that the young Sabbath-breaking piscators were so terrified as to run home and hide their heads under the bed-clothes, "trembling like a leaf," and afraid to stir one inch.

Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves. 1911