286 HOW TO FISH FOR WKASS. 



Green Streaked Wrass {Lahriis Uneatus); Comber 

 . Wrass; Cook, Cuckoo Wrass, Blue-striped Wrass 

 {Lahrus varic(jatus, Lahriis cogiius, Lahnismixtus) ; Three- 

 spotted Wrass {Lahrus trimaculatus) ; Sea Wife iAcantJio- 

 lahrus YarrelUi). 



Acantholahnis : — Scale-rayed Wrass (Accmtholahriis 

 Coiichii, Lahrus luscus) ; Eock Cook {Acantholabrus exo- 

 letua, Lahrus exoletus) ; Corkwing [Lahrus cornuhicus, 

 CrenUahrus cornuhicus) ; Baillons Wrass {CrenUahrus 

 BaiUonii) ; Jagos Goldsinny [CrenUahrus rupestris). 



Julis : — Eainbow Wrass [Julis vulgaris, Lahrus julis). 



Wrass may be found along our coast in rocky places, 

 especially where there is much sea-weed. I first learned 

 to fish for wTass at Guernsey, where they abound. Take 

 a long piece of string, unravel about a couple of yards 

 of the end, so that there is a single strand only. To 

 this tie a common beach pebble, attach the hooks to 

 the string, so that when in the water they shall stand 

 at right angles to it. Coil up the string neatly on to 

 the rock; swing the stone round three or four times, 

 let it go suddenly, and it will carry the string, hooks, 

 and all well in among the rocks and weed. W^hen you 

 have a bite, strike smartly. As you are fishing among 

 rocks, the probability is that the stone will get jammed 

 among the rocks ; pull smartly, and break the single 

 strand, leaving the stone in the sea. In this way ex- 

 cellent sport can be obtained. 



When you have caught your wrass examine his 

 mouth ; he has Tvonderful prehensile lips, reminding us 

 of the lips of the giraffe. His mouth is a wonderful 

 piece of mechanism, sliding backwards and forwards 

 like a telescope ; the use of this is to enable him to pick 

 up from the crevices of the rocks the periwinkles and 

 other shells on which he subsists. His teeth are 



