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.

Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol

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.

The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

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.

A Trip to Manitoba Mary FitzGibbon 1883

Deception, and brought home great jack-fish weighing from two to six pounds.

A Trip to Manitoba 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.

Hudson Bay 1859

An enormous pike, or "jack-fish," coveted that bait and took it.

The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains 1859

And you, too, have a worthy object in view, which might well detain you from roach and jack-fish.

Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

And you, too, have a worthy object in view, which might well detain you from roach and jack-fish.

Lucretia — Volume 01 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.

The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823. John West 1811

We will paddle to Willow Point, and try for jack-fish on the way. "

The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains 1859