So I plopped the Pink Pollywog into the river again, stripped twice, and immediately hooked another fighting, thrashing silver.
12.
The hump quickly developed into a full-blown bow wave, pursuing the Pollywog like an orca about to snatch a penguin.
13.
The tradition involves those who have not crossed the equator, nicknamed pollywogs, being tested by those who have, called shellbacks.
14.
Eventually, I slid a bright 12-pound male salmon on the bank, the Pollywog caught in the scissors of its jaw.
15.
Once, when an errant cast splattered the Pollywog 10 feet in front of me, a silver promptly came up and ate it.
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Pollywogs participated voluntarily, though women midshipmen observed that they were under social pressure to do the ceremony but were targets of harder abuse.
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Pollywogs ( midshipmen and anyone else who had not crossed ) ascended a ladder from the Forecastle to the superstructure deck of the ship.
18.
I cast, and watched the fish bolt for the Pollywog, then confidently slurp it down like a brown trout taking a green drake.
19.
Golden Gator apparently subsisted on insects, pollywogs, frogs and possibly small fish during his sojourn at Mountain Lake, where he was first spotted this summer.
20.
Nine hundred ninety-three " Pollywogs " were initiated into the realm of Neptunus Rex on the morning of 7 November as the ship again crossed the Equator.
