Capital chub and dace are taken with the fly, and gudgeon are plentiful as blackberries.
Later in the year the roach and dace were seen off Westminster, and several were caught below London Bridge, and in 1900 roach were seen and caught at Woolwich, but were soon poisoned and died.
There were hundreds of fish in the shoals, of all kinds and sizes, from dace nine inches long, with a few roach, to sticklebacks.
Sixty dozen dace were taken, mainly with the fly, in a single creek, which for some years has produced little in the way of living creatures but waterside rats.
Besides the estuary fish which naturally come up river, dace and roach began to come down into the tideway, and during the whole summer the lively little bleak swarmed round Chiswick Eyot.
In the warm, sunny days of late September, numbers of some species of ephemerae were seen on the sedges and willows, with black bodies and gauzy wings, which the dace and bleak were swallowing eagerly, in quite summer fashion.
Last year they were in fine condition, and dace eagerly took the fly even on the lower reaches.
All along the shallows the roach and dace lay in shoals, flashing about, every now and then, in the transparent water like gleams of silver light.
Some of your gang played a low-down trick on Matt, Dace Perry, or he wouldn't have got in your way.
I'm Dace Perry, captain of the High School cross-country team.
With his black eyes narrowed threateningly, Clipperton stood beside Dace Perry as the seven boys faced Matt and Chub.
Dace Perry and two other boys had their wheels at the tape, but Matt King continued to lean against the fence and made no move to come forward.
Dace Perry, as Matt walked toward him, reeled back from his machine.
I give you O'Day, Dace Perry, Ratty Spangler and Tubbits Drake.
There was a possibility that, as a friend of Dace Perry's, Hawley wanted to get Matt out of the race in order to give Perry a show.
Mr. Perry, in order to get Dace away from dissipated Denver companions, shipped him off to Phoenix and left him there in charge of a friend who happened to be the principal of the Phoenix High School.
I'm not afraid of your biting, Dace Perry," answered Susie with a flirt of the head.
Matt had picked himself out of the wreck, before any of the crowd reached the scene, and, with the assistance of the two other racers, was lifting Dace Perry and carrying him to the grassy paddock beside the track.
Dace Perry and his cross-country squad were in front of them.
He believed that Clipperton was square, and that there were some things he would not do even while under the influence of Dace Perry--and this in spite of what had happened at the try-out.
Dace Perry changed his mind about wanting to fight and backed off down the road.
In the shallower parts of the rivers you will get more dace and bleak than chub in this way, and very pretty sport it is, only second to trout-fishing.
Dace and chub are pretty and harmless, but require more changes of water than is usually convenient, or they will soon die.
I feel like a foolish dace in these regions, and have as little toleration for myself here, as for them.
But it is the visitants from town, that come here to say that they have been here, with no more relish of the sea than a pond perch, or a dace might be supposed to have, that are my aversion.
Bruise either of these finely, fry them in Honey, make them up into Pasts with Oyl of Peter; and either in Winter or Summer they take Chub, Roach, Dace or Bleak.
The Roach and Dace bite all the day long at the Top of the Water at flies natural, and Artificial, also at Grass-hoppers, and all sorts of Worms, if the Water be shady.
Surely it was not Sir Dace Fontaine who--who killed him?
Sir Dace looked upon the words as a sort of present concession.
Some of us thought they were making up to one another before Sir Dace died--when Ben was attending him.
Sir Dace was in the easy-chair by his bedroom fire, Coralie sitting with him.
Sir Dace stepped into the wherry again, to be rowed ashore and get home to his dinner--ordered that evening for six o'clock.
Nobody thinks he was guilty,' retorted Sir Dace in a shrill tone of annoyance.
Striding along through South Crabb, and so on down by old Massock's brick-fields, went Sir Dace Fontaine, dark and gloomy.
Might have gone in a month ago, but Sir Dacemade no move to do it.
