8o ANGLERS' EVENINGS. 



the annoyance of getting your spinner or flies caught and 

 broken in the tangle may be avoided. I may say that 

 half ebb is about the best time for pollack fishing, though 

 the half flood tide is nearly as good. 



Perhaps it was my feeling with regard to "passengers" 

 to which I have given expression just now, which induced 

 me, one glorious day early in September, to start off 

 about three o'clock in the afternoon, taking only " Robert" 

 with me to pull the boat. It was a day I shall long 

 remember. There was hardly a cloud in the sky, and 

 the sun was shining with dazzling brightness on a sea 

 literally as smooth as glass. Certainly it did not seem a 

 very promising day for fishing, but I had determined upon 

 a plan of operation which, though an experiment, I hoped 

 might be crowned with success. " Now, Robert," I said, 

 " let us try the Carrig, keeping a good way out, and 

 row slowly round, gradually getting nearer in." " Well, 

 sir," replied Robert, "you mean to try them properly 

 to-day. Them Mr. L.'s were out all day yesterday. 

 There was three of them at it and they got over three 

 dozen, but none of them very big." (I should here say 

 that my rod-fishing had induced some other visitors to try 

 it as well.) " All right, Robert, we'll see what we can do, 

 but it's not a very likely day." I have explained that 

 the "Carrig" is an isolated rock, round which there is 

 good pollack fishing. We went slowly round the rock, 

 and so clear and smooth was the water, that looking 

 over the side I could see every leaf of the tangle slowly 

 waving below, and now and then the fish darting about 

 or "hovering" like lazy well-fed trout in a pool. "Not 



