JUNE. 



BASS-FISHING. 



BY G. A. THRING. 



FROM the sportsman's point of view sea-fishing is generally either 

 wearisome or monotonous. It is wearisome to tack up and 

 down all day with a line lazily dragging outside the boat, even 

 though the day be fine and the air refreshing ; it is monotonous, 

 when at last the right locality is found, to pull in the line 

 incessantly, with one or two fish attached to it every time. 

 Indefinite slaughter is unpleasant and unworthy of the true sports- 

 man. Bass-fishing has, however, a decided fascination. It is 

 most fascinating, perhaps, when indulged in from the rocks, but it 

 is not unpleasant from a boat on a breezy day. 



A coast of mingled rock and sand is perhaps the best ground 

 along which to fish, and the equipment necessary is that of any 

 ordinary salmon fisher, namely, a light salmon rod, a stout line, 

 and either a perfectly white, or a rather gaudy, fly. The weather 

 should be bright and sunny, and the airs brisk and variable. 



It is often possible, therefore, for the keen salmon fisher, when 

 the sun is too bright, or the water too low for the king of fish, to 

 take an off day among the Bass. Let him wander over the weed- 

 covered rocks until he finds a spot where the broken strata running 



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