At the unlikeliest moment, the fish had swallowed the hook.
I had this clear image in my mind that big fish had swallowed little fish.
But the big fish has swallowed us up just the same, you see!
A fish swallowed it and it came back to me.
Once, a thirteen-foot fish swallowed another that was already hooked.
A big fish or whale (of unspecified species) did indeed swallow Jonah.
The fish swallowed him, where he could be seen only from the twelfth.
It splashed into the water, where a big fish swallowed it.
The fish had swallowed the bait remarkably easily, Fiona thought.
The fish had swallowed the hook and it was caught in its throat.