water-boatman

The first areas to warm up in the early spring, skinny-water bays can be prospected with leech, weighted nymph, or water-boatman patterns.

The Nine Best Places to Fish a Pond During Ice-Out 2007

The water-boatman was more succulent, but, with only one soft spot, difficult to do justice to.

"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

The water-boatman, which almost every one must have seen swimming back-downwards in ponds, can inflict a very painful wound in this manner.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

As I rest poised upon the oars above some submerged shallow, diamonded with ripple-broken sunbeams, the fantastic Notonecta or water-boatman rests upon his oars below, and I see that his proportions anticipated the wherry, as honeycombs antedated the problem of the hexagonal cell.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

Early in March, before the first male canker-moth appears on the elm-tree, the whirlwig beetles have begun to play round the broken edges of the ice, and the caddis-worms to crawl beneath it; and soon come the water-skater _ (Gerris) _ and the water-boatman _ (Notonecta) _.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

The water-boatman (_Nautonecta glauca_) is a member of the same family, but is no use as food for the fish.

Amateur Fish Culture Charles Edward Walker

Others, such as the water-boatman, water-scorpions and pond-skaters, are not of any value as food for the fish.

Amateur Fish Culture Charles Edward Walker

He swims on his back, is longer and narrower than are _Corixæ_, which do not swim on their backs, are smaller, broader, and live much more under water than the water-boatman.

Amateur Fish Culture Charles Edward Walker

Barrett’s the rock astronomer boating the Cam’s lime green spine, wristing downriver like a water-boatman listening to voices, his schizophrenia big in the mix like invasive radio.

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