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The best baits are sand launce, a small common eel, a prawn, or 

 soft crab. If the ground is rocky, you should use a stone in lieu 

 of the plummet, and attached to the line by a piece of waxed 

 packthread, so that should the stone become fixed in any of the 

 crevices of the rock, you can by a strong pull break asunder the 

 packthread, without endangering the more valuable portion of 

 your tackle. 



Very good sport may also sometimes be obtained, by whipping 

 for basse with the artificial fly, and of these the red palmer seems 

 to be the chief favorite : and they always show a marked prefe- 

 rence for gaudily dressed flies. 



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