MDDM ch. 68 "yet these do live..." (660.20)

[jbor]

Yeah, I'd say they're real enough: "I could show you more than one, stuft
and mounted" says Mr Ice at 660.21. And Dixon is "trying to nudge Mason
alert" because Chas is behaving like a goose again; he's not reaching for
him or fearful, the fact that he "mutters" Mason's name notwithstanding.
It's because Mason makes a remark about there being no fish in the river
(660.5-6) that Immanuel chooses to address him rather than Dixon, as the one
who might "dare attempt to catch" one of the "Ghost-Fish", and which causes
the switch in focus. But Mason is soon "simpering like a Milk-maid", as
usual, protesting his unsuitability to the challenge, and before long Mr Ice
has "abruptly" turned his attention to red-coated Dixon as the more likely
lad of the two (661.6).

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Scott wrote:

> 
> The occasional brook trout is all I ever angle for, but these "ghosters"
> sound a lot like white or "pallid" sturgeon.
> 
> See:
> http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/habitatprotection/anadromousfish_descriptio
> ns.htm
> (down near the bottom of the page)
> 
> or, http://www.fraserriverlodge.com/english/index.html
> (check out the sturgeon portion of the photo gallery)

Bandwraith wrote:

> And the ghosters may be more imaginary than real,
> but he makes their possibility seem real enough to
> do the trick.

[...]

> And where Dixon, reduced to muttering, seems not so eager
> to use his bread lure, but instead reaches for Mason.