CHAPTER IX. 



SOME OTHER 8EA-FISE. 



Braize — Bream — Brill — Chad — Cod— Conger — Dab — Dogfish — 

 Dory— Flounder — Garfish— Gurnard— Haddock — Hahe— 

 Halibut — Herring — Horse Mackerel — Ling — Plaice — Poor 

 Cod— Bed Mullet—Sea Trout— Skate—Smelt—Sole— Turbot 

 — Whiting — Whiting Pout — Wrasse. 



N preceding chapters I have described at 

 length, and in detail, various methods by 

 which bass, pollack, grey mullet, and macke- 

 rel — the four fish most highly esteemed by 

 the angler — are to be captured, and have 

 also devoted a chapter to sea-fishing and 

 angling generally. By the methods de- 

 scribed, with a few slight modifications, 

 almost any of the fish which are found on our coasts may be 

 caught ; and therefore, in running quickly thi-ough a number of 

 British sea-fish, I propose to make my remarks as concise as pos- 

 sible, and to avoid needless repetition. Should the reader be in 

 doubt as to how to set about catching any of the fish described, 

 — a state of things which it will be my duty to prevent as 

 far as possible — I would advise him to read carefully the 

 earlier chapters, and instead of endeavouring to find instruc- 

 tions, and to copy them to the smallest detail — in other words, 

 to fish by rule of thumb — let him rather obtain general ideas 

 on the subject, and apply them with what modifications 

 circumstances may make necessary. Given a piece of salt 

 water containing a certain kind of fish — the problem being 

 how to catch them — the first thing to do is to consider what 

 bait they will take ; and, secondly, the best means of placing 



