Soames jerked his rod and brought up a Fingerling which he silently unhooked and threw back overboard.
"Long Ago, Far Away"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster
I caught a small trout and did not know what fish it might be, till I saw the crimson spots on his side and remembered that the trout in books bore them, and then I threw him on the grass and danced a wild dance around him, a powwow as furious as a red Indian's scalp-dance, while he, poor little Fingerling, jumped in the unkindly herb.
"The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I"
William James Stillman
There were infant big-mouthed bass in the lake and Fingerling trout in many of the streams.
"Operation Terror"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins