Sea Fishing at St. Ives 2 1 1 



lift him over the side without gaffing. " J." 

 shortly afterwards caught a larger cod, and 

 then my turn came, and I got one about the 

 size of the first. We had a further variety 

 in the way of fish, by catching some large- 

 sized chad which the boatmen called 

 " bream," and we also got a few flat fish. 

 Altogether, for quite two hours our sport 

 was fast and furious, and then two adverse 

 circumstances occurred. First of all, a 

 number of dog-fish must have come round 

 us, for the fish we wished and cared to 

 catch suddenly ceased biting, and those we 

 did not want bit freely. I am quite sure 

 in a comparatively short space of time we 

 caught at least sixteen of these horrible 

 creatures. 



The second circumstance which militated 

 against further sport was that our bait had 

 run short ; so as we really had enjoyed 

 exceptionally good fun, we decided to up 



