CHAPTEE VI. 



THE POLLACK 

 (WHITING-POLLACK, WHITING-COLE, AND LYTHE) ; 



TEE GOALFISH 



(RACE, BAUNING - POLLACK, SAITHE, COALSEY, 

 PODLEB, PILTOCK, PAB, BILLET, 8TEDL0CK, 

 CUDDEN, COOTH, 8ILL0CK, HABBINJ. 



Ajpjpearance — Habits — Food — Coalfish — Methods of Angling for 

 Pollack and Coalfish — Fly-fishing — Spinning and Trailing 

 — Sand-eels on Float Tackle — Ground-fishing. 



HE pollack, or lythe of Scotland, vies with 

 the bass for the first place in the estimation 

 of the sea-angler. Though possessing 

 great strength, which it does not disdain 

 to use, it is not so lively a fighter when 

 hooked as its rival, but compensates in a 

 measure for this by its size, dogged per- 

 severance to break the tackle, and wide 

 distribution, being met with in great numbers all round the 

 British coast. In appearance it is not unlike the whiting, 

 but deeper and somewhat different in colour. Its back is 

 olive-brown, paling into a yellowish white on the belly. When 

 fresh out of the sea it has handsome, dark, glistening eyes. 

 About 151b. is a very large fish ; specimens have been caught 

 201b. weight. "Where they run large, the angler may find 

 his take average 31b. or 41b. each. Those caught in harbours 

 are, as a rule, quite small. 

 Pollack are found, as I have said, all round our coasts, 