Strolling past Maythorn Bank that same afternoon, very much down in looks and spirits, Jack saw Sir Dace Fontaine.
All of us were talking together when the strangers were announced: Sir Dace Fontaine, Miss Fontaine, and Miss Verena Fontaine.
Sir Dace folded his arms and leaned back in his chair, his cross-questioning over.
Sir Daceput his coffee-cup on the mantelpiece, and took the note from Coralie.
The only discontented person in our little circle was Joe Braggs, who had caught the dace that caught the jack, and so started me out of my jog-trot yeoman's round into the great world of life and adventure.
Jane yelped as I murdered an incipient kiss by knocking the jug out of his hand across the kitchen, but in kicking him out of doors I tripped over a bucket of water, and about half a score fine dace flopped miserably on the wet floor.
In a few minutes a fine dace was swimming in the gap as merrily as the tackle would let him.
There are instances of individuals heavier than this, one or two roach and many rudd of over 3 lb being on record, while dace have been caught up to 1 lb 6 oz.
Roach, chub and dace feed on bottom food and give good sport all the winter.
I placed the three dace across the blade of my oar and held it out to the poacher.
Give him our fish; that will make four dace for the poor fellow.
As the dace sticks to the water and the water sticks by the dace, so the Chillinglys stuck to the land and the land stuck by the Chillinglys.
What d'you suppose he's sentDace Perry out here for?
While we were in the mine looking for you, Dace Perry rode up on horseback, and a man in a freight-wagon happened along at the same time.
It was Dace Perry he gave it to," said Clipperton.
Dace Perry=, a school companion of young King, who has learned to hate Matt so furiously that he is ready to go to almost any length in order to do our hero an injury.
Why should Dace Perry try to take the motor-cycles away from you?
He lies in wait for the dace that come off the shallows, and I mean to have him before I've done.
Though thedace died of the disease, the rainbows remained healthy and free from it.
The dace is another fish which gives sport to the fly-fisherman.
The largest, and by far the best conditioned dace I have seen, have come from the tidal parts of rivers, where the water is brackish at high water.
Little more than ten years ago there were no dace in that river, now it swarms with them.
Dace from such a water have also the advantage of being very good eating, as they have, as a rule, not got the unpleasant muddy taste usual in this fish.
While rudd thrive best in a pond or lake into which a stream flows, dace require a river or stream to do well.
Some of these escaped, or were set free by the fishermen at the end of their day's fishing, and now the Sussex Ouse contains more dace for its size than any other river I have ever seen.
The way in which dace will increase when put into a suitable water is, if possible, even more remarkable than what happens in the case of the rudd.
Pike fishermen, however, used to bring live dace to use as baits.
I have seen many cases where rudd, perch, dace and carp have increased to an enormous extent from a few fish introduced into the water.
This freedom from fungus is very marked in the rainbow, for I know of a case where some dace suffering from fungus were put into a rearing pond containing a few rainbows.
A few years ago there were no dace in the Sussex Ouse.
There is also a kind of dace or fresh-water smelt in the pond, which is, perhaps, distinct from any of the above.
Are the four dace I send to-day identical with one of the former, and what are they called?
The fourdace you sent last are Leuciscus argenteus.
One of the most widely distributed of Japanese river fishes is the large hakone dace or chub.
Guenther finds the best line of separation into two divisions to lie in the presence or absence of the great group of dace or minnows,[28] to which nearly half of the species of fresh-water fishes the world over belong.
In the horned dace and gudgeon the little barbel is attached to the maxillary.
If the sun's excessive heat Make our bodies swelter, To an osier hedge we get For a friendly shelter Where, in a dike, Perch or Pike Roach or Dace We do chase Bleak or Gudgeon, Without grudging We are still contented.
I have seen this done at Windsor and Henley Bridge, and great store of Roach taken; and sometimes, a Dace or Chub.
The FIFTH day-continued Of Roack andDace Chapter XVII Venator and Piscator Venator.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dace" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
