CHAPTER V. 



On Sea-fishing Fine Tackle required Best form of Tackle 

 for general use " Tell-tale" or " Dodger" Baits on 

 South Coast in Scotland Fly-fishing in Sea-lochs Mode 

 of proceeding Gaff essential Executioner. 



TT seems to me that the subject of Sea-fishing 

 has never been treated with the attention it 

 deserves. About Fly-fishing, Bottom-fishing, and 

 nearly every other branch of the "gentle art," 

 books enough to stock a library have been written, 

 and but little remains to be said with regard to 

 them ; but as to Sea-fishing the case is altogether 

 different. Comparatively little interest is taken 

 in it as a pursuit, and those who would gain any 

 information on the subject from books, will find 

 but few which treat of it at all, and those in but 

 a very meagre and cursory manner. And yet it 

 is one for which these shores offer abundant op- 

 portunities; is in itself pleasant, interesting, and 

 often very exciting, and one moreover in which 

 success depends in great measure on the care 

 and skill of the fisherman. 



