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the depth, with a good large cork float. The rocks of 

 Dunleary in Ireland, which are eight or ten miles in 

 length, and the nearest part about five miles eastward 

 of Dublin, are remarkable for this way of fishing. 



When you fish for haddocks, your line must be deep 

 in the water, and your hook baited with two or three 

 lob-worms, or muscles taken from the shell. Your 

 tackle must be strong, for they struggle, especially if 

 they have arrived to a tolerable growth. 



In sea-fishing, when a ship is under sail, your line 

 ought to be sixty fathoms in length, having a large 

 hook affixed to it, and a piece of lead sufficient to keep 

 it as deep under water as possible. Your line must be 

 made of hemp, and fastened to the gunwale of the 

 ship. Cod and large haddocks are the fish usually 

 taken in this way, and sometimes ling ; the bait for 

 them is a piece of raw beef, and it is scarcely possible 

 to feel either of them bite, even though you hold the 

 line in your hand, by reason of the continual motion 

 of the ship. 



Angling for whitings from a boat affords good sport, 

 and if you have not an experienced fisherman to show 

 you the fishing-banks, you may know where to cast 

 anchor from the gulls, and other sea-birds crowding to 

 the place. At Portsmouth the tradesmen use smelts 

 as baits for this sort of fishing, but muscles or worms 

 are equally good. A paternoster line, without any rod, 

 with half a dozen hooks, at half a yard distance from 

 each other, may be fastened to the inside of the boat, 

 and by holding this in the hand, it will be easy to feel 

 when the fish bite. I have seen them bite so freely at 



