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each side, to which extra lines are attached, as, when 

 tlie mackerel are biting freely, it is as well to use as 

 many lines as can be conveniently managed. 



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TOEBAY Ht)OKER. 



Herrings, and sometimes pilchards, are caught by 

 the Torbay boats, but the drift- fishing is not important. 

 Scans are used principally on the Torquay side of the 

 bay for mackerel and other kinds of surface-swimming 

 fish, and large quantities of sprats are often taken in 

 winter by these nets. 



In Start Bay there are several small villages from 

 which the fishermen work with ground-seans for various 

 kinds of fish, the long sweep of sandy beach on that 

 part of the coast being very favourable for such kind 

 of fishing. Many years ago pilchards were regularly 



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