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CHAPTER VIII 



SEA FISHING FROM YACHTS AND LARGE FISHING BOATS 



YACHTS and other vessels are often so situated that a good 

 deal of the more delicate kinds of sea fishing may be enjoyed 

 from their white decks. For instance, when they are moored 

 in a Scotch sea loch, or in any shallow bay or roadstead, it is 

 as easy to fish from them with rod and line as from a small 

 boat. . But in this chapter I propose to give some account 

 of the heavier tackle and methods by which fishing is carried 

 on in deep water at some distance from the land, where it 

 would be unsafe for small boats to venture. Under this head- 

 ing also comes the subject of whirring under sail, in which for 

 large fish very strong tackle is necessary. 



It has often been a matter of surprise to me that yacht- 

 owners do not, as a rule, take more interest in sea fishing. 

 Perhaps it is because their opportunities are so great that they 

 fish so little. Just as there are many people who have lived in 

 London all their lives without going to see St. Paul's or West- 

 minster Abbey, and three generations of whom may dwell 

 in England without any one of them making a pilgrimage to 

 Shakespeare's resting-place. It is the country cousin and the 

 globe-trotting American who sail straight away for Westminster 

 and the banks of the Avon respectively. Certainly people who 

 live on the seacoast fish less than occasional visitors. 



The Prince of Monaco's great interest in the scientific 



